NEW YEAR = NEW VOTING INCENTIVE!!!
It’s a new year to fill us all with dread! In honor of that, you can break out the bubbly and ring 2022 in with Puck, so…
As for this comic…
Could one possibly wander right up next to a raccoon and not see that said raccoon was not, in fact, your friend? What’s more, could one feasibly come within arm’s length of a raccoon without having the animal either (A) bolt away, or (B) attack you? The answer to both, of course, is no. But yes in the context of this comic. (Note: one can safely get as close to a raccoon as one likes, but only when one is carrying a pack of hot dogs. For proof, watch this. But don’t emulate. Trust me.)
Oh, look. It’s Rocket and Groot, before enhancement.
Heh. Who knew that they were Canadian after all.
I did think that.
I may be the last person on the planet to have seen Guardians of the Galexy, watched both movies this weekend for the first time.
DON’T YOU BADMOUTH GROOT!!!!
he is groot
The first movie is one of my all-time favourites. Just a great movie: the type I wish I’d made.
I’ll agree, the first one was better, but the second one had some serious moments, specifically between Rocket and what’s his name the marauder…
I really want to see a third
I’m having flashbacks to Adventures in Babysitting.
If you watch all the 80’s movies, then you’ll have covered all the story beats I can possibly muster. Seriously.
I didn’t look, but I’m wondering if you linked to that one guy… he likes the Bruins.
Yup, you did. I love watching that guy.
Another channel, Animal Wonders, pretty much did a big video on why you really shouldn’t be that guy. Raccoons carry about five different parasites and diseases which are really bad news for humans, so chumming around with them is not recommended.
I don’t know. He’s the guy in Nova Scotia who’s feeding fifty raccoons a giant tub of hot dogs.
THE thing bugging me is who screamed. Phoebe or the dang raccoon…plague carriers that they are. I’m more partial to opossum. 🙂 Way friendlier.
Possums don’t have cheeks. That freaks me out.
Is there really *that* much difference?
Not much. One is shorter.
The raccoon simply didn’t see Phoebe as a threat; and rightly so.
Because it wasn’t between her and her favourite sugary drink…
Animals have good instincts.
Raccoons come through my yard every now and then. They look super cute, but if you get too close they show their teeth and hiss, as if to say “You’re bigger, but if you try to eat me I’ll make you pay for your lunch” so I back off.
I would not have been surprised to see both participants in panel 3 scream in panel 4 but I suppose everything in the universe sees Phoebe is nonthreatening.
Phoebe exudes “harmless” to all things. It gives her some rather impressive stealth stats.
Phoebe as a Rogue or Thief?
The finest.
She’s a loveable rogue.
She likes a good time, steals only your heart, and leaves you smiling.
Excellent! She figured it out surprisingly quickly.
I guess Roger didn’t like being told he smells “Musty”.
So that’s what you do when you get home from school.
That scream must have come from Phoebe, raccoons haven’t the lung capacity or throat length to make such a sound . . . also, can raccoons be fitted for hearing aids? Asking for a friend . . .
We’ve had raccoons wandering through our backyard occasionally. They do not like the Super Soaker 2000 (sadly out of production).
It tends to discourage them for a few weeks.
Good approach. Though if they really want to claim some territory, there’s little you can do to stop them. They’re persistent critters.
For some reason, all I can think of right now are THESE raccoons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raccoons
Now, if Pheobe ran into Cyril Sneer, then THAT’S worthy of a scream.
Although, having watched “The Witcher”, I certainly hope that scream doesn’t have the same effect on the surrounding countryside that Ciri’s scream did…
Big fan of the Raccoons, as all Canadian children of the 80’s were. Not a Witcher fan, though. So I can only assume that said scream is bad.
There is an awful lot of assumptions that the scream belongs to Phoebe. But if you were a raccoon encountering the daughter of Satan for the first time – a frightened daughter of Satan – who knows how she would lash out to protect herself. Poor raccoon might have discovered what its like to be turned inside out. As a reflex.
Well, let’s see where the story arc goes.
Hi everyone !
Just checking in so that you guys and gals know I’m not deceased – or anything close to that.
Just too busy with a bunch of things is all.
I, for one, am relieved to hear of your robust health.
Sorry about the bunch of things, though. Things are fine but when they come in bunches, well…
We miss SalemCat, but real life does happen. I blame humans.
Have nine good lives, and come back when you can!
Dratted humans
Re raccoons, there’s also Woo, from Sandra and Woo. Which would make for an interesting story arc . . . though I would prefer Bert Raccoon. Mind you, Rocket Raccoon would have the Mystery Machine up and running in seconds . . . come to think of it, is the Dougie skilled in the use of a stick shift? I mean, somebody has to be, I would think.
Dougie = stick shift wizard, guaranteed.
Roger would not only have it up and running. But FLYING. Literally. And not in a good way.
Raccoons have a bad rep they don’t deserve, IMHO.
I have a video of my Chihuahua/terrier mix puppy (14 lbs soaking wet) sniffing nose-to-nose with a wild racoon… then sniffing the raccoon’s 4 kits with the mama watching.
Of course, I had to pick my jaw up off the ground after I saw this.
The animals themselves are pretty cool. I do like them. Their many, MANY pathogens are less cool.