Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for December 31, 2024

If Aubee is lying will Gertie tan her hide ?

I hope Aubee isn’t wishing bad luck on Jones with a black cat, LOL.

The kitties’ gestation period didn’t take this long.

Let’s see what happens next year!

Will she name the tuxedo cat Sylvester?

Don’t squeeze the Charmin, I mean the cats.

Now get the cat fixed.

I love the art and the colors. of course, I also love cats.

I’ve accepted the adoption of Skeezix back in the ‘20s and Judy back in the ’30s as a product of their times but there is no way to feel comfortable about the adoption of “Jones” in 2024. The kid was found wandering around during a forest fire and no attempt was ever made to find his parents or at least a relative. There is no way in today’s world that such an event could ever occur without media attention because no responsible adult would take the kid without reaching out to the media since the goal should be to reunite the kid with his real parents. Then you have the bogeyman “authorities” allowing Hoggie to steal the kid just because the talking bear (holy cow, it hurts to type that) found him and delivered him to her. The authorities would have placed the kid in foster care while they tried to locate either the parents or a relative. If media exposure hit a blank wall, they would probably take a DNA test and reach out to Ancestry and other genealogy sites to locate relatives. And, if that somehow failed, they would put him up for adoption through an agency where the kid would likely be adopted by a couple that has been waiting for years to adopt rather than someone who simply found the kid. And maybe, just maybe, they would give the kid a real name rather than using the name on his t-shirt. Good thing it wasn’t a GAP one. The story telling has been so horrendously bad for so long but everything about Jones is offensive to a person’s intelligence.

The whole Jones saga is illustrative of how this strip has reached an absolute nadir. Jimbo assumes the average GA reader is a brain-dead septuagenarian and can foist this crap off on a dimwitted fanbase. But there are more than a few who hate this strip for what it has become (see Gasoline Alley Cats FB page). Hopefully in the New Year, TCA will step in and give him his much needed retirement.

There isn’t a parent alive that would be thrilled with a kid bringing home not one, but two, kittens. Time for Hoogie to pull a “Jones” and lose little Aubee in the forest.

They shifted the selection from the previous claiming strip, where Sophie had the orange tabby, and Aubee the gray tabby in addition to the black one.

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