Monty by Jim Meddick for December 07, 2022

Fleshy’s a Nair-do-well.

Fleshy looks like a nihilist Russian author.

“Dang! Fleshy got into the spagetti again!”

Oh, I have tried with knife and clippers / Sickle, sword, and baseball bat;/ With hammer. hatchet, scissors, shears, / Electric razors, chisels, spears, / And I can tell you this, my dears, / There’s just one way to skin a cat. -Shel Silverstein

OK, so maybe we need to re-frame the problem. How do you wash a cat’s beard regularly?

Just snip it shorter.

Tranquilizer?

Get the cat a Burl Ives suit and teach him to howl ‘’Holly Jolly Christmas’’.

Don’t sweat the cat breath.

I like how Monty’s hair grew back in one day.

We seem to have lost the color in the Monty strip. Did everyone?

What’s up with the missing color?

Clever use of the idiom in the first panel.

ZZ Top-Cat…

What missing color? Is it yellow? On this strip I can see green, red, pink, brown and grey-blue.

Same problem with beards and mustaches. (Human adult facial hair is an irrefutable argument against any notion of an "intelligent designer:.)

True. My wife’s little dog, part Yorkie, has whiskers around her snout and they do tend to hold in the smell…

Yesterday Monty had a face full of scratches and band-aids. He heals quickly.

Let Fleshy do it himself if he wants to.

Maybe Fleshy’s a revolutionary, Monty. Gotta have the beard to go with that kind of persona, ya know?

On the whole, however, I would prefer a cat without a beard. Traditional whiskers are just fine….