Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for September 02, 2023

Creeping like, well, mice, and still detected! That’s an alert guard!

Quite the harrowing trek for the robber mice.

Wonderful art!

The lighting here is so dang gorgeous

So the Robber Mice go storming off to provide Queen Mag with the reinforcments she may not know she needs. I also love Thimblefist’s “Hark”.

It was a dark and stormy night with skulking mice.

Now we know how the mice get in and out of the Big Pink House. I tried to tell them a storm was brewing back on August 25! I’m glad to see the mice heeded the advice to never go anywhere without a towel because “it is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.” Is Alice using an acorn cap as a rain hat?

Beautiful word.

OT: telemetry

No sword, however small, will be turned away.

Ladies, if you go slowly and carefully you’ll never get there. Thimblefist, tell them to hurry up!

hark the herod angel sings

It’s ON !

I like ‘BOOM’!

Thunderstorms are a sure sign of approaching doom.

Very colorful bricks there

I am so loving, all of this! Can’t wait til’ Monday!

Blatant Plug: I get treats for Foxy at the $ store near my place. The checkout guy asked me today, “Do you have a Garfield, or a Heathcliff?” I said “She’s a Sophie. From Breaking Cat News .” Told him he could find it online and that there was an amazing crazy adventure storyline going on currently.

From Funny Girl: Don’t Rain on My Parade

Don’t make us stay behind

’Cause we can do it!

Whatever happens we’ll get right through it!

No mole or owl is gonna rain on our parade!

…….

Don’t tunnel through our field,

’Cause we all use it!

Whatever it takes to win, we’re gonna do it!

No mole or owl is gonna rain on our parade!

…….

With sword and thorns, now,

We are right here!

And we will show, now!

It’s very clear

We are all gonna fight on!

We are all gonna be right on!

…….

We must pick out our battles,

Well here we pick it!

We’re coming for you, Owl!

So look out, Wicket!

We’ll never let a cloud go and rain on our parade!

Panel 3 gave me pareidolia. Behind Alice and Agnes to the right – I know it’s gray clouds and rain drops but I swear I can see a teapot that reminded me of Mrs Potts from the D* animated film Beauty and the Beast.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

King Cadbury of Away: Dr. Zeus, would you like to say a few words?

Dr. Zeus: I’d be glad to

Thank you for your gracious meal,

It really fills me with such zeal!

I hope we can all be friends!

And have a friendship without end!

In all seriousness, I believe kittens and kits, and all children should have the opportunity to read, and write and develop an interest in learning.

All: Hear! Hear!

Maat-Tilda: And I believe everyone, young and old, should have the opportunity to enjoy creativity, whether in art, music, writing, or anything!

Adobe Style: Your Majesty, King Cadbury, I understand your artisans would like to visit with us and possibly come up with an exchange program.

King Cadbury: That is correct, Ms Adobe Style. And our royal chefs would like to exchange ideas with your kitchen.

Queen Cat… The Golden: Let’s put it to a vote. All those in favour of working with the Royal Court of Away say Aye!

All Aye!

The Queen: And now, on to dessert!

Ooooooh, those moles are screwed now! :D

They tip toes through a minefield of mole mounds to reach the racoon camp. Interesting logistics.

One can almost hear the Mission Impossible theme…..

Georgia does some of the most beautiful artwork. Truly beautiful! I love thunder and lightning and last week, we had some storms that looked exactly like this. They were awesome to watch and this strip is exactly like those.

Watching the Robber Mice scurry down the drainpipe is a great thing! Now we know….

Love Natasha’s needles!!

OT: We’ve lost another legend

Natasha ::Snikt!::

That’s right, Natasha! Say it proudly!

So much to love in this strip! The colors (esp the brick wall), the atmospheric feeling of being exposed outside … at night … in a storm, the leaves used as tarps to keep them dry, and then the suspense building… until the meet a friend, not foe!

OT: SECURE REPORT. WARNING – THIS REPORT MAY BE VIEWED ONLY BY THOSE WITH SECURITY CLEARANCE OF EIGHT OR HIGHER.

They’ve got a surprise they’re gonna bravely pursue

Something that all of them have always wanted to do

They’ve waited so long, waited so long

They’ve waited so long, waited so long

They’re gonna take a trip so far from here

Old Wicket’s on their docket, oh baby, they wanna make him disappear

They’ve waited so long, waited so long

They’ve waited so long, waited so long

Nothing better than two pair of mice

They’ve packed their bags and they’ve left tonight

Watch out, Wicket, for two pair of mice

Natasha’s ready to slice and dice!

- Eddie Money – Two Tickets to Paradise

The excitment grows!!

Love love love the panel of 4 Robber Mice colorfully running in the rain. The whole strip is so beautifully colorful today. And the prize at the end of the rainbow is … Thimblefist!

What infiltration sequence is complete without a dramatic thunderstorm? With convenient flashes of lightning to show the positions of the guards!

The colors and drama of today’s stripIs off the charts!

“ADVANCE AND BE RECOGNIZED!”

The artwork is fabulous.

Artwork in this sequence is outstanding! 10, 10, 10s across the board

Shouldn’t it be, “Halt! Who goes there?”

I think, when this arc is complete, I will go back and re-read it right away so I can read it all without waiting until the next day for each installment. This arc is long enough, I bet it would make a great next book: The Mole Wars!

The racoons just got a squad who is more than able to take the battle to the moles on (or in this case under) their own turf.

I call upon the North winds and the forces of Dunn to cry havoc! And unleash the Tiny Tornado of Tortie Terror upon these terrible subterranean foes!Update: Mercury is now “Puddin” and is thriving and happy, when she can be found, Luckily Amazon is sending a Kitten Corral to solve the issue. Meanwhile, Barb and I miss her terribly.

Have no fear, Thimblefist. The Robber Mice are on your side.

Itsy bitsy mousies/Climbed down the waterspout…

I love a good dramatic thunderstorm!

OT: Avatar update

With apologies to Rudyard Kipling:

Eyes that see in the dark,

Feet that leave no mark,

Give tongue to it, oh hark! oh hark!

These mice are your friends!

Don’t ever argue with a mouse that looks like a porcupine.

Not “a friend,” an ally.

So sad! I can’t link because first, this is gocomics and second, it would identify where I live.

Seven residents of an empty house were lost. One of them, a fire investigator said, apparently chewed a wire.

Natasha is having a ball.

I get the feeling these places aren’t very far away from each other… big pink house, barn, tree ware Bea was stuck, wildlands, fields, moles, mice, opossum, raccoons… coud put em all on one smol usgs pocket map

“Where’s the beef?!”

Adorable!

I just noticed that in the rain Violet has pushed her mask up onto her forehead and Natasha stuffed hers into her pocket. The details are just amazing. And even more so when you recall that Georgia works actual comic strip size.

The Newest Steinbeck novel, “Of Mice and Moles” on sale at your local book store now.

I am on Pins and Needles to see how this turns out.