Its finally here! The long awaited sequel to Beneath the Trees, with the continued adventures of our favorite killer teddy bear!
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Who is barely in this issue. But we meet our new protagonist (antagonist?) and get some world building, so its all good.

Give a bump if you're reading.

Jumping right into the gore this time.

>>149349204

Our new star, Monica.

Thanks, Boco!!!! Now no one will ever tell you to shut the fuck up!

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>>149349228

Pfft, yes they will.

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>>149349249

Oh no! They killed Mordecai!

>>149349262

Thighs.

>>149349269

>Why do we treat our customers at PopCopy this way? Cuz fuck 'em, thats why!

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>>149349297

I hope that cow doesn't have hooves. That would be very inconvenient for a receptionist.

>>149349194 (OP)
I'm usually interested more so with how this will end.

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>>149349242
The main character being a human proportioned duck is really emphasising how fucking large everyone else’s heads are. It must suck for her buying clothes when most tops have a neckline as wide as her shoulders.

>>149349320

Its Massive Headwound Harry!

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>>149349349

Don't fuck with the duck.

>>149349357

So if this is set in 1994, I can't decide if this Internet is too advanced or not advanced enough.

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>>149349371

Holiday ro-o-o-o-o-o-ad....

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>>149349406

Wait, Sam sent the message? I dunno man, that seems like stirring a hornet's nest. Or maybe she just wants Monica out of the way before she gets too loud.

>>149349430

And thats it for this month! What kind of wacky antics will they get into next time?

If you liked it, go pick up a copy. Maybe we can get it another Eisner nom.

>>149349430
is sam going to get gay with this duck

>>149349194 (OP)
Do girls actually find fart jokes funny as Samantha strong?

>>149349460
Sam is asexual, you know that.

>>149349430
Cathy's fucked

>>149349471
thats why she shit rainbow snakes in her mental breakdown introspection sequence, right? she's a closeted butch

>>149349225
cute duck

>>149349498

Man, if you can make any sense out of that drug trip scene more power to you.

>>149349486
Seems like there wouldn't be much of a story if she just gets murdered straight away.
Her interaction with the street punks suggests she's got some good survival instincts. My guess is she gives a rusty and out of practice Sam the slip.

>>149349430
>what all are you willing to do?
Weird extra word typo aside, this line alone makes it sound like Sam isn’t planning to kill her, she wants to see if she can turn her into an accomplice because she’s getting too old (mid-50s at least) to do it all herself.

>>149349281
George is too friendly. Poor bastard is going to end up dead for sure.

>>149349430
>It was me
Good literaly helps monsters like this and this author knows that.

>>149349458
Wtf? Why is it a monthly release

>>149349826
Uh, why wouldn't it be?

>>149349826
Anon, how do you think comic books are normally published?

>>149349458
>Walmart
>Bad
So the comic is set in the early 90s?

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>>149349357
>Making the rapist thugs a hamster and a raccoon
I’ll give the book credit. Furry comics usually make rapist wolves and big cats.

>>149349357
tough duck

>>149349990
>bad
It's a completely neutral depiction of a big box store?

I like the new main character and I hope she wins when her alliance with Sam inevitably explodes.

>>149349990

1994, actually.

>>149349269
Holy shit those hips.
I think Sam wants her for pegging

This feels woke why are all the women powerful and independent and the men useless idiots or rapists

>>149349877
He probably knows about the original book through webtoon and thought it was a webcomic which usually have a more weekly release

>>149349677
No, that's not a typo; that's how people up north speak. I've got a Vermonter friend and she's used that expression herself.

>>149350284
The main character, a woman, is irredeemably evil and the book goes out of its way to dissuade you from finding her in the right.

It does a better job of that than Dexter did, anyway.

>>149350284
Did you even read the rest of the series or looking to just bait?

>>149349458
Judging from this cover I assume the body parts will be under the store. There is definitely going to b a heist with Sam and Cathy.

>>149350384
And yet the book protests all the men as dumb idiots still why is that? Could the writer not make her compelling without making men rapists and incels

>>149349463
What are you even trying to say?

>>149350467

Yeah, you're baiting.

Judging from this cover I assume the body parts will be under the store. There is definitely going to b a heist with Sam and Monica.

>>149349430
I hope Sam gets caught. She is clearly trying to manipulate Monica for some reason instead of outright killing her.

>>149350506
Spoilers for the first series: At least some of the bodies were exhumed by the antagonist of the first comic, so you may be right about that, though I think it's more likely those parts were collected by law enforcement.

>>149350284
Look man you've got Nightwing for your fix of thick birdguy beating thugs with a stick. Some folks prefer birdgals

>>149350527
My assumption is she wants to frame Monica for the murders, including that of her own brother.

>>149350384
This is what worries me for the sequel, pure evil villains are rare enough but a pure evil main protagonist would be the jackpot, if Samantha gets even an ounce of pathos it's over

>>149350548
We've had two series already and I don't think it's lost the edge yet. I mean, the books help you understand Sam--she's clearly mentally unwell--but you don't empathize with her. A touch of sympathy for her illness is as much as you're allowed to feel before she does something disgusting again that turns you against her.

>>149350592
It be better if the book didn't go out of its way to make all the men in the book idiots, and rapists

>>149350641
It'd be better if your masculinity weren't so fragile that you can't handle fictional men being cast in a negative light, but then here we are.

>>149350592
>We've had two series already
I just saw this comic for the first time the other day and read through what I could find, is pic related (which as an image also goes fucking hard) the last issue before the one itt or am I missing some? Don't want to spoil anything for myself.

>>149350672

The first series is six issues. There was also a one shot prequel that, if I remember right, is included int he trade paperback. If not its online somewhere, although its not vital to read.

>>149350384
>>149349471
>The main character, a woman, is irredeemably evil and the book goes out of its way to dissuade you from finding her in the right
>Sam is asexual, you know that.
Doesn’t the first book implied she has a soft spot for kids? Female serial killers in fiction tend to rape babies out of worthy men.

>>149350684
So the one you storytimed itt is the first issue of the 2nd series? I was just a bit confused by that anon's use of the term "already" suggesting there had already been a 2nd series, not that this was the start of it.

Anyway, I do like this a lot. Any other comics with a similar feel?

>>149350747

Not really. She had no qualms with killing an old woman she befriended for 40 years. Her only concern is getting caught.

>>149350771

Correct, this is issue 1 of the sequel. Issue 2 in August.

>>149350641
you are a pussy hot damn

>>149350641
If you really think this book is about glamorizing the women, you clearly skipped the issue with Cherry FUCKING Gherkins.

>>149349194 (OP)
How can you storytime a sequel without doing the same with the original?

>>149350809
/co/ has storytimed it in the past, if thats what you mean.

>>149350774
That still isn’t an argument against the idea of raping a man to get pregnant.

>>149350831
I...thats...

What?

>>149350785
Thanks, guess I can read it now!

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>>149350818
I couldn't find a full storytime in the archives, but I got the first series from here:

https://archive.org/details/04_20250228_20250228

>>149350845
He not wrong, Like Alma from fear 2. Female serial killer in fiction tend to rape a man to get knocked up. It’s a whole trope. Usually a cop smart enough to track them down. Unless Samantha is shown killing a child. Her wanting a kid is still possibility.

>>149349362
In 1994 it would've been a usenet newsgroup, message boards like that didn't really exist yet. The web itself was incredibly niche in '94 and didn't really become widely used till a couple years later.

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>>149349471
Funny enough. There is a chat bot of Samantha strong. If you playing a male character that tries to kill her. She ties you up to use you as a personal sperm bank before killing you.

>>149350937
Better get storytiming the original series then.

>>149350747
>Doesn’t the first book implied she has a soft spot for kids?

I don't remember that at all. The funeral sequence makes it pretty clear she's a sociopath. If anything, I'd think she'd only avoid avoid killing kids because it'd be over too quick since she pretty clearly gets a lot of entertainment out of dismembering the bodies.

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>>149350845
Serious question. Would raping a man to get a child make be too evil for Samantha ? If Sam has a kid. I picture her using being a single mom as cover similar to Dexter in the books.

>>149349677
Its a northern accent. Its pretty proper if you ask me

>>149349826
JFC you're a fucking retard

>>149350299
No, I'm willing to bet he's a twitter tourist/newfag who found out about the comic through the YouTube video covering it

>>149351033
Pragmatism too. A child's disappearance would get investigated with more dedication than an adult's.

>>149351080

I just don't think it'd be in character for her to want a child since it''d interfere too much with her activities. Those are all she cares about; even her "friends" dying just bothered her because of the disruption of her routine.

At least now the threads will have someone actually kinda hot to lust over instead of pretending Sam's fridge ass is attractive.
New duckgirl got them legs.

>>149351258
>filtered by bear pussy
ngmi

Where first comic storytime

>>149351373
I can do the first issue but I don't think I'll have time for any more.

>>149349225
Jesus, this lady may just be crazy enough to give the bear lady some trouble.

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Damn it /co/ why did she remind me of the woman I lost my virginity to during my freshman year of high school?

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>>149350641
>powerful and independent
Can't say I would call a woman who has been utterly destroyed by grief and an actual serial killer powerful and independent. Also the first book had decent dudes like the guy that worked the hardware store and terrible women like Cherry fucking Gherkins.
Also Sam's backstory is all about her betraying a nice helpful dude on a whim.

>>149351705
End of issue 1/6. Fuck it, I'll take a short break and do issue 2 as well.

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>>149351618
how does that work, what is the difference between a bear person and beast bear?
Is it still murder if she kills it?
Imagine you're hanging around, and a naked feral GIGA HUMAN just walks by.

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>>149349194 (OP)
Neat

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Absolute pigger behaviour.

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>>149352084
End of issue 2/6. And that's all I can do for now, I've got shit to do (not in the woods, honest) and won't be back for a while. If anyone wants to continue that would be great, this is a good comic. Hope new readers are enjoying it.

I really want Sam to die.
I suspect she'll kill Monica instead, which makes me unhappy.

>>149352108
Monica will probably die, but something tells me she won't go down so easily.

She seems just psychotic as Sam, except she placed that energy towards trying to figure out what happened to her brother.

I could see the story turning into something like Monster, where two cold blooded individuals hunt each other to see which one slips up first.

>>149349430
>Or maybe she just wants Monica out of the way before she gets too loud.
Monica is spamming "Have you seen this long-dead dude" fliers in a city far far away. Sam was definitely not thinking "she's getting too close."

>>149352104
>I've got shit to do (not in the woods, honest)
Sure thing, Sam.

>>149351980
>digital security cameras in 1986

I didn't bother with this book either, it's just more furry bait. As usual most furries tend to fall for media that's bad for them and they even like it.

My real issue is how the fuck did the killer manage to rig up the sail on the parade float so it broke down and exposed the body at just the right time for the whole town to see it? That's something straight out of Saw.

>>149352359
>Furry bait
It is a riff on old storybook art, anon. Do you have furries on the brain or something?

>>149352368
This comic is gore porn, the writer made it just to hurt people, just like Beastars and Bojack Horseman.

>>149349430
>Is it your brother?
>It was me.

She just really had to phrase it that way, huh?

>>149352007
>Your kind
What Miss Piggy mean by this

>>149352482
Nothing particularly damning about that statement, can be easily passed off as "all your posts on FurChan mentioned your brother specifically".

>>149349194 (OP)
Shut the fuck up Boco

>>149350506
Considering she runs a small hardware store, she probably isn’t fond of a major superstore coming into town to eat up the business of the local mom and pop stores. So revenge against the store may end up being her real motivations here.

Hell yeah, didn't even know there was gonna be a sequel.
Thanks, Boco.

>>149351533
Seeing as it’s been 8 years and these were the only kid characters we were really introduced to, I wonder if we will see them in their teens in the sequel. Every other character would be the same with some grey hairs, but they would have more drastic design changes.

>>149349194 (OP)
Sometimes the shine on her head looks like shine, sometimes it looks like she's balding

>>149351867
>Imagine you're hanging around, and a naked feral GIGA HUMAN just walks by
So a silverback gorilla?

>>149353023
I think it's more likely Sam would be worried about development clearing (and digging up) her murder forest.

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>>149350953
>storytiming
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/140102690

>>149353111
But that's only got the first issue.

>>149349225
DETERMINATION

>>149353179
This one has everything i think, minus the prequel one-shot comic

https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/147887043/#147887043

>>149349430
There's no way Monica was ever gonna get any real leads, not with how Sam conducts her killings.
Sams probably thinking something morbid and wants to "reunite" Monica with her brother just cuz Sam thinks she's being too nosey

>>149349297
Is it normal that any rando can make a call to your phone from wherever they are and listen to all your private messages?

>>149349194 (OP)
Bump

>>149352432
>Beastars
>made to hurt people
It goes to shit when Melon shows up and turns it into a battle manga, but it's still mostly just awkward teenage romance at the surface with only occasional violent bits, but showing the younger generation starting to push back against the old cruel ways.

>>149349406
This is so stupid. She's been in the city for 8 years, wasting her life away, while the evidence was so close to her. She could've easily been visiting these little towns once every two or three years.

>>149349225
>Christ
what animal was he?

>>149349371
>volvo
Good car

>>149353282
I disagree, most bodies in cities are hidden within construction sites, waste collection centres and literally in people's backyards.
With her being on-call for any body matching the description of her brother, I figure she was hoping his body would be found in time.

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>>149353213
Well, I'm back from my trip. Should we finish them off, or are you happy with the one that's already dead?

The thread, I mean.

>>149353347
I'll dump issue 3 anyway while you decide.

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I love the way how the comic is constantly foreshadowing character traits long before they become relevant.
Makes it seem like the people shown are actual people.

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Nipple

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>>149353447
She's a furry?

>>149353453
>that bulge
kek

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>>149352108
I'm predicting Sam will beat Monica, but the latter will permanently make Sam's life "uncomfortable" so it'll really be a Monica W in the long term.

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>>149353483
HOAH SHIP

>>149353494
End of issue 3/6. Continue Y/N?

>>149353497
I'd say continue, if you have the time to spare.

>>149353497
Go on

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>>149353503
No problem. As long as folks want to keep reading I'll keep posting.

>>149353287
Classically a lamb would be appropriate, but given Mary and Joseph I could also see a donkey working.

>>149353497
I'm really enjoying this so far, but only continue if you can spare the time.

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>>149353287
A dinosaur because it was like a thousand years ago

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yes please

Samantha would have make for a great cenobite. Her sense of order... exquisite. Her hand guided by desire... There are so many sights we could show her.

>>149353601
Heh, stress cleaning. I love this comic.

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Exquisite... Ha ha ha... Superb... HA HA HA... SPLENDID HAHAHA

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>>149353662
End of issue 4/6. Time for another short intermission. This comic really knows how to do cliffhangers.

Go look for your bother Monica, Ha ha
Search for your bother, Monica, yes ha ha

I like the mouse guy I hope he wins :)

>>149349194 (OP)
Oh neat sequel is out.

>>149353758
My dick is out too, please grab it, and stroke it, but gently

>>149353773
Your little clit doesn't deserve attention.

>>149353671
We now return to your scheduled Murder Bear.

>>149353779

This is just Dexter season 1. Like it's the same fucking shit of "expert serial killer has to deal with flash serial killer with a vendetta against them"

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Things are about to get weird.

>>149353778
Yes it does, it's cute, you should see it

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>>149353787
I don't remeber Dexter having fappable butch bear. Do you?

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These pages kind of show how sloppy Sam actually is when she's "out of her element" without prep time. She talk-no-jitsus out of it, but Melody completely outsmarts her with the shower distraction and has her dead to rights here.

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And Dexter's kinda likable

>>149353884
>HA HA HA... YES!

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I mean yeah, Dexter would high five you and take you to a pub

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>MY MAGICAL REALM

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>>149353929
End of issue 5/6. Cover of issue 6 is here >>149350672

>>149353929
>11 bucks for a high quality bag
What would one of those cost these days? A hundred dollars?

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>>149353969
Restrain yourselves, /co/.

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>>149353976
UOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH

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DAMMIT ANON

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>>149353282
She had no reason to look outside the city. Presumably her brother didn't have any connections outside the city and would have no reason to leave. The only thing I find hard to believe is that Monica hadn't heard of the serial killings in Sam's town until then. That case would have definitely made national headlines and descriptions of the victims would have also been made public and FBI or whoever would have tried combining through missing persons reports to try and identify the bodies which would have brought them in contact with Monica.

Now that is a big old plot hole. We're meant to believe no one but the local sheriff department investigated a serial killer case that involved multiple unidentified victims who weren't from the that town and a killer who lived out of town and who may have possibly been killing for years and only recently started in their town as far as they know. It was also a highly televised case. And the fbi didn't bother to send at least one agent to see what's up? Now that's bullshit.

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>>149354019
>Tell me about Sam
>Why does she wear the goggles?

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>>149349430
My guess is that she's bored. Serial killers often switch up their game and escalate their killings when they find that their routines no longer give them the same thrill or fulfillment as it used to.

A lot of them find it thrilling to fuck with the police and and taunt them thinking they can't be caught. I think when Sam was dealing with the mouse guy amd coming close to being caught but getting away with it gave her life a sense of excitement she had never felt before or since. So now she's probably looking to recreate that cat and mouse game with someone and Monica is first person who's taken her bait. I'm guessing Monica isn't the first person Sam has tried this with.

>>149354053

Nice of the guy/they them that made this to let his 13 year old son write the dialogue.

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>>149354067

>Oh well.

Fucking brutal.

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>>149354101
And they all lived happily ever after. Until >>149349194 (OP)

Mouse guy did nothing wrong

>>149354134
He did everything wrong. He’s an amateur.

>>149354134
Mouse guy did everything wrong. He was a terrible serial killer and left way too much evidence and probably would have been caught eventually once some one elese besides the bumbling sheriff started looking at the case. Also its weird they nevr called in the fbi. The problem was that he was gonna take Sam down with him

>>149354134
Mouse guy was immature. He did what he did not for self-satisfaction, but for the approval of others.

>>149354161
The FBI really should have been called in the second they ID'd Sam as a major suspect and she went on the run. A deranged serial killer like that would be country-wide news and the President would be making the call to get this dealt with immediately.
What would have really been retarded from the mouse is if he kept on killing after Sam had been caught as she could just shrug and say "told you it wasn't me".

>>149354161
Eh, depends on how many bodies they found. The more confirmed victims there are the more dangerous they’re considered, and therefore a bigger priority.

Does anyone have the scans of the prequel!

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>>149354262
But wait, there's more.

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>>149349194 (OP)
My life is legitimately worse for having read this dei slop. Fuck you Boco

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Poor effort, Anon. 2 out of 10.

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fucking evil

>>149354330

I hate this bear cunt so much

>>149354326
Your life is poor effort.

>>149354330
>Ode to Joy plays in the background

>>149354313
>Stoner
Yeah he deseved it

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>>149354338
Yep. I thought it did quite a good job of making it look like Otto was going to try to prey on Sam but nope, Sam's just a psycho.

>>149354319
What book is this from? I just read the main story last month, dont remember scenes from Sam as a kid

>>149354368
Con exclusive story.

>>149354233
Usually it's the local law enforcement that decide when to call in the FBI. Once they feel the case is too much for them to handle with their limited resources they can and usually do make a call.to the FBI for help. Of course the FBI sometimes does step in with out a call if the case becomes big enough to get their attention.

I'd say once they discovered the body parts in the paint cans and realized there were bodies hidden all over the Forrest that that would have been the time to call them in. Even when nigel was killed the investigation wouldn't stop there. They clearly need help identifying the victims. The fact they never did implies the sheriff is cartoonishly incompetent.

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>>149354368
This is just a short prequel, afaik it was only released as a one-shot which is why all there are is scans.

>>149354379
And that, finally, is that. I hope you all enjoyed it. And thanks Boco (am I really saying this?) for storytiming the new issue.

>>149354324
At least from that point on, she puts them to sleep first so they suffer less.

She claims she makes her targets "random", but in reality, other than Nigel, she only kills kind people who would gladly stop to help a stranger expecting nothing in return.

>>149354392

You’re welcome. Glad so many others like it, it’s a good comic.

>>149354379
Fuck I want to rape the bear loli

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>>149349194 (OP)
Thanks for the storytime anon, much appreciated.Looking forward to the next issue

>>149354392
I can't bring myself to enjoy this because the cunt getting away with everything makes me seethe so hard, I fucking hate serial killers.

>>149354362
Did she just leave a tip? Most europeans lose their shit over that

>>149349194 (OP)
I find this one and the other one kinda flat and they both have the stereotype of the killer being smarter than everyone else.
They stay out of sight more because nobody is looking their way more than because they're smart.
If this turns out to bite her in the ass that would be cool, but I doubt it.
Also fuck this muddy, desaturated color palette

>>149354505
same. I certainly can't root for her.

>>149354520
Not really? The only difference is that receiving tips isn't required to survive over here.

>>149354520
I've been in Spain many times. I left tips at the start of my first trip until a friend just started taking the money off the table and giving it back to me when we left cafe or whatever, but nobody ever got even the slightest bit mad about me giving them money.
I stopped doing it because I try to follow the local norms when I'm visiting place. It makes everything easier.

>>149354529
I do feel the same way; why bother with a story where they get away with anything, apparently?

>>149354587
They did a whole TV show about this with 8 seasons and 4 spin offs. People loves this shit

>>149354505
>>149354529
For me, I think it's more about being gripped by the story and wanting to find out what happens next rather than hoping for any particular outcome. I didn't find it predictable (ymmv) and therefore quite exciting, there's also something about the idea of terrible darkness lurking behind the mundane world that appeals to me.

As for Sam herself, she's certainly a legit psycho with zero empathy and what she does is horrible but she's still kind of fascinating. Everybody has their calling in life, Sam's just happens to be to cut people up into manageable chunks and file them neatly. Also the art is really nice.

>there are people actually who live near the woods
>there are people that unironically go hiking in the woods
Even in modern day, killers make dumping bodies in there without getting found look easy. Why the fuck do people purposefully live around an endless maze of trees miles from civilization?

>>149354805
You wouldn't get it, city slicker.

>>149354805
Most people aren't cunted in the head and looking to murder other people to get their rocks off, Nigel.

>>149354805
Rural areas are statistically much, much safer than urban ones. There are fewer people and they tend to know the people in their communities which makes them less likely to murder each other and when they do, a lot easier to determine whodunit than in a city of millions of people. Are there some rural folks who murder hikers? Unquestionably, given all the people who have gone missing over the years. But those hikers don’t tend to be locals either, so you’re actually increasing your chances of murder all around by living in a city.

>>149354884
>live in city
>get murdered by city scum
>move to rural area
>get murdered for being an outsider
Citysters.. we lost...

>>149354558
Im a spaniard, tipping people is considered rude, like you are belitting them and you think yourself superior.
Letting them keep the change if its 1 or 2 euro max its fine though

>>149353089
She's going grey, you cave bat.

>>149350937
>Female serial killer in fiction tend to rape a man to get knocked up.
It just sounds like a fetish more than anything just being injected in for shock value.

>>149354392
Thank you very much, I really enjoyed this storytime.

>>149353282
There are a lot of faults and nitpicks I can find with the series but I'll give them that one. While it's possible she could have made her way out there it would take awhile to really feel like you've canvassed the city and looked everywhere, if you could ever feel like that. But even if she was going out of the city to surrounding areas they obviously live in NYC and Woodbrook is in Vermont a state or two over. There's a lot of other little small towns she would deal with first on top of needing to stay on top of the police departments in the city. I doubt she would ever make it that far out to stu.ble on Woodbrook without something to give her a nudge.

Now I will say, with how much she was on the internet and searching up serial killer stuff it would have made sense for her to find out about the events of the first book long before now and gone searching due to that. It would be one thing if they were just regular murders or if her brother was an older victim but there was a guy who got split in half and crucified in a way that made his body get unexpectedly revealed to the entire town and an interstate manhunt for who they thought was the killer/a bif switcheroo at the end. That would be a huge case that people would've been talking about and it happened pretty much exactly when her brother disappeared so she should've zeroed in on that like a red hot beacon.

>>149349603
That might be the case based on the cover. You never know but I'm guessing Sam will try to get the jump on her with some Curare and she'll unexpectedly fight back and chase Sam off. Whether the rest of the story is them in the woods or the woman manages to escape and we get something more chaotic remains to be seen

>>149350284
It's subtle woke, just like the creator isn't out about being jewish but you can tell if you pay attention.

>>149355874
Pretty sure writing a terrible remorseless killer that happens to be female isn’t “woke”.

>>149350540
Perhaps but if Monica didn't even live in NYC until after her brother disappeared I'm going to assume she has a pretty good alibi for literally every murder.

>>149350747
That's just an assumption based on the fact we saw Nigel make an attempt at killing a kid but out of all of Sam's victims (of which we've only seen 2-3) they were portrayed as at least young adults. She's killed over 40+ people, though, and we don't have any evidence that one or more of them AREN'T kids.

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>>149354134
He was a dumbass

>>149349225
>>149353471
>>149354330
>>149351987
I can fix them

>>149352148
If anything, I think it's just the fact that she's stayed so persistent for so long. I'm sure a lot of her victims family's looked for the first few months to a year if they were local, then petered out but she kept on it vigorously for 8 years trying to keep it at the forefront of literally every police strong mind. If ever it somehow got connected to the body parts they had in Woodbrook it would be over. That said, I don't know how Sam would know about that other than maybe seeing the fliers and getting upset at how long they persisted so maybe stumbling on the story online and just deciding fuck it makes the most sense? Even though they're a loner and a serial killer, though I find it a little much to think Sam was on the internet like that in 1994. Especially living in a small town. Maybe if this was 2008 or later.

>>149353227
Some answering machines / voicemails used to have that feature. I believe you had to enter a pin though

>>149355901
Theres a lot of assumptions one can make, but knowing the guy is an E/F list Hollywood type from the film industry a lot of his creative choices make sense viewed through that lens. I've lived out there and met those types. Their agents tell them what the studios are looking for and what kind of characters/angles to put in their stories. Back in 2020 it was "ironic endings", now there's a big push for publishing your story as a different medium first so they can adapt it because they don't want to do original IPs. I wouldn't be surprised if he was trying to shop this around for an adaptation.

>>149355987
That is going to save me so much time, holy shit.
Thanks a ton, anon.

>>149355122
>It just sounds like a fetish more than anything just being injected in for shock value.
It is. But it’s true. Serial killer women raping women to get babies is a common thing. It even shows a lot in Anime and American superhero comic books.

>>149354330
>>149354324
>>149354313
Serious question, /co/: What might happen if you asked Samantha to kiss you just before she intends to kill you? What do you have to lose in that situation if you flirt with her? You gonna die anyways right? How do you think she would react if you mentioned that you are a single, unkissed virgin individual while she has a knife close to your throat?

>>149356492
She'd flat out tell you that she's not interested and injects you with a double dose this time.

>>149356502
>>149356492
Samantha probably tortured a dude for asking for Samantha for being an un-kissed virgin. I’m curious if she would let someone pray for their soul before killing them. I can picture her doing that. Not out of mercy. But amusement.

>>149356599
I wonder if she even believes in God.

>>149349458
Well there we go I guess, another story about this psycho begins. I expect the duck girl isn't living to the end.

>>149353942

That's $32 in today's money but it's also on sale. A quick glance around for your average work gear duffel bag has them mostly in the $40-$60 dollar range these days if you're not paying a premium for the brand name.

>>149354884

Per capita, your chances of getting murdered in a rural area are actually much higher than an urban one. Pretty sure the unsolved crime rate for murders is higher outside of cities as well.

>>149357031
>Per capita, your chances of getting murdered in a rural area are actually much higher than an urban one. Pretty sure the unsolved crime rate for murders is higher outside of cities as well.
>THIS IS WHAT CITY-DWELLING RATS ACTUALLY BELIEVE

>>149352145
Goddamn, a reference to Monster. I need to go back and re-read that, such a great suspense/crime series.

>>149354007
>That case would have definitely made national headlines and descriptions of the victims would have also been made public

There are currently three major serial killers that most people don't know about. If the news doesn't care about it, most people won't know about it.

>>149354059
Hannibal vibes coming from this series so far, Monica could be a Clarice/Will type character. It would be a bit boring if it went the route of Monica chasing her down from town to town in sequels.

>>149356492
She wouldn't give you the opportunity: >>149351572 >>149351587

>>149354805
>killers make dumping bodies in there without getting found look easy.

It's more about how much you game the system. You can move to another part of the city and never see the same people again, while the woods are so large and full of animals that are willing to take a snack left for them back to their home.

You add those together, and you get a lot of space for mistakes. A lot of serial killers do slip up because they get sloppy from this.

>"this is so unrealistic, the police are only this fucking stupid and lazy and incompetent because otherwise there would be no story"
>mfw there's illegal aliens with multiple rape and murder counts that have not yet been deported despite being known to the authorities
>mfw all those mass shooters who "were known to the authorities", for that matter
>mfw only 20% of murders are solved annually, and it takes years and years, and that's assuming they even nail the right guy as opposed to some rando so they can say they solved the case

>>149349430
>Sam is the reason she's there
I swear to fuck if she STILL gets away with it.

>>149351161
Yeah, I think it's just that. Adults can go missing for all manner of reasons and both Sam and the cops know that. Kids on the other hand get a ton of effort put toward finding them since if they're missing there's usually a crime involved, be it kidnapping or parental negligence.

>>149357301
Except it was on the news >>149352017
And Monica isn't most people. She is obsessed with finding her brother. They make a point about depicting her spending all her free time looking for any clues about her brothers disappearance but some how she misses a well documented case that occurred around the same time as her brothers disappearance? One were the there was an unidentified victim matching her brothers description? That's retarded.

>>149357788
That could have just been local news. Woodbrook seems pretty small and self-contained.

>>149357788
Cool, it was a new report once and never seen again. I know for a fact you don't know about the serial killer in Albuquerque, even though there was a random ass news story about it.

>>149357807
They were there all throughout the case. The story wasn't just a single broadcast it was ongoig coverage. It's implied they're a news team from a big city >>149353417 >>149354083 so we know a lot of people in that area outside of that town heard about the case.

On top of that Monica was in the city when the killings were happening, when there was a manhunt for a suspected serial killer that went into that same city. Yet somehow she missed all.that.

Plus Monica frequets a message board where they document this kind of weird and obscure shit. >>149349249 so now we're expected to believe this case was also blind spot for gore obsessed autists.

The suspension of disbelief is being stretched to a retarded degree here.

>>149357803
It was a news affiliate from outside of their town. And in New England local news stations tend to air across multiple states

>>149357301
>There are currently three major serial killers that most people don't know about

who're they

>>149353282
As Ted Bundy showed us, different precincts don't talk to each other about murder cases, so chances are the Police in Sams town never bothered reaching out to the Police in the city and presumably did the bare minimum
They literally took Sam at her word at the end of the original run that it was all Nigel and she totally had nothing to do with any killings definitely, small town police are just incompetent and especially when having to deal with shit that never happened in their town before

>>149349362
As someone that was deep in the tech back then this is way, way to fucking advance for her background. Only 15%~20% of people even own a personal computer in 1994 and it only rose to 35%~40% by the 2000 and internet use made not even half of all those numbers, so the internet in 94 would have had nothing like that if only due to the lack of users.

>>149358103

Thats what I figured. My family didn't get one until, like, 97.

>>149358057
>who're they
Technically, there are two in the Albuquerque area and one in New England. There is also one in Maryland, but the connections are shaky at best.

Honestly, a few are teetering on being labeled as serial killers, like the strangler out of Chicago, but the patterns are loose enough that the cases are not officially connected.

>>149354805
That's why you live in a decent country where the odds of that happening are super low. Of course, carrying a weapon doesn't hurt and keeping your distance from strangers doesn't hurt.

>>149354392
Thanks for the storytime, Anon. Glad to have seen the prequel. I was afraid it would stay lost forever because I believe it was a convention exclusive.

>>149358057
They did though.>>149353662

There was an state wide manhunt out for Sam. >>149353816

>>149354529
If it ends with Sam getting away with everything, it's going to be incredibly unsatisfying. Like the ending to Lost. With the duck chick investigating her brother this early into the series, it's pretty likely the duck chick is either gonna get killed by Sam, or framed by Sam and potentially killed by the police. If the duck chick is killed, I'm hoping that she at least permanently injures Sam in such a way that Sam can't really kidnap and murder people anymore. So at first Sam is like "whew I got away with it", but then comes to the horrifying realization that she can't murderhobo people anymore, which means she's slowly going to go insane from the voices in her head.

Of course thematically I like the idea of Sam going to the city to kidnap someone, only to get hit by a bus or someone running a red light. After all, the city just swallows up people sometimes. How perfect would it be for her to go out in such an inglorious way.

>>149356502
>Samantha is grossed out by Anons erection and desire for coitus
>She double doses him
>Why isn't this working
>Triple doses him
>Only makes him stronger
>His autism is too strong
>Oh Jesus

>>149354149
>>149354161
>>149354186
>>149356013
>t. "I'm a faggot who simps for a stupid, overweight ursine"
Kill yourselves

>>149358522
Are you simping for an incompetent mouse?

>>149358522
The bear is irrelevant. Mouse was an amateur killer if his goal wasn't to get caught in the end.

>>149358522
t. Nigel

>>149358538
>>149358572
But Nigel did simp.

>>149357323
>Working as a journalist for Argosy magazine in the 1960s, Thomas Harris traveled to Mexico to interview an American mental patient, Dykes Askew Simmons... While jailed, Simmons...was treated by a skilled "prison-doctor" whom Harris had referred to as "Dr. Salazar". A prison guard later informed Harris that Salazar was, in fact, a convicted murderer who could "package his victim in a surprisingly small box"
>a surprisingly small box
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Lecter
Methinks you are correct.

>>149358588
And look where that got him.

>>149358887
Exactly. It's how the average anon here would fare with her.

>>149353976
>>149353978
This guy was an amateur. He would have been caught eventually because he wanted to go after kids.

>>149356492
Sam literally killed a woman she knew for 40 something years with like zero hestitation.

I think she is Asexual on top of being a Psychopath and genuinely can't really feel emotions related to that kind of stuff.

>>149358283
If the duck dies in #2, or hell any point before the last couple of pages of #6, I think people will just drop Rite of Spring. Her revenge is the entire story here, not Sam just casually cleaning up every loose thread after 8 years of doing nothing.

The best ending is Monica killing Sam. The second best ending is Sam killing Monica, but Monica dying laughing because she causes all of Sam’s lies to cave in and she dies knowing Sam will face justice for her crimes. SamWinsLol will be bullshit.

>>149354319
Well, thats not what I thought would happen at all...
I thought he was going to wind up being a killer but turns out he really was just a random kind german guy.

>>149359135
If Monica dies, thats the point the FBI should get invovled because she would probably make sure Sam is found out.

>>149359120
The only hope you can have with Sam is that she thinks you are an interesting person. If you are boring. She will kill you without a second thought. If Samantha thinks you are funny. She targets someone else over you. Psychopaths can still find people funny and fascinating. I find it interesting Samantha don’t like to torture. She could’ve cause a lot of prolonged pain with many of her victim but she didn’t.

>>149359220
Maybe she is also on the autism spectrum? Her monologue about organizing body parts and how it calms her just seems like some kind of twisted way of stimming.

>>149359220
>>149359287
She's a sociopath, not a sadist. Murder is her way of reorganizing the contents of her mind. I don't think she gets much of a kick out of the killing itself; it's more a purging of her mind's black poison, which allows her to regain a sense of orderly calm.

>>149359369
*Psychopath

>>149359135
Monica dying in any way is going to result in an investigation into Sam's small town. Sam's playing a dangerous game because the best serial killers solely kill random victims, and she's creating ties between her and Monica.

>>149358283
>>149359135
>>149359193
Whether or not Sam is ever cuaght really depends on whether theres gonna be a sequel or not. As far as I know the first part was a surprise hit so I'd be surprised if the author ever planned Sam's downfall. If there's gonna be a sequel then this middle part should be used to set up the pieces for Sam's eventual capture in a hypothetical part 3. Monica should do something that will ensure Sam is eventually caught even if she does die in the process.

>>149359369
Yeah, it seems to be really about cutting up and making the bodies “neat and tidy” for her, the way she likes everything else to be. She’s developed a way to kill which is relatively painless and drains them of blood so they’re “clean” when she does so. The distress her victims feel upon being kidnapped initially generally means nothing to her, but then she does display a certain amount of pleasure watching the feral bear kill and in taunting Nigel at the end of the first volume. I wonder if that’s a new feeling for her, could be that those experiences have led her to enjoy a bit of sadism and that’s why she’s lured Monica in.

I wonder if she would have been happy being a coroner and getting to cut up already dead bodies? Probably not orderly enough for her and she wouldn’t have total control over the body.

>>149359429
It's not uncommon for serial killers to get caught because they get sloppy believing in their own invincibility. BTK got caught after 30 years because he sent a letter to a newspaper practically doxxing himself and telling the FBI he was gonna kill.again. The Atlanta child murderer was caught after police heard him dumping the body of a victim in the middle of a city wide manhunt for him.

So I can definitely see this as Sam getting sloppy in her old age amd buying into her own invincibility

>>149352482
She's having fun

Maybe Sam wants to get caught but in her own fucked up way? Maybe she's dying but wants the world to know about her work before she takes.her last hibernation. Maybe its like Seven and she's wants to make some kind of statement to the world but needs someone to deliver that message because she is not planning on making it out alive.

>>149359714
Nah, getting caught means that it's all over. Years of getting away with it has become boring so she ups the ante just to feel that level of release again.

>>149359811

>Who’s killing?
>Oh my God bear is killing how can that be?

>>149359811
kek

>>149349194 (OP)
Does Sam shit in the woods?

>>149360471
Sam doesn't shit where she works

>>149359377
You know, I've never been quite clear on the difference. I thought psychopathy came about as a result of stress--a psychotic break?

>>149360471
That’s kind of hot.

>>149361159
I can field this. A practical distinction is that psychopaths are born, and tend to be more controlled and manipulative, while sociopaths are made, and tend to be more impulsive and volatile. A psychotic break isn't really related to either, as it's when a person loses their mental contact with reality and manifesting as hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and impaired insight. It's more a symptom of a disease than the disease itself--thing schizophrenic delusions.

What this means, weirdly enough, is that the titular character from Psycho isn't actually a psychopath, but a sociopath, although he does suffer from psychosis.

>>149361159
Psychopaths are usually the way they are because they were born that way.

A sociopath comes about through circumstance.

>>149361246
>>149361247
Thanks, guys.

1: Hot-ass waitress.

2: WTF is Sam doing?? Getting rid of searching family members to protect herself or doing murder door-dash?

>>149349677
LOL That's how southern people speak, genius.I LIVE in the south.

>>149349603
You assume Monica will even be the main character. Sam could kill her off, and the REAL main character could use something like air tags to find his vehicle (Chekov's co-worker?) and catch Sam in the act. Probably has a crush on Monica and just decided to keep an eye on her (and his car).

>>149361899
Anon, this takes place in the 90s, there are no air tags.

>>149361159
Medically speaking, there isn't. Psychopath and sociopath are colloquial terms for people suffering from antisocial personality disorder, a neurosis with multiple symptoms that may or may not all be present. Even root cause factors overlap. In reality it's just people reusing imprecise and outdated terminology often with changes to meaning in order to fit the new usage.

>>149361905
Ah, right, forgot. Maybe hot doggo waitress is a relative that he visits and coincidentally runs into Monica?

>>149361899
Hmm...ok. Wait...Sam's taking her into the city she's living in. No need to track Monica at all. Dude could just notice his vehicle somewhere and follow Sam and Monica at a distance. Monica's talking about not having friends. The people she doesn't consider friends ironically might save her ass.

>>149361905
Hmm...ok. Wait...Sam's taking her into the city she's living in. No need to track Monica at all. Dude could just notice his vehicle somewhere and follow Sam and Monica at a distance. Monica's talking about not having friends. The people she doesn't consider friends ironically might save her ass.

>>149361811

Ideally the former.

>>149359811
>>149349458
>>149353913
>>149351641
Samantha reminds me of a 47-year-old female trucker I dated in college. She is a sweet older woman who never outgrown being tomboyish. But does has a habit of thinking about breaking wind during sex and dating is funny.

>>149353654
Wait a minute. If Samantha is capable of being mad that Mouse Simp killed Charlie. Does that mean Sam is capable of trying to save or protect friends?

>>149362425
She's not mad that Nigel killed Charlie, she's more caught off guard that Nigel is framing her by killing Charlie and dumping his corpse in her store
She'd likely only try to save or protect friends because it would benefit her in some way other than because of friendship

>>149362842

To a point. She was friends with Nigel's mom for 40 years but she still shanked her with no regret.

>>149349677
>>149350367
>>149351145
>>149361835
>Northern
>Southern
I live in Kentucky. We say that in the flyovers too. It's a pretty common turn of phrase.
>>149362425
She doesn't care about that. She is horrified by the way Nigel intruded into what she thought was her safe home turf and potentially blew her cover.

>>149362852
She was nobody's "friend". She just was on good terms with Lola. Sam literally isn't wired for "friends".

>>149349826
You're...new to comics, aren't you? The only comics that release more than once a month are those shitty Marvel Infinity minicomics with bad art and lame stories.. I don't think they still do those, though.

>>149357031
That's not true, a majority of nurses just aren't reported in the city because people are adults with no family around or are homeless so the police either drive catalogue it or just frame it as a missing person whereas in smaller areas people notice and it's investigated more seriously since the police have less on their plate.

>>149357627
I can explain all of those but I'll get a three day ban again.

>>149362842
>>149363088
>>149363292
>>149362852
As others pointed out. Sam hasn’t tortured anyone yet. Even Nigel or shown to kill kids. It is possible there are things that make Sam sick. How bad does some have to be that get a reaction from Sam? If series ends. It probably gonna be Sam taking on a worse serial killer. Most serial killer main character end that way.

>>149354289
>Man acts retarded due to his wife
A tale as old as time.

this story fuckin sucks shit, man

>>149354330
>shows the bones but not the eating
COWARDLY.

>>149363688
>If series ends. It probably gonna be Sam taking on a worse serial killer. Most serial killer main character end that way.
People might call this a trope, but most serial killers and child molesters get killed in prisons by gang members or contact killers in real life.

>>149363688
>If series ends. It probably gonna be Sam taking on a worse serial killer.
She kinda already did that with Nigel though. I mean arguably Sam is worse because she’s killed a LOT more people than he did but he seemed to get off on the suffering of his victims and their loved ones in a way that she doesn’t. Which of the two is “worse” is an interesting question.

>>149354267
Thanks

I don't get the hype, this is just a really bog standard true crime type story but with furries.

So Nigel did all that shit because he wanted to fuck Sam and impress her???

>>149364488
>So Nigel did all that shit because he wanted to fuck Sam and impress her???
Probably both. Nigel a virgin with a overbearing mother. The type that seek older women.

>>149364500
His mother didn't come off as overbearing to me.

>>149364525
You never grew up with a overbearing mother.

>>149364525
I don’t think she is. After all, she even encourages him to go and live his own life. It’s clear he didn’t really leave college to look after her or hold any bitterness over that like some might (or that she might imagine he feels) he did it because he didn’t like the people there just as he seemingly doesn’t like anybody he considers “fake” (i.e. not a fucking psycho like him and Sam). Nigel’s mother isn’t his problem, it’s his hatred of normies and disgust at himself for having to pretend to be one. That’s why he wants to be with Sam, I don’t think it’s even a sexual thing, just him wanting someone he can be his fucked up true self around.

>overbearing
Ha ha

>>149364750
Finally someone got the joke.

>>149354970
a quick google search revealed that this is not true

>>149364962
Shut up. Who asked you?

>>149364962
>n no tipping is definitely normal all over the world shut up
I wonder who could be behind that search result

>>149364980
lmao greedy bastard... exposed

>>149361905
The author future it was the 80's and had someone but a Bluetooth camera in the original

>>149365080
>Bluetooth camera
You just pulled that out of your ass, it shows a character buying a security camera, which definitely existed in the 80s.

Why is this one of like the only three noncape comics /co/ is willing to read

>>149365213
Bears are cool

>>149365213
I saw duck
I read

>>149365213
The difference is that this comic is good while the self-masturbatory slop you're fan of is bad.

Reading bump

>>149365213
bear pussy

>>149354970
I never left more than a euro or two. I was a grad student. I never went anywhere that would lead to a bigger tip than that.

>>149356422
>Serial killer women raping women to get babies is a common thing.
[X] Doubt

>>149361835
that's just how old people spoke where I come from is rural NY- and yeah, there is a whole part of NYS up near the Canadian Border that is country as fuck.

>>149349204
Guess we finally have a definitive year for the original story.

>>149365213
What are the other two

>>149365824
Beautiful Darkness and Jason Shiga's Demon.

>>149354722
I don't really find it gripping.
For one thing, the art isn't the least bit dynamic. It looks like it was inked with a toothpick. There's very little shading. Fear of contrast is something I've seen in a lot of furry art. It's all just a static smear. I get bored just looking at it.
that and I think it's kinda difficult for a psychopath to keep up the facade forever. IIRC, BTK's neighbors all hated him and he was a notorious dick.

I like how you have two types of people in this thread
One enjoys the story for what it is and doesn't really care about anything beyond that
And the other is very critical about everything yet somehow can't stop reading it

>>149365213
I read lots of non cape comics anon.
I really enjoy the work of Richard Corben. Carl Barks, EC Segar, Richard Sala and many others. I admit, however, I'm not really into autobiographical stories about Canadian masturbators.

>>149365871
I finish every comic I start, anon. I think necessary if you want to have any sort of conversation about it. I mean, why would you want to talk only to people who share your opinion?
It's not like we're reading Gravity's Rainbow here.

monica, no!
my dick

>>149365896
I just think it's funny how a large group of people are enjoying a nice sandwich
And then a handful of people start complaining about the sandwich containing a specific breed of tomato that severely diminishes the quality of the sandwich while they keep eating it

>>149365928
>food analogy

>>149355987
Archived in entirety for my collection, thank you anon.

>>149363688
Sam very clearly doesn't take pleasure in pain.
Her victims die a pretty painless death, being largely ignorant of their fate, and she doesn't go for anyone local, so it's not like she does it to see the pain of their loved ones either.
It feels more like she's doing it out of a weird compulsion, rather than anything outright malicious.

>>149365824
Beautiful Darkness and Meg Mog and Owl

>>149366048
>Meg Mog and Owl
I feel like this is more of a "looking at a car crash happening in slow motion" than a "looking at an immaculate landscape" thing.

>>149366004
>rather than anything outright malicious
Yeah it's only murder.

>>149366073
I meant more in the sense that she does it not because she takes pleasure in doing it, but rather because some weird part of her brain tells her she HAS to do it.
Obviously she's still a horrible person for not telling that part to fuck off.

What an incredibly based thread

>>149366073
I think Anon's point is that Sam's killing isn't motivated by any hatred towards her victims. >>149354319 and >>149351596 are the closest we've gotten to an explanation for why she does what she does, it's the cutting up and organising the body parts that does something for her rather than the actual murdering.

>>149364430
Repeat after me: Anthros make things interesting. I've said it here NUMEROUS times. Things like Zootopia would have gone nowhere if it was just humans.

>>149366117
For her it's like ocd (and the meticulous way she handles the bodies seems to hint at some level of ocd), or having to piss. It starts to build up and bug the fuck out of her until she does it, then she's ok. ...for a while.

Well that's 500. Very nice thread, I liked reading anons' thoughts on this. Looking forward to the next issue.

>>149351867
>Imagine you're hanging around, and a naked feral GIGA HUMAN just walks by.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usf06ziW8z4&ab_channel=Jehtt
I choose to believe this setting works on Baki/Nasuverse rules, and animals that live in the wild are just naturally stronger/faster/tougher/buffer than the ones in the city, who gain the advantage of tool use instead.

>>149349194 (OP)
Before the thread dies, I just want to say that I could definitely fuck the evil out of Sam but I would never ruin her like that

Nigel would've been fine if the internet (and this site) had been around in his time.

>>149366867
Nigel and Sam should've just moved out into the wilds, it's clearly the true serial killer's paradise.

>>149364430
It's the gimmick of cute animal people being brutally murdered by cute animal people psychopaths which gave it legs/sales.

>>149366867
I dunno, I think Nigel might be a bit too much of an edgelord even for 4chan. Anons would likely have spammed him with
>nothing personnel kid
mockery and he would probably have gone out and murdered anyway.

>>149366936
It truly is the spiritual successor to Happy Tree Friends.

What was Nigel's total kill count?

>>149366937
Nah, he'd fit right in with early,pre-irony poisoning /b/. He might even become a full-time /co/mrade.

>>149366004
She kills because it decompresses her. Knock out a random city person, drain them, slice them into perfect bits, bury the bits in the ground, decompression achieved. The problem is that she has negative empathy.
Least it isn't like her first kill in Germany where the victim was fully aware of what she was doing.

>>149366987
Wasn't it five or so?

>>149366970
In a less cartoony not dying to accidents sense I guess.

>>149366937
>>149366989
Yeah back in the day as a kid I used to pretend to be a serial killer on places like /b/ and barely anyone cared. Some people called me out for being an edgelord sure, but most either ignored me or would try to keep me going. I assume most people instantly figured out what movies and shows I was stealing from. I wonder if I actually fooled anyone though. Thank God no one saved any of that shit though

>>149367383
>Thank God no one saved any of that shit though
The FBI might have done. Watch your back, Anon.

>Boco made two successful storytime threads
Should we be worried?

>>149366354
>Repeat after me: Anthros make things interesting
Maybe to furries. Zootopia was mid.