Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 03, 2020

It’s a catapawlt.

I can totally see a cat getting into this.

When that cat lands, I hope Melvin had a head start. Cats DO NOT FORGET!

He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, the spring-loaded cat just aloft in the breeze. At last we get to see the fur fly!!!

I can just see dead cat on the wall.

Actually…. I believe we know this cat.

Since J Van A retired in 2019, we’ve been getting reruns of the early days of Ballard Street….

still new to most of us, anyway…. because GoComics didn’t exist then.

They were only seen in some newspapers.

I think this must be our old friend/nemesis Fly-Kitty-Fly…

taunter of dogs and a leader in the brief 2012 cat rebellion….

before he learned how to take to the skies by whatever means possible….

including an early XTI helicopter harness…

https://assets.amuniversal.com/5898b840e7b5012fee8d001dd8b71c47.gif

and, eventually, his own, sleek kitty plane:

https://assets.amuniversal.com/2b53897030cb012f2fd000163e41dd5b.gif

He made another pre-motorised try, but I don’t want to post it now …

cos I just discovered that it will appear in just a few days on our comment forum for the Sherpa strip, “Cleo and Company”….

which is always the Ballard Street for ten years before the current day.

BTW…. if you visit Cleo today….

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

You can solve the puzzle that we usually get every Saturday….

And comments, as ever, are “ten years ago”… on

https://www.gocomics.com/ballardstreet/2010/07/03

.•°º{Launch time already, yum, I hope we’re having something different today}

Just getting a cat all set up like that is a miracle.

The goggles! You forgot the goggles!

Awww, he’s got his little safety helmet on. But not his goggles!

Oy!

The goggles were lost at the target site.

That looks like a fun game.. gives me an inspiration for my neighbors cat.

Flying Tiger…

“No, I fling her.”

A cat apult?

It just looks to me like that kitty is just having too much fun. :)

Splat, the cat.