Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for April 30, 2024

Raising boys is always a walk in the park by comparison

As the late great “Rowdy” Roddy Piper was fond of saying: “Just when you think you know all of the answers I change all of the questions.”

Somebody needs their nails trimmed.

Tape gun, address Label, and Amazon pickup phone number

Wren’s a cat-in-the-box.

Let me guess…Terrible Twos?

Oh dear.

Someone get that kid some catnip.

Are you sure that’s not a cat? Cats love boxes.

Wrens in a “mood”!

Wren is a fashion designer who is trying to bring back capri pants.

Someone needs to be neutered

Oh, it’s COMA time, now!!

Let her sleep in the box

It’s time to trim her nails!

Ooh… Somebody is asking to be shipped to Abu Dhabi!

Nobody expects the cat in the box!

Wren is learning from Hammie, after all he was a dog for about a week. Wren just happens to be a cat person. Wren, the Cat Girl from He!! Wanda may need the Cat Whisperer.

There is nothing wrong with Wren’s attitude that a good long timeout couldn’t fix.

Wren wasn’t happy just “identifying” as a boy, she decided to be a cat. As in a “furry”. Actual grade school kids are pulling these stunts. They should just give them failing grades until they quit their act.

I feel like that last panel can sum up the whole history of this comic. These kids are always coming up with something new!

How do we know that it’s not a bobcat inside that box?

Meow Wren! Why all the fuss? Cats like you love to nap!

I see a real cat for the kids coming in this story arc.

Wren has decided to use the Method to prepare for the lead in Catwoman: The Origin Story

Nope! Nada! No Mam! This will not be tolerated. Play your silly games but NOT on Mama or Daddy.

It seems she has moved up from “Ankle Biter”…

Obviously, they need to get a cat. Hammie rolled everywhere he went when he was young, Wren is hissing her way along…

Wren is channeling Simone Simon.

She’s acting like Ninja Kitty. Has Wren been reading “One Big Happy”?

Pick up the whole box, drop it on Wren’s bed, close the door.

Does she have “cat scratch fever?”

Wren, you obviously aren’t aware that you shouldn’t do something like that to the person who brought you into this world. Hold a grudge, maybe, but never lash out with claws bared.

Still got several more years to go Wanda.

n January 1913, one Ohio couple took advantage of the U.S. Postal Service’s new parcel service to make a very special delivery: their infant son. The Beagues paid 15 cents for his stamps and an unknown amount to insure him for $50, then handed him over to the mailman, who dropped the boy off at his grandmother’s house about a mile away. Postal regulations were soon clarified to disallow the mailing of children.

Wait, when did she think she had a handle on it?

Tell her if she doesn’t revert back to human, you are going to take her to the vet to get here all her shots, and flea dip.

I immediately thought of Calvin’s mom, locked out of the house with groceries and Hobbes, going “Oh, I can’t wait to hear this one explained” when I read this.

Be afraid when it’s time to bathe her. Be very afraid.

Mom needs to tell Wren that cats love naps.

They don’t have a cat. Where did Wren learn how to act like a (bad) one ?

Tasmanian Devil?

One thing you have to admit about children, they are FULL of personality.

looks like a furry, sounds like a furry. Please don’t ruin the strip

Just close and tape the flaps. You can let her out when nap time is over.