So, essentially, you have a "realistic" serial killer in the methodical, cold, experienced Samantha, and a slasher movie serial killer in the impulsive Nigel who likes to leave a mess for shock value.

the way Sam describes Lola at the beginning is foreshadowing to how she ACTUALLY feels about her - which is nothing. "Lola is the only person in my life you could actually call a friend."

YOU could call a friend, not that Sam herself could possibly call Lola a friend. she's saying "you" because the audience can understand, but Sam cannot. she understands what the word means, but it means nothing to her

I love how Sam's reason for trying to catch Nigel isn't like any other thriller or murder mystery. No moral qualms, no wanting to work with a kindred spirit, not even curiosity about a fellow serial killer. Just "Oh my god this stupid kid is going to get us both busted"

People need to stop calling the bear “not completely heartless” for having a rule against killing in town. She does that to throw off suspicion. She’s a monster. Her duck victim just wanted to help a stranger out.

I love how towards the end the comic makes sure to remind you that just because Samantha stopped Nigel, doesn't mean she's the hero of the story, and may even be worse than him. She was completely willing to kill the closest thing she had to a friend, and the one person Nigel cared about, just to get to him. On top of that the way she killed him was just extremely brutal both physically and emotionally. She hasn't had any big revelations, she's implied to be continuing her murders once everything calms down, and only really cared when it looked like she was going to get caught.
She's just as much of a heartless monster as she always was.

Its so interesting that they write Sam as our hero protag and its such a feat to make us root for her because she's not just a serial killer, she's an irredeemable serial killer. She doesn't have some morally grey "code", like she only kills bad people or something, no fact she's the opposite: Sam only kills good and kind people. She might identify with the wild bears (the way their killing isn't personal or targeted, its just their nature) and she tells herself that "Keep it random" is her rule, but its actually not as random as she thinks.

Daniel the Duck was only trying to help her out of the goodness of his heart; his compassion and his generosity. Sam didn't approach him, didn't engage with him first, he was just the unlucky one who offered help seeing someone in need. And if that's Sam's MO, waiting on the unlucky next person to offer help, then she DOES have a specific type of victim. She's only killing people who are kind enough to offer to help out a stranger unprompted. But because she's a psychopath and doesn't understand love or compassion, she doesn't even realise that pattern and genuinely thinks its untargeted.

i love the detail of melody being allergic to lavender since it actually is toxic to cats, great attention to detail!

The idea of a experienced serial killer trying to catch a novice so she doesn’t get caught is a really cool idea for a story and the picture book art style is the cherry on top

Something that I noticed when i read this comic is how Samantha seems to be the only apex predator in the story while everyone else is a harmless pet or barn animal like a duck, mouse, or dog.
I have a theory, I dont think these people are actual animals at all, they’re all humans but Samantha just sees them as harmless animals and herself as a apex predator.

The irony of Cherry telling her husband that she watches out for him, when she's a pig with horrible vision and he's an owl with 360° vision

I think the twist of Sam killing Lola is genius. In retrospect, it makes sense, Sam is a complete psychopath, and while Lola was always nice to her, there’s no real emotional connection that Sam felt. It’s like opening a bottle of expensive whiskey that you’d kept for years, except with even less hesitation.

This is nearly a perfect blend of Zootopia's chill vibes, Beastars maturity and gore, and Dexter's serial killer with rules hook.

One thing I really like is how perfect the art style is. Many "unassuming" horror/gorey stories usually have an eerie look to their cute characters. Which isn't a bad thing but I love it when the art style could legitimately pass for (in this case) a normal children's book/comic.

1:57 The moles having thick glasses make a lot of sense actually since moles usually have poor eye sight. I initially just thought Charlie and his whole family won the very unlucky genetic lottery.

When I saw lola bleeding I thought it was just fake to shock Nigel and catch him off guard. The horrid realization hit me when it turns out she was actually killed😭

It feels so depressing and fucked up that we see a redeeming quality of Cherry (her genuine love for her husband) right before she's slaightered.

I hear a prequel is being made, and I'm interested to learn more about Sam. Her flavour of sociopathy is very rare, because a lack of empathy/love doesn't make pointless murder any less pointless.

MOST sociopaths are driven by human instincts for safety, comfort, and control, none of which are aided by murder. Yet Sam seems to murder specifically because it MAKES her feel safe, comfortable, and in control. For her mind to have correlated the two, some VERY formative events must have occurred when she was young.

Surious forshadowing detail in issue's two, four and six. Sheriff saying there hasn't been a murder in fourty years. Sam chastising Nigel on how sloppy his methods are, and lastly when she poisons Nigel tells him that Lola and her have been friends for 40 years.

This paints the picture that woodbrook murder from 40 years ago was one of Sam's first kills, she likely could have been almost caught. So she quickly learns her mistakes on where not to kill, and decides on a better method which was shown we're at the start of the story.

I like the detail of Nigel and Sam being completely polar opposite animals, Sam is a bear, they are huge, loud, and ruthless. While Nigel is a mouse, which are known for being small, quiet and (unless they are carrying some kind of disease) harmless

Sam was the true villain of this story...killing people who only wants to help someone in need and killing someone she knew for 40 years just to get back at someone is next level evil