Change is inevitable. And the help can always be replaced

Way to go Herman!

"Yeah, we kinda do."

"Then you're fired."

BAM!

I also am surprised that this wasn't the end result of the (former) cops' rejection...

IT'S TIME FOR HOUSE-CLEANING, LADIES!

Orca's face in the second to last panel. :D He has ratted up and is not going to take any shit.

This page is without a doubt made by what Herman does in panel five. The swiftness Herman's making his moves is just awesome.

How do I donate to this again?

Because this has been high art and really awesome to read. I'm not gonna let it die if I can help it.

It sez how in the latest editorial, but I never mind repeating that my Paypal is Kjartana[at]comcast.net

This page, and the next are covered. Looking forward to the next one!

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

Maybe everybody knows, but can you proove it?
On the other hand, trying to fix the election can probably be prooven.
So, who is the criminal in front of thhe law now?

Hah, great page.

I'm starting to like Herman less and less as he resembles a caricature of his one-time oppressors more and more.

There's a nice way to deal with thugs who tell you to go fuck yourself while you're signing their paychecks? What is it? Do tell!

I think you're missing the point. Hey, this is your comic, but it's taken a sharp turn that I don't understand. After the whole 'infiltration'/assassination thing, Herman suddenly started leaning heavily on moral relativism (pushing the envelope, even) and short sighted planning. He has thoroughly burned his diplomatic bridges and committed undeclared acts of war against a tenuous but extremely powerful ally. This ex-ally has already demonstrated both knowledge of Herman's whereabouts and the ability to reduce a given building to burning rubble with a few minutes' notice; realistically speaking, this comic already ended badly several pages ago. Worse, he has led the entire ghetto into open, armed revolt against a vastly superior force. Any survivors of the ensuing massacre would be stuffed back into the meat camps, only this time it would be with a lot fewer moral objections as the rat species would have conveniently self-selected and framed itself as violent criminals.

What really bothers me about all this is that Herman is supposed to be smarter than that. He engineered a win-win deal which saw his people as safe as they'd ever been, and in so doing he insinuated himself as a relevant and influential political figure. He killed the greatest threat to his species with the blessings of the highest authority in the nation, and was both paid for it and had his butt covered in return. Then he bit the hand that feeds, and it was a suicidal act of delusional megalomania. Why would he do that?

How so? He's doing what he has to to protect his entire species, and to get into the position he needs to be in to ensure he can do that. If he doesn't clean the rot out of the system, it's not even going to matter what he's doing, is it?

His concept of 'protection' is disastrous; please see above.

Actually no.

The part you describe where he did all those things to make people safe and made himself into a political figure? Those are the things he did in order to make his people safe, not any of the things that follow.

What he is doing now, from my perspective, is almost the opposite of what you see it as. Yes, he's made things safe for people but until when? If he doesn't cement his position and really stabilize the situation, how will he prevent people from just sliding right back into the same (or a worse) situation? Right now, what he's doing is taking the political aspect of his efforts and expanding them into something larger and more permanent than just a few years.

He's also empowering his people by making them work together to promote their own safety and well being. The thing about Herman is he's willing to strongarm the strongarm-ers, and oppress the oppressors right back, with greater force to get things done. I don't expect this to be a case of him biting the hand that feeds him; he won a spot on the city council, not the presidency, and he doesn't seem interested in going further with it. Once everything is firmly in place to not only establish but maintain that freedom and safety he fought for, then I expect Herman to simply stop and maintain.

Now if he were to push things even further than just a seat on the council, I would agree with you completely. He doesn't need to get greedy, just to ensure that what he's done doesn't get undone almost right away. And if you remember that councilman he ousted, the guy was already using corrupt cops to guard himself and to try to hold on to a seat he had legally lost. Imagine what else he would have done if allowed to remain in power.

Yeah, what he said. Thanks for saving me the time it would've taken to type it up. I was gonna ask Fe02 if he'd even read http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11574009/ and following pages, but when I checked, there was a comment from him on it, so he must've. I guess you can show people all the stuff you want, but you can't make 'em understand.

Or maybe they understand differently. It all just looks like a powder keg to me.

It *IS* a powder keg. Remember, the people he's working against had decided his people were nothing more than a disposable food resource. How far would YOU go to prevent everyone you knew and cared about, your species as a whole, and yourself from being put in the worst living conditions possible and left to die and be collected as food?

Everything he's doing is likely to have some sort of repercussion, and it's not likely to be calm, peaceful and easy. He's trying to carve out a space to live for himself and his kind in a world that, quite literally, will eat them all alive if he fails.

And THAT'S what has you and me coming back to read the next page over and over.

I do remember; that is sort of the central premise. However, I also remember that the President specifically stated that he had not been in support of the meat camps. He could have been lying, but to date he's put his money where his mouth is, and reneging on a deal which opens a solution to a sticky problem only stands to throw his nation into anarchy. The situation brings to mind the fable of the Scorpion and the Frog ( http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?4&TheScorpionandtheFrog ), but the man is much too shrewd to fall into that story. So is Herman, but unless his concussion knocked something loose I think that the plot is being railroaded into a pointless and bloody civil war which, I suspect, will be further railroaded into a Saturday morning cartoon underdog victory. I hope that I'm wrong about that. If this comic isn't intended as a nearly direct metaphor for American government and society I'll eat my hat, but it's an appeal to pathos without much grounding in reality. If it's a case of blowing off steam that's fine, but if it's intended as inspiration to revolt as Karno's proclivities lead me to suspect then it's really troubling. For that reason I'm starting to find it pretty offensive; there are better ways, and Herman has abandoned them in favour of bloodshed.

Bloodshed. You keep saying that, but other than that couple of assassins sent to kill him, no one's been killed yet. Even those two got killed by people supporting him, rather than by himself.

As for the rest, I'm not exactly feeling well, and I've reached the conclusion that all that I've said is basically water off a duck's back to you. I'll let Karno tell the rest of his story himself, instead of trying to predict where it's going.

As you like; I could say the same.