Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for September 30, 2021

Grimtech? Oh my, Dr. Grim should probably have thought twice before naming it that!

Yay, dark and spooky night! And double yay for escaping from evil icky animal experiment labs! Happy Halloween!

The place sounds grim indeed. So glad Natasha and Violet escaped!

OT: rescue in progress…

Maybe they were experimenting with longevity potions and that’s why Natasha and Violet have lived so long.

I’m getting The Secret of NIMH flashbacks.

Ghost story arc to kick off Spooky Season? Yes please!!!

Do not investigate that lab, Beatrix. DO NOT!

It did indeed appear then, but not identified. The story deepens.

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/08/4

When they escaped, did they bring Pinky with them? I’m glad they didn’t rescue the Brain.

Oh my Cat, indeed!

Hoping the experiments were psychological and not medical – mazes and boxes being a little more family-comic-strip-friendly than, uh, medical horror territory.

Got to wonder if they know Pinkie and the Brain?

Don’t forget to take any answer with a grain of rice, Bea. Nat may be a slightly unreliable narrator.

Ah, Susanna was so right yesterday when she posted about that building and referenced the https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/08/04 strip.

What are we going to do tonight, Natasha? The same thing we do every night, Violet…Try to steal every thing in sight!

Is this what happened to you and your sibs, Alice? (see comment below) (ﾐゝᆽ╹ﾐ)

That building has Doom written all over it.

I love Natasha’s little pink hands.

I wish I still had my “Rats Have Rights” t-shirt. I’d wear it this week in your honor, Robber Mice. As a long-time animal rights advocate, I’m already finding this story arc emotionally disturbing. The reality for mice in laboratories is terrible and painful. The T-shirt wasn’t accurate either: rats (and mice) should have rights, but sadly, don’t.

But if you was created in a lab, how can you claims that you is related to the golden mousie?

It’s always a dark and stormy night.

Barry Mann/Cynthia Weill, Performed by The Animals et al: We Gotta Get Out of This Place

In this gloomy old part of the city

Where the sun refused to shine

People tell me there are strange things happening

…….

Violet, my friend, outside is pretty

And one thing I know is true

Time to escape to there, I know

Watch from the window the lovely sunrise

Watched the things out there for the taking

Tired of watching and worrying about what could happen

And I’ve been looking to go (yeah)

Every night and day (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!)

We gotta get out of this place

If it’s the last thing we ever do

We gotta get out of this place

‘Cause there’s cheese and things to take for me and you!

A Halloween Story!!!! I’m so excited! Dark and Spooky indeed!

Wow, I commented back on 08/04/19 that that building caught my eye. Now I know what it is!

Georgia hinted at this arc a while ago. I am very glad she is presenting it.

I remember speculating that that building was a school, as the wall of windows reminded me of the schools that were built when I was young. But now we find it’s even worse!

I do like charts!!

Singin’ “…One is a genius, the other’s ones insane* They’re laboratory mice* Their genes have been spliced* Their twilight campaign is easy to explain* To prove their mousy worth* They’ll overthrow the earth*…”

nope. Can’t handle mouse experiment stories. I’ll be back in a week.

I knew it!! :D

I went back to the 8/4/19 drawing Georgia did of the town. This time, I looked at it on my big, work computer screen. I would love to visit such a place. I only hope that there would be a historical cemetery that I could see.

P.S. I would love to buy a print of the original map.

My Halloween-story sense is tingling.

In my youth, (1960-70"s) I worked as a scrub nurse for an experimental research facility. (yes, animals ) MD’s would perform surgery on the animals to perfect procedures such as kidney transplants, vagotomies, trach resections, etc. for their human patients. The best was meeting and assisting the great heart surgeon Michael DeBakey. In one marathon session 40 other doctors learned how to do bypasses and heart transplants. The doctor who did my Mom’s triple by-pass in 2002 was one of those doctors.

This is starting to turn into “Pinky and the Brain”. :)

Grimtech Labs, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ConEvilCo.

The lab is on the edge of town, just as I am on the edge of my seat!

Well it’s understandable that the Grim family took what was left of their media (fairytales) empire and transitioned to technology. They were probably driven out by The Mouse. I’m surprised The Mouse’s lawyers haven’t handed Dunn industries a cease and desist order for having a comic with mice in it. Time to Lawyer up!

They’re on the lam and now they pray it lasts

The road behind was rocky

But now they’re feeling plucky

Nat talks with Bea and recalls their past

And that’s the reason why they’re happy and fast

And she sang

“Ain’t nothin’ gonna break our stride

Nobody gonna slow us down, oh no

We got to keep on moving

Ain’t nothin’ gonna break our stride

We’re cunning and we ‘borrow’ what’s found

Oh yeah, we got to keep on grooving"

Gregory Prestopino / Matthew Wilder – Break My Stride

I sense a spooky Halloween story coming…

Oh, I love this story already!

It was a dark and spooky night! Suddenly….

The Secret of Grimtech?

I love that she is using a “broadcast” date that we can find on our calendars too! Ironic I’m (being forced to) watch(ing) a Peppa Pig on recycling as I read this.

Georgia’s original revelation that Natasha escaped from a research lab can be found here as a reply to a comment by @lpayne, which is the featured comment of the day.

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2020/08/11

I was right in my guess yesterday! They did come from the NIMH laboratory!

Basically the headquarters of a supervillain.

I’m trying so hard not to say sus

They’re pinky and the brain

That’s what anyone who grew up on Animaniacs is probably thinking

Violet too? The plot thickens. Is that the same lab that caused Garfield to turn into a dog in his seventh life?

As a scientist I am worried about this. I have worked with rats. In order to avoid their being stressed as I worked with them I started by handling them every day, sometimes roaming the halls of the college. (A little good PR for rodents.) I have also had lab rats as pets. They make excellent companions. But much of the miracle of modern medicine comes from research on animals. We just need to insist that they be treated as humanely as possible. Thank you to wintercollie.

OT – Bennett, day 5

Nice map! Where is the big pink house?

Oh boy! Halloween special!

That building does look intimidating.

Just noticed that the map shows Richard Scarry influence.

dark and spooky = ghost cats/mice.