Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for December 09, 2024

I can think of something…someone, I’d like to flatten.

“Kit, let me cut to the CHASE.”

Yeah, like he’s never heard that one before.

And you can’t build it in a week, Snowball. Plus it’ll cost money to demolish and… Who am I kitting? It’s a Soap Opera!

My, but that’s an impressive glare on Father O’Kittery back there!

What happened to Sunday’s strip? It won’t come up for me.

He’s going to build a physical on-line mall… to house all the ones and zeros for the web site?

I was beginning to wonder if Mr.T had bought the land BCN was on and had IT flattened! If he tries that… WE RIOT! LOL

Whew! Glad to see yesterday was but a minor rip in the space time continuum.

Where’d Mr. T hide the money? Wouldn’t Father O’Kittery know if he owned the land?

Monday Funday

Since we didn’t get a Sunday strip this week.

The more discerning of us, who pay absolutely no attention to the intellectually nugatory TV show, are going to discuss the combination problem for Panpsychism.

The Plot Thickens!

No treats for the villain!

Online mega-mall? Viejo Gato does NOT need an online retailer fulfillment warehouse. What Snowball Taggart needs is a few ghostly visitations to set him straight! Cue the spirits of Radio Cat Oracle!♥

It appears toe beans (last panel) on a villain does not inspire squeeeing. Good to know.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Spice Plural kiosk on the oPun Road

Snowfall Braggart: You know how it is, fellas. Sources dry up, demand increases. And you have to pay more to get your merchandise.

Amon-Merchant: So what you’re saying is you control the spice sources, and you want us to pay more.

Snowfall: Well, the Royal Procurers are at Punn State right now, so if you want spice(s) I have the sources.

Azibo: And I suppose you want to commit highway robbery.

Snowfall: Now come on. You two were highway robbers until you went into the spice business.

Amon-Merchant: That was before we were attacked by a polydactyl kitten and a tortoise shell smol cat.

Snowfall: Well now, maybe you can work something out with the Royal Procurers, but I understand they will be attending a conference for a whole week. A lot can happen in the spice business in that time. But I’m a reasonable cat. Suppose I give you a day to think on my proposal.

Azibo: Fine. And I suppose you want us to have the wherewithal by tomorrow as well.

Snowfall: Now you’re seeing reason.

Sometime Later

Azibo: This is serious. Thomios and Floofnet are both counting on us to have the spyces they need for the holidays.

Amon-Merchant: Is there anyway we can get to Punn State to see Alice and the ladies?

Azibo: It’s a long trip. And I’m not sure if Kara and Vann are available.

Amon-Merchant: When you don’t know where to turn, there is always that one place.

Both: To the library!

Are 3 cat spirits gonna show up?

On Line Mall, you could sell our artificial trees~~~~~~~~~ Think about it!!! we don’t need the whole plot XXX

Ugh, nothing more annoying than someone who thinks he’s funny and is extremely wrong.

I am amused by Snowball’s expression in panel two, although less so by his wordplay. I am really confused where the “online” part comes into this scheme.

MR T!!!! How could you- at Chrstmas!! Tou are so uncat er unkind

Dang. I thought I’d get Sunday’s strip today (even if it was a rerun) and not just skip Sunday entirely. I wonder if it will fill in later. :(

Has anyone heard from Gent lately? I’m surprised our gentlebear is not in the grumble room with Robin and company, scarfing down the snacks.

Why would an ONLINE mega-mall need a building??

The Orphanage? THE ORPAHANAGE!!! What will happen to the Penguin and all the kiddies of St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage.

I know what we’ll do. We’ll put the band back together and go to Calumet City and give a concert, that way we can pay the $5000 back taxes that the orphanage owes and save the orphanage for the penguin. The moles can play the Illinois Nazi’s, the raccoons can be the Good Old Critter country band, and we can turn the Animal Rescue into the Country Bumpkin bar and do a show there first, where we can have all the cat nip we want, and end up owing money because we had more cat nip than what they were going to pay us.

We better hurry to the ghetto and get some new instruments and while we are there you can have some dry toast and I’ll have four fried cans of tuna. Then well go buy some instruments, on credit of course, and when we are tryin’ em out everyone in the Big Pink House on the Hill can do the twist, and the boogaloo, and the thing-a-ling, and the swim, and the duck, and the monkey, and the Watusi, and the mashed potato and the Bony Moronie. So let’s shake some tail feathers.

Then for the big finale, everyone can chase us around the Hill where the Big Pink House sits until we make it inside, up to the apartment upstairs, pay the taxes on the orphanage and get caught.

Cue the Peter Gunn Theme.

Still no Sunday comic posted at 7:45 am MST. Glad it was only a Sunday glitch. But apparently the one that was supposed to be posted was from 2023, December 10, if you want to see it.

I glanced at the featured comment and it was me starting a thread on playing the minister’s cat with Elvis. It was kind of fun.

Why, why?? Adorable toebeans on an evil character?? oh my mixed emotions! Should I squeee or swat?

Are there no Sunday comics?

So I’m going to predict Taggert here isn’t actually broke, but is just making like he is so to excuse pulling off this scheme he really wants to do either just because or because it allows him to mess with Kit, which, as I recall, he has a past history of disliking.

Has anyone noticed that, if you aged Lupin and stuck a ’stache on him, he would look a lot like Snowball (but without the cackling evil machinations.) I wonder if that was one of the reasons why Georgia opted to leave him out of the glimpse into the “future” we saw on Nov 24.

I watched a documentary on shopping malls last night. Don’t waste your money building one.

Anddddd boom we got it!! Toebeans.

I don’t know what is worse: Snowball’s fiendish scheme or that dreadful pun.

OT – Lupin Leaps In

In panel four, Snowball really looks like Lupin. Sorry Lupin.

“So, Mr. T, if you’re broke, where are you getting the $50 million to build this thing you want? And then another $50 million to stock it with inventory? With all due respect, sir (which isn’t much), you’re up to something, and your first step has always been to get me out of the way.”

OT

My beloved 18 yr old grand-cat, Plopper Cat, (he has an account on FB) “passed away peacefully early this morning”, my daughter texted me a few hours ago. I am very fortunate to have visited my daughter and S-I-L, Chris, on Thanksgiving. My SIL is devastated – Plopper was his son. Beautiful, beautiful BIG part Maine Co-on boy. My daughter’s kitty, Callie, is only 3 1/2. Poor Callie, she knew something was wrong with her buddy for a few weeks.

Broke, Mr. T? You ain’t broke. Let me show you broke … (Feeling particularly hostile toward the excessively wealthy at the moment.)

“Who has enough, and knows it, is rich. Who has enough and wants more, will always be poor.” Master Kong

Maybe there’s a way to buy the property from the despicable Mr Taggart?

From Georgia: We go now live to BREAKING CAT NEWS!Hello, everyone! I’m looking into the missing comic on GoComics yesterday—I’m so sorry! The comic never posted and I was on a hike with the kids’ scouts troop in the morning and painting the Christmas special most of the day after. By the time I saw too, it was quite late!I’m not 100% certain what happened, but I reached out and expect it’ll be fixed soon! This would have been the first Sunday classic rerunning from when I took three weeks off when my father died. What I’m assuming happened is that possibly the reruns were handed to newspapers and perhaps somehow uploading them to the site was missed. It all happened very fast originally.So, never fear, you did not miss a new comic! And the classic rerun should be up tomorrow! If you happen to get BCN in your newspaper, can you let us know did you see it? And which one it was? (I’m curious! I never asked in all the chaos of those first days.)Apologies again! I hope you all had a great weekend otherwise. And enjoy the brand new installment of the Pawmark Channel Christmas special today!

Okay, I never made it here yesterday, but the previous strip is a Saturday.

My wife apparently LOVES Hallmark Channel Christmas movies. If you’re blissfully ignorant of the approximately two different plots they have (Big City Person gets stranded in Small Town and Discovers Christmas, or Person currently living in Big City goes Home to Small Town for Visit and REdiscovers Christmas), then a) I envy you and b) this is absolutely spot on, except that selling the land the artificial Christmas tree farm is on to build an online mega-mall makes perhaps a bit more sense than average.

Kit will come up with something. There will be setbacks along the way.

Online mall? You don’t need that much space. The trees can stay

O.T. just cannot get a break

OK, now I get it. Thank you, Orbsters!!

Why is there no comic for the eighth