Page 226
Posted on June 15, 2012 by Celesse
Looks like rabbit's on the menu today.

169 thoughts on “Page 226”

  1. Shadowpaws XD

    Poor rabbit … 1st comment

    1. JaakunaOkamiNo

      you get a cookie!!!

  2. Mari

    Woha. She actually managed to catch it? I’m impressed Meela! xD

    1. Reiu

      She would be a pretty lousy student if she didn’t learn that in 6 months.

  3. Fawn

    Meela looks really good! The motion in this page is very well executed as well; I especially like the flying leaves.
    For some reason in panel 2, wolf-Meela looks a whole lot like Meela herself with that expression ^^. Likewise in panel 4. Can’t wait to see what else she’s learned!

  4. Secrets

    Yes! I didn’t think that she’d really catch it ;)

    1. DreamBoyMal

      And so it would seem that the fastest rabbit in all of Meoley has met its end. Alas…I do fear rabbit-kind is doomed. XD.

  5. SkiezLine

    Before Meela’s training began: (Meela saw dead bunny caught by Feral) Poor little bunny! Why did you do such a thing?!
    After Meela’s training began: Ah what the heck I’m gonna eat it anyway

    1. DreamBoyMal

      Haha, I noticed that too…and I think the parallels to that scene early on in the story are almost certainly intentional. XD

      1. WickedGrim

        Concurred.

    2. Mah

      Oh yeah, exactly what I’ve thinked.

      1. Tarcival

        i thought*

    3. SkiezLine

      Now we can conclude that Meela is a round character

      1. SotiCoto

        Not half as round as the freaky lady at the Inn, or the one at the ball…

  6. silver7000

    poowl wabbit

  7. Silversong

    Meela looks scary! Poor rabbit!

    RIP, Rabbit. Page 225/226.
    May he squeak in peace.

    1. DreamBoyMal

      XDDD! That comment was amazing. =)

    2. Sofy

      I just loled all over the floor. Now you have to pick it up :V

    3. Mah

      PERFECT

      A minute of silence here please.

    4. thelightedDarkness

      Im so glad it ewasnt a year…
      Meela… you have a huge mouth..

  8. Charlotte

    That’s just life

  9. stained

    Unfortunately, I’ve noticed some bugs this morning D: I made some screens of them.

    http://i45.tinypic.com/2vl7eqh.gif I don’t know if it’s because new server, but some of avatars looks like that, and it’s a bit… scary for me XD
    http://i46.tinypic.com/1zb4ei1.jpg another weird thing.
    http://i49.tinypic.com/inxqf7.png last one.
    I’m not sure if they are really bugs, but I’m sure it’s something worth cheecking out.

    And something to say about the new page- it’s amazing! It looks like Feral’s training is succesfull :D The time skip is a bit bigger than I excpected, so I’m curious of a lot of things and I’m sure, they’ll be explained later.
    Awesome job, keep it going!

    1. Celesse

      Yes, our Comicpress theme had an update, and it totally fucked up all of my custom CSS for the site >:( Unfortunately I (stupidly) didn’t have a back up, so now I have to fix it all. I’m working on it! Thanks for pointing them out.

      1. DreamBoyMal

        Well, that certainly explains it. I was wondering what had happened there myself. XD

        Thanks for letting all of us know…and as always, keep up the amazing work! =)

  10. Angeliclily

    GO MEELA GO

  11. Jinxed

    Phew, only six months :)
    GO MEELA! You got the rabbit! :D
    She looks so cool as a wolf.

  12. random

    is that meela ????? really she managed to turn into a wolf

  13. MrCold

    Navigation buttons (previous, next etc) seem to have disappeared!

    1. emikifox

      Yes!! I couldn’t find them to look at the last page :(

      1. leopardshadow1234

        oh dang they are gone o.o
        must be some kind of glitch, i dunno, i have never seen this happen before.

        1. KaelinaLuvsLomaris

          yes, indeed. they are gone…. hmm…

        2. Celesse

          Our coding got borked during a theme update, but it’s fixed now!

  14. heilix

    Meelas wolf form is amazing…
    and the expression of Meela tells a lot! well I suppose its Meela… not too sure about that…

    love this comic <3

  15. Woodstock

    Six months and Visiral still hasn’t found them yet :P Yay

    Poor bunny! ^-^

    1. Dotcom

      Maybe he did and was dispatched. A lot can happen in six months. :)

    2. MarkHalo

      I was thinking that too!

  16. Arinna

    wow six months! :o

  17. fishgrul

    I guess rabbits don’t transform huh…

  18. Swiftsnowpack

    SIX MONTHS!?!?!?! Where has the time gone?…… OUr little Meela is growing up…… T~T

  19. Kukki

    Where’s the “previous” button???

  20. Jane

    Meela!wolf looks too adult for her age. Can she grow up that fast in six months? *scratches head*

    1. Jay Walker

      Wolves are already considered adults in just 2 human years.

    2. Dotcom

      I think it’s the perspectives. In panel 2 she looks more like a pup with giant ears and feet.

    3. Celesse

      Lupians leave their “puppy” wolf forms pretty quickly. Meela is still an adolescent though, with big paws and ears and a skinny frame. The perspectives in this page do make her look a little bulkier though.

  21. Flowerlark

    Yay, wolf Meela! She’s so pretty!

  22. Blue-Starr

    And here I was thinking she WOULDN’T catch it and then we’d see Wolf-Feral scolding her! lol…

  23. cheesestorm

    Who cares about the rabbit… six months guys. SIX MONTHS.

  24. KC

    your so good at drawing everything.

  25. Bluerosebud

    I just LOVE this page and how you have imparted a human character’s personality into their wolf form so well (it does look like Meela to me, especially, as someone said, in the second panel)! It’s a beautiful design too.

    Visrial probably either lost the trail or the group went a long way when Meela was unconscious (or he has found them, but Mithrennon made him sit back and not attack for some reason…

    Well, can’t wait until the time skip is fully fleshed out!

  26. Frost

    Dude! If it’s been roughly six months since the last page (time in the story that it is) then Meela must have grown some! I’m betting my pocky that she’ll have a an appearance change >:D

  27. Nal

    Poor rabbit.. why can’t wolves go vegetarian? even carnivorous plants are doing it!

    1. Slipping Star

      Does that make the plant a cannibal?

      1. MentalikesNarwhals

        No it doesnt make plants cannibal because theres diffrent sepcies of plants, like diffrent speices of animals. it would only be cannibal if a venus fly trap ate a venus fly trap..

    2. MentalikesNarwhals

      ok lets explain the food chain to you and the animal capacity level, food chain wolf eats the rabbit and the wolf eats the rabbit. capcity level: The maximum amount that an area can matain (meaning area has only so much food and water to support the animals). Ok what happens when the chain is broken? Lets say all wolves went vegatarain ok? Now the rabbits dont have emenys right, well rabbits are going to breed like well rabbits…(they breed rapitly) and now there is millons of bunnys and what do bunnys do? they eat plants they these millon rabbits are chomping down, now most of the plants are gone because theres not enough to hold this many rabbits, so there going to starve to death of lack of food if desease doesnt get them first from over crowding. if these happened world wide every thing went vegatraion they would kill them selves because they would breed to much and eat all the plants and we would die and so would we plus with the predors eating the plants it would disapear faster. then we would die… and this is only food and deases wise. without plants beavers couldnt build dams so places would flood and also because the plants almost gone theres no roots to suck up water so that would case floods too. also without trees and plants theres barly any oxagen in the air (if we survived to this point) and we suffacate. at this point even Rabbits will go canibal outy of hunger…thats just the start if animals went vegatraion, probly only person who would litterly anwser your question litterly sorry..

      1. MentalikesNarwhals

        edit.. food chain: wolf eats the bunny and the bunny eats the grass/plants

        1. Grammar Police

          You need a lot more editing than just that >_> Your entire post was rife with typos and grammatical errors

        2. Wolfeth

          I didn’t even read it, not only was it too long but it was poorly constructed and the explanation truly wasn’t needed.

          My edit: “It’s the circle of LIIIIIIIFE and it moves us ALLLL…”

        3. MentalikesNarwhals

          sorry…. I was on phone, you know auto correct. Plus my exam was coming up so I was studying this for sceince, funny thing is this comment helped me remember stuff to pass my exam lol but better grammer in exam of course. Sometimes I just go abit over boared this wont happen again

      2. xaviara

        best comment award!

    3. Sofy

      Though some canids have eaten plants before, they were simply made to eat meat.

  28. Alvara101

    again I quote:
    “THE POOR BUNNY!!”

    And what’s with all the creepy red smiley faces?

    1. Arthwaya

      I second that: what’s with the smiley faces?!?!

      1. KaelinaLuvsLomaris

        yeah…. they are very creepy…. the whol page layout seems weird….

        1. Celesse

          A theme update borked our code and overwrote our custom avatar icons. It’s been fixed now!

  29. Howlcall

    Well, Meela’s certainly changed. She’s not crying over the rabbit anymore.

  30. Alvara101

    Question: Celesse, where’s the arrows, to flip to previous and next pages, go?

    1. Celesse

      They disappeared after a theme update. They’re fixed now!

  31. nyan

    I was kinda hoping for the rabbit to turn into a rabbit-person….will there = be rabbit people in Strays, Celesse? o Uo

    1. Celesse

      I can’t say anything as to rabbit people at this moment, but if it had been one then Meela wouldn’t have been hunting it. Shifters smell and look differently than their real animal counterparts.

  32. leopardshadow1234

    just six months! but i wonder what came with kitty dude. as usual, i can’t wait for next friday!

  33. LicianDragon

    Looks great! Loving the story so far and the art on every page! There’s one thing though, it mean nothing but if you plan on showing a running rabbit in the future, they don’t stagger their front paws like that as they run. Both front feet touch the ground, then both back feet tough the ground. Like in this youtube vid->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlOMJPcvrEE

    1. Celesse

      Actually, I used reference of a real rabbit bolting when I drew it, so apparently they do position their paws like that sometimes ;P

      1. ALT

        Celesse is right, wild rabbits generally stagger their front feet and then both their back feet come down together. Thats why their front feet in their tracks aren’t parallel.

      2. LicianDragon

        Oh, well whoops ^^; my bad on that one. Sorry.

  34. Jay Walker

    The writing in the last panel must mean she started a journal, too. It definitely sounds like an entry. Maybe at this point Meela might as well be a female Feral. I had no idea Feral could teach so well!

  35. Mary Claire

    So long, Thumper… :P

  36. LeeDenn

    I love how her wolf form’s expressions match her human form’s. Amazing art – MEELA!!!!

  37. Junryou

    6 MONTHS. 6 MONTHS. 6 MONTHS.

    I was expecting weeks, so reading ‘months’ made me wriggle in joy. How much she has clearly matured in that amount of time is super-impressive. No more “poor bunny” Meela. Great job on the time skip so far, looking forward to seeing the training montage now. <3

    Also, I love how the second panel shows how much of a puppy she still is. Her thin body and face really help that along.

    1. Sofy

      wiat till you see some of the changes :D

      1. Sofy

        *Wait till you see some of the changes :D

        1. Junryou

          After seeing the Livestreams, I totally can’t wait to see them in color w/ dialogue!

  38. Amber

    Haha, at the beginning of this series she couldn’t so much as look at a dead bunny – and now she’s making one! xD And exhibition of character development? I think yes!

  39. Gigi

    MEELA!! :D SO CUTE!!

  40. Emergencyfan51

    Lol, the audience has changed just as much as Meela has xD at the time of Meela’s first experience with dead bunnies, she was the one saying “Poor bunny! D:” and we were saying “Well you’re gonna eat it anyway, suck it up…” and now it’s totally reversed xD

    1. songstress

      Actually I still see a lot of poor bunnies out there.

      But then again I’ve always been one of those who has silently said “They are “wolves” and it’s a rabbit, it’s gonna happen deal with it.”

      However I still expect Meela’s next line to be something like “And I still hate killing bunnies.”

    2. songstress

      Oops, totally read that wrong, my bad.

  41. Jaime

    nooo a time lapse!!

  42. Slipping Star

    Yaaaaaay she can transform!

  43. Icesky

    You go girl!

  44. Ron

    We don’t get to see Meela’s first transformation!? What a missed opportunity, story-wise! :\

    1. songstress

      We still might in a flash back. They said that there will be flashbacks and things to help show some things that happened.

    2. Sofy

      Yeah calm down there Ronno! Don’t jump to conclusions juuust yet! ;)

  45. Scarlen

    Maybe there will be a flashback or something later. :/

  46. KaelinaLuvsLomaris

    I hope there are flashbacks to see some of Meela’s earlier training. Only six months have passed, so there will be more training in future too.
    I wonder how long she’s been able to transform? And what happened to Visrial? I’m sure all these questions will be answered in the next few weeks…
    In the meantime, lovely drawings! Meela is so pretty as a wolf! I love her eyes in the second-to-last panel.

  47. JaakunaOkamiNo

    That’s got to be Meela xD She looks so cute in her wolf form!!!

  48. KingPose

    I can’t help but think about my bunny Rocky here… He was dark brown, but he was eaten by my neighbor’s wolf because my brothers forgot to lock his cage :c

    1. Wolfeth

      0.0 Poor bunneh. And irresponsible wolf owners! I won’t rant. I could, but, I won’t. I have places to be today xD

    2. KaelinaLuvsLomaris

      Your neighbor has a wolf?? Cool!

  49. Willow the Clever

    Meela killed a BUNNY?!?!?!?! D:

  50. Sofy

    Meela finally toughened up a little! :o

  51. Silver Fox

    I must say I’m lovin’ it.

    And you got that horrible rabbit death shriek in they do. It’s an awful sound.

  52. Rai

    Look at her eyes in the second to last panel, and the low hanging head, tucked tail in the last one. She may have killed the bunny, but she doesn’t appear to have enjoyed doing it.

    1. Wolfeth

      Have you ever seen a wolf(or dog for that matter) stalk off with their food(or bone, as with my dog)? That’s exactly how they look. Her tail isn’t exactly tucked in, it’s just low, and in line with her body, even though it looks lower, it’s just the angle that we’re looking at it. She’s probably moving at a fairly fast pace, now. She definitely isn’t sad about it, it’s just how wolves look when they’re bringing food back to wherever. Move fast and keep low, try not to bring attention to yourself, and your body language must scream “MINE!!” for all to see. If we were to see her from her side, that’s how it would look xD My dog does the same thing. Give her her bone or a dentastick(she loves those things o.0), and she stalks away, hiding in a corner or under her table to eat it. Funny thing is she’s not a small dog so it’s like “Uh.. we can see you.” lmao Oh yeah, and I think she might still kind of think “Poor bunneh” for a bit after a kill, or perhaps she’s got something on her mind? It might be “I’ve been hunting forever and this is all I’ve got?!?” kind of look.

      1. Mah

        I think that six months of training with a bounty hunter has changed her mind.

  53. Charteruse

    I’m impressed with Meela! She sure has grown.

  54. CMK

    Weren’t there next and previous buttons before? When did those go away?

    1. Celesse

      They disappeared after a theme update. They’re back now.

  55. Elvira

    YAY MEELA!! Good job. Feral must be teaching you well.

  56. Wolfeth

    !!!NGUH!!! Nice one, Meela! And yes, time jump now makes sense. I was seriously wondering how they were going to pull it off. *mini squeeee!* Love this page ^^

  57. Sarah

    KILL DAH WABBIT

  58. teelcor

    I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE AFTER 6 MONTHS :D

  59. inu

    WOO TIME SKIP! 8D

  60. Numberz

    Houston, we have a problem….

    WHY YOU NO HAVE NAVIGATION BUTTONS???!!!!!

    1. Celesse

      Our theme had an update that borked our code. It’s fixed now.

  61. DeanCota

    Yay, it IS Meela. :D And 6 months eh?

    Glad to finally draw her in the comic in her wolf form? :3

  62. Nokota

    Who was designed first, Meela or Meela’s wolf form?

    1. Celesse

      Meela’s humanoid form was designed first. Her wolf form took me quite a long time to develop, as I was never happy with it.

      1. Charteruse

        Well, her wolf form looks very cool. I love how there are patches of different colors, like the russet and the tan. Her yellow eyes are awesome as well.

  63. Ebeth+Bliza

    Pretty big time gap…

    WOO!!! Prevent the over population of fluffy rabbits; Support Meela’s Training

  64. lulu

    wow! meelas grown (over what? 6 months)

  65. :)!!!!

    Yummies rabbit taste good if you like the more gamey meat. Though when it comes to beef jerky I prefer using buffalo. Or bear. :P

  66. holyrah

    dey say rabbit is bad for you. Dem bunnies. they nab u from the ded

  67. TeamLinny

    Yes. That is all.

  68. blackhorse1234

    OMG! I read this whole 225 pages in 1 hour! I so wanted to see Meelas wolf form! but what happened to feral and that prince guy?

  69. RainbowSocks

    Second pannel the rabbit looks like he’s trying to catch the leaf haha

  70. Loopy lass

    FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!! *clears throat* Sorry it had to be done xD
    Awesome page by the way Celesse, the running rabbit looks awesome ^^

  71. Tsuki

    If it’s been 6 months, then she must look quite different in her human form. Can’t wait to see it!

    1. Celesse

      Six months isn’t actually that long growth-wise. She won’t look very different, but she’ll sure have a change in behavior ;3

  72. Dotcom

    There’s an add for Sugar Bunny under the comic. How very appropriate!

  73. KaiaSan

    Does everyone agree that Meela’s Wolf form is cute?

  74. MSTW

    Well at least she’s not squeamish about dead rabbits anymore. That’s a plus. So happy for updates <3!!!

  75. arthour

    poor bunny!!

  76. ashen

    Absolutely love Meela’s wolf design, but even more than that I love the direction the story’s going now.

    Glad to hear the site’s back up and working properly. Keep up the amazing work~!! <3

  77. San

    I love this page, its so odd seeing Meela in her wolfform! For some odd reason, I always thought she was a fox because of the colors. o.o Anyway, very nice page!

    I guess my only question about the anatomy is in the last panel with her walking away. Wouldnt she technically be a little off balance, or pushing too much effort to walk with her entire right side one direction, and her entire left in the opposite?

    1. Celesse

      Well, I used reference photos of a real wolf walking photographed from behind, so I can’t attest to the balance or whatever, lol.

      1. San

        So it’s kind of like a shimmy? (: lol, Okay, just curious. Thanks for your reply!

    2. Wolfeth

      No, the anatomy’s correct. She isn’t exactly walking, it’s more of a slow trot that wolves do.

      Well, okay, alot of animals do it xD Not quite fast enough to be considered a jog, not slow enough to be a walk.

      1. San

        Cool, cool. :)

  78. xaviara

    love the color, love the motion, love this sooo much.

    my computer loaded slow, so i got to the “six months of training” part before the part where you can see if she caught it. totally expected there to be another little box that says “but i still can’t even catch a rabbit”

    not sure where i was going with that, but ok. :) meela’s wolf is pretty cool. nice job

  79. Shellysangel

    I cant wait for volume 2 to come out!

    1. Elvira

      This is part of Volume two. Volume two started with Chapter VI. The Swan: https://www.straysonline.com/category/comics/volum-ii/

  80. Nerdy-Emi

    Ah ha! :D yay I knew it was Meela. I love her wolf design, but now I can’t wait to see what 6 months has done to her human form and to Feral :)

  81. Elvira

    Tiny Bug:

    https://twitter.com/ElviraTepes/status/214815141416538112/photo/1/large

    1. Elvira

      in the link i gave… it shows the newest page as the title page for the comic

      1. Celesse

        Oh, yes, that bug has always been there. For some reason the scripting displays the very first page as the “newest” page when you browse the archives.

        I’m not sure why, but it does keep the newest page from being spoiled for those who are reading for the first time, so I haven’t worried too much about it.

  82. Ziri

    Feral, I caught dinner tonight, so you’re getting it tomorrow right?

  83. Derrath

    I must admit, I am sad about the time skip… not that you had it in, but because you went outside the norm for time skips!! D=

    It’s always 2 years, man!!!! What’s wrong wit chu?! XD

  84. Pepperdragon

    Great page as usual, really love this comic!

    And I love it how people comment on the “poor bunny” xD Meela would die if she didn’t catch it! Poor Meela!

  85. ninja boy 3000

    “that poor bunny that poor poor bunny!!!!!!!”

  86. ninja boy 3000

    who grows that much in 6 months?
    its crazey but awsome

  87. kelly

    I thought she wasn’t able to shift yet? or did this occur in the time skip?

  88. thelightedDarkness

    Noooo! My comment was put in the comment section of another comment!!!!!!!!

  89. pussyface

    I love it! I’m a new fan, but this is a comic I’ll definitely be following! And yes, poor bunny, but YAY MEELA!

  90. zombiebunnny

    with her coloring and fur style she looks like a maned wolf still very cute tho

  91. Magycal

    I just found this webcomic today, and I’ve spent all day reading it. It’s quite honestly freaking dam amazing. The art is stunning, and the characters are really rounded out. Everything is very real. And then you storyline – you had me hooked from the first page.
    Facial expressions xD Never cease to make me laugh seems like Feral and Meela share a trait of being able to make the most hilarious expressions.
    Now I’m dying for more! Great job, imma stalk this website evry day even if it sin’t Friday xD

  92. InfiniteAce

    Its been six months!

  93. Deadly Nightshade

    Wow! I have been stalking this comic….And this is just so awesome!
    Meela…LET ME LOVE YOU!!

  94. GypsyWeirdo

    Bunny….-tear-

  95. Maxtr

    Omgwolfmeelaissoawsume!!!

  96. Noni Ki

    This is great, but I’m just a little bit disappointed. With this story going so long up to this point with her being unable to transform, a six month flash forward and suddenly she can feels like we lost a very precious chunk of development – or at least fan service.

    1. Sofy

      The authors aren’t completely skipping with no info on what happened. :3

  97. Melanu

    Very well done, such a wonderful comic so far

  98. zoopatatata!!

    aaaand meela it is! XD

  99. blade_o_grass

    Can you please tell what kind of font you used for Meela’s journal? I’d try to use it in the translation.

  100. WolfstuckinaHole

    nuuu….u killed my Bubsy *runs to deck to see if my bunny is alive*

  101. someone

    what happened to “poor bunny!”
    ?!?!?

  102. Verridith

    I love this page. I just do. It’s gotta be one of my favorite pages, still; even after all of the neat events recently! xD

  103. Frisk Insanity

    Impressive wolf Meela

  104. batfangirl15

    Wow. Six months and Meela has already grown into a fine young… wolf-girl-pup-thing.

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