""These are wicked little guys who\'ll pick your pocket as they steal your heart.""-Ted Koppel, host of ABC\'s Nightline Suburbanites treasure their sameness, safety, and security, little knowing what lurks just Over the Hedge .
Verne and R..
There, in a strikingly successful comic strip created by writer Michael Fry and illustrator T Lewis, reside the only slightly displaced original inhabitants of the land: R.
J., an irascible raccoon, and his sidekick turtle, Verne. ""These are wicked little guys who\'ll pick your pocket as they steal your heart.""-Ted Koppel, host of ABC\'s Nightline Suburbanites treasure their sameness, safety, and security, little knowing what lurks just Over the Hedge