Well, that's not a scary thing to see hanging on a tree at all....

That would be super scary for preds, but probably a morale boost for prey. Either way, scary.

That's sure sending a message.

I wonder if it would make Rask feel safe or unnerved? The skull, I mean; because that thing's skull--I think maybe a bear--is likely something that'd kill him, too.

Radicalized prey species. Yikes.

So no more pages here? Also will you be selling physical copies?

I think another page will be posted, just on Patreon, not here. We'll just have to wait twice as long for the update. Still, not too bad. Caves and Critters does something similar, posting the very newest post to the website and posting the previous page here.

That's what I was asking.

I'll still be posting here, just skipping next week since I'm out of town and I can't schedule it to update on this site.
Patreon will still be posting, however, so it'll be two weeks ahead of everyone else now, and will likely keep growing gradually ahead of the rest of the places I post.

As far as physical copies-- someday, hopefully!

Good to know, thank you! Hope you do make physical copies because I'd love to buy one.

You could say he's heads above the rest!

No? What about how Rask will really have to skull-k around!

Really? Wow, tough crowd. They're really dead tonight!

And they said herbivores were the peaceful ones.

What a terrible advertence.

From what species is this skull?

A wolf's, I would swear

Welcome to the Planet of Assholes. The preds are largely assholes, the prey are mostly assholes, and it can only end in a genocidal war and one side or the other wiped out or kept alive only as food animals.

Zootopia found a way around this problem. These jerks haven’t.

You're kidding me right? This is sanctuary for prey animals. They have to protect themselves from predators to stay alive, that doesn't make them bad guys. It's amazing how stupidly most of you are reacting to this. Also Zootopia is a modern metropolis, this isn't. If anything this is almost a prequel to Zootopia, something that people have joked about on previous pages.

If the prey mature at intelligent creature rates, and the preds keep eating them, they will kill all the prey very quickly or the prey will kill all the preds. Once everyone is armed, it is going to be a war and it will only end with one side dead or in cages. Most likely the preds will all be dead in short order since they prey outnumber them a hundred to one and have weapons. It is not sustainable.

That's not true. The sanctuary's primary defense is scaring predators away with the impression that it's a bear's territory. If predators catch on that it's a farce, a pack of wolves would decimate the place if not the first time, then the second time once word got out. The balance in nature is that prey vastly outnumber predators. Prey still live outside the sanctuary and will continue to do so.

Here, found the page: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/22108055/

Fair enough, but if preds everywhere are eating sapient prey, once weapons tech becomes commonplace there will inevitably be an apocalyptic war unless some sort of accord is reached. By all rights there should be one going on right now. Are there even dumb animals in this setting?

The have spears. There isn't much "weapons tech" to speak of beyond pointy rocks. They're also still mostly pretty tiny compared to predators. If word get out, it's only a matter of time before their secret society falls. Also none of the animals in this comic seem dumb, they all talk and have relationships with each other.

Well, let's say that the spear tech becomes common. The result? All the preds are dead in a year. All of them. Fifty rabbits will kill one bear and there are hundreds are rabbits for every bear. Ten rabbits with spears beat one wolf with a spear. There is no way any sort of civilized society can exist when one faction is literally eating the other. Either the prey become slaves and food animals, all the preds die or the preds find something else to eat the way they did in Zootopia. Those are our choices.

You're overthinking it.

man, i can't wait for the next update!

also, I love that footpaw shot in the second panel <3

I've read the whole 85p in roughly a week. lemme tell you Blacktea this would do an excellent comic printed under the franco-belgian format ^^

Sounds like "welcome to hell" 😈