Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 24, 2023

Wow! She’s fast! Case solved already!

Goldie to the rescue. she is one crazy good kitty sleuth! the truth is out there, and it’s obvious. also, LUPIN TOEBEANS!!!!!!! as he’s juggling pom poms, alien or otherwise!

christopherbacon692 and anomalous4 (and probably half a dozen others) from yesterday’s comments are vindicated with Elvis’ theory!

I got here early tonight so I took a trip down the random rabbit hole. I landed on the week where Puck finally met the mail carrier and Beatrix was rescued. And then I find in today’s strip a discussion about mail carriers. What a cool coincidence.

Iggy looks soooo happy!

Guys…these kittenesque shenanigans seem to be due to KITTENS!!

Iggy the no-so-Alien.

The third panel is one of the best and most unexpected jokes you’ve thrown in lately, Georgia. Clever. :-)

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Queen Catshepsut the Golden: Looks like everyone had a successful trip to the Cosmo Nursery.

Puckmosis: Yes, with one very tired little cat.

The Queen: I think she’ll be fine in an impossibly tiny box until supper. Were the Xanadu bees there as well?

Puckmosis: Yes. They have enough nectar for a special honey as well as colorful pollen.

Sophititi: I wonder if they’d let The Artisans use some pollen for pigment.

The Queen: No harm in asking.

*At the Xanadu Hive*

Queen Titania: So you want to use some colorful pollen for your art projects.

Sophititi: Yes, Your Majesty. Tillie and I have a few textile and sculpture projects in mind.

Queen Titania: Fortunately the work crew gathered an abundance of pollen. Take as much as you need.

Tillie: Had anyone else asked for pollen?

Queen Titania: Yes Lupinium and Iggy were here not too long ago.

I explained it to you years ago. Aliens don’t actually bring the mail. Spores drifting in from space are gathered by your mailbox and spontaneously assemble themselves into mail.

And does Lupin believe in the automaton bird yet?

OT: Typography: Thanks and one more request, please

Why am I not surprised? Iggy looked so intense yesterday. He loves his pompoms.

Honor did as well when she was a kitten.

Like me said before, Elvis sure has a point ya knows. BECAUSE ALIENS!

Take a look at today’s Sylvia https://www.gocomics.com/sylvia/2023/02/24?ct=v&cti=929847

OT: Anniversary

He built a floofball Solar System! That proves he’s an alien!!

I love all of Lupin’s facial expressions today. And of course, dad cat Elvis, reasoning through his theory. To bad Puck didn’t have time to make a chart.

Thank you Lupin!

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these cats from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Who’s 2003 album?

OT:

Great facial expressions again in the last panel! I also like panel two. In my mind, Lupin wanted the pom poms, but didn’t want Goldie to accuse him of messing with the crime scene. Therefore, logically, he hid him in his sleeves and didn’t realize they would all go flying with that gesture he made.

Oh sweet Iggy❤️ are you finally finding your own niche? I’m glad you are settling in to find your own thing! So darling❤️

mystery solved!

and I had my suspicions.

All day, all night, Iggy cat

Down on the floor, pom poms to bat

Elvis thinks ETs might do that

But those piles are made by one smol cat

He doesn’t need mail carriers nor Santa Claus

True happiness is when he’s got pom poms in his paws

In his heart is love for cats, kids, the Woman and Man

And pom pom play whenever he can

Play on, sweet Iggy

- William H. Eaton Jr. – Marianne – Harry Belafonte

Several years ago I bought my guys Halloween mice with yellow and orange stripes. They looked like candy corn. The next day I found all six of them in a perfect diagonal line in the living room. Freaked me out! I don’t know which one of the boys did it or if it was, as Elvis insists, ALIENS!

“We”? That’s generous, Goldie.

BCN collectively solving a mystery reminds me of the wizards of Unseen University, whom Terry Pratchett described as solving things “by hubbub” – arguing with each other until either the solution became obvious on its own, or the problem got embarrassed/bored and went away in a huff.

I was going to order some pipe cleaners and pompoms for my two, but there are already 50+ toys cluttering up the living room, kitchen and bedroom, not to mention what may be lurking under the bed and the couch, and the balls of yarn they keep stealing and unwinding. I think they’re okay.

I wish I could like this more than once. So much stuff in each panel. So many smiles and chuckles and outright laughter. ♥

I have met 3 kinds of conspiracy theorists:1. Those just trying to justify their personal prejudices2. Those trying to understand things that do not otherwise make sense3. Those who go for the craziest conspiracy theories over the likelier ones usually just to find a reason to be disagreeable

We know which kind Elvis is.

Elvis! Dont you even start!

Georgia once said that at the beginning of BCN, she thought of giving each cat a tv program. Puck would have a cooking show and Elvis a conspiracy theorist show.

Iggy smiling is the best thing I’ve seen today;-))

Adds Alien Postal Service to list of potental band names

Careful, Elvis. You’re in danger of channeling Giorgio Tsuokalous.

I like how even AFTER he’s seen there’s mail carriers, Elvis is still easily convinced they don’t exist. Also that image of Iggy in the last panel is super cute.

It’s also nice to get the rare moment of Lupin being the sane one… it used to be pretty common, but Elvis has progressively become the straight man, or shouty man to be more accurate, to lupin’s antics.

The aside in panel three just slayed me for some reason!

Didn’t MIB II have a retired, (mind-wiped) Agent ‘K’ working at a post office … With a Bunch’a ALIENS ??!! … :)

And so the case is solved, thanks to Detective Goldie!

Extraterrestrials running the post office would explain so much …

OH, he looks so happy! He’s putting them into order.

So it’s an alien after all.

YOU BELIEVE ALIENS HAVE VISITED THE PLANET YET YOU REFUSE TO BELIEVE IN THE MAILMAN, ELVIS! With the way you’re backtracking on the existence of the mailman, I expect you’re going to tell us ghosts don’t exist and that Puck was neve3r trapped in the steamer trunk needing a ghost to lead you and Tabitha to the attic on a recue mission. That will go over real well with Tillie. STOP THE IDIOTIC ALIEN CONSPIRACY, ELVIS!

OT: Okay, this is weird. I’m going to post a comment from Georgia. Think is, I posted it several hours ago and I don’t see it here. Huh? Anyway, here it is: “In real life, Iggy actually does LOVE pom-poms and lining them up! I don’t have any pictures of this phenomenon yet. I thought briefly about “re-creating” one of his line ups, but that felt dishonest —so, the next time he lines a few up I’ll be sure to grab a photo to share! He gets them from the kids art bin, and then they end up all over the house. He’s often trotting by with one in his mouth and I find him playing alone, tossing a pom-pom up in the air and chasing it. While he loves playing with Ora Zella and Elvis, this seems to be part of his good boy solitary self-care routine. A treat just for him. As Lupin demonstrated earlier this week, I’m careful to weed out the choking-size ones. We have not had any incidents, knock on wood, but my anxiety is always on the case, lol!”

Bat, bat, bat……melt my heart Iggy is on the move!

I love all of their expressions in the last panel

What to do if an alien appears! 1. Drop to the seat of your cat tree and look away. 2. Avoid eye contact. 3. If there are no eyes, avoid all contact.

How to identify alleged sightings! 1. Pie plates (left over from @#*1! holiday season), or reflections in the atmosphere (possibly caused by birds) 2. Vacuum cleaner bags filled with marsh gas 3. Mass insanity.

How to inform your clowder and others under your command: “I have something awesome to reveal. Two flying saucers have just landed in my dish. …..”