- Lydia: The venison was delicious, Steve. And the wine went perfectly with it!
- Steve: I’m glad you enjoyed it. My roast had kind of a strange aftertaste. And the wine was a bit too… I don’t know… sour for my taste?
- Lydia: Too bad that you got a bad piece.
- Lydia: Can I have seconds?
- Steve: I will… have a look.
- Label: NOW WITH 5% FOX URINE!
- Steve: Haha, what?
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So… I’m gonna cry wolf (that is I’m calling it that the “venison” is actually wolf – of course, if it is an animal at all, which I think would be hard for the guest to mistake) – I just finished going from the beginning of the archive yesterday, and that seems like the only thing that both the protagonist humans and animals would have little trouble, ethically, with being served as a main course, but would still be plenty objectionable to an uninitiated character (the photographer). We’ll see what it is (maybe, hopefully) soon enough!
@ Tsunami:
I bet it’s roadkill… that would be kinda gross too… and it’s already dead…
@ myth buster:
Could be either: Acidic urine is associated with xanthine, cystine, uric acid, and calcium oxalate stones. Alkaline urine is associated with calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, and magnesium phosphate stones.
I highly suspect it’s his dog or cat. Whatever it was, I’m thinking they left the head so he would know exactly what it was.
@ Darkkitsune:
Yeah, that’s what I said on the last page too…
I love a good George Hayduke revenge story, but in this case it’s uncalled for and was too risky.
1. There was no way to know who would sit where and thus now way to know the woman wouldn’t get the adulterated food.
2. The animals have chosen to keep their sentience a secret. Since they have chosen to do that they have forfeited the right to expect humans to extend them the same curtisies people owe each other.
3. The guy is beyond a moron. No actual person would respond this way after waking up. They would become rightfully paranoid and suspicious.
I know, I’m getting too serious here, but it really just kills any humor for the strip for me. Basically this guy was just a fan of nature taking pictures and he’s being punished for it. If instead of being a harmless photographer he had been a hunter or poacher who had killed the foxes he’d have been much better off.
Honestly expecting to see something truly gross in there…
@ Greenwood Goat:
I might be crushing your childhood, but Bambi tastes great if prepared properly. 😀
@ Samwise Clemens:
Yep, I already suggested it last week that “vension might not be vension at all”. 😀
@ Darkkitsune:
I don’t know… isn’t meat supposed to be “already dead” before preparing it? ^_^
@ john willow:
I think it’s more likely to be scavenged roadkill.
Okay. The fox urine, grotesque and appalling yet not horrific. What’s in the oven though . . . . . . please, let it just be roadkill and not . . . anything my mind keeps coming up with and I refuse to describe as I don’t want to spread the images.
Okay. The fox urine, grotesque and appalling yet not horrific. What’s in the oven though . . . . . . please, let it just be roadkill and not . . . anything my mind keeps coming up with and I refuse to describe as I don’t want to spread the images.@ Crestlinger:
@ Switch Master:
the movie was actualy pretty good, by my standeds
Petah-Petah wrote:
It seems he was not only pissed, but pissing as well. 😛
Oh Steve. Urine for a world of trouble…..
@ Lucario:
Shadow probably volunteered.
Guess they should get tested if what I think that is in the oven is what I think it is.
Doc Mesa wrote:
Hey good pun. Way better than mine. 😛
I just realized that the last panel looks really manga like
A barrel of wine plus a drop of sewage: Result, Sewage.
A barrel of sewage plus a drop of wine: Result, Sewage.
I must state, though, that Novil has somewhat regularly done “twists” of sorts, so it could be something that none of us have predicted, or perhaps could have reasonably predicted
You realize that foxes and raccoons kill to eat, and have done so in the cannon, right? Them killing a herbivore to cook up is not such a strange thought.
Novil wrote:
Seriously, just ask a question through a S&W comic, and you get the answer immediately!!!
Of course not, he dropped her plate.@ Lucario:
@ GBiv:
It is Never too late to have a Happy Childhood.
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You’re only a Child Once. But, you can be Childish Forever.
Has it never occurred to the animals that if they just ask humans to stop doing something, they probably will?
Holomanga wrote:
Keep in mind that in S&W, much like our world, people don’t know of the full intelligence animals have. Let me put that into perspective–imagine YOU were to suddenly receive a letter (or direct message from a talking raccoon) that said,
“Hi. I am a representative of the fox that you just photographed. He has asked for you to take the pictures down.”
How would you react?
What if it was just a random carcass that Woo found?
Also, kinda off-topic, but does Cloud know that Woo can talk yet
Actually, one may obtain bottled fox urine here in the US. Most likely a trace of fox urine in proplylene glycol filler. (You don’t think they have foxes doing nothing but peeing all day.) Used as a cover scent by hunters and trappers. Shadow should save his pee and sell it. Then he could order out once in a while.
Let me put it simply, it isn’t proper, it’s over the top and dumb. I’ve seen the first strip and all this is is overreacting over videos taken without consent. The animals had no business doing what they did and that’s that.
i don’t think its a dead animal, i think its very much alive
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Real_5440c0_474015.jpg
Perhaps Steve has literally been eating crow?
Nice of them to spare the girl of the food though. No need for collateral damage.
cameron wrote:
I’ve actually never seen it. But I love the 90s cartoons though.
@ GnarlyDoug:
what if they altered both of their food but because lydia thought steve put all his effort into it she said it tasted good
Ah, so that’s what happened to the teacher who went “poof!”
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it looked to me like a baby hippo.
is that weired?