In the middle of a recent publication is a mini, three page comic book featuring Ranger Rick and his woodland buddies being terrorized by evil off-road vehicles:

Found this response to the comic on another website:

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| I appreciate the idea of teaching kids about pollution and protecting habitats and all that mush, but this made me want to box up one of the dozen fresh racoon road kills on the county highway and mail it to the magazine with a note saying, "Ranger Rick threw himself in the path of the oncoming ORV to save Scarlett. I am looking forward to the next issue when you will have, I don't doubt, an inspiring obituary highlighting the heroic actions of this valiant racoon." Or, supposing they use an understudy to keep Ranger Rick pontificating to young subscribers everywhere, here's a storyline I'd like to see: Ranger Rick, down on his luck because he's out of a job as a Kyoto treaty consultant, is reduced to picking through garbage cans while angry homeowners take pot shots at him with Daisy air rifles. He's caught in a live trap and doomed to be dispatched until a young woman, canvassing the neighborhood to drum up support for John Kerry, sees him in distress and thinking she can save him, opens the trap door. Ranger Rick rushes out, bites her on the arm, and flees into the street...only to be run over by a Volvo station wagon with a Wellstone sticker on the bumper. |
| QUOTE (KingGlamis @ Aug 6 2004, 07:38 AM) |
| That makes me sick. |