Trying Somethin' New (Oso's Adventure)

This is going to be great!

Woo Hoo 8 whole days!

You mean it's not going to be a Family Circus style panorama with a dotted line for Oso's path?

I really like how Dave makes up for the lack of speech with all those awesome facial expressions of Oso :D.

OoooOoooOOoooooOOoooohhh!! Now THAT's a dog! :D And I like how you contrasted the ore naturalistic style of the scaaaary wolf with the more cartoony one of Oso.

I love this. The art is very evocative and the story is one I think everyone is going to enjoy. I'm very much looking forward to the continuation.

Thanks. :-)

Shades of the brilliant manga "Gon". I see I'll be enjoying the next few comics.

I love it! You have just as much story-telling awesomeness in your visual depictions as your verbal stories. The adventures of Flaco have often been non-verbal, though probably not as involved as Oso's is going to be.

Today's strip happens to remind me a bit of The Abominable Charles Christopher comic: http://horhaus.com/abominable/

Good idea, Dave.

Once, my Shar-Pei got off the leash at a woodland park and it took me three hours to find her (Shar-Pei, being very wrinkly, are hard to fit to even a figure-eight harness). A rabbit was the foil instead of a squirrel. When I found her, or rather, when she finally came to my call, she was dirty, smelly and I could swear she was smiling and immensely self-satisfied. So, after she got her bath at home, my grandson and I made up a story of what she had been up to during her AWOL.

I can't wait to see how your story comes out.

Run Oso!!! Run far away from that mean and rather hungry looking Wolf!! Meep!!!

Smallish for a wolf. Perhaps a coyote? They prey upon dogs when they can. Even one of Ozzy's small dogs was taken by a coyote and he was so heartbroken he was almost clear-spoken.

Well now we see why nature gave them a spine of lime jello. It's to make them be nimble and flexible enough to escape predators. Although, I must say for a creature with the brains of a sofa cushion he has excellent survival skills.

i think oso might win the award for highest eyebrows in that top panel. :)

regarding Tuesday, April 8th's strip:
Hey Dave! Nice work with the sea in the first panel!

I agree, some great work with the water there

I must say, I am quite enjoying this storyline!

10 April: Cue "Pipeline" by the Ventures.

And, for tomorrow, should we also cue up "Wipe Out" by the Surfaris?

You are doing such an awesome and amazing job with Oso's Adventure!!! I have both a black pug and a dark brindle bug(boston/pug mix) and Oso is getting to do what they want to do in real life!! You have been able to make the actions of Oso(face expessions)look so lifelike. Are you owned by a pug or have you just studied them? Trinity and Annie send lot of licks to you!!!

Has anyone noticed that Oso is the quietest he has been - EVER?

I'll bet Grampa, Sheldon, Arthur, and Flaco wish this were a more common occurance around the house.

Just wanted to creep out of lurkerdom long enough to say I am really enjoying Oso's adventure. Thanks for such a great alternative to mainstream "comics"!

And a great ending too!

I really enjoyed it!

So we've come full circle. A great little vignette, Dave. Nice touch having the squirrel as both the cause and the remedy.

Pure awesome sauce of an ending.

i love the image of oso coughing up the shell. LOL!

I loved this! This has been of my favorite story arcs. Yay Oso!! :)