Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 06, 2024

Here he comes to safe the day!!!!!!! Maybe they can rescue lil Starfish Squeaker too!

Not a very bright idea with all the lights out…

Well, Destry does have a backup power supply. I guess we’ll find out soon whose side it’s on!

Don’t squeak, li’l Starfish, it’s just the Good Guys on the way!

Oh man, I hope she does bring Starfish Squeaker with her!

Now this is the type of cliffhanger I really like.

The Gutter cutter!

Not bright white and tidy for long, I think…

There is Hope in the Valley.

How is Destry still on?

We finally have a name for the town the strips set! And the most slasher killery meet cute ever

All right, Gutter, slash away. You’ll have to slash her cage open as well. Did we decide it was just screen and not metal?

Sophie’s kindly reassuring her little Starfish Squeaker, even though she must be terrified, herself. That’s true bravery. If the lights went out and I heard that kind of glass-slashing, I’d be jumping out of my skin. Especially when I saw that giant raccoon in full assault gear trying to get in. It’s the stuff of which 1950’s Grade B horror movies were made.

We also have confirmation that Destry DOES understand CAT, I think. (Wasn’t there some question about that?)

OT For coastal TX, Beryl is on the way. Landfall is between Corpus Christi and Galveston now for Monday morning. The track keeps creeping towards the east with every update. Cat 1 right now at landfall. Be prepared and be safe.

Gutter—if that’s him and not some raccoon Freddie Krueger—has a devils tail.

I initially had trouble with the “Even you’re bright white and tidy.” It seemed an odd time to say that so I went back and looked. We first see the Starfish Squeaker on June 24. Sophie doesn’t seem to notice it. On July 2 she briefly holds in both paws but isn’t looking at it. So today, or rather tonight, she does look at it and notices that it is a piece with everything else she has seen in the room. So this whole rescue is happening on the same day Sophie was catnapped! Okay, I’m a little slow sometimes.

Do not panic Sophie, you will be free soon! Cue up Thin Lizzy’s “Jailbreak”!

I hope Sophie liberates li’l starfish squeaker and takes it with her when she gets sprung; I know that cat toy will be happier living in The Big Pink House.♥

I love the visual created by the slash marks running through the letters of the word SLASH

Go get her! Freedom is at hand!

I love little Sophie being so brave and squeezing/squeaking her little starfish. Though the squeaking might alert the people.

I wonder what HER people will think about her bringing a starfish home.

Ohhhhh Gutter gets an ENTRANCE! Sophie, here’s your hero!

THIS IS A JAILBREAK!! (pump your fist and yell) CATICA! CATICA! CATICA!

Here comes the hero to rescues the fair damsel in deestress.

I hope the starfish gets a makeover when Sophie returns to the BPH. I can picture little star in charming shades of lilac and pink. And then maybe Sophie will remember the whole thing as one great big adventure, when it was the night she met her raccoon soulmate?

I hope Sophie realizes she is being saved.

Hope Valley :) Does someone watch WCTH??

The silhouette could be Tommy; they both have the same general shape, so maybe Sophie won’t panic.

Coldplay: A Sky Full of Stars

‘Cause you’re a star, you’re a squeaky starfish

I’m gonna give you my heart!

‘Cause you’re a star, you’re a squeaky starfish

You help me through this ordeal!

…….

This whole time, it just tears me apart,

(Squeaky) But I’m here for you (ooh, ooh, ooh)

‘Cause I’m a star, I’m your squeaky starfish

And I’ll stay here for you!

…….

‘Yes, you’re a star, you’re a squeaky starfish

And I’m glad you are you,

You will help me through!

This is the first time I recall their town’s name being mentioned, although it probably has before. Gutter certainly knows how to make an entrance!

A red letter day for the diary: We learn the name of the BPH’s town! And I love that Sophie has named her toy, “li’l Starfish Squeaker.” It’s all she has for comfort; there’s not even a blanket to get under or a box to get in.

Oh yeah, that’s really helping with Sophie’s nerves right now. :P

I imagine the green hue means we’re seeing things through a cat’s low-light vision?

Hang in there, Sophie, you’re almost free!

I’m a little worried that the woman is still in the room (those have to be her eye’s in the first panel).

I look forward to when the bright white and super tidy living room is glitter bombed and the lovely cat is on her way back home.

Don’t think Gutter will be able to claw through the glass — will probably have to use his grappling hook for an ascent to the roof, and then down the (pristinely clean) chimney. Not sure when we’ll see a trademark “hero swinging on rope carrying heroine” rescue, or how the glitter bombs will fit in…but I’m sure Georgia will make epic and “T-shirt-worthy” images.

I can hear “Mission impossible” theme playing!!!!

Gutter slashes the screen but how does he get through the window?

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Sophititi: I’ve found something from my descendant Sophie’s journal.

Beatrixia: What does it say?

Soph: I’ll read it aloud.

I’m scared, but I have my little squeaky star to keep me company. But like everything else, she is white and pristine. If I ever get to go home, I’m going to color her with the most beautiful colors imaginable.

Beaver Lee Cleary: We have records of squeaky stars in our scroll collection. It doesn’t say how they’re made, though.

Soph: I’ll bet we could make cuddly stuffed stars. When we get back I’ll get together with Adobe Style and Maat-Tilda to design a pattern.

Iggy: You know, when I had my accident (a story for another day), I had a toy I cuddled up with. It helped me through losing an eye.

Bev: And I’ll bet you weren’t the least bit embarrassed.

Iggy: It is no disgrace to have something from your kittenhood with you. You never completely leave that behind.

Bea: I’ll bet we could make some stuffed stars for the kittens at the Happy Healthy Hospital Pyramid.

I swear to Cat, if the first comment out of Gutter’s mouth when he gets to Sophie is, “I’ve come to rescue you,” I’m gonna shriek, smash my morning coffee mug in the fireplace, and dance around like no one’s watching!

Here he comes to save the daaaaaayyyyyyy

If the power is out, then Destry is dead, bereft of life, done for, no more, pushing up daisies, inanimate, moribund, unusable, you know, Kaputt!

Come on now Georgia, get it together, even Agatha Christi, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Dashiell Hammett, and Erle Stanley Gardner had better continuity in their storylines.

If that catnapping woman is seeing this it probably looks more like Gutter is having his “Shining” moment. “Here’s Johnny!” I do hope there is an element of terror she experiences during this. No physical harm, aside from the glitterific effects of a supremely glittorious triumph of angry animals against stupid and cruel humans.

OT: Dodged a bullet, etc.

It’s the Hash-slinging Slasher!

(No, it’s just Nosferatu.)

Brave lady Sophie, your prospector in shining armor has come to rescue thee, fair maiden and thy squeaky star.

The artwork gives off a creepy vibe effectively. Georgia really knows how to set the mood.

Power being out is scary but I love visiting Hope Island so much. It’s one of my favorite day trips <3

This is the first time I’ve seen a setting location for this comic.

I love the detail of the grappling hook in the lower right corner of the window! It took me a while to figure out what that was, but it finally dawned on me . . . . . grappling hook! It’s how he got up to the window sill!

I hope Sophie gets to keep Starfish Squeaker. No one gets left behind!

This is actually the first time I’ve heard exactly what town the strip is set in.

The commandos have breached the compound!

Nobody seems to have metal window screens anymore. That plastic fabric mesh can literally be slashed by a kitten’s claws. When Vivekat was a kitten, she slashed her way out on the first day home and was locked up next door at the neighbor’s house for hours before they came home and I reclaimed her.

Starfish and Tommybaum can exchange adventure stories.

I like the slashing sounds. I wonder if the mice have anything to do with the power failure.

Can’t wait till Monday’s strip!!!!

Burt? Tommy? Lupin? Who is this myserious figure?

Honestly those people keeping her there deserve her leaving. They don’t realize a cat has to come around to you, sometimes they hide to calm down and get used to the place, and they didn’t go to the vet to check for chips or if she was sick or something like that.

The catnapper lady’s impulsive grabbing of a random cat, pristine immaculate house, fantasies of winning myriad cat shows with a declawed, half-blind cat and general, impervious disregard of the possible feelings of others makes me suspect she’s somewhere “on the spectrum” of what appears to be neurodivergence, but is actually a type of selfish, spoiled narcissism that psychologists secretly refer to as “@$$-holer’s syndrome.”

This whole 10 yrs of this comic have just been the best and it looks like Georgia really pays attention to the quirks and funnies of her cats. I can’t find it but there is this one where they smell the floor and go “snerk, Snerk, snerk.” with their mouths just open. That is a real thing they do to catalogue a smell if you didn’t know.

Huzzah!