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Feral Dumpster Rat comic (4/1/2019)
This was the winner of the fan poll this month! This may well have been the first record of Feral Dumpster Rat, and the source of its name!
Unfortunately, Rat's fears turned out to be well-founded in 2019! We became homeless a few weeks after this comic was made, leading to indignant squeaks of, "I told you so! I TOLD YOU SO!" We got better at listening to it, taking its plans into account, and the little guy has mellowed out a lot in the ensuing five years, even though we still have arguably not broken our streak of bad housing luck. The text-only transcript of the comic is as follows:
ANXIETY RAT (dated 4/9/19)
This comic is sketchy doodly pencil.
PAGE ONE
Caption: This is Dumpster Rat, who is very anxious. (An arrow points to a hunched, miserable-looking rat.)
Caption: For the past ten years Rat has had bad housing experiences. (An arrow points to the tiny rat, hunched at the foot of a stinky Dumpster.)
Caption: Rat DREADS leases. (Close-up on Rat, who has dark circles under its eyes, a frazzled expression, and zigzag jagged whiskers.)
Caption: And now Rat needs a new roommate. (Rat starts to vibrate and says, "oh no.")
Rat starts wheezing and hyperventilating as dark jags loom over its head.
Caption: There, there, Rat. It'll be okay. (Rat clutches its head, eyes bugging out, and goes, "hhhhhhh")
PAGE TWO
Caption: Every setback makes Rat more anxious. (Rat, ears drooping, looks at a tiny laptop, which announces it has no new messages.)
Rat looks up at the sky hopelessly. "I won't find one," it says. "I'm doing it all wrong."
It collapses onto the ground, paws over head. "I will starve in the gutter," it declares. "I will fail."
It throws up its paws and shouts, "It is April 9th. If I don't have one yet, I won't have one May 1! And that means DOOM."
Someone off-panel says, "You'll be OK--" but Rat interrupts, "NO."
Close-up on its beady, feral little eyes. "DOOM." Its speech bubble takes up more than half the panel, and the letters within are huge, bold, and underlined twice.
Unfortunately, Rat's fears turned out to be well-founded in 2019! We became homeless a few weeks after this comic was made, leading to indignant squeaks of, "I told you so! I TOLD YOU SO!" We got better at listening to it, taking its plans into account, and the little guy has mellowed out a lot in the ensuing five years, even though we still have arguably not broken our streak of bad housing luck. The text-only transcript of the comic is as follows:
ANXIETY RAT (dated 4/9/19)
This comic is sketchy doodly pencil.
PAGE ONE
Caption: This is Dumpster Rat, who is very anxious. (An arrow points to a hunched, miserable-looking rat.)
Caption: For the past ten years Rat has had bad housing experiences. (An arrow points to the tiny rat, hunched at the foot of a stinky Dumpster.)
Caption: Rat DREADS leases. (Close-up on Rat, who has dark circles under its eyes, a frazzled expression, and zigzag jagged whiskers.)
Caption: And now Rat needs a new roommate. (Rat starts to vibrate and says, "oh no.")
Rat starts wheezing and hyperventilating as dark jags loom over its head.
Caption: There, there, Rat. It'll be okay. (Rat clutches its head, eyes bugging out, and goes, "hhhhhhh")
PAGE TWO
Caption: Every setback makes Rat more anxious. (Rat, ears drooping, looks at a tiny laptop, which announces it has no new messages.)
Rat looks up at the sky hopelessly. "I won't find one," it says. "I'm doing it all wrong."
It collapses onto the ground, paws over head. "I will starve in the gutter," it declares. "I will fail."
It throws up its paws and shouts, "It is April 9th. If I don't have one yet, I won't have one May 1! And that means DOOM."
Someone off-panel says, "You'll be OK--" but Rat interrupts, "NO."
Close-up on its beady, feral little eyes. "DOOM." Its speech bubble takes up more than half the panel, and the letters within are huge, bold, and underlined twice.