Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for April 26, 2022

Whoa….that’s not fun and games, Lupin!

You guys were right, if Elvis gets hold of that bell, he’ll bury it.

Are kicks to the head allowed in wrestling?! Boo!!!!

Poor Elvis! Such pitiful rear toe beans?

Me-OW!!

Leave it to Leapin’ Lupin to drop a literary reference and then drop a kick!

Lupin is a John Donne fan?

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/meditation17.php

Boot to the head.

Me thinks Lupin is a fan of Meowtallica…

No fair kicking Mommy’s Special Boy!

Surely Elvis will come back with an equal blow!

GASP! He’s cheating!

Kitty fists!

Ouch! That’s not Good Boy behaviour, Lupin!

Tommy nor I approve.

Ah, a John Donne quoting cat

Not nice.

I think Lupin views his bell as some sort if medal, and he has no intention of losing it. Since he can’t hear it, he doesn’t understand how anoying it can be for everyone else.

This is not funny……

Kicks to the head if a kitty has claws can be a problem. When Moose and Blackjack tussle and Blackjack kicks Moose like that, he ends up with a bleeding scratch right above his eye. Then it’s Neosporin time.

Hmm, which do you prefer, Elvis? A dinging bell, or chirping birds dancing in circles?

Carl Douglas: Kung Fu Fighting

Elvis and Lupin were Kung Fu Fighting

Lupin moved fast as lightning

In fact it was a little bit frightening

Can Elvis fight back with expert timing?

…….

They were two cool cats from the Big Pink House

They were fighting for the right to ring the bell as Elvis groused

Elvis made his case and then got kicked right in the face

Everyone said, Lupin have a care the way you’re fighting isn’t fair!

…….

Elvis and Lupin were Kung Fu Fighting

Lupin moved fast as lightning

In fact it was a little bit frightening

Can Elvis fight back with expert timing?

…….

Puck and Tommy gasped in horror as Lupin made his kick

Will they intervene or will they just let it slip?

All of this for a bell, ringing like the bell from heck,

Somehow I don’t think this is gonna end well!

…….

Elvis and Lupin were Kung Fu Fighting

Lupin moved fast as lightning

In fact it was a little bit frightening

Can Elvis fight back with expert timing?

Maybe due to his deafness, Lupin doesn’t understand that his trophy is a bell that you ring by swatting it. In boxing, “ring his bell” means “to strike with a violent blow to the head, especially as might stun or concuss.”

Wow! That turned harsh in a hurry! What happened to the party? Do they try to kill each other at Tusslemania? :(

Ouch! Lupin, that’s not sporting!

BAH GAWD KING! THAT MAN HAD A FAMILY!

I love the Tusslemania arcs! They kind of remind me of back in the pre-cable days in the ‘70s of watching Championship Wrestling from Florida with Gordon Solie on WTOG TV-44. Us kids would cheer for the good guys like Dusty Rhodes, Wahoo McDaniels, Superstar Billy Graham and the rest of the good guys battle the bad guys like Harley Race, Abdul the Butcher and Ivan Koloff among other villains. At the time we thought Tampa was the mecca of wrestling as there were always championships changing hands on TV and over at the armory in West Tampa or Robards Arena in Sarasota where they filmed a lot of the matches, Then my Dad got cable in ’77 or so and we got WTBS TV17 from Atlanta and found that there was a Championship Wrestling from Georgia with Gordon Solie also hosting it and many of the same heroes and villains from Florida, some allegedly “injured” and out of action in Florida. It finally dawned on us kids that this wrestling just “might” be scripted and while Tampa does have a lot of history with wrestling, it ws not necessarily the mecca of it all. In addition, occasionally I would see a friend with a cast or bandaged up because they tried some of the wrestling moves like Dusty’s “Bionic Elbow” in the backyard or garage. After awhile we would hear the disclaimer on WTOG and TBS: “Kids, do not try this at home….” Good memories and I truly have been enjoying this arc.

Ooh, I hope we get to see the other cats taking sides! Tommy is clearly in Elvis’ corner, but I am not sure who else will be. Sir Fig will definitely go with Lupin, and probably Tabitha too, but Burt and Sophie could go either way. Also, the match has not started yet. Not cool, Lupin.

Well, that was . . . unexpected.

GO LUPIN, GO!!!!

Ok time to throw down, all gloves off.

Uh oh,

Lupin is playing for realzies.

Let’s remember how our cats play fight in real life if you have two or more. They look like they’re trying to murder each other. Ten minutes later, both are asleep, snuggled up together, best of buds.

Waaahhh!! I’m too excited to decide what to comment on first: the bell tolls for thee – I called it!, Elvis rear toe beans – squeee!, and oh no! Violence on BCN! Elvis, you need hugs…that looked painful, poor kitty.

“Oh my cat! That is an not legal move!”

Lupin must be a wrestler from Catalonia, Spain, look at his shorts.

Oh, this is a real slobber-knocker!

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…I am not cleaning up the slobber.

In the great sucker-punch tradition of Tusselmania

I admit, I immediately thought of Metallica even though I know it is a Shakespeare quote.

LUPIN! Holy cow baby boy, mellow!

Elvis is one angry cat!

And that’s a line from For Whom The Bell Tolls and a very similar one to the line in Dog Man: For Whom The Ball Rolls.

OT but not too far….

That was really uncalled for, Lupin.

Oh My Cat! I just realized Baba Mouse is watching this. Lupin is so screwed.

I hope the whole party picks sides and caterwauls loudly as lupin and Elvis roll around on the floor in the kibble — and then the Woman walks in. The one human sound in that days strip, alone in its sound bubble…" LUPIN!!"

Oh it is so on!

wow, Lupin, that’s just not cricket, shame on you XXX

Cliffhanger…. aw man!!! Then again, these are needed for great stories!

Also, today is my birthday! And I’m busy as hell! ;-;

“Do you remember when everyone was shouting my name, and I used my strength to rip my blouse?”

“I know it is fun to wrestle. A nice pile-drive to the face; or a punch to the face; "

DESTROY the bell NOW, as Lupin is not wearing it while tussling with brave Elvis.

That 4th panel is AMAZING and suitable for framing

Come on, Elvis. Time for a Feline Rewind followed by a Fuzzy Elbow.

Remember folks. This is fake wrestling! A, Hustle Tussle! A, Brawl Recall! No cartoon cats were hurt during the drawing of this cartoon!

El-vis! El-vis! El-vis!

No cat is an island entire of itself.

Thinking this might be the theme for the tussel.

https://youtu.be/UhYXhjrcLNE

I am very disappointed with this strip. Violence, even fake violence, in a family comic strip is not funny

And here we have Leapin’ Lupin opening with a Tae Kwon Leap.

Oh dear . . . Lupin, you done did it this time! Mommy’s Special Boy is not amused.

O.T. Emergency prayers for us, please!

Ya, Lupin is a rascal upon occasion! And this one didn’t have anything to do with a planned for event like Tussle-Mania!

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Lupin is very brutal on the inside