RING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH QUICK SKETCHES!
It’s a little sketchy up in here, but it’s still worth your vote!
In other news…
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As for this comic…
Hoo boy. It’s been a week. This is exam time for my day job, and it’s been pretty intense. Toss onto that chaos the giant snow storm that completely shut things down yesterday, and it’s been a fun ride. But the comic is done. That counts for something.
Is a Jacket Required?
Not when Phil is involved.
Speaking of Phil…those security guys are thinking, “Take me home”!
They’ve been a prisoner all their lives. Or at least a few hours.
Flack jackets.
“That is the power of money!” Yes well, to which I say, “Only turn yourself in for the reward money when you’re dying anyway!” It’s called self-preservation, a concept she’s obviously not clear on!
There’s reward money?
There can be, if one commits enough crimes . . . is what I hear.
Wow. Talk about breaking down in anger over how the situation has gotten out of control and out of your hands. Nature is always in control in these parts. Money has no place when nature is involved unless it is to improve the environmental conditions.
Nature laughs at money.
Sorry, but wildelife come under the perview of the county or city depending on where you live. There’s no reason for them to put up with this.
It’s still snowing here. Or was a few hours ago.
We’ve got light snow. On the upside, I saw a rare ‘icebow’ today – the type of rainbow you get when there’s ice particles in the air.
Oooooh! Loveit!
Do you know how prompt and effective city wildlife control is? DO YOU?!?
Yes. We had bats once. There’s still no good reason for proper thugs to put up with being savaged by raccoons. They don’t get enough training or compensation for that. Rabies is still a thing in North America.
We’re overrun with iguanas down here. But when it gets cold they just drop off the trees.
That honestly sounds kinda cool. I have only once witnessed a raccoon fall out of a tree. And he was living dangerously, climbing down a wild grape vine to feast on the fruit. The vine broke. Fortunately they’ve got a lot of padding so the fall didn’t hurt him. But he did look a little embarrassed, especially because it was in a parking lot and there were a lot of people there to witness it.
Ah yes the joy of dealing with animal control… Had a rattlesnake get into a classroom building I was locking down for the night. Trapped it in the foyer and spent 20 minutes arguing with them because: “we don’t have rattlesnakes in north texas.”. Finally got the cops out because I threatened to just shoot the thing. Poor guy spent spent so long convincing dispatch we really had a rattlesnake that the control officer went home for the night and we ended up with a firefighter who for some reason had a snake pole in his personal vehicle.
I’ve heard the “We don’t get that animal here” response is common. Though it’s not a very useful response when an escaped exotic pet or zoo animal is on the loose.
The northernmost rattlesnake is the Massassauga rattler. It’s a species that is native to Ontario. But it’s super endangered and only lives on a few islands, from what I’ve heard.
You’d think school’s would get a pass on that response. All sorts of things wind up in schools.
He was a firefighter. Reason enough.
Do you have OSHA in Canada? Because it doesn’t look like they’ve got proper protective gear against raccoons.
They got business suits. That ain’t enough?
It seems… no.
Above that certain level of abuse, though, the pay is not commensurate with the agony.
Bosses tend to not comprehend that.
I think they’ve decided that the abuse has exceeded the money.
Ooh pencil Emily 🙂
yeah, once rabid racoons get involved, even hazard pay isn´t enough anymore…..they´re smart to leave now, before canada´s most terrible wildlife joins the battle: geese!
Geese are all bluster. Nasty, yes. But not that bad. If you want the REAL waterfowl threat, it’s swans.
A middling salary has its limits.
we had snow too, but we still have power and our heaters, so it wasn’t ALL bad.
Oh, we had power. And heat. I’m good. Just too much snow.
Got’a love them lakes.
Excellent Emily sketchy this week. But dare I ask just how Emily’s cat tail is attached?
Double-sided tape.
Who says they’re rabid? Maybe they just don’t like these guys.
Well, we know that’s the truth. They don’t.
While I’m enjoying the raccoon mayhem, I sort of wish Papa Snork’s monkey bears would get resurrected to deliver a horrific coup de grâce to this gang. Maybe even rabid monkey bears..?
Nah, I’m saving them for the future. And Phoebe doesn’t talk to the monkey bears. They speak a different dialect. Invasive species and all.
Ow, why’d you have to make that last panel hit so hard?! Haha!
The truth smarts.
If only it *really* worked that way (but such is the power of Comics)
We can dream.
A certain level of abuse, yes. This just exceeded that level. 😀
Employers are often vague on the limits to the certain level of abuse.
Your raccoon art just keeps getting better and better. I’m going to miss them when they’re gone.
They almost sometimes now look like raccoons!
THE POWER OF MONEY COMPELS YOU! OBEY! THE POWER OF MONEY COMPELS! oh, c’mon guys do something. I got money.
Everyone gangsta till the raccoons attack.
This is what the Oligarchs always forget; they are only renting the persons body, not their soul, and think the money gives them control until it doesn’t.
Satan knows this, which is why he, and his horde, will win.
Souls are hard to buy.
Yeah. There are people who’ll just give ’em over. No payment necessary.
Man, I wish you sold your originals.
I do. Kinda. People who support on Patreon at the $50 tier can get one of the originals mailed to them – one a month. Some people just bank em.