Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 30, 2024

It’s one more SPECK! And GLITTER! And SOPHIE’S WOMAN!

Every fireworks display needs a grand finale!

So, the Tidy Woman does have a name… Ding-Dong. How appropriate.

Yay! Sophie’s woman has arrived!

And the Mice add to the chaos as victory prepares to ding dong!

Perfect!!!!!!!!!!

The Joy, The Chaos, THE GLITTER BOMB! And now for the real reckoning?

What’s that in the top right corner of the last panel that sort of looks like a bug?

She came expecting to be taking a raccoon away in the carrier. I wonder if she’ll be carrying away Sophie instead.

And a mighty cheer of YAAAAAAAAY!!!!! arises from the Orb!

Oh yeah! Sophie’s Woman is here! Knew she was coming as soon as they said Animal Control.

Oh! My! Cat! SLAM! DING-DONG! CHAOS! SCREAM! And yesterday I commented that this would be good timing for several glitter bombs! Yee-Haw!

Sophie’s smile in panel 3 is something special indeed!

*YYYYEEEEEEESSSSSS!

Be careful what you wish for when there are robber mice around.

I keep clicking back and forth between the live cam of bears at Katmai, AK, and reading comments on BCN! AT LAST—rescue is at hand! How will you twist it ’round, Ms Georgia? Whatever it is, we will probably all love it!!!

Is that Jules behind Sophie’s woman?

Freaking called it… also breathing a sigh of relief but I figured Animal Control would just be tommy’s woman. She’s handled it for the area before.. and also Sophie needs a freaking break after all of this. The other reason is frankly.. this lady also needs Tommy’s woman’s help. Not just the firm but caring lecture on checking any cats you find on the street and want to take care of to make sure they don’t have owners and how cats have diffrent types.. but I still think this lady SHOULD have a cat. Or a dog. Or timmy tarantula. I’m sure show spiders are a thing. She wasn’t a good woner to sophie, and i’m very happy she’s almost rescued. But like most of the strips antagonists so far (Montague, Mag, the Robber Mice), all of whom turned corners.. she’s not terrible just misguided. If she’ll listen to Sophie’s Woman, then she can get proper help finding a pet and proper help taking care of it. Maybe find a cat whose not messy and likes being shown off. This lady deserved the nightmare that happened to her house, but she also deserves a happy ending. One of the strip’s core themes, one I just realized during this arc despite reviewing every other year of the strip (This one’s coming next year, don’t worry), is there’s a pet for everyone. With a lot of love, the right match, and the right owner and good fur baby, anyone can be loved and even people who seem horrible at first may be more complicated than they seem. Except Wicket and that lady who warned about cats stealing breathes. Their just awful. But hey people who are just the worst also exist and even Wicket got a happy ending.

Avon calling.

Glitter! I am filled with malicious happiness.

That is the most satisfying scream I think I have ever heard!!!!!!

I love Sophie’s look of glee in panel 3!

I’m assuming that the mice being back at the top of the living room that Gutter has made a safe escape! Will he be under the window guiding Sophie to safety?

And now… the moment we’ve been waiting for…

We finally got our glitteracaeous finale! I wondered why the mice were so sure animal control was going to be terrible and here it’s Tommy’s and Sophie’s woman who is calm in a crisis and will figure out eventually how to get the glitter out of Sophie’s fur!

I just hope poor Li’l Starfish Squeaker isn’t left behind!

Much more than a spec of mess…a sparkle! Which she will be living with literally forever.

I really would like to see Gutter be part of the rescue. A little of moving parts still need to come together.

To loosely paraphrase William Shatner in Star Trek II, “Here it comes, Tidy Woman . . . Fire!”

Among the educational info Sophie’s Woman gives Ms Clueless will be that Sophie created this glorious mess (most of it) because that is who she is, and this is what she does!

Tommy and Sophie’s woman to the rescue!

Hmm. Agnes doesn’t appear to be throwing anything, but we saw her earlier with a bag of glitter. I’ll just assume that she threw hers first!

Open the door so Jules can fly in and start bonking you on the head, TW! That should just totally make your entire day!!!

Sophie’s woman is going to wish she’d worn the protective gear she wore when capturing Wicket near the end of the Golden Mouse Saga.

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Whew! Jules is finally on the scene!

The schadenfreude is strong, and I love it! Maybe TW will learn to have a cat checked for a chip.

All of my cats are chipped. It’s a cheap way to increase the odds of getting your pet back.

Note the three slams where the glitter bombs hit and the trajectory of the fourth bomb bag!

I like that the fourth glitter bomb, in panel three, appears to be headed right for TW’s head. All the more reason for her scream !

Look at all the locks on her door! Paranoid, much!

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At Last! The “Calvary” has arrived. Sophie’s Woman! It couldn’t have ended better!

Ahh, Sophie looks so gleeful. The colours are soo pretty. I think (hope) TW will learn a valuable lesson from all this.

Ding Dong? … (Why, yes! The Lady of the House is right inside!) … :)

Finally them pesky harbingers of plague is release a plague of goddarned glitter.

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang, but glitter.

For once. I will take off my noise cancelling headphones, and squee at the arrival of Sophie’s woman(and not her toe beans waving to the mice!!

I believe it is Sophie’s Woman ringing that doorbell. :)

Too late, she found out that the glitter was the bomb!

And Sophie’s woman to the rescue! She thinks she’s just coming to get a racoon, but her baby girl is in there and she’s going to mama bear all over that woman.

She better duck, cuz I’m sure she gonna throw her out the door

GLITTER FOR ALL !!!!!

That’s as gooda cue as any….LMAO.

Perfect timing, Sophie’s Woman arrives and a glitter avalanche at the same time! :D

I’m with Sophie – Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I think I smell cheese and summer sausage platters coming.

Yesterday I was thinking that TW was maybe more concerned for Sophie’s safety with the trash bag than about the mess. I may have been incorrect…

Maybe L’il Starfish will become part of an installation piece Sophie will do. Especially if it gets covered with glitter (wouldn’t be safe for her to play with).

Screaming in my bed at Oh-Dark-Thirty because I just checked BCN long before time to get up:Animal Control is indeed someone who will recognize – and rescue! – Sophie! And as if 3 glitter bombs and this huge relief weren’t enough, I see the July Bug on the wall! Oh My Cat, today’s strip is every holiday rolled into one super, glorious, happy day.

OT: Fun

There has to be a part for Jules to play here. He’s positioned and ready – and it’s almost August!

Oh, how glorious! And, yes! Sophie’s Woman is the Animal Control, here to sort things out and set Tidy Woman straight.

(Popping in early today before they cut off our electricity—and thus, internet—to replace the lines.)

Traditional Christmas Song

Ding dong merrily on high!

For Sophie’s Woman calling!

Ding dong verily the sky

Is filled with glitter, appalling!

…….

Gloria! The color fills the air!

Gloria! The color fills the air!

…….

E’en so here, below, below

The color is surrounding!

And we know, we know, we know

The glitter is astounding!

…….

Gloria! The color fills the air!

Gloria! The color fills the air!

Do we get to hear a “Huzzah” from Jules when Sophie’s woman is reunited with Sophie as Gutter gets away with the Robber Mice? Nice to see Jules again, even if it is only for a couple of days this year!

You don’t mess around with Sophie!

What perfect timing. And a very impressive amount of glitter, I might add.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Afar Harbor

Iggy: Ready with the papyrus?

Puckmosis: Right here! And you’re meeting Kara and Vann at the Midnight Oasis.

Iggy: And then I’ll hand the papyrus off to Kat-Mandu to deliver to the Egyptian Post Office.

Puck: And who will receive the papyrus at the post office?

Iggy: Elvis. He finally believes in the Papyrus Cat.

Puck: Ready to set sail!

Iggy: Heading to the Midnight Oasis!

I’m impressed Sophie’s woman is working today, with her own cat missing! She must be grieving.

Everyone remember it’s only Tuesday. We still have 4 more days of glittery rescue arc to go!

Glitterbombs away!!!! Along with the cavalry, in the form of Sophie’s Woman, arriving. That is her, isn’t it???

how is this NOT a Saturday morning cartoon?? fabulous :)

The living room has now achieved maximum sparkle.

The Glitterati have arrived!

I love the cloud of glitter visible through the window in panel 4. That’s going to take professional-grade cleaning!

The 4th glitter bomb makes a direct hit on That Tidy Woman’s head (great shot, Violet!) & explodes, covering her & Sophie in sparkles & startling her into dropping Sophie, who snatches up Li’l Starfish & dashes for the door as soon as it opens, streaking past her Woman into the night. Sophie’s Woman sees only the glittering blur of her passing & doesn’t recognize her. Jules dive-bombs That Tidy Woman’s sparkling head repeatedly, =BONK BONK BONK= hee hee! Gutter, lurking outside in the shrubbery after his own successful escape, sees the fleeing Sophie & hurries to catch up with her…

Glitter, it’ll never come off no matter how.

I believe the thingy next to the window is a flag holder…

All that glitter is bringing great joy to Sophie and horror to the Tidy Woman!

I thought we’d have to wait until the end of the week for the glitter bomb. How satisfying that it was detonated on a Tuesday!

OH MAN! GLITTER! She’ll move before she gets that. Outta things.

Ugh! I’ve just read of real life cat kidnapping in Surrey. A man stopped his car, got out to pet a 16 year old cat sitting outside her house, then he grabbed her, threw her in the car and drove off. The crime was captured on a doorbell cam, her owners are distraught. I sure hope the thief can be traced, and the cat re united with her owners. :(

You don’t carefully develop and assemble a glitter bomb and just fail to use it. Besides, this shortened the war by years and saved countless lives.

Everything and everyone coming together, just like we predicted – and hoped!

Who is the lady at the door with a suitcase?

Jules almost missed it!!!!

Huzzah!!! We have now arrived in GLITTER TOWN!

The door has lots of locks but … no doorbell? Sophie’s woman saying “um…ding dong” makes this tidy fortress appear impenetrable!

Silly GoComics only lets me Like this once. That ain’t even enough. I want to do a filk, but I’m drawing a blank, doggone it.

At last! I’ve been waiting for the glitter bombs!

Everyone was right! Sophie’s Woman to the rescue!

I wondered if they were going to use the glitter bombs.

Also – is that Sophie’s mom at the door? Is she the animal control person?

Just in time for ‘the woman’, Georgia, to take her baby home. In other circumstances Sophies kidnapper may not have given her up.

We don’t see everything Sophie’s Woman is carrying, but shouldn’t she have some protective gear seeing as how there is a suspected rabid raccoon? Of course, Gutter is definitely a rapid raccoon.

This is great! I thought that they would free Sophie and return home with Sophie’s woman none the wiser as to what happened. But I so want the tidy woman to get a scolding by another human as to what she was thinking.

I was beginning to wonder if the glitter would come into play. It has paid off greatly!

Ding dong! Sophie’s mom calling!

Oh this is how Sophie get’s rescued! Her owner comes originally to get Gutter but instead finds Sophie there! Yeah!

Welp that is a GRAND mess. Wish I were there!

OT: Imaginary Epilogue After All is Said and Done

The mice believe that if something, anything, is good, more is better.

Yay! the Woman who like white is now part of the Glitterati!

To the tune of “You Dropped a Bomb on Me” by The Gap Band

I saw a cat, said I want that

I took that cat for free

Locked her up tight, in a room of white

Made cat show plans for me.

Chorus

But you found me out, birds!

(You dropped a bomb on me…GLITTER!

You dropped a bomb on me!)

But you ruined my house, mice!

(You dropped a bomb on me…GLITTER!

You dropped a bomb on me!)

Power went down, all over town

A raccoon came inside.

I used my broom, locked him in a room.

Mice turned them loose, then it all went BOOM!

(Chorus)

Priscilla went wild! (I thought she was mild!)

She made a crazy scene, became a drama queen!

She trashed my house, and then that mouse

Said, “That’s our cue!” and the glitter bombs flew!

(Chorus)

Jules was in hiding. His time he was biding.

I felt Existential Dread.

Through the door he entered, flying through the glitter

And bonked me on the head!

(Chorus)

You found me out, you trashed my home

You took that cat back to her home.

You dropped a bomb on me.

I learned some things I won’t forget,

Like “That’s not how you treat a pet.”

You dropped a bomb on me.

I, I, I, I, I, I Won’t forget it

I, I, I, I, I, I Won’t forget it

Is Sophie trying to become liquid in the first panel?? (as Iggy demonstrated in April 14, 2024. Local Cat doesn’t like to be picked up.)

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this is definitely the (only?) appropriate use for a glitter bomb!!

I am many hours behind everyone’s comments. I’m just happy to see Jules and anxiously awaiting what he plans to do to help TW realize her erroneous way.

Sophie and friends make art until someone screams! And she’s much nicer to look at than Jack Nicholson …

Approaching 550 comments as of 11:40pm EDT! :-)

Thank you Georgia – this comic made my day. I needed something to smile about today.

As Sophie continues her ranting and raving in panel 1… Ms. Clueless can’t understand her, but we all know what she’s saying!