Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 15, 2024

The grappling hook!

Ah, Gutter is using the grappling hook to climb to Sophie.

Gutter’s gonna visit by hook or by crook, and that just isn’t cricket…

Yay! Gutter is a’courtin’

Ooh! I just noticed that Cool Cricket Guy is using his leg as his instrument. I love that nod to real life crickets.

Cool Cricket Guy needs a name. Any ideas? (and NOT Jiminy).

HERE’S GUTTER! With his grappling hook, apologies to the Cool Cricket Guy, and a song in his heart! So sing her a song Gutter!

Ahhaaa!!!

Mr. Cool Cricket and His Swinging Stridulator Band?

Yes!!!! And as a bonus, Sue Ellen gets her Cricket guitarist back AND Robin gets Gutter with the grappling hook. Huzzah!!!

AND THERE HE IS!!!!¡

Gutter’s hooked on Sophie.

Finally, Chekov’s Grappling Hook!♥

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I’m so happy to see that Sophioe feels safe in her window, and Cool Cricket Guy is able to apologize for startling Sophie by giving her a cool jazz leg guitar private concert. Guess turn about is fair play if Gutter startled Cool Cricket Guy. Time to turn to my jazz guitar play list and listen to some Jack Jezzro and Wes Montgomery.

I wonder if he has Lil Starfish stashed in a pocket.

This is eerie. I was just wondering earlier this afternoon if we’d ever see Cool Cricket Guy again. Even eerier since I know she submitted this comic weeks(?) ago.

In other news, yay Gutter and grappling hook!

Here comes the hopeful hero!

Eeeeee!!!!!!

Yay ! This is so romantic!

When will I be loved?

Tell me, when will I be loved?

Cool Cricket Guy got startled but jumped up and is now clinging to the screen.

Dang! Not just one, but three moments we’ve been waiting for!

Just realised that we’re half way though August, and we haven’t seen Jules. I hope he’s O.K.

July 31 Jules chases Sophie’s woman back into TL’s house…

Romeo, oh Romeo!

She speaks.

O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art

As glorious to this night, being o’er my head,

As is a winged messenger of heaven

Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes

Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him

When he bestrides the lazy-puffing clouds

And sails upon the bosom of the air.

It’s a grappling hook to Sophie’s heart! ❤️

Hey, it’s Count Melodious !!

Is that the racoon?

Awww! Classic teen love move: Gutter is climbing up to the window to see the girl he’s crushing on (as one does).

Yikes, already over 100 comments and the strip has been up less than 6 hours (more or less).

Hooray the ship finally sales. Also good to see you again cool cricket guy

Eh me thoughts you Amreekans was into baseball rathers than cricket.

Gutter and the grappling hook return! But where is Li’l Starfish Squeaker?

Alan Menken/Howard Elliott Ashman: Beauty and the Beast

Tale as old as time

Strange but lovely still

Cricket serenade then a grappling blade

On the window sill

As a raccoon climbs

To the floor above

As he takes his chance

Beautiful romance

With his lady love

…….

Ever in the world

Ever fraught with peril

Ever, always true

You do what you must do

For the one you love

…….

Tale as old as rhyme

True as cricket’s song

Nothing holds you back

No skill do you lack

Nothing will go wrong

Certain as the wind

Blows from East to West

Tale as old as time

Everything is fine

Soph and Gutter’s best!

Finally, we have Robin’s grappling hook.

Sure, it’s not the Capulet’s garden, and we are not in fair Veron. Still, I have been looking forward to the reunion of these two.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Artisan’s Studio

Elvis-Anum: Thank you for agreeing to make me a new formal tunic. I haven’t had a new one since forever.

Maat-Tilda: It’s our pleasure. I’ve been looking for a sewing project.

Adobe Style: It looks like we could use some pearls for decoration. That’s one gem Fe-Anaro doesn’t make.

Sophititi: Iggy’s back from the Owl Temple. Maybe he can take us to the oyster beds.

On Board the Water Cat Brother’s Fishing Boat

Soph: Thanks for taking out to the oyster beds, gentlecats.

Fresh Water Cat: Glad to do it. Iggy and Elvis always bring us good luck.

Iggy: Here we are!

Soph: Oh, here are our oyster friends! Elvis, meet Cedric. Ceddy, Elvis.

Ceddy: Hi!

Elvis: Hello, Ceddy.

Iggy: You’ll want this bucket, Elvis.

Soph: Now, Ceddy, do you have a pearl for us?

Elvis: Wait! Doesn’t that mean you have to, well harm the oyster?

Salt Water Cat: Wait.

Ceddy: Ptui!

Pearl: Bonk! (And into Elvis’s bucket)

Elvis: Wait! Am I going to be bombarded with pearls all day?

Ceddy: Aw, what’s a few bonks among friends?

LMAO!!! Playing his back leg like it was a 12 string guitar (or maybe a lute?)!

Also, good to see Gutter coming to call on Sophie.

Gutter! We have been waiting for closure on him! I do like Cool Cricket Guy, though.

It’s Guttertime Guttertime Gutt Gutt Guttertime

In the summertime summertime sum sum summertime

Guttertime Guttertime Gutt Gutt Guttertime

Gu-ut-tertime…

Well stop your song and leap away

And say goodbye to that cool leg play

Look alive and oops, gangway!

It’s Guttertime…

Well no more pining for Sophie

And no more moping – she’s ferret-free

It’s time for him to go and see

Because it’s Gu-ut-tertime

It’s time to head straight for the sill

It’s time to live and have a thrill

Come along and have a ball

They’re together after all

Well, good times are here or they ain’t

What took so long’s my one complaint

So hurry up before I faint

It’s Gu-ut-tertime!

/Tom Jameson & Sherm Feller /Summertime, Summertime /The Jamies

CeCe

See? See?! Georgia knows what she’s doing.

(Grappling hook! Hooray!)

Sophie in her window with a private concert is just the August summer moment I needed. [Sigh]

What’s in a name? A raccoon by any other name smells as sweet

Yes! Hero Raccoon has returned!!

“Play it again. You played it for her; you can play it for me.”

Yay! Gutter is safe and courting Sophie!

Cool Cricket Guy has been indirectly named by our Wolfie: Sam

Who remembers The Cricket in TImes Square … (Chuck Jones animated it!!!) … :)

Also, a song in the early ’80’s … Cool for Cats … by Squeeze!! … :)

And in Panel 5, we see Gutter cutting the screen open with his claws to gain entry, there by thwarting all the work done by the workmen.

See the last panel of June 2 for a very close match to panel 1 today.

Is that Nicholas Cricket, the banjo player in the book by the two Joyces?

(Joyce Maxner and William Joyce)

Am I the only one remembering Our IX Lives? “You climbed two stories for me!” “I’d climb a whole novel for you!” And Kit didn’t have a grappling hook.

The cool cricket guy playing his leg like a guitar

Is anyone else worried about the damage to the windowsill and potential damage to Sophie’s beloved antique window had he thrown badly?

Yay, Gutter’s not being shy! Good for him!

Gutter! I wasn’t sure if he would show up again or not.

YAY!! The Cricket, AND Gutter!

Awesome!

Have we had any indication that Gutter is poetical? I do hope he doesn’t become tongue-tied…

Loving the Spider-Man pose on CCG here, Georgia.

Dare we hope Gutter is about to declare his feelings for our fair Sophie Anne?

#1: It seems a thank you from Gutter to Sophie was predicted.

Gutter come a calling.

I wonder if Sophie wrote about Gutter in her journal. And maybe that’s what the “sigh” in panel one is about?

Gutter is safe and sound.

OT: Late to the party…

Gutter!!! I’m sooo glad to see you. I hope that Sophie is also!? Still wondering about Li’l Starfish Squeaker, tho.

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Sam, after Samuel Applebaum, famous author of violin instruction books…

something about gutter dangling is adorable.. aww

First of all, that sigh! Second of all, maybe his name is Cool Cricket Guy. And third of all….this is sooooo romantic!!

Cricket!

Gutter come a-courtin’ and he did climb, uh-huh

Play it again, Sam…

Freya & Aspen Bell, I had the time of my life at Lothlorian back in ‘90-’91! Was friends with Deb T through nursing. Fond memories.

I lived just north of Owensburg, north over the steep hill & in the little brick house to the right. It was thick with wildlife & persimmons! I kept bees. Great days.

She knew him by his grapplehook.