Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for December 30, 2024

Looks like that gray tabby is ready to leave Mama. And the white one looks interested.

Mee-Meow looks to be delirious with joy with the thought of unloading these milk-slurping kittens off on anyone else. The only better Christmas present might have been a trade to become Garfield’s understudy.

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It’s a classic comics hybrid catch-up, as we pull up with the updates for both the 29th and 30th:

You’ll never believe who starts a fight with Skeezix.

Hipshot gets settled in on finding who is trying to run the Powers’ ranch out of business, so Stan Lynde takes on a roundup of what’s happening back in Conniption. Horse’s Neck should have deferred to the second half of the photoshoot so he could have chosen the wind.

The only people who get to the church on time are the witnesses. No Brenda, no Lance… not even a sign of the preacher! Of course the action seems to be back at our Starr’s apartment.

Dr. Little is already working on his next “the Sky is Falling” con when he stops by to see his old ‘friends’ at the garage. He still hasn’t worked out a reasonable business model, unless he lives off the land, and eats natural foods like Grape Nuts-pitchman Euell Gibbons did back in the 70s. Did you ever eat a pine tree?

New Year’s Day football bowl games were a real big deal back in 1973, the days of three to six TV channels. So it’s understandable if the men of the house want to see the games.

Mee-Meow is so happy at the prospect of unloading these “suckers” she is shedding a tear of joy.

As long as they are old enough, she would not mind!

One does not adopt a cat, a cat adopts you.

She’ll have one left—-and it’s always the Black Cat who gets the shaft

Good lord these are some badly-drawn children, not that the cat looks any better.

They had sorted out the arrangement a couple months ago:

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We’ll see if that holds.

She’s eating her babies, and it cracks her up.