Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 10, 2021

Everybody get here quick! We found the footage! (Bring popcorn!)

“Ok.” A thinly veiled, “Whatever.”

Is that skirt made of ties?!

Princess Magnet’s skirt is the height of fashion.

I like younger Baba’s fangs. =3

Princess Magnet in all her glory….. Mouse is not impressed.

Love Angus’s reaction to Princess Magnet. Just what I’d expect from an older gentlecat. And yes! There she is, a young Princess Magnet.

I just LOVE Crotchety Old Angus here. Looks like Mouse took a few lessons on how to Old Cat from him (he’d be at least twenty here, from the flashback at http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/breaking-cat-news-halloween-special-part-eight/, the picture’s from 1968).

…I am ALSO struggling to not read Angus’ command in the style of the Rolling Stones…

And the July Bug bails, exit stage upper right!

What, they’re not inviting Baba to the watch party?

Hostility between them even then.

If Georgia’s handwritten bubbles indicate retro archival footage, then why isn’t scene four using her current print?

The Carpenters: Yesterday Once More

When I was young I would cover all the news there was

Meeting with my old cat friends,

Chasing trash pandas away,

It made my smile

They were such happy times and not so long ago,

I got to missing some old ones,

But they’re back again, some of my long-lost friends,

In the Big Pink House each day!

…….

Hearing Sha-la-la-la,

And each wo-oh-oh-oh

Is fine

Even shing-a-ling-a-ling

From Princess Magnet’s bling

Still shines,

Memories from those days

Never quite go away,

Sometimes even make me cry,

Just like before,

It’s yesterday once more…(shooby-do, lang lang)

…….

Now today we have the news from in the house

And reports come all around,

From our own Cat About Town,

And the book store,

But still I remember when I did the news,

Protecting lawns from all the trash,

Those great memories

Are still on film for me,

And I’m on the scene once more!

…….

Hearing Sha-la-la-la,

And each wo-oh-oh-oh

Is fine

Even shing-a-ling-a-ling

From Princess Magnet’s bling

Still shines,

Memories from those days

Never quite go away,

Sometimes even make me cry,

Just like before,

It’s yesterday once more…(shooby-do, lang lang)

And Mouse has revved up from 1-fang to to a 2-fang expression of disapproval of the Princess! I’m sorry Jules appears to be leaving!?

Ah, we may see where the friendly enmity begins.

I love a good cat hisssssss!

My 3 AM initial reaction to BCN: Angus still has some of his teeth…Mags’s actual name is Magnet!…so Natasha is Beatrix’s gossip buddy…Tommy Toe Beans!! And hey, there’s Jules!

I haven’t seen that much excitement since Our IX Lives!

Is Magnet’s – oh, right Princess Magnet’s – breastplate a roasting pan?

OT – cat found

Magnet kind of reminds me of Cyndi Lauper (She’s so Unusual) or perhaps someone with a vivid imagination having carte-blanche at an early ’90s thrift shop where one could find stuff to look like Ms. Lauper did when she topped the charts a few years earlier in the mid ’80s. The multi-tie skirt is/was a cool look, very Bohemian!

Okay, it’s been quite a while since I’ve DnDized any BCN characters, But today I’m going to do Mags. Raccoons can be either firbolg or bugbears depending on whether you want to cast them in a positive or negative light. Mags is the first time I’m multi-classing anyone. I see her as a Mastermind Rogue/Circle of the Shepherd Druid

" Oh! I’ll give THAT wee beastie the What – For, I will! I’ll give her all she’s got, ‘til she canna’ take no mor-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-e !! " … :)

Paused, just when it was getting good…!

Popcorn? The rodeo’s starting again?

" … of the way we were … "

Mouse

With her mic

Shares her dislike

Mags is a schemer

Mouse knows

How to hustle

Magnet

Is a rare

Princess heir

Mouse don’t care

Yeah she’s

Got the muscle

Mouse got the news

by Becker, Walter Carl / Fagen, Donald Jay – “I Got the News”

Ah, now we will see the origination of the animosity between BaBa and Magnet. Magnet’s tie skirt reminds me of a Roman battle curlies, a kind of skirt that was made out of leather strips, often covered with bronze. Not much protection in battle, your legs were bare, but it left you very quick to move which was its own advantage.

Sooo, I’m guessing ‘Magnet’ as she thinks she’s ATTRACTIVE?

Hey! (Hey!) You! (You!) git offa ma’ lawn!

GET OFFA MY LAWN YOU NO-GOODERS

I could go for some hot buttered popcorn.

Princess Magnet’s ceremonial skirt of Old Ties is stunning.

Powerful hiss in panel 2. Bea is taking notes, learning from an old pro.

My gosh, I just realized that Angus is a Fold. We have a crotchety 16 year old Fold named Otis. He howls.

I’m having a brain freeze. Can someone refresh my memory — who is Natasha?

Hello, magnet. Hello, Newman. Possible Seinfeld reference?

The manure is about to hit the fan.

I <3 your comics

You can see what Mouse will look like as Baba Mouse in the last panel.

“Turn your back on me so I can stick the knife in, Mouse.”

Tommy has the right idea.

Text me as well Bea!

Love Angus’s ear fold!

Does Mouse’s “Hello Magnet” remind anyone else of Seinfeld’s “Hello, Newman”?

OMG. One of my classmates in high school made herself a skirt out of neckties.

(everyone gasps) ITS OUR IX LIVES IRL!!!!