Stuffed Hunter doesn’t look like he died laughing.
“Stuffed Hunter doesn’t look like he died laughing.”
It’s not unheard-of for people producing stuffed animals to pose the animal in something other than it’s last live pose. So you get a stuffed bear rearing up on back feet, with fore feet spread wide and mouth wide open, when the hunter took the animal lifting a leg on a tree.
You can see the hunter’s last live pose in panel 3.
Probably supposed to be a poacher, not just a hunter, but still…
It looks as if the hunter cut off the costume’s tail with a knife, indicating that Lio was mere seconds away from death. James Pollock has it right–there’s a Gary Larson cartoon showing a bear being shot while drinking from a stream, but the pose in the hunter’s room shows him rearing with teeth bared and claws at the ready.
Is it merely a coincidence that the hunter bears a more than passing resemblance to D.T. Jr.?
@Stan: I don’t think it’s a coincidence, particularly given the pose in the final panel.
Lio was hunting the hunter? Dangerous game because he could have been shot from behind but maybe he was using the costume as a lure to kill the hunter?
“Dangerous game…”
Well, yeah, being out and about where hunters are is potentially dangerous. Hunters are SUPPOSED to hold fire until they know what they’re shooting at, and Lio’s only wearing half of the costume.
Lio killed him. Ya gotta watch out for the quiet ones.
Who did he hire to stuff that? And how much did he have to pay to avoid questions?
He’d tell you, but then he’d have to… well, you know…
The hunter caught the proverbial tiger by the tail but cut it off. Kind of the same as letting go which is a no-no according to the proverb. So he gets his just reward. By Lio and not one of his monster pals? I can’t remember any Lio strip as dark as this one.
“I can’t remember any Lio strip as dark as this one.”
I don’t really see it as dark exactly. To me it seems like the hunter is getting his just deserts. Yea, ok, Don Jr.’s been killed and stuffed, I get it, but not without just cause. He was out hunting big game, which if it’s not illegal is highly morally suspect (I know, I know, only in some social circles…YMMV).
If his intention was to go out and murder a big, beautiful beast to stuff and mount in his living-room, then he shouldn’t be too surprised if the tables get turned on him in the same fashion. Maybe not ‘beautiful’ in his case, but you know what I mean. What comes around should go around. I think that’s the message of this comic.
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The hunter laughed himself to death.
Stuffed Hunter doesn’t look like he died laughing.
“Stuffed Hunter doesn’t look like he died laughing.”
It’s not unheard-of for people producing stuffed animals to pose the animal in something other than it’s last live pose. So you get a stuffed bear rearing up on back feet, with fore feet spread wide and mouth wide open, when the hunter took the animal lifting a leg on a tree.
You can see the hunter’s last live pose in panel 3.
Probably supposed to be a poacher, not just a hunter, but still…
It looks as if the hunter cut off the costume’s tail with a knife, indicating that Lio was mere seconds away from death. James Pollock has it right–there’s a Gary Larson cartoon showing a bear being shot while drinking from a stream, but the pose in the hunter’s room shows him rearing with teeth bared and claws at the ready.
Is it merely a coincidence that the hunter bears a more than passing resemblance to D.T. Jr.?
@Stan: I don’t think it’s a coincidence, particularly given the pose in the final panel.
Lio was hunting the hunter? Dangerous game because he could have been shot from behind but maybe he was using the costume as a lure to kill the hunter?
“Dangerous game…”
Well, yeah, being out and about where hunters are is potentially dangerous. Hunters are SUPPOSED to hold fire until they know what they’re shooting at, and Lio’s only wearing half of the costume.
Lio killed him. Ya gotta watch out for the quiet ones.
Who did he hire to stuff that? And how much did he have to pay to avoid questions?
He’d tell you, but then he’d have to… well, you know…
The hunter caught the proverbial tiger by the tail but cut it off. Kind of the same as letting go which is a no-no according to the proverb. So he gets his just reward. By Lio and not one of his monster pals? I can’t remember any Lio strip as dark as this one.
“I can’t remember any Lio strip as dark as this one.”
I don’t really see it as dark exactly. To me it seems like the hunter is getting his just deserts. Yea, ok, Don Jr.’s been killed and stuffed, I get it, but not without just cause. He was out hunting big game, which if it’s not illegal is highly morally suspect (I know, I know, only in some social circles…YMMV).
If his intention was to go out and murder a big, beautiful beast to stuff and mount in his living-room, then he shouldn’t be too surprised if the tables get turned on him in the same fashion. Maybe not ‘beautiful’ in his case, but you know what I mean. What comes around should go around. I think that’s the message of this comic.