Overboard by Chip Dunham for August 03, 2010

Mornin’, me hearties! Might be more than just talk!

Hey, I know a chump like Scratch!

Good Morning, Crew!

Notice the shadow Raymond casts on Scratch!

Yar Mates

Arrr! There be big fightin’ comin’ on, mateys!

Kick his bleeep, Raymond! Bring honor to the entire crew!

Keel haul ‘im Raymond!

Be nice see actual butt kicking and mauling for once.

Looks like Raymond’s bite is going to be worse that his bark!

Bombs away!!!

Good Morning Crew!!!

Apparently, time for talk is over.

I still have an uneasy feeling that Raymond isn’t going to come away scot free.

BRING ON SOME WHOOOP-A FOR SCRATCH. ITS ABOUT TIME, JUST DONT TEAR HIM UP TOO BAD RAYMOND.

GOOD MORNING CREW! SEE YA TOMORROW. WONDER IF GORK SHOWS UP AS A TAG TEAM PARTNER?

Get him Raymond! (I don’t like scratch either. That is one ugly cat.)

Good Morning, Crew!

Fellow Baby You stole my line! I was gonna say that! Great minds think alike!! Woof! Woof! ;-)

Morning Crew!

Good Morning Crew,

Talk is Cheap, and actions speak louder than words.

Raymond get that PUDDY!

Have a GREAT DAY MATIE’S

ps: Always watch your back.

That’s what happens when you join the fray late, Fellow Baby, but I had Coyoty do the same to me on another strip today.

Scratch, please, injure Raymond, then go, and eat the bleeep mice! They are annoying!

Mornin’ Crew!

Raymond needs to tear the guts out of that cat! Then feed him to Gork.

Mornin’ Crew!

LLAP

Go get ‘em, Raymond !!!

Oh my, a story line where the mice and dogs are good and the cats are bad. I don’t think that’s ever been done before.

I mean, come on; you’ve got 2 dogs and an unknown number of mice against one cat. And guess who’s gonna lose?

I’m sorry that I missed Fellow Baby’s comment - must have been a good one. Anyway, I’m always up for a good fight, but yeah, I’m with aaf709, the whole “cat = bad, mice and dogs = good” stereotype is old, especially since I’m not thrilled with the mice. The dogs are great of course, but why couldn’t it be a different relationship somehow than the same ol’, same ol’. Maybe there will be a good twist at the end, so I’ll be paying close attention!

Bite me, aaf709. Raymond left Louie tied up, and there’s not a mouse in sight. It’s a fair fight.

Not all cats are bad guys, but THIS cat is a bad guy. You want to see the plucky cat who gets the better of the big dumb dogs? Go read “Heathcliff.” You want to see cats and dogs living together in harmony? Go read “Mutts”. You want to see a cat who leaves the mice alone? Go read “Garfield.”

Like I said yesterday, whether you like the mice here or not, once Chip made the choice to have Scratch actually KILL Jonas’ friends (and you can hardly claim it’s an unfair stereotype to have a cat hunting mice), something like this was inevitable.

Scratch is the Devil

And I don’t mean that in a good way.

I remember when this comic was funny…then the mice came and it stopped being funny. So go Scratch kill all those mice and kill Jonas slowly.

lightenup, Dry and I did our best to confuse everyone and now I can see it actually works. She was referring to my comment and I was referring to hers.

We call eachother Fellow Baby because we both like WKRP in Cincinnati. This is what Dr. Johnny Fever called his audience on his morning show.

And here you were saying, who is this Fellow Baby anyway?

Who is this Fellow Baby? Why me of course! Hey Fellow Baby should I become Venus Fly Trap? LOL! Yes, Lightenup that was a GREAT show!!

Oh and we’re big fans of Kelly’s Heroes, too, so you’ll probably see some inside jokes there as well!

Dry, Bobby Boogie?

Just don’t call me Herb!

Dry, I could call you AC, like Johnny does.

How come Raymond is no longer part of that pirate ship, and whatever became of his previous owner, the female captain of that ship?

Grog Should I call you you Les instead?*

Trebor I’d like to know that too! That was a great story line! Wasn’t her name Cecilia?

Dry, Nooooooooo!

Don’t you want to win the Silver Sow Award?

Dry, you can have fun at that pig ball.

“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

YO! Cheesehead! First off, you must be a Packer fan, 2nd off, good quote!!!

Fellow Baby I’d rather have my WALLS!! AND MY DOOR! Knock before you enter, Sir! If you don’t, you can just leave my area and come again! :-)

Ah, yes, Fellow Baby. You better lock your imaginary door on your way out. You don’t want anyone to Watergate it do you?

Yea Herb! You did a great job of getting those photos back for me!! LOL!

And while we’re at it, thanks for all the help with my piano!

fitzroid….I know the cat isn’t the hero and dogs beating up cats is the norm. Mice are generally depicted as heros. and while they aren’t in the strip today, they’ve used their planes to harass Scratch for some time.

I hate Heathcliff and no, I don’t expect a Mutts or Garfield either. The Dog cat mouse triangle is rather old hat though.

No, I can “hardly claim it’s an unfair stereotype to have a cat hunting mice” why is the cat punished for being a cat? There are breeds of dogs that hunt and kill rats, but dogs are always shown as best buds of mice. To be honest I’ve disliked the introduction of Scratch for this reason.