i dunno, ray in a rain coat with a glock does it for me

Wow

I think she already wrote a song about that...

You could still get it up in that situation?

I'd get it so up in that situation.

That's not a cheat, that's a work of genius. The last panel of the last strip and the first panel of this strip go together completely.

Ohhh i wish i could lame this comment.

Oh goodness that is histerical.

Straw won the internet.

Everybody go home.

IMGS OFF ruins it.
=(

This comment takes multiple cultural and textual references and knits a fine comedy tapestry. I'd give it A , but I'm not a grading body.

Ray does what has to be done. He does not flinch from the hard stuff.

Actually, the alt text is:
"http://www.whitetails.com/anatomy.html"
Oddly, there's nothing there.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030801134655/http://www.whitetails.com/anatomy.html

A more completely look at deer anatomy is here:

http://www.bowhunting.net/NAspecies/whitetail2.htm

Ray probably got it right in the heart. He knows how to put a deer out of its misery.

if the deer is motionless and the marksman practiced, a heart shot is good, but i'd not have wanted to take the risk of shattering the "shoulderbone" of the front leg (or worse having it deflect the shot). At that range, head and neck are more merciful. But you would better to listen to this man, who is more of an authority on the subject than I will likely ever be. http://sports.expertvillage.com/videos/deer-hunting-taking-shot.htm

traditionally, you want to hit the killzone- towards the rear of the shoulder. That's your best shot of hitting either the heart or lungs, leading to a clean kill. Aiming for the head or neck leaves very little room for error.

Yes, double-lung on a quartering away is my particular choice, but I do not know if I would use the same criteria for hunting as for a mercy shot. I admit I do not know, since I have not had to administer the latter. But given the close range I probably would choose the harder shot with the more immediate death (head) over the double lung, since the deer is already in pain.

The neck strikes me as less merciful. The poor thing's struggling for air in the small moments before it completely dies, and there are enough moments to make dying it's own hell. Ray made the right call.

It's on the pavement. Neck or head shot could ricochet back up and kill the little otter. Pete made the right call.

Pete?

here is the new link

http://www.whitetails.com/deer_info/deer_anatomy.cfm

ray got it right in the heart

Totally. The whole arc reminded me ofRain

Are you saying that cats are higher on the food chain than deer or that otters are?

Well, cats are carnivores, which definitely puts them at a higher trophic level than the deer.

Trophic.

Wow, I was going to rate it 5 for the dramaticness and beautiful artwork, but that last panel... WOW! Elevated this strip beyond what I expected from Achewood, and I have come to expect quite a bit.

I use the "I would give x so many hugs right now" line all the time now.

While I do not own a pistol, if I were to embark on a search for Nice Pete, I think my first stop would be to acquire one.

This was the first Achewood I ever read. I was confused. It took a bit of backtracking to realize what was happening.

Help me out here folks. Is there a comic missing from the archive? Seems to me that at the end of this arc before the next one, there was a Thanksgiving comic where like, all the characters and dialogue were scattered all over the place. Like those sticker books you get when you're a kid or something. Teodor was making dinner and Todd shit all over it or something. Does anybody else remember this?

I do remember that, but I think it was a Serializer strip that's now on Webcomics Nation. See here for more information.

Perfect five because of both Beef and the fact that Phillippe didn't die.

Man the forest in panels 2 and 7, damned beautiful

I cried the first time I read this strip. The death of the deer is such a beautifully sad way to end this arc.

A young otter lives, an old deer dies. A fair trade.

one of my top 10...hands down.

i think philippe is the one in need of a hug

The shape of the ear-silhouettes changes from being pointy and Pete-like in the last strip to Ray's rounded American curl ears in this one.

Maybe we're seeing Phillipe's panicked perceptions in the last strip, and he assumes it's Nice Pete.

OTOH, I'm still not sure if Phillipe knows Pete is a Bad Man by the end of this arc. As far as I can tell, he was just freaked out by the crusty gelato.

The artwork in this story arc is hella excellent.

I like to imagine that Ray shooting the deer was not so much putting the deer out of it's misery, but not wanting to have Phillipe have to live with killing the deer, with him being so sensitive and all.

Why did Ray shoot the deer right in front of Phillippe?

FOOD CHAIN! GET USED TO IT!

well, that and you cant let a poor animal suffer like that.

Is this arc finished forever?

Ray had to shoot it in the torso or else the deer could not have made that return appearance being mounted on the wall in Phillipe's room.... In the strip that has not been drawn yet.

no, thats where the heart it you shoot them in the heart.

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