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[Bozack]

One good thing about not going to sleep is being the first poster. Awesome. AWESOME.
The comic itself is pretty good, if only because it describes something that seems to happen to me daily- not involving rats, but every time I set something down on a crowded table or something, my brain quickly figures out what's about to fall, moments before it does.

[CortJstr]

Is it sad that I needed the alt-text (or Title attribute, if you're anal) to tell me what song was playing?

[wombat]

Why do they need a trap?  Can't they get one of their cat friends to come over and catch it?

[CortJstr]

Why do they need a trap?  Can't they get one of their cat friends to come over and catch it?

Let's see you suggest that to Ray and see how he reacts. I imagine it would be somewhat Garfieldian.

[slink]

Is it sad that I needed the alt-text (or Title attribute, if you're anal) to tell me what song was playing?

Not in my book. Dreadful song. I really do hate McCartney.

[cellardoor]

Great use of sound in today's strip.
scrif scruf scuf

[Bobby Isosceles]

This, for some reason, reminds me of Cornelius' blog strip about the maggots and suet.

feeling lazy, so pick your own scandinavian camp video from their repetoire

[Va]

Am I the only one who finds it slightly creepy that Teodor will casually kill a rat when one of his friends is a squirrel, which is basically a fluffy-tailed rat that lives in trees?  Would Todd be upset if he knew?

Reminds me of this.

[CortJstr]

Am I the only one who finds it slightly creepy that Teodor will casually kill a rat when one of his friends is a squirrel, which is basically a fluffy-tailed rat that lives in trees?  Would Todd be upset if he knew?

They also seem to have no problems being carnivorious so I'd say there are many animals in the Acheverse that are just animals and not sentient.

[Bobby Isosceles]

Am I the only one who finds it slightly creepy that Teodor will casually kill a rat when one of his friends is a squirrel, which is basically a fluffy-tailed rat that lives in trees?  Would Todd be upset if he knew?

They also seem to have no problems being carnivorious so I'd say there are many animals in the Acheverse that are just animals and not sentient.

I think it's a very Buddhist sensibility that, yes, all creatures, even food animals, in the Acheverse have souls and minds and social services infrastructures and alternative lifestyles, but yes, they are also some that will eat others or kill them for wandering in the radicchio. And you just have to deal with that because that's how life is.

Also, CJ, poor form, I out-AbnrmlJstr'd you. EDIT: Twice.

[AugustWest]

Am I the only one who finds it slightly creepy that Teodor will casually kill a rat when one of his friends is a squirrel, which is basically a fluffy-tailed rat that lives in trees?  Would Todd be upset if he knew?

Reminds me of this.

I was halfway expecting Teodor to go investigate and find Todd in the trap.  Still could happen, I suppose.

[miles]

The comic itself is pretty good, if only because it describes something that seems to happen to me daily- not involving rats, but every time I set something down on a crowded table or something, my brain quickly figures out what's about to fall, moments before it does.

It's funny because it's true!

[Bobby Isosceles]

Am I the only one who finds it slightly creepy that Teodor will casually kill a rat when one of his friends is a squirrel, which is basically a fluffy-tailed rat that lives in trees?  Would Todd be upset if he knew?

Reminds me of this.

I was halfway expecting Teodor to go investigate and find Todd in the trap.  Still could happen, I suppose.

Which begs the question: What's wrong with killing other sentient creatures since there are documented ways out of heaven and hell?

[Golfhaus]

Love it. Teodor, through the strip and the blog entries and what not, clearly sees setting rat traps as a necessary evil, not something he enjoys in the least (the way you might expect Lyle to, or Pat). He hopes for clean resolution, as sudden and painless as it can be made to be for the victim.

Obviously, this is not that resolution.

"When I'm Sixty-Four" as the soundtrack for the dying, suffering moments of vermin... that's why Onstad makes the big bucks.

[V-Adore]

The offstage nature of this strip is gorgeous.

I like "When I'm Sixty-Four," in a sort of cheesy way, and think it would be good boppy cooking music. Either that or they had a better CD in and "Sixty-Four" just happened to queue up.