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Oct 18, 2024 5:40 AM
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keyblader1985
That was dope
cakeycakes
I enjoyed this.
windswept666
Where's big foot?
pastaholic74
I'll always updoot Big Jack
Cowmayihelpu
Captainplanetmotherfucker
Thanks, OP. That was a great read. I love people who know how to handle their business. Even if they're dogs.
CrepuscularCryomancer
GreaterDog
Jfc how did they make this interaction deep as the Mariana trench
SalmySwims
woods*
DurendaI
This almost reads like an anecdote from the Great Depression.
TransFlavoredDepression
The sympathy for the wolves is what gets me. He's hard but not heartless. Tears me up every time when I get to the rifle bit, too.
leonintenso1
Not wolves, something smaller... Fox? Wolves are very big, he wouldnt stand a chance vs 10 of them.
friendsofsandwiches
Pet Darkery
emptyother
If you like talking pets and dark stuff, check out the Beasts of Burden comicbooks. Love that series.
KaleCallu
ZRhymesWithBread
So the dog's the villain, right? Some critters gone hungry 'cause he's keeping the sheep for his "master". Punk-ass labradoodle.
flyingmonkeystick
Depends on perspective. The sheep would consider him a hero.
QueenOfTheFey
No ones the villain. The critters want to eat, but doing such will result in death. The dog wants to make sure that death isn't that of his flock. Everyones just trying to survive.
ZRhymesWithBread
He's not trying to survive. They're not threatening his survival. And it's not his flock. I bet he's underpaid, no benefits...
Mnbvvxz
Thank god this made front page for the 90th time
RainierCamino
CrepuscularCryomancer
voidspaceistrippy
Deathcio
Pet foolery at Instagram
Oultnil
Maybe edit the post to include that.
Solivoid
Someone should probably tell them to watermark their work, at least on certain panels, or stuff like this will keep happening...
DisabledParadox
Big Jack should get one of them spiky collars just in case diplomacy fails.
GreaterDog
Oh wow it never crossed my mind that spiked collars actually served a function. I just thought it was for style
NovemberAlphaMikeEcho
The actual bite-proof collars don't look like the fancy black leather, chrome-spiked collars. They look more Mad Max style: https://nplimages.infradoxxs.com/cache/pcache2/01586199.jpg
KittyBazooka
Thank you
TheSwedishMoose
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_collar
KittyBazooka
Tack så mycket!
TheSwedishMoose
DonkeyGoat
I keep seeing this pop up on my YouTube recommendations and now it's here
emptyother
Now? The OC creator posted it here initially (probably after instagram, then webtoon). And youtube? People post static comics to YT now?
FaerieWalnut
Some people who wanna be voice actors will voice static comics. Good practice, gets attention to the comic, youtube views. Everybody wins.
emptyother
Oh right, didnt think of that. That is damn cool.
Aurentis
Unfortunately it's become a problem for a lot of authors, since they're not always getting permission first.
DerpMeister
I don't mean to say that it is intended by the artist, but I can't help to notice some strange symbolism. The dog takes the role of the classic strong, male protector. The sheep takes the classic role of the caring mother, staying back with her child and consoling it while the dog approaches the threat. So as to say "the man has to leave his family behind to go out and engage something that poses a threat to them". Now I'm going to say it: That's the classic trope of a 1950's era movie that
DerpMeister
depicts the classic American family values of the time. It could be right out of a John Wayne movie. I also can't help but notice that they are all depicted as being white. White dog, white sheep, white lamb. Then there's the threat. Of course one can assume that they're wolves, but it's interesting that they are being kept shrouded by the shadows, as if they are to symbolize the general idea of any kind of external threat. They are depicted as some amorphous (black) evil that
DerpMeister
the (male white) dog has to face to protect his herd (his family). The symbolism of "white" being flawlessly good and "black" being evil is obvious. In the conversation between the dog and the threat, the dog is being shown as a selfless defender who is willing to give his life for his herd. The discussion the dog has with the threat is also interesting as the dog shows his willingness not only to defend his herd but to also exact vengeance on the threat should it kill a member
DerpMeister
of his herd (he will go after them when they drag a dead sheep away), even if that may cost the dog his life. That means, for him, his duty to protect his herd is not just a matter of efficiency but of honor. At the same time the dog is displayed as being good-hearted, even sympathic to the perils of the threat. That too is a classic trope of a 1950's era movie, e.g. a war movie where the (good American) soldiers are depicted as inherently good-hearted people who nevertheless "do what
DerpMeister
they have to do (which is to kill their enemy)". The threat on the other hand is driven by its basic instincts, that it can't help against. Let me stress that point: The threat is a threat not because it chose to act like that, but because doing evil to satisfy its needs is inherently a part of its nature. It is born that way and there's nothing one can do about it. The dog's warning, that the noise will alert the farmer is also interesting, because the point is being made here that the
DerpMeister
farmer is the ultimate protector, not because he's human, but because he has a rifle. So what is being made clear with that is that owning a gun, a rifle in this case, is vitally important to protect one's property/herd/family. Then, after having thwarted the attack, the dog comes back to his herd and is approached by the lamb. Here the lamb takes the role of the classic innocent child that is (and needs to) deliberately being lied to, as to protect it from even the idea that there may be
TinyLiehon
This is Brutus' great-grandpappy. Not even gonna post the "change my mind" meme cause none of y'all will be able to change my mind. That's a good doggo.
TinyLiehon
Poor critters though. Wish we didn't hog the planet so much to cause trouble for them.
TransFlavoredDepression
humans are a huge issue but this is also the life of a predator in the wild--if the prey lives, the predator may starve. many predators lounge around to conserve energy and a failed hunt spends so many calories their last meal gave them. I hate living on a death planet
TheDildoOfConsequences
So much this. Why they hungry? 'Cuz livestock farming displaced all the deer.
TinyLiehon
I'm honestly interested in what a future would be where we reduce our overconsumption of meat and grow meat in vats. The amount of land that can be rewilded fascinates me
flyingmonkeystick
Even if we reduced our consumption of meat, we may end up not rewilding that land and use it for some other purpose.
TinyLiehon
I don't think there's that much need for land. Without all those pastures even more people would live in cities (which is more efficient both from use of space as from quality of life (provided decent urban planning ofc)
snofler
littlecoatfatguy
Yep, dude’s earned his rest.
CrepuscularCryomancer
Thought for sure this was what they were leading up to. I like the peaceful ending though. Dogs are the goodest
DurendaI
Simo Hayha, the White Death.
sixtimesseven
I have a particular set of skills
gonzar09
I will find you...
archmarv
Just what I was thinking. In the movie Casper will be played by Liam Neeson
JayEnfield
I've lived around a lot of coyotes, and the idea of 11 of them hunting together smells of BS to me.
TheGreatBlueHeron
Yeah, not particularly prone to running in large groups.
flyingmonkeystick
I also doubt a dog being able to take down that many unless they all just kept running and the dog took them down 1v1. But even that seems unlikely since by the time one was killed, the others would have been far away enough to not bother chasing.
Cayowin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8wGMDtT-WA This is the source of the claim, but yeah I'm also a touch skeptical. Unless it was 2 sisters with say 4 cubs each, then maybe???
JayEnfield
Yeah, the source is "one guy says so", which puts it in the same category as "The fish was THIS BIG!"
JustAnotherVictimOfAmbientMorality
"They shall be my finest warriors, these wolves, who give themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, in the furnace of selective breeding, forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. They are my bulwark against predators. They are the defenders of the herd.
And they shall know no fear."
Zog, early dog owner, 10 000 BCE.
apneax3n0n
and so we had ciwawa those ancient wolves are really disappointed in their afterlife
DukeDarkwood
If you mean chihuahua, well, those ABSOLUTELY know no fear.
JaxJamesTheTenaciousTurtle
"[Nasal breathing intensifies]"
A Pug, 2000 CE
DeviousRaptor
+1 for a fantasticly translated reference. Though now im wondering what breed each legion/primarch would be...
JustAnotherVictimOfAmbientMorality
I ran it with chatGPT and it's fairly cool that it cast Angron as Pit Bull. Mastiff in OP has Dorn vibes for sure. Dog in the top of this chain is probably a pre-fall Konrad Kurze tho.
MegaSolipsist
Sanguinius is a Golden Retriever. Vulkan is a black lab.
friendsofsandwiches
You can take the dog away from the herd, but you can't take the herd away from the dog.
Or something like that.
reverendbonobo
Yeah, herding is that dog's instinct. They're gonna have to let him herd now and then, just for the fun of it.
bobGrimer
Completely wrong. Guarding is that dog's instinct. They use different breeds to do the herding. These dogs live and move with the sheep to guard them from predators. You can't have sheep be scared enough to be herded but also not too scared to be guarded.
flyingmonkeystick
This does make me wonder: do guard dogs know that herder dogs are not a danger inherently or do they need to be trained to recognise that behaviour?
Zedrapazia
They are usually raised together