Kevin & Kell by Bill Holbrook
The moment that put Kell inextricably on the path to upper management.
As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.- Coney's grandmother Dorothy — who has been pushing a herbivore lifestyle on her — storms out of the Dewclaw house, upset that Coney will not eat vegetables. She's wondering what's the point of Coney's protective stage — just as a predator shadow falls over her. Cue, in the very next comic, Coney grabbing the beast, eating it, and then waving to Dorothy while sitting on the pile of bones. And she's maybe three.
- When Aby's ex-boyfriend tried to steal her electric car technology, R.L. of all people stepped up in her defense and brought his legal team to bear against him.
- Kell gets one when her lion co-worker Frank Mangle tries to challenge their boss R.L. for control of Herd Thinners; she jumps in to keep them from killing each other. She ends up defeating both of them, making her the new CEO of Herd Thinners.
- Kell turns her feline rivals against each other by immediately resigning as CEO, thus causing them to battle it out for the right to succeed her.
- During the "Blind Stalk" event, Rudy gets splashed with prey pheromones, and not only manages to avoid being eaten by mistake, but catches the deer in the process.
- Wendell is the new Easter Bunny but his boar classmate (for reasons) is believed to be the one behind it. As the strip moves into the 2016 Easter arc, the boar sneeringly mocks the position. Wendell manages to slip a hard-boiled egg onto his seat while they were talking without even the audience seeing what he was doing.Wendell: The next one won't be hard-boiled.
- Dorothy is mentioned to have been the first female Easter Bunny as a teen. Due to the Stay in the Kitchen attitude of the times, she had to be twice as good as everyone else; she does this by hiding the car keys of every other applicant so thoroughly they have to miss the tryouts.
- The Leona-Saves-Carl trilogy, setting up their Rescue Romance and eventual marriage:
- Carl performs a diving save when Francis is threatened by a bird of prey.
- Then the awesome heroism goes to Leona. Carl's diving save resulted in him crashing through a bridge, suffering a concussion, and drowning in the creek it was over. Llisa lifted him out, then Leona gave him mouth-to-mouth.
- Rudy figures out Carl's glasses prescription through how his plowing veers. He had no other information but managed to get exactly what Carl needed with no input from the rhino.
- Then the awesome heroism goes to Leona. Carl's diving save resulted in him crashing through a bridge,
- Leona shows us how handy she is with a fire hosewhen Carl chokes at the restaurant she's working at, saving his life for the second time.Rudy: Carl! Say something!
Carl: Give her a decent tip. - And a third came up when she and Miranda teamed up to save Carl from poachers.
- Carl performs a diving save
- After they married in 2020, Carl was finally able to return the favor when the poachers trapped Leona with a noose to lure him out during their honeymoon. He was able to lull them into a trap, where Fiona was able to stop them.
- George saving Ophelia from skinners by losing them in his tunnels under Lindesfarne's tree, then hitting an alarm, signaling Tree to collapse said tunnels so they were Buried Alive.
- All his savvy and wisdom comes to the fore when Rudy finds and deals with a rotted branch on the Dewclaw Tree. The rest of his family treats it as a Coming of Age moment for him.
- Bentley is asked to be an undercover agent for a police sting against a mob group, but he's found out. Worst, they're also targeting his son Kevin, eager to turn the both of them into chops. They takes Bentley to their butcher, ready to chop him up...only to get the surprise of their lives when it turns out Kevin took out their whole gang, took the place of the butcher and traps them in one fell swoop. Best of all, they hadn't even captured him; he'd curb-stomped the goons sent after him.
- Spork's attempt to save his dung beetle co-workers from the Herd Thinners fake meat machinery. Though he got caught, the workers stopped the machinery long enough for his friends to come to and muster the other bugs to save themselves and extract him from the predicament.
- Why Kevin finds gardening so peaceful and relaxing.
- Herd Thinner's competitor, Road Kill Inc, has hacked Kell's phone to try and kill her employees. They're able to avoid the semi they were lured in front of, and Frank Mangle was able to track down the culprit.
- Kevin putting the brakes on a would-be-saboteur.
