Baboy Scouts is an adventure story arc

Story arc

A story arc is an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips, boardgames, video games, and in some cases, films. On a television program, for example, the story would unfold over many episodes. In television, the use of the story...

 of the Philippine comic strip series Pugad Baboy

Pugad Baboy

Pugad Baboy is a comic strip created by Filipino cartoonist Apolonio "Pol" Medina, Jr. The strip is about a Manila community of mostly obese people - "fat as pigs", so to speak ....

, created by Pol Medina Jr. and originally published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer

Philippine Daily Inquirer

The Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies. It is one of the Philippines' newspapers of record...

. This particular story arc lasts 25 strips long. In 1992, the story arc was reprinted in Pugad Baboy 3, the third book compilation of the comic strip series.

Synopsis

Baboy Scouts Utoy, Paltik and Joma go on a camping trip with their un-named Scoutmaster, who instructs them in the finer points of woodcraft

Woodcraft

Woodcraft is a recreational/educational program devised by Ernest Thompson Seton in 1902, for young people based on camping, outdoor skills and woodcrafts. Thompson Seton's Woodcraft ideas were incorporated into the early Scout movement, but also in many other organisations in many countries.In the...

 (or at least tries to), such as the use of wide plant leaves as protection from rain, using a magnifying glass to start a fire and of course, knot

Knot

A knot is a method of fastening or securing linear material such as rope by tying or interweaving. It may consist of a length of one or several segments of rope, string, webbing, twine, strap, or even chain interwoven such that the line can bind to itself or to some other object—the "load"...

 tying.

This particular adventure showcases the different gadgets used and talents of the three Baboy Scouts, which they use in subsequent story arcs of the strip. Utoy possesses an extraordinary Swiss knife

Pocket knife

A pocket knife is a folding knife with one or more blades that fit inside the handle that can still fit in a pocket. It is also known as a jackknife or jack-knife...

 which features among other tools, a hair brush, toothbrush, slingshot, racquet, frying pan, refrigerator, umbrella, hammer, tv set, a Nintendo

Nintendo

is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....

 gaming platform and an All-terrain vehicle

All-terrain vehicle

An all-terrain vehicle , also known as a quad, quad bike, three wheeler, or four wheeler, is defined by the American National Standards Institute as a vehicle that travels on low pressure tires, with a seat that is straddled by the operator, along with handlebars for steering control...

. Joma turns his tent into a camouflaged

Military camouflage

Military camouflage is one of many means of deceiving an enemy. In practice, it is the application of colour and materials to battledress and military equipment to conceal them from visual observation. The French slang word camouflage came into common English usage during World War I when the...

 foxhole. Not content with starting a camp fire using a magnifying lens, Paltik uses a flame thrower; he also sets man-catching trap

Mantrap

Mantraps are physical security devices or constructions designed to entrap a human on purpose.-Historical usage:Historically, mantraps were mechanical devices for catching poachers and trespassers. The devices have taken many forms, the most usual being like a large foothold trap, the steel springs...

s around his tent (he catches the Scout Master).

In the midst of all these hilarious activities, a band of Amazons

Amazons

The Amazons are a nation of all-female warriors in Greek mythology and Classical antiquity. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia...

 capture the Scoutmaster for the purpose of having him impregnate their Queen, after which he would be thrown into a volcano as a sacrifice. He attempts to resist the Amazons; first exhibiting his alleged skill in Kung Fu, but finally admitting that he is "gay" and that it would be impossible for him to do as the Amazons want. Rescue appears in the form of Polgas in the guise of a canine version of Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Barbarian is a fictional sword and sorcery hero that originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films , television programs, video games, roleplaying games and other media...

, albeit shorter. He urinates on the Amazons' feet and they flee in terror. Everyone bolts and escapes the vicinity, afraid that the Amazons might return. They get lost in the woods in the process. They finally stray near the training camp of a band of NPA

New People's Army

The New People's Army is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines. It was formed on March 29, 1969. The Maoist NPA conducts its armed guerrilla struggle based on the strategical line of 'protracted people's war'.The NPA exacts so called "revolutionary taxes" from business owners...

rebels. Joma, whose father Noli is a member of the band, introduces the Scoutmaster to the camp's commander who sends them all down the mountain back home to Pugad Baboy.