Page 236
Posted on August 31, 2012 by Celesse
Geez Holland, can't a girl go pee in the woods without getting the third degree? Also I should probably note that while Holland is mostly vegetarian, he does eat fish occassionally, being a swan and all.

132 thoughts on “Page 236”

  1. Arinna

    Hehehe! Feral playing with food XD Poor Holland!

    1. lovelylittlehaku

      heheh! (feral playing with food) I didn’t notice till I read the coments! ^_^

      1. Alvara101

        gosh Feral, didn’t ya mum eva tell ya to not tease vegetarians?
        I learned that the hard way.

        1. digidragon

          Holland is eating fish…………

        2. flyteck

          He turns into a swan. Swans eat fish (maybe?) and not meat. Plus a lot of vegetarians eat fish but not read meat/poultry.

  2. Kyuubi

    Oooh is anyone else sensing a deep dark secret to be revealed, because I know I am!

  3. Foxxtrot

    Feral’s expression in the next to last panel is priceless. XD He’s so cute! Run Holland!

  4. Clamps

    Does anyone else think Meela is counting down the days till she has to go off on her own?

    1. Lin

      Either that, or she’s been counting the days since her brother died… but I think it more likely she’s counting the days ’till she has to leave the group, like you said.

      1. Bluerosebud

        Maybe she assumes bounty hunters will come for her new family too.

        1. circus tigress

          wow that a good idea :D it completely fits in with the story

        2. Cenica

          I was thinking maybe something happens on a certain day becuase those look like moon phases on there….

    2. Alvara101

      Naw I bet she hit puberty >_< Blarg… I pitty her. Wait no. I envy her. She's a comic character she doesn't get puberty!

    3. digidragon

      im wondering if it has something to do with her family they might turn into wolf permanently and go crazy or turn into a wolf on the inside and kill everybody?

  5. monica

    oh no MEELA WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN

  6. Kiddo

    erf Feral why are you so adorable x3 I love him on this page, he’s so cute.

    It’s really hard waiting every Friday to find out what Meela’s hiding. There’s so much anticipation! It’s not fair >.<

    :)

    1. lovelylittlehaku

      I use to think he was the stronge silent type, until this page was made! but I agree he’s so cutttte!!!! :3

  7. Ebeth+Bliza

    Anyone else wanna have a button of that second to last pannel?

    1. sumkid

      heck yes!

    2. Irishxlily

      lol, it should be a series of three buttons :D

    3. Sofy

      AGREED. I feel even worse that I missed the making of this page. ;A;

      1. Irishxlily

        FO SHAME SOFY!!, i was lonley

    4. Ayana

      Oh. My. Gosh. That would be so AWESOME!

    5. Lex

      Lol! It would be so adorable! That face is priceless~

      1. thelightedDarkness

        I agree!!! T^T i missed it too, Sofy, *pat*

      2. SotiCoto

        Second count on this page…

  8. thelightedDarkness

    Grrrr! Fear Me ! I am the Weanie of Deeeeath!!!

    1. Alvara101

      … *wroar* *eats thelightedDarkness*

  9. sumkid

    Holland eats fish and Feral is teasing him with meat. Lol! Can this page get any better? I just love his expression!

  10. Dani

    I love Feral’s face <3

  11. Fishybadger

    Fear the fish!
    (why is he wiggling it…? xD)

    1. Wolfeth

      LOL You obviously don’t have vegetarian friends… Pahahaha we carnivores mean it all in good fun, but it bothers them when we.. Well, do exactly what Feral is doing. Shoving meat in the face lol

      1. ShalesSoul

        Exactly!

  12. arthour

    Ahh, poor Holland!! And Meela!

  13. StainedHeart

    So nice page! I’m really curious what will be next n_n
    Meela is hiding a secret, this is so exciting!
    on the 3rd pannel, where is book and Meela’s writings, some of the shading lays on her hand. It’s nothing big and I propably can see it only because I’m using a mobile device with big screen and the comic page is a bit zoomed.

    1. Lin

      If you are asking where she has the book on the third panel, it’s on her lap. If you’re asking where the book went after she got up, chances are she put it away before getting up.

      1. StainedHeart

        Sorry for grammar mistakes, that makes me difficult to understand properly n_n”
        I was just talking about small coloring mistake in third pannel (brown hues on Meela’s hand), not about her book :)

        1. Djer

          It’s not a coloring mistake. If you look at the first panel, you can see that she’s writing with her legs propped up, so the book is facing away from the fire. As a result, her hand and most of the page she’s writing on are in shadow.

        2. Mirza

          I guess she’s talking about it:
          http://i46.tinypic.com/zy6g5v.png

    2. Celesse

      Good eye. That’s me coloring outside of the lines because I’m a rebel like that.

      Or it’s just a goof that I have now fixed. Thanks!

  14. Swiftsnowpack

    Poor Meela…… :(

  15. Circe9231

    I had a thought last night: What if this deep dark secret of hers turns Feral, Holland, and Piper against her and they have to track her down and kill her? And then shed have to use her extremely new skills to be able to doge around them so they can’t find her? O thought that would be a semi dark twist.
    (So saying ‘last night’ is a lie, it was more around 2am)

    1. 'Pawprints

      I can definitely picture that happening. Meela’s family was tracked down by bounty hunters for some reason and if Feral found out do you think he’d put Meela ahead of his job?

      1. Bluerosebud

        Um…yes?

        1. 'Pawprints

          I’m not so sure. I can picture Feral turning on Meela although in the last minute before he hurts/kills her decides against it. It’d definitely add drama.

    2. Threnodi

      I would really like a poster with all four from Strays being themselves like this to add to my webcomic poster wall ; )

  16. Ryuu

    That first panel is SO BEAUTIFUL! ;_; *weeps tears for prettyness* I do believe this is the first ‘group shot’ we’ve had of our four main protagonists all together, and it came out great!

    I would personally really love to see a larger, better res version of the first panel as a desktop image or a poster or something like that. Anyone else agree? Maybe our awesome comic artists will make it happen if there’s enough call for it. :3

    1. Llatias

      That would be amazing! XD

    2. Wolfeth

      I’d buy it, that’s for sure!

    3. Rythos

      I would love both a giant desktop version as WELL as a great big print! I WOULD BUY THE HECK OUT OF A GREAT BIG PRINT. Or even a little one!

    4. TsumeWolfClaws

      I’d totally buy a print of that.

    5. DreamBoyMal

      Oh, wow–it WOULD make for a pretty nice poster and/or desktop wallpaper, wouldn’t it?

  17. Emergencyfan51

    Oh gosh Feral that face. I seriously need the second to last panel as a button or something! XD

  18. IloveHolland1129

    I completly forgot that Holland was a swan until the creators said something

  19. LAU

    panel four almost makes it look like meela has some boobs. O.O

    1. just another troll

      …

      NO.

  20. Bluerosebud

    That first panel is a masterpiece among the panels that make up this beautiful page.
    Panel 5…Yeah, we really need a button of this. XD

  21. LicianDragon

    Really wanting to know her frickin secret already!!!!

  22. Lauren

    Feral has a joker side! I Love his face! :D Poor Holland!

    Ooohhhhhhh all be over soon? SUSPENSE! Can’t wait!

  23. LeeDenn

    Meela, man I love her!

  24. Time

    Feral! Who knew you liked to fool around as well! XDDD He didn’t seem like the type until this page came out! I love the ‘evil grin’ on him! >:D

    Hmm… where is Meela goin’?

  25. Anagha

    I love this page! I love this whole story! I can’t wait for the next one. But I must ask.. Why is the campfire different in the first and last panels? In the first it looks like it’s on the ground, but in the last it appears in a bowl. Just wondering.

    1. Bouac

      If you look carefully you can see that it’s the same, but they just placed a bowl in front of it in the last panel.

  26. Sofy

    Holy crap Holland and Feral. That’s the best expression of them yet! XD
    AHAHAH. MY STOMACH. Awesome page by the way. :D

  27. Amber

    Aaack! What’s going on?? D8

  28. Chelsea

    It (the book that is) looks like some sort of lunar chart, though the phases of the moon don’t match with any charts I know. The last line interestingly enough has an “x” marker, I guessing Meela plans on leaving when that row is marked to 15. Or heres a though it could be a numbers system instead of a lunar chart with phases of the moon.

    1. Wolfeth

      I thought.. Oh I don’t even know. I just figured she was counting down days and the moons were just a reminder for her. Eheh ^^;

  29. dragonia

    Oh Feral, I love you. XD But Meela, you and your secrets… how dare you torment us. Tell us your secrets! D:

  30. Keenawolfwoman

    Fifth panel… LMAO!!! Oh, Feral, you’re FUNNY sometimes!

  31. VickyLynn

    Loove the coloring and lighting on this page :)

  32. Voice

    Meela seems to be growing into those huge boots. :D
    Feral is a wonderful troll – Holland looks mad AND scared. xD
    If anyone else remembers, in a previous page where Meela was using magic which started acting up, she was afraid that Holland would “figure out why”. And now she talks about counting down the days until her happiness is over. Seems like the two pages are closely linked by the same mystery question.
    The suspense is immense! :D

    1. Loopy lass

      I was thinking along those lines too :D
      I can’t wait to find out what she’s hiding

  33. Bluerosebud

    I’m getting the idea that something about Meela really was responsible for bounty hunters coming and killing her family, and now she intends to leave so that bounty hunters don’t kill her new family too. That could be related to her overactive magic in an earlier page and her specific statement of “it wasn’t my fault, I didn’t do anything wrong” when she was sick.

    My theory; she’s a demon Lupian. It would be a call back to Page 31 when she suspected Feral was one, a callback Holland saying half-demons are usually not bad-natured, and it would explain why she has this dream-bond to Feral, who appears to have a connection to demons himself.

    1. sphynia

      I agree with you, remember at the beginning when meela said “my family is all gone. my brother he …um… died recently” sounds suspicious

      also, she says she always wanted to be in a clan, but “brother always said it would be to difficult”

      1. Bluerosebud

        Hey, yeah, I forgot that line! And while I’m speculating, maybe all this could tie to Mithrennon, too, since he’s apparently hunting down anyone he sees as inferior, and that included half-demons. (I think it included Lupians too, but still.)

  34. Wolfeth

    GUH Why must we wait??? >.< I can't wait for the next page! I love that feralxholland action, there xD We can has buttons?

  35. 'Pawprints

    Amazing, as always. I can’t wait to see what Meela is hiding. =)

  36. rougey

    Perhaps Meela is cursed to die soon…or something bad happens when she reaches a certain age which might be why the bounty hunters are after her…Feral is so adorable

  37. Silvercoin

    What if she is just on her period… You know, since she can transform and all now maybe she is maturing.

    1. Connie

      That was JUST what I was thinking. What with the moons in the book and all, maybe she’s just counting down the days.

      1. Mirza

        Oh myyy… I just can’t stop laughing!
        Thumbs up!

    2. SangreWolf456

      LOL, her period… xD That made my day.

    3. Rythos

      OMG I. I had a friend that tells the story that when she got hers as a kid, she thought she was DYING. WOULDN’T IT JUST BE HILARIOUS IF THAT WAS WHAT THIS DRAMA WAS ABOUT. xDDD Not likely (because draaammaa) but omfg. Wow.

      1. KaelinaLuvsLomaris

        Anyone ever read the Books of Pellinor? Maerad when she first gets hers…. hilarious! Poor Cadvan.
        I was thinking along similar lines when I saw the lunar chart and stuff.

        1. Sphynia

          OMG I have read that series. Her period… i couldnt stop laughing, she thought she got a disease. Cadvan had to sit and hold her hand, it was so awkward.

  38. coolclaws7

    lolz faral!

  39. Enkir

    I’m getting really curious now….what are you hiding Meela

    And lsdkfj is it me or is the button for the newest page no longer changing? I dunno if that’s intentional or not.

    1. Threnodi

      They stopped changing the ‘newest page’ thing at fan request as I understand it. : )

  40. Charteruse

    Feral’s face…

  41. DemonicFire

    I honestly think it has something to deal with the earlier page when shes having trouble with her magic

  42. HaruhiFan

    Oh shit! What the heck has that girl gotten into now???!!!

  43. Rythos

    Damn guurrlll what did you get into this time? :/ Tsktsk.

    LOVE that first panel. Desktop size or print, plz?? Man. So need it.

    Feral and Holland at the bottom are just priceless as well, and YOU GUYS AND YOUR LIGHTING. UGH. That last panel, the firelight off Meela… ugh. Just. I’d buy a print of that too. FIRELIGHT MAKES THE PRETTIEST IMAGES.

  44. David

    First time Feral ever smiles is here where he teases Holland

  45. DeanCota

    Browsing the comments, not sure if anybody’s mentioned it, but isn’t Mr. Panther man still following them? Got a bad feeling concerning him coming up.

    1. Ebeth+Bliza

      You and me both dude

    2. SotiCoto

      After 6 months, I reckon he would have given up.

  46. Stevie

    is meela…a werewolf? LOL

  47. Gigi

    uh-oh… stuff’s gonna get ‘Real!!!’

    MEELA!! PLEASE TELL US I CAN’T TAKE THE PRESSURE!!! >_<
    should I stop reading for a few weeks to find out?
    nono.. I could take it!

  48. Mah

    Second to last panel is so much precious <3

  49. Tarcival

    attention everyone, feral has just smiled! I repeat, feral has just smiled! You are all advised to calmly run for your lives.

    1. thelightedDarkness

      That….is an evil smile O_O

  50. LaaLeeLooLaaDee

    I think that Meela is referring to this (https://www.straysonline.com/2012/05/page-222/) “conversation”.

    She probably thinks that since she had to “beg” Feral to teach her to survive (offering to leave once she could survive on her own), and that her training is seemingly coming to a close, she feels that she will be forced to leave him.

    But that’s just my theory. =)

    1. comic.phile

      Agreed, that was my thought too

  51. Julia

    There is a secret to be uncovered

  52. psychofoxpickle

    Aww Feral!! D: BE NICE TO HOLLAND AND DONT SCARE HIM WITH MEAT! D8

  53. Robyn

    Love the fifth panel! Make a magic shield, Holland! xD

  54. TylerRisk

    Maybe it has something to do with her Random Magic Outbursts? She did say that Holland was already noticing it and with the Moon phases on the pages, I would guess it would happen on a certain day… :)

  55. TeamLinny

    Oh Feral :b

  56. DreamBoyMal

    I’ve always loved the atmospheric lighting in this comic–especially in the night scenes. In fact, for me, is page really brings back memories of some of the earlier chapters–though I doubt that was intentional. XD

    I’m sure a lot of us long-time readers (particularly those paying extremely close attention to detail) have some pretty concrete ideas as to what Meela could be hiding…but as always, we’ll just have to wait and see!

    1. DreamBoyMal

      THIS page, I meant to type. Blergh. >_<

  57. Wolfeth

    Haha! I never noticed before but in the first panel Holland is looking at Feral like “Ew. That’s gross, man.” and Feral is all “What? Oh, you don’t like roasted bunny? TOO BAD! ~wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle YEAH~”
    ahahahahaha XD

  58. Codes

    This post seems sad and I don’t know why lol. Anyway does anyone know how to contact the owners of this comic?

    1. Algy

      You can contact us at straysonline (at) yahoo.com. change the (at) to the @ symbol, of course. :)

  59. Numberz

    //LE GASP
    Feral has a sense of humor!
    …
    …
    …
    Everything I thought I knew just went poof…

  60. Raptress

    Whee! I can’t wait until the secret is revealed. @.@
    This has got to be one of my favourite pages so far- I love the lighting, and Feral is adorable. XD

  61. Bree

    I feel like lately, Meela has been in a rather melencholy sort of mood. Maybe it’s just the way it’s been her narrating. ahdahdf I absolutely love this webcomic. Top fave in tie with Lackadaisy. <3

  62. lovelylittlehaku

    I feel like meela has a deep dark secret she’s not tellin us! oh! I can’t wait to find out! ^_^

  63. shadedglory

    I need the next page NOW!

  64. Sharpstar

    Lol this is the first time that I notice that Holland is the only one there….with out a tail XD

    1. TsumeWolfClaws

      poor tail less Holland XD lol

  65. brakoth

    i would laugh if the meat feral is teasing holland with is a bird of some kind

    1. Subaru

      OMG I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING! XDD

    2. Time

      OH MY EFFING GOD SO TRUE! XD LOL

  66. Bells

    Feral is smiling!!!!!

  67. lolol

    wait with those memories that are not hers what if she goes into a new life?

  68. Sofy

    Too bad you don’t have an enlarged picture of the panel with Feral taunting Holland. xD

  69. some random gamer

    i bet thats bird-meat ferals waving in holland’s face…

  70. some random gamer

    i bet thats bird-meat ferals waving in his face…

  71. Sofy

    I really wish there was a bigger picture of the second to last panel xD
    Still cracks me up!

  72. someone

    you have to be verry carful in the strays world, who knows, that dear your hunting could be someone

  73. atgoogledotcom

    I love Feral’s grin in panel 5 >u<

  74. someone

    The meats probably like so sort of bird meat

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