The Discerning Omnivore
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January 9th, 2008

The Discerning Omnivore


40 Abominable Comments!

  1. Dabrinko

    Oh, the skunks are the savvy businesswomen of the wild?

  2. ramón

    HAHAHA!

    those are some savvy skunks!

  3. sco3tt

    I’ve eaten as Sissy’s. It’s not all that good, but the insects are always fresh so I’ll probably go back sometime.

  4. Michael Cho

    OMG — is that some kind of viral marketing thing going on in the wild??? That’s some messed up
    $#!t righ there. Those sellout skunks!!

  5. Lyon

    This strip is composed of 99.99999% pure win.

  6. Skipper Pickle

    Every panel of this makes me laugh for a different reason.

    (Er, none of which are in mockery. It’s good laughter. Really.)

  7. Chris Olson

    I absolutely love the expressions on the faces of the skunks in the second-to-last panel. That’s just TOO perfect.

  8. Esn

    This is one of my favourite ones so far! Just hilarious.

    I love how stuffed that raccoon looks in the first panel.

  9. alex

    best strip so far, everything in this is great, art and words.

  10. Tom Bubb

    NICE ONE! This strip made me laugh a ton!

  11. Buho

    Aah, fanservice! We all loved the skunk in the August 15 strip, Karl! Thanks!

  12. Ra

    hit it!

    *if u’r dyin to eat
    & u dont want junk
    get your berries bugs and meat
    at sissi skunks! yeah!*

  13. Chrissy

    This is fantastic.

    You are fantastic.

    This entire strip is fantastic.

  14. Odo

    *roflmao* A beautiful transition from the sublime (CC asleep in the snow with the fox cub) to the ridiculous. I wonder how much sissi pays those two yobos. Probably at least one free meal a week.

    I only have one small critique. The skunks I have actually seen irl don’t have that much ground clearance when they are on all fours. Of course most skunks I have seen irl don’t do product placement adverts, either, so I guess that’s all even.

    ACC is on my list of “must check”. Well done!.

  15. Karl

    I completely agree with you Odo. When I finished this strip I was bothered by something about those skunks. I try to make the animals as close to correct as I can, but I didn’t reference the skunks much and they’re all over the map. design-wise. Hopefully they’ll become more consistent as time goes on.
    Just one of the pitfalls of doing a weekly strip, I guess! It’s not always going to come out the way I imagined it.

    -karl

  16. Karl

    And thanks for the jingle, Ra. It’s stuck in my head now. ;)

  17. Aviv

    That was funny.. I actually didn’t see it coming until the third frame.. cause they’re skunks. I mean.. yeah.

  18. Nika

    hahahaha I LOVE IT!

  19. Mike

    I love that the shameless self-aggrandizing skunks are literally skunks.

  20. Jeremy

    Ok, the look on the faces of those skunks in that second to last panel are just so ridiculous. That should be made into a motivational poster.

    Just discovered the strip today, and love everything about it.

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  22. Vvicked

    Commercials in the wild! Proof that advertising works! (Tested on animals)

  23. Aveline

    don’t be too hard on yourself, Karl. While I kind of agree about the skunks looking just a twitch “off” … I mean… those legs are already pretty short, could you draw them shorter? I’m sure you could, but damn. Besides, they’re CUTE. And really really identifiable with the audience, clearly. :-D That’s what counts.

  24. Moai

    I’m hungry now too.

    Beautiful comic.

  25. james

    nothin to say but HA!

  26. james

    that raccoon looks pretty fat already… ah, the power of suggestion and advertising…

  27. james

    last one on this, i promise…

    consistency is over rated… i like em the way you drew… didnt even notice… and i still cant really see what the problem is…

  28. Razor

    ROTFL! I can almost hear the “ting!” when they do their thumbs-up.

    For some reason I hear their voices as Robin Williams (a la Happy Feet). XD

  29. Miles

    This is my favorite one.

  30. TommyT

    “Man, am I full” – Chris Rock.
    “You look full, friend…” – Robin Williams

  31. I-hate-socks

    Actually they are southern belles ala Thelma and Louise

  32. Lars

    Is the skunk on the right Sissy herself? All skunks look the same to me…

  33. james

    Karl, i would greatly appreciate it if you could enlarge panel 6 and put it on a shirt…

  34. Sen

    I seriously laughed out loud at this.
    This is fantastic.

  35. amtriska

    @Lyon: Yep! The other .00001% is the blank space between the panels.

  36. Grey Area

    There really has to be an “Eat at Sissi Skunk’s” t-shirt.

  37. Thom

    Brilliant. Just…f***ing brilliant.

  38. Ben

    I’ve gone through your comic a few times, and every time I hit this page the same thought comes up in my mind. You should totally do a shirt of the two skunks doing the thumbs up, it’s just perfect.

  39. Sadismek

    Hahahah, this is brilliant! I’d buy your comic, but it’s pretty expensive for my budget… Also, it would be very cute if you will make in the future a t-shirt with the guys from panel 6… it would be hillarious! Also, the las panel is very funny.

  40. AkatsukiNekoJr

    Ooh advertising, the wild way.

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