If that wind is what I think it is, there really ought to be some little crows in Mrs. Sanderson’s class!
Or maybe they were sent home for talking out of turn?
I won’t say I wasn’t disappointed that I didn’t get to find out what happens with CC, but I’ll take a smile over a gasp any day! Superb job as usual, can’t for wait for Wednesday (and it’s only Wednesday!)!
Hate to say it but syndicated comics are going the way of the newspaper in general, which in turn is going the way of the dinosaur. Read it on the web!
Since reading the first of these, having popped over from PvPOnline, I have been absolutely hooked. This is either the first or second comic that I check each Thursday, and I am never disappointed with it.
The characters, the art, and the script all share a timing and humor which is both catchy and sympathetic… as well as snarky in all the right places. It is lovely to find a comic where animals are not only drawn well, but given personality beyond cuteness and fluff.
In this comic, I particularly enjoyed the second panel… and the expression on the face of the bird as he says, “Shut up, Gregory.”
I suspect, once I get a paycheck, that I will be purchasing that print.
I assume the double-meaning of “relieved” in the last frame was accidental. Or should we be glad Charles wasn’t standing underneath? I mean, you know what scared birds do…
so I’m guessing, even in this little breaker comic, that Wind is representative of death or warning signs of death? because the wind was sort of important when Charles and the wolf (can’t remember his name) were climbing the mountain leading them to the lion telling Charles to bring down the humans; the wind was important in ‘calling’ the wolf to his death; wind was revealed to us by Vivol being the crows, which also took away the wolf’s dead body; and now Charles followed the wind to the main group of crows…
so either the wind and/or the crows represent death…right?
and personally, I would like to see more of the “Vivol and the moon bear” story. the meaning of ‘the moon bear’ eludes me. is it representing “destiny” or something, as it dropped Charles on the mountain to begin his journey? and somehow got Vivol out of the circus?
I don’t know, maybe I’m just looking too far into these things as always.
May 6th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Heh, so much for that. I love those birds!
May 6th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Gregory sounds like a douche
May 6th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
The birds are wonderfully drawn. Mrs Sanderson reminds me of my 3rd grade teacher-there was a Gregory in that class also.
May 6th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Great birds! When is Hawk avoiding class?
May 6th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
If that wind is what I think it is, there really ought to be some little crows in Mrs. Sanderson’s class!
Or maybe they were sent home for talking out of turn?
May 6th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Any one want to offer odds that the wind in question came out of a canyon – with a river – and a tall tree at the end ?
Great break Karl – the birds here are priceless .
May 6th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
awesome sauce
whens this goin into syndication? i can picture it in the saturday paper ala Calvin & Hobbes :)
May 6th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Aaahhh! The tension breaker. Thanks for the funny birds. Look forward to next week.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Karl, you are almost flawless in your pacing. Like Rex Queems said, this is a great tension breaker. I – once again – can’t wait until next week.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
nothing makes me smile like plump birds ^_^
May 6th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I won’t say I wasn’t disappointed that I didn’t get to find out what happens with CC, but I’ll take a smile over a gasp any day! Superb job as usual, can’t for wait for Wednesday (and it’s only Wednesday!)!
May 6th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I’d probably be the little one who looks scared to death, haha.
May 6th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
I think I know how those little guys feel. Anything to prologue not doing something scary.
May 6th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Joverine,
Hate to say it but syndicated comics are going the way of the newspaper in general, which in turn is going the way of the dinosaur. Read it on the web!
May 6th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
The birds are too cute – beautifully drawn, as always! Love it!
May 6th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
The eyes that the birds have in panel 3 is priceless. Love it.
May 6th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
(b)eeak! What a face on the little munchkin in panel three. i know that face!
love it!
May 6th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Ha ha! It’s funny because my Grade 6 science teacher was a Mrs. Sanderson.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Haha, Gregory looks relieved as well.
Those poor birds! I bet Gregory would have ended up with a broken beak! Such a bully!
May 7th, 2009 at 3:04 am
Third panel = greatest thing I’ve ever seen. :)
May 7th, 2009 at 7:19 am
HA! Shut up, Gregory! cute!
May 7th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Its strange that I expected Gregory to have a funny little sliver of a feather up there. Quail, eh?
May 7th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
great character, third panel is pure gold
May 7th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
I love their 0_0 look.
May 7th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Since reading the first of these, having popped over from PvPOnline, I have been absolutely hooked. This is either the first or second comic that I check each Thursday, and I am never disappointed with it.
The characters, the art, and the script all share a timing and humor which is both catchy and sympathetic… as well as snarky in all the right places. It is lovely to find a comic where animals are not only drawn well, but given personality beyond cuteness and fluff.
In this comic, I particularly enjoyed the second panel… and the expression on the face of the bird as he says, “Shut up, Gregory.”
I suspect, once I get a paycheck, that I will be purchasing that print.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:39 am
I assume the double-meaning of “relieved” in the last frame was accidental. Or should we be glad Charles wasn’t standing underneath? I mean, you know what scared birds do…
May 10th, 2009 at 1:54 am
if they can’t fly yet, how did they all get up into the Flight School Tree?
May 10th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
“Where on earth did this wind come from?”
Where beyond earth is more like it, heh.
May 12th, 2009 at 8:32 am
so I’m guessing, even in this little breaker comic, that Wind is representative of death or warning signs of death? because the wind was sort of important when Charles and the wolf (can’t remember his name) were climbing the mountain leading them to the lion telling Charles to bring down the humans; the wind was important in ‘calling’ the wolf to his death; wind was revealed to us by Vivol being the crows, which also took away the wolf’s dead body; and now Charles followed the wind to the main group of crows…
so either the wind and/or the crows represent death…right?
and personally, I would like to see more of the “Vivol and the moon bear” story. the meaning of ‘the moon bear’ eludes me. is it representing “destiny” or something, as it dropped Charles on the mountain to begin his journey? and somehow got Vivol out of the circus?
I don’t know, maybe I’m just looking too far into these things as always.
May 13th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Kerschl cover art spotted at io9
http://io9.com/5250101/teleporting-dogs-and-dying-detectives-in-this-weeks-comics?skyline=true&s=x
June 15th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
The birds are too funny!
December 16th, 2009 at 12:15 am
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