Hades Lane. Exactly.

I don't think I could live with myself if I hit a deer or any animal for that matter. My biggest regret getting my drivers license last year [at the age of 41] was that it would give me the ability to crush life without meaning to.

I'd like to think the deer you hit lived.

Anyhow, your message is loud and clear and sad. Especially on the heels of Thanksgiving Day weekend.

Gobble-COUGH-Gobble

also, if you haven't seen this, you should:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhcgWFOktcI

[you can thank simon fraser for uncovering this gem]

man was never meant to invent the wheel. so says nature.

I believe it. I wonder if there's a tally up in the sky of how many lives I've taken and how many I've saved out there on the road: whole families of ducks and squirrels and deer who lived because of me. A deer and a squirrel and maybe a turtle I murdered. But the balance is in my favor! I swear!

Thanks, Jenn! Yeah, I've avoided so many of these damn things when they've jumped in front of my car--but when they jump into the side of your car, there's nothing you can do.

You were obviously in a very dark place when you wrote this one! I'm jealous! `Love, Lorna P.S. Hi, Steve!

Hey, the deer hit YOU! Not that uncommon, and WAY harder to avoid than you hitting it. You could argue that you're participating in natural selection. (And yes, those of us who live in the hinterlands and sometimes refer to them as "yard rats" can be a little hard-hearted about those cloven hooved symbols of -- nevermind!)

But honestly, there's a fairly good chance that, if it didn't damage your car, you didn't kill or even seriously injure it. They are tough. And considering we live on a road where a deer once hit someone's car, went through the windshield and seriously injured them, it could have been worse.

Doesn't that make you feel all better? ;-)

What part of upstate? Must not be my part, which is f'in deer central...

God that was a good one, Jennifer. Once, in high school, while driving home on a Missouri backroad from my boyfriend's house, I actually killed a rabbit, a cat AND a 'possum all within the same 45 minute drive. Wanna talk about being freaked out?!? I was like a crazy jumble of anxiety when I got home.... totally glad to have made it home alive.

How in the world all those critters ended up crossing my path on the same night, I will never know, but KNOCK ON WOOD, I have never hit a you-know-what. But I am in Hunterdon county so I am always thinking it is just a matter of time....

That's my biggest fear. Luckily hasn't happened yet. I did, however, run over a little turtle that was trying to cross a road in Wisconsin, and I still hear that ka-bump and can see his little squished shell in my mental rearview. shudder.

Yeah, I did a turtle too once, at least I think I did. Those guys really can't make their escape.

What is this, Predator?

One of your best yet, Jennifer. It's funny how this gets to people in different ways. Obviously tragic, sadly common, and mildly funny in its psychological absurdity, you nail it all in a few panels.

Hilarious. Might be your funniest one yet.

I'm nothing if not dark.

Yes, sorry, but thanks for feeling it.

*the deer

(apologies, i'll proofread better next time.)

I love this one!!!!!!!