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1. about 1 month ago on Gasoline Alley

   I’ve never seen a cat give birth, and I don’t intend for that to change, but going off my knowledge of how the process usually goes for mammals I can’t imagine anything looking that content when it apparently gave birth less than a minute ago.

2. about 1 month ago on Gasoline Alley

   Not sure if I’m more disturbed by the discussion of the birth of Rufus, or by the revelation that at some point one of the Wallets bought a whole CASE of Scancarelli. Not the spot I’d choose to have kittens in!

3. about 2 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   Well, at least it didn’t take until october as I had feared. 3 Kittens is an odd number to settle on, though… we used to have a pretty serious problem with strays sneaking into our shed to have kittens, and going by the photographs, there was never fewer than five in a litter.

4. about 2 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   Jim seems to be doing a lot of padding these days… Remember when the “name change” arc started with a week of people talking about how they couldn’t believe it was happening, without ever once saying what the thing that was happening was? I have this awful feeling it’s going to be october before they finally just reveal that the cat went off to have kittens in the basement.

5. about 2 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   Don’t give these “kids” a thing, Gertie. The throwaway panel makes it obvious that it’s just Mark Hamill and his friends posing as children to con you!

6. 2 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   Ever since she showed up there’s always been something “off” to me about the way the cat’s been drawn, and I think I finally put my finger on it… Jim draws her as though she has a human’s bottom lip, which is a lot fleshier and more capable of movement than what a cat should have. I assume this is to make her look more expressive, but to me it makes her come off looking more like a character from the musical Cats than an actual cat. What’s weirder is that, looking back a few strips, he doesn’t do this for Chef Meowrice, who looks fine in comparison.

7. 2 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   I thought the stakes couldn’t get lower than “small town changes it’s name”, but then we had “tree falls over, causing no damage while enabling light insurance fraud”. I wouldn’t have believed you could get less interesting than that, but after a week of “the cat isn’t eating exactly when expected to”, I’m starting to wonder if there even is such a thing as the lowest-possible stakes, and Jim will just keep finding something even less urgent every week until we’re in the middle of a two-week arc where Walt tries to guess the way a quantum particle will decay.

8. 3 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   I don’t know how much actual truth there is to this, but I’ve seen it stated a few times that, while a lot of domesticated animals are able to understand humans and other animals as being part of their social unit despite not being of the same species, Cats basically see the entire world in terms of either “friend cat”, “enemy cat”, or “prey”, and so they assume that the humans they associate with are just very stupid cats, and leaving “gifts” like dead mice are their attempts at teaching us how to hunt properly.

9. 4 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   There’s a cat I follow on insta named Winky… he’s got some sort of disorder that stunted his growth, so he’s still the size of a small kitten even though he’s a few years old. What makes him look a little odd is that his eyes didn’t stop growing, so he’s got adult-sized eyes in a kitten-sized head. Winky still manages to look cute with his too-big eyes… can’t really say the same for Walt’s little orange terror here.

10. 4 months ago on Gasoline Alley

    Occasionally when reading these strips I like to imagine an alternate universe where there are still enough people buying newspapers for there to be kids reading the funnies page. Then I wonder what those kids would get out of the last few strips, in which most of the ‘joke’ is based on the assumption you’ll recognize a guy who likely died before our hypothetical child’s parents were born. I even polled my own mom and dad, and if they’re any indication, even our hypothetical child’s grandparents only recognize him as the basis for a bit character in The Simpsons. I guess things being completely baffling is the whole reason I keep coming back to GA, but even by my usual standards for the strip, Mr. Nelson’s recurring role is puzzling.