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2020-04-13

by shaenon on April 13, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Dreadful Future
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  1. Pygar
    April 13, 2020, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Third panel: PERFECT! Her eyes, the sociopathic look of the cat, everything! And the rest is great, too!

    • BMunro
      April 13, 2020, 1:04 am | # | Reply

      “The sociopathic look of the cat?”

      That’s “cool, suave look of the cat”, you obvious dog person. 🙂

      • Pygar
        April 13, 2020, 1:20 am | # | Reply

        By inclination; I haven’t had a pet since 1983. But both Cat E. Wampus and Cat R. Waul found me adequate as a host. I always knew Wampy and Wally would destroy the world with the same joy they destroyed glassware and every other thing they could…
        But my dog Joe merely found malodorous things to roll in…

      • awgiedawgie
        April 13, 2020, 1:28 am | # | Reply

        Any cat person (any honest cat person, that is) will tell you that cats are indeed sociopaths.

        • serpentrose
          April 13, 2020, 2:14 am | # | Reply

          I think of them as adorable murderous little furballs.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 13, 2020, 10:45 am | #

            What an excellent description!

          • Pygar
            April 13, 2020, 11:21 am | #

            “Mean kitty, bad kitty
            Vicious ball of fur!
            Fighty kitty, bitey kitty
            Grr! Grr! Grr!”

          • casimir
            April 13, 2020, 6:53 pm | #

            Murderous, yes. But I think the opposite is true of snack thievery.
            In my experience the dog is the guilty party.
            The cat couldn’t care less.
            “I wasn’t going to eat that dry crap anyway.”

          • awgiedawgie
            April 13, 2020, 7:33 pm | #

            I don’t know about dry snackage, but my cat seemed awfully irritated that I wasn’t sharing my Easter dinner with her yesterday. And she hasn’t spoken to me since then.

        • sheer_falacy
          April 13, 2020, 5:11 am | # | Reply

          Of course they’re sociopaths, but they don’t look like it, that’s their secret.

        • Lady E
          April 13, 2020, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

          I LOVE my little sociopathic murder furballs.

        • jdreyfuss
          April 13, 2020, 2:53 pm | # | Reply

          My cats are evil and I love them for it.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 13, 2020, 7:25 pm | #

            Love them for it, or love them in spite of it, either way. If you didn’t love them, you wouldn’t have chosen to serve them.

      • Manifesta
        April 13, 2020, 4:34 am | # | Reply

        Pygar was tge witch’s cat familiar in Bell, Book and Candle, not a name likely to be chosen by a dog person.

        • eddurd
          April 13, 2020, 7:26 am | # | Reply

          I thought that was Pywacket.

          • Pygar
            April 13, 2020, 11:23 am | #

            Pygar was the Angel with No Memory in “Barbarella”… Dunno about any Pyewackets…

          • awgiedawgie
            April 13, 2020, 11:47 am | #

            Yes, Gillian’s cat (in Bell, Book and Candle) was Pyewacket.

          • Robert Nowall
            April 13, 2020, 4:41 pm | #

            I gather “Pyewacket” was the name of the cat in the movie, and “Pywacket” was the cat’s real name—Kim Novak’s cat, if it could be said that one truly owns a cat.

    • Barbara K
      April 13, 2020, 9:06 am | # | Reply

      Cats of Key West? “My name is Legion…for we are many.”

  2. Robert Nowall
    April 13, 2020, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Geez, she didn’t feel that way about H. T….

    • awgiedawgie
      April 13, 2020, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      She didn’t feel that way about Leo either.

      It seems to be limited to the smaller, “house cat” varieties of felines.

    • s854
      April 13, 2020, 5:12 am | # | Reply

      Then there’s the cheetah in the “second gate” reality: href=http://skin-horse.com/comic/tried-to/
      It could be to do with intelligence (I don’t think Queen Elena’s cats are supposed to be especially bright), or it could be “rule of funny”.

      • awgiedawgie
        April 13, 2020, 10:48 am | # | Reply

        I’d go with “rule of funny”. The cheetah was a school teacher, was it not?

        • Mister Steel
          August 3, 2020, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

          Could be based on whether they’re a big cat, which cheetah’s generally aren’t.

  3. thejoemoose
    April 13, 2020, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    Now I’m wondering how he’ll react with The King of Cats.

    • thejoemoose
      April 13, 2020, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      *how she will react

      • Shadowmehr
        April 13, 2020, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

        “It’s a cat! Kill it! Kill it!”
        ” Babe, that’s the king of all cats. ”
        “Your majesty, my apologies for my intemperate outburst.”. (aside to U.N.I.T.Y.) “We must assassinate the king posthaste, lest he begin to suspect our dark deeds.”

    • Jim Baerg
      April 13, 2020, 4:16 pm | # | Reply

      “King of Cats” = Krosp from ‘Girl Genius’ ?

      • awgiedawgie
        April 13, 2020, 7:22 pm | # | Reply

        That was my first thought, too.

  4. Robert Nowall
    April 13, 2020, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    “I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.” —Rudyard Kipling.

  5. casimir
    April 13, 2020, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

    Who is Unity saying, “You’re right” to? No one had said anything about the deficiencies of a charred arm.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 13, 2020, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

      I just assumed that was something Virginia said as they were fleeing from the burning laboratory.

    • D. Walker
      April 13, 2020, 2:47 pm | # | Reply

      She’s responding to Sweetheart telling her to get serious.

      I think perhaps the usage of Babe Control is leading you to think she’s not addressing Sweetheart directly, but she actually is.

      She could instead be more direct and say “The missing arm makes controlling you harder”, but that would be less endearing. It’s like with certain married couples calling each other “hubbie” or “wife” or whatever.

      • jdreyfuss
        April 13, 2020, 2:55 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah I assumed it was in some way a response to Sweetheart.

  6. jdreyfuss
    April 13, 2020, 2:55 pm | # | Reply

    This is my dog with regard to birds and squirrels. And, unfortunately, skunks.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 13, 2020, 9:35 pm | # | Reply

      That’s because dogs have lousy memories. They don’t remember that biting bees ends with painful stings on the tongue. They don’t remember that those black things with a white stripe down their tails are NOT cats, and you do NOT want to get on their bad side (i.e. their back side).

      A dog’s principal instinct is to chase. They don’t care what it is. They just instinctively have to chase it. Reason and logic never even enters the picture.

      • jdreyfuss
        April 14, 2020, 7:31 am | # | Reply

        He doesn’t think it’s a cat. He thinks it’s a fancy squirrel. And that when it dances that means it wants to play.

  7. Robert Nowall
    April 13, 2020, 3:18 pm | # | Reply

    I’d give a cat to you,
    I’d do just that!
    (Bo-bo-bo-boom!)
    I’d give a cat to you
    But I haven’t got a cat!

    I’m just the Skin-Horse chief,
    Living with that,
    (Bo-bo-bo-boom!)
    I’d give a cat to you,
    But I haven’t got a cat!
    (Bo bo-bo bo-bo bo-bo boom!)

    I’ve got to guard our snacks,
    You’ve got to see.
    (Bo-bo-bo-boom!)
    There might be an attack
    From our pyromaniac—
    We call her Unity.

    I think they’re bad, you know,
    I can’t say “Scat!”
    (Bo-bo-bo-boom!)
    I’d give a cat to you,
    But I haven’t got a cat!
    (Bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-boom!)

    —from “I Haven’t Got a Hat,” Buddy Bernier and Bob Emmerich, performed by Ham and Ex.

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