Today’s comic is in the bag.
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Nurse: Well, Mrs., umm, Locket, right?
Flora: Call me 'Flora'.
Nurse: Okay, Flora, I’ve got all I need, and she’s waking up nicely, so she’s good to go!
Nurse: I’ll go grab her a wheelchair while you get her ready.
Flora: Thank you.
Flora: Talitha, can you hand me that bag on over on the table, please?
Talitha: Yes, ma'am!
Talitha: Here they are, Mrs. Flora!
Flora: Thanks, honey!
Tanya: Who's this girl? Why's she here?
Talitha: Mrs. Flora's cubsitting me!
Flora: Her name’s Talitha; She’ll be staying with me a few days. Now, let’s see: we’ve got a skirt and a t-shirt. Something’s missing...
Talitha: Pretty!
Tanya: I hate skirts...
Flora: Wait a second...
Flora DAMMIT COLIN! You forgot to pack her some panties!
Flora: Call me 'Flora'.
Nurse: Okay, Flora, I’ve got all I need, and she’s waking up nicely, so she’s good to go!
Nurse: I’ll go grab her a wheelchair while you get her ready.
Flora: Thank you.
Flora: Talitha, can you hand me that bag on over on the table, please?
Talitha: Yes, ma'am!
Talitha: Here they are, Mrs. Flora!
Flora: Thanks, honey!
Tanya: Who's this girl? Why's she here?
Talitha: Mrs. Flora's cubsitting me!
Flora: Her name’s Talitha; She’ll be staying with me a few days. Now, let’s see: we’ve got a skirt and a t-shirt. Something’s missing...
Talitha: Pretty!
Tanya: I hate skirts...
Flora: Wait a second...
Flora DAMMIT COLIN! You forgot to pack her some panties!
Come on, Flora. Put on your MacGyver hat. Just cut a couple of leg-holes in the bottom of that bag. Problem solved!
I’ve actually been in that position with picking up friends, family and like up from the hospital. You’d be amazed at what you can do with a towel.
Same but i had a black trash bag. So the problem wasnt as hard for me as it was for you guys. I just cut and she stretched em on. Couldnt notice anything. So remember be nice to janitors we are a nice and helpful people.
Indeed!
Either he’s really forgotten because he’s a ditz or he’s ashamed of going through his daughters underwear… which would be strange because I can’t see Tanya being reliable enough to do the washing and folding of clothes.
Well remember he didnt know that she was raped. If it was a fight in the rain he was prepped for mud and possibly blood. Not cut off panties.
I dunno guys, I’ve known so many dads who dodge their daughters panties. We’re lucky she doesn’t need bras, I’ve seen some terribly ashamed parents who just forget all the under-wear-ables.
Damn! That last panel got me choking hard from laughing.
In Colin’s defense he did rush from work and the rather involved remodeling of his company’s new store. In stress and crisis situations I’ve seen people do far, far worse, to the point they became almost a casualty themselves because of their distracted nature, so Colin did all right in my book. He has been under a bit of stress the past few days, subjectively.
And is it my imagination or did Flora look rather pleased to have been called ‘Mrs. Locket’??? I think she just had a warm fuzzy…. 😉
It does show that interspecies marriages are not really frown upon in this universe.
Indeed! But that makes me wonder about the church that Flora belongs to. If interspecies couples aren’t universally abhorred, then it seems that her church is beyond stodgy and borders on controlling. That’s a little frightening…
From what I’ve heard of religion in America is that some churches, especially in the more rural areas are kind of like a community to the point of almost sect-like behaviour.
But any of the more orthodoxic religions are particularly strict about their beliefs, so if inter-species isn’t allowed by religion (even if its common and not looked down upon in modern age) then it’s heavily frowned upon to the point of not being allowed to go to that church anymore. Same thing with marrying someone not having the same faith, really.
I think in the case here, we are referring to the priest over reacting to Flora admitting to being attracted to a fox. I would think the reaction was over a rabbit could not produce kits and that is the transgression. Some orthodox religions require a large family. So any marriage that will not produce kits is “shameful”.
Yes, in some instances a religion in fear of being opressed needs citizens to keep the majority going is going to put a high priority on having large families. If a woman joins a husband of a different church, they loose that (Capacity? Facility? Capability?) which is demeaning to women, but hey– patriarchy! Men have to be afraid of women, because,… Dunno why, but there’s a lot of it.
Any social group is controlling to some degree. What would be frightening is how the groups assert their control. Jonestown (religious sect) controlled at the end of a gun and poison Kool-Aid. Inter-city gangs control by drive-by shootings. Flora’s church does not seem controlling in a frightening way. It has interspecies within its congregation so we could assume they “normally” do not have an issue with interspecies marriages. Though i would question that priest’s over reaction during confession. Though… I did not see in any of the strips of the church if there were any predator species attending that church.… Read more »
Well unless there’s a “prey” animal that calls it’s young kittens (which I think only counts for felines) then the guy doing the confession box is a predator/feline because he said that it’s “perfectly valid for a still young woman to want KITTENS” So it can’t be a predator/prey issue at least.
Still, wonderful comic :3
Rabbit young are called kittens. Also, the priest looks like it is a squirrel, though hard to tell without seeing the tail 😛
Would be interesting to discuss this world’s social faux pas. Such as touching another person’s tail. Kaleb grabbing Tanya’s tail, her reaction was rather extreme (fur all frizzled).
I think, apart from being intimate or the possibility of intimacy, it might have hurt as it is an extension of the spine.
I won’t even get into the implications of the violet gland that vixens have…
https://www.foresthillcomic.org/comic/15d033/
So…about what I was thinking. Then again, it would be a violation of personal space. I could also see more than cursory grooming being something of an intimate act and a reciprocity of trust and affection.
Then again, I always enjoy getting your take on things in your universe!
And Fox ysong ung are kits, so kits and kittens and kids, how about kubs? Sorry, just feeling silly.
I once read a number of stories about people caught in earthquakes.
A couple of them had no memory of the quakes, but “woke up” in the rubble strewn street. Holding lightbulbs.
Lightbulbs?
Wow. totally missed that.
I am a little curious as to why the cops haven’t shown up to get a statement, although it seems that they have been a little busy with Benni and Talitha’s fathers and the collection of very damning evidence. It doesn’t seem that this is a major metropolitan center, so the police force may be rather limited, still, one would have expected a uniformed officer to at least begin the preliminaries.
Oh, well! All will be made clear in time, right Mr. Campion? 😀
The hospital did a rape kit. They would not do that unless requested by a parent or by the police.
Point. However there was also an assault as well as rape, and things like that are often reported by the hospital as it’s required by law so long as it doesn’t violate patients’ rights or privacy. As mentioned, I’m sure Mr. Campion has a handle on it. Laws may work differently in his universe, which is cool with me.
I wonder if canine officers act as their own drug dogs…
So the canine cops really take a bite out of crime. 😮
Indeed! 😆
As long as they are above eating the perps, I think the society is safe. But a uniformed Jackle with a pair of handcuffs would give me a fright.
I think I’m right there with you…though hyenas would be more terrifying for me…
I think we needed a moment of levity given how heavy this story has been.
ROFLMAO@the last panel.
Flora loses her temper? Definitely time for a de-stress moment, though the coming legal events will likely make that difficult.
On a positive note, many hospitals keep disposable underwear on hand, even if they’re paper or nearly so. Or maybe someone could give up some scrubs pants. Not high fashion, but they’ve got more than enough reasons to go straight home.
Unless the hospital charges Z50.00 for one pair.
Possible grammatical error on the second panel, third text block.
I love your comic!
Good eye. Fixed!
I find it hilarious that Colin _knows_ Tanya hates skirts, but keeps wanting her to dress in them. In a way it’s cute, but Colin needs to stop living in the 70s, his daughter is a 90s girl.