Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for September 27, 2023

From Thimblefist’s tiniest salute, to the Robber Mice’s We came for the owl. This really will be all about the size of the fight in the furry creature, not the size of the furry creature.

Nice! So that’s what Natasha and the girls have been up to…

The robber mice are armed and ready for Wicket.

I know i’m getting sleepy, cause i cannot figue out what Violet is holding or standing behind in the last panel!?

Wicket just felt a shiver up his spine. I sure did.

I almost feel sorry for Wicket … almost.

Nothing gets past the Needle Army!

Another new panel of Snow Sez today featuring all 13 kittens! (I hope Georgia Dunn doesn’t mind a shout out to a sister cartoonist.)

They’re going to nail him…

Wicket’s done for!

I feel like I’m about to watch the final battle against the Shadows on Babylon 5. It’s that kind of epic anticipation.

I have an intuition of approaching doom.

This used to be such a sweet and gentle comic. Sigh. lolol

I twist salute you back, Thumblefist! And mice, girls, I hope you also have a bucket for Wicket!

What’s in the baggie, a garotte wire? Is the owl going down for good??

I’m still hoping that the solution doesn’t harm anything but someone’s dignity.

I can’t wait. Unleash Hell, Ladies!!

If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you’re already dead! – Maximus Decimus Meridius

I love Thimblefist’s tiniest salute and the enthusiasm of the Robber Mice. Get him, girls!

From Mary Poppins: Well Done, Sister Suffragette

We are a band of friends from the Wild

Protecting every animal and child

Though we all like moles individually

We believe that as a group they’re quite misguided!

…….

Cast off the tunnels of yesterday!

Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!

Our kits and pups will all adore us!

And they’ll sing in grateful chorus

Well done, Mags Army in the Wild!

…….

From the stone wall to the Big Pink House

One hears the restless cry!

From every corner of the field,

Animals arise!

Take back the field and share once more

Every hill and glen

Unite, we know that Wicket

Must be defeated again!

…….

No more hiding in the shadows, no cowering we!

We’re fighting for our field militantly!

Never You Fear!

…….

Cast off the tunnels of yesterday!

Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!

Our kits and pups will all adore us!

And they’ll sing in grateful chorus

Well done, Mags Army in the Wild!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Artisans’ Studio

Maat-Tilda: I’m glad you’re here with us, Mo.

Monet Chagall from Away: I’m learning so much. And there are so many jewels I hardly know what to do with them all.

Sophititi: Why not make a mosaic depicting some facts you want to convey?

Mo: I could. Is there anyone who is good at making that kind of display?

Adobe Style: I know just the cat.

Enter Puckmosis

Tillie: Puck, this is Mo from afar.

Puck: Glad to meet you, Mo.

Mo: The pleasure is mine. Do you have a chart that is especially beautiful and informative.

Puck: Yes. I think I have just the thing. A chart depicting a legendary battle.

Mo: Great. But what makes it legendary?

Puck: The facts have been lost in futurity.

Let’s Get Ready To RUMMMMBBBBBLLLLLLLE!!!!!

And the violence and carnage begins.

While reading through the archives earlier this week, I realized that Thimblefist’s BEEF armor is actually a cat food can! I’d never noticed that before. Check out May 28, 2022 for a glimpse of it!

Makes me almost hope “the owl” DOES come then…

BoVCH alert in panel one! (Back of Various Creature Heads.)

Battle lines are formed.

Wonderful set up by Georgia but we know she’ll end with a gentle and peaceful solution. Remember the Christmas special with Puck vowing vengeance on the mice and that was the beginning of the great cat/mice friendship. We do have a few bloodthirsty commenters here who are going to be very disappointed.

OT The Woman’s father.

Owl just say if he shows up then he is …. well, like our professor say… you knows what.

One owl kebab comings up.

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Owl spotting in my yard last night! We have a barred owl couple I hear frequently, and presumably their children since I heard their mating song earlier this year (if you have never heard a barred owl mating song, it’s well worth looking up on YouTube – they sound like a coven of insane cackling witches), but I rarely spot them with my eyes. So, last night I stepped out to enjoy the beautiful night air and the company of raccoons. Was doing a few stretches and calisthenics when I glanced up, and directly over my head on a branch was the barred owl, barely out of arm’s reach! Almost completely invisible in the gray darkness. The moment I spotted him, he launched himself, in perfect eerie silence, and soared to the top of the oak tree nearest the house, where he proceeded to serenade the neighborhood with “WHOOO? WHOOO? WHOOO COOKS FOR YOUUU?” continually for the next half hour. The raccoons, large and small, shot across the yard and disappeared under the neighbor’s owl-proof deck. A barred owl would pose no threat to our 50+ lb monster male raccoon but he was taking no chances.

I imagine this was the owl expressing outrage at the dumb person who would not stop moving around and go inside like a sensible diurnal human!

Mice are back with a brand new intention

Hoping to grab a hold of evil owl tightly

Get back at Wicket fast and unpolitely

Will they ever stop?

Yo, no one knows

It becomes night and away they’ll go

To the extreme they rock a sword like a vandal

Light up with rage with an owl to dismantle

Advance

Go rush the Wicket that looms

He’s so through spreadin’ heartache and gloom

Deadly, when they chop him like celery

Anything less than their best won’t stop villiany

Love him or leave him

He better fly away

They better make clear

The owl can’t stay

And if he is a problem

Yo, they’ll solve it

Check out her sword while Natasha revolves it

Mice, mice, baby,

Mice, mice, baby (so bold)

Mice, mice, baby (they’re gold)

- Brian May / David Bowie / Floyd Brown / Freddie Mercury / John Richard Deacon / Mario Johnson / Robert Matthew Van Winkle / Roger Meddows Taylor – Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice

OT: TinyKittens & TinierKittens

OT: Swifties (apropos of Sunday’s strip)

The Robber Mice have come prepared. Wicket is gonna be sorry.

Okay so who is the guy that looks like a crow.

They are going to stick it to Wicket, so he will become a sticky Wicket, but only sticky, not sticky with power …

Clearly this is a huge operation!

I know I do not want to mess with those mice! and I love the “tiniest salute”!

The Robber Mice better hope Wicket is as old as the flashbacks suggest…

On the subject of British comedies, my favorites are So Haunt Me, Mulberry, As Time Goes By, Waiting for God, and Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister. All were shown on my local PBS station at one time or another. Not many people are familiar with the first two here, but I really enjoyed them.

OT: Sunday Funday a few days late