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1. 4 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   They can vary quite a bit in size and temperament, I think. In my part of Ohio they’re usually only a little bigger than ducks and very shy. I’m not sure I’ve ever been closer than 200 feet from one before they run off and hide. The ones I’ve seen driving closer to West Virginia seem a lot closer to dinosaurs, though.

2. 6 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   If we just started a new arc tomorrow, never mentioning these kids again, it would be the funniest thing this strip ever did.

   I mean, it’s not going to happen, but one can dream.

3. 2 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   I’ve never seen a cat give birth, and I don’t intend for that to change, but going off my knowledge of how the process usually goes for mammals I can’t imagine anything looking that content when it apparently gave birth less than a minute ago.

4. 2 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   Not sure if I’m more disturbed by the discussion of the birth of Rufus, or by the revelation that at some point one of the Wallets bought a whole CASE of Scancarelli. Not the spot I’d choose to have kittens in!

5. 2 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   Well, at least it didn’t take until october as I had feared. 3 Kittens is an odd number to settle on, though… we used to have a pretty serious problem with strays sneaking into our shed to have kittens, and going by the photographs, there was never fewer than five in a litter.

6. 2 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   Jim seems to be doing a lot of padding these days… Remember when the “name change” arc started with a week of people talking about how they couldn’t believe it was happening, without ever once saying what the thing that was happening was? I have this awful feeling it’s going to be october before they finally just reveal that the cat went off to have kittens in the basement.

7. 2 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   Don’t give these “kids” a thing, Gertie. The throwaway panel makes it obvious that it’s just Mark Hamill and his friends posing as children to con you!

8. 3 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   Ever since she showed up there’s always been something “off” to me about the way the cat’s been drawn, and I think I finally put my finger on it… Jim draws her as though she has a human’s bottom lip, which is a lot fleshier and more capable of movement than what a cat should have. I assume this is to make her look more expressive, but to me it makes her come off looking more like a character from the musical Cats than an actual cat. What’s weirder is that, looking back a few strips, he doesn’t do this for Chef Meowrice, who looks fine in comparison.

9. 3 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   I thought the stakes couldn’t get lower than “small town changes it’s name”, but then we had “tree falls over, causing no damage while enabling light insurance fraud”. I wouldn’t have believed you could get less interesting than that, but after a week of “the cat isn’t eating exactly when expected to”, I’m starting to wonder if there even is such a thing as the lowest-possible stakes, and Jim will just keep finding something even less urgent every week until we’re in the middle of a two-week arc where Walt tries to guess the way a quantum particle will decay.

10. 4 months ago on Gasoline Alley

    I don’t know how much actual truth there is to this, but I’ve seen it stated a few times that, while a lot of domesticated animals are able to understand humans and other animals as being part of their social unit despite not being of the same species, Cats basically see the entire world in terms of either “friend cat”, “enemy cat”, or “prey”, and so they assume that the humans they associate with are just very stupid cats, and leaving “gifts” like dead mice are their attempts at teaching us how to hunt properly.