Yes, we have to get our cast of characters up to speed on what we already know… that this was not just four bears attacking. They will figure it out soon enough.
To those of you who are curious about the Bearicatures and when they will start to appear… I’ll say they will be showing up around the high 60’s in page numbers. I will notify you by email when yours is posted (probably before the page goes up). I will probably not announce every single one on the blog because that could get redundant, but if you see yours you are welcome to shout with joy in the comments.
On we go!
Ethan
First!
Wow, I just realized that the little dude has no defense against bears. Luckily his dad will do something.
The keyword is “bear” which I had nothing to do with! Ha!
Aren’t they still a little freaked out that two people just died right in front of them?
can we just assume they stood around hyperventilating between panels? If I filled the comic with all the gasping, hyperventilating and coping that would really happen in this situation it would be really long, and really repetitive.
I’m all for two panels of gasping, as long as you balance it out with another thirty panels of Dickinson mauling something to death. That sounds like a good ratio.
well there’s been at least two so I think we’re covered.
I suppose under the threat of death, they didn’t have much time to care about the casualties.
that and I think that kind of thing hits a person once they find safety. They are still in the woods and are still in “what do we do next” mode. Thy are all aware that there could be more bears out there.
If you filled a page or two with hyperventillating and shouting the names of the dead, it would still be less annoying than some of the worse animes. Not that I’m promoting that.
The ones where the characters say each others’ names over and over agin for an entire episode?
Pi-ka-chu?
Dude, no!
We don’t need an entire page dedicated to someone preparing to punch a bear or shoot a gun. This isn’t DBZ! D:
Nigel is a douche. two people died because of him and he doesn’t even take responsibility for it. >:C
What are you talking about? Sure, he swallowed the key, without consulting anyone, and kept them chained up, which resulted in two people getting even alive, at least one of those being while they were conscious.
But, y’know, humans deserve that, and woo, woo, go trees. Hippy stuff. >:C
Yeah, that’s why I can’t enjoy the comic. There’s one or two assholes and suddenly the idiocy they show is generic “hippy stuff”. >:C
OR…is the hippy stuff they show generic idiocy?
Hmm…
Not any different than how the real-life PETA acts. They did get up in arms about some guy who killed a bear that attacked him in his backyard and he had to kill the animal with a pocket knife. They claimed he shouldn’t have fought back because the poor bear was just hungry.
None of the reactions by Nigel in this strip are beyond the realm of what actually goes on in the world we live in. There are people out there that think killing humans to save animals is the proper order of the universe.
Werd. I’m looking forward to the day Nigel gets mauled.
so are we pal
I agree wholeheartedly. If he dies(which he probably won’t), then I’ll be happy.
I would host a No-More-Nigel party and celebrate his (hopefully violent) exit from the comic.
Aw c’mon guys. Nigel just has stockholm syndrome. He’s identifying with his attackers to rationalize the improbable and bring his shocked mind back to a safe realm. Once his leg gets bitten off, he’ll come around.
I care about him being shocked as much as Dickinson Killdeer cares about shaving.
I think Nigel will either have to die, or do something amazing to make up for it. Usually though, a non-repentant character is BEAR FOOD. Just sayin’.
I have a feeling that Nigel will be a thorn in the side of the main characters for most of the series.
I would remind all of you that Nigel is (presumably?) in possession of the keys to the Hippie Wagon, which (lest we all forget) is actually a giant, motorized thermonuclear–but organic!–ursine elimination device. He won’t die until he can use it in anger.
I forgot all about the hippie wagon’s built in stockpile of organic biofuel just ready to be ignited!
What are you talking about? That clearly won’t be used. Ethan just devoted a page to it for no reason.
/sarcasm
Another camp of conservational activists? If it wasn’t for poor Flute Cop and his associates, I’d begin to think the bears merely had a taste for flakes. There is a part of me, though, that would greatly enjoy seeing Nigel buy it in the style of Quint from Jaws.
it’s the one they showed up at originally.
Poor Burton is more worried about his weed than how they are going to get home.
Got his priorities straight. More than Nigel, at any rate.
ha!
Burton is like an avid environmentalist, too. He just loves a different kind of tree…
I bet he gets killed by Smokey the Bear for burning down so many “trees.”
I always read this comic before i go to school on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Its totally worth it if i get there late! I usually don’t, because i live in Alaska, and the time is a little different.
Fridays! Not thursdays
Note to Ethan: We totally would be okay with it if you updated on Thursdays, too. Three days a week sounds cool, bro. :3
haha, I would like it better if it updated on tuesdays and fridays.
It’d be more even
I changed a line because I can’t believe I missed it in panel 2.
If Joel’s head got any longer in that last panel I think he’d qualify as a Tiki god. 😛
+1
Heh. Nigels head Does get longer with each page. 😛
Hey notice the bear ear poking out of the wow mart bag?
it will be interesting to her gogs’s logic in taking it with him. once joel and nigel stop bickering, it will be funny to see their reactions. my money is on a “What the hell?!!” from joel and “that’s disrespectful to nature” from nigel.
also, high-paw for the bear’s ear!! =CE
i lost… joel is nonchalant.
I guess hippies don’t count as ‘humans’, according to Nigel logic. I guess that’s why I feel no guilt watching them get devoured wholesale.
The bears are working for the logging company, but there are rogue operatives.
Calling it now.
Actually, I think the bears are digesting the logging company right now.
In the last panel, Gogs reminds me of a monkey.