Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for June 03, 2020

Start talking, Kit! Spill the beans!

c’mon Kit, we’ve been dying to know why you disappeared! if you’d climb a whole book for her, what the cat happened?

BoKCCH (Back of Kit Chase cat head)!

Brotherly love doesn’t always come across as Brotherly like.

What came between these two star struck lovers!? My bet is some devious plot of Snowball’s!

What?? But I ship that pair!

Oh, no, no, it’s tragic, you know

Never believe it’s not so

“Chaggart” is magic, you know

Never believe it’s not so

Hope this news is fake

Never felt such heartbreak

Leaning on my pillow in the morning

Lazy day in bed

Thinking hurts my head

Sad, sad music playing in the morning light

Oh, no, no, it’s tragic, you know

Never believe it’s not so

“Kitgora” is magic, you know

Never believe it’s not so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58RDtNElSgw

Magic – Pilot

songwriters: Billy Lyall and David Paton

Selena Gomez cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Q_fO7fhJI

By the looks of the doves and silk scarves, the magic is working though.

Love the doves and the multicolored fabric reflecting magic by Bandit in panel two.

For reasons totally unconnected with anything in the strip (which I don’t know about because I am ignoring it) I was thinking about feline deities. Terry Pratchett said that being a god was too much like work for a cat, but I have a tiny little collection of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune,

https://onmarkproductions.com/html/seven.shtml

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.1JOESHB83IQZPDktr5dxdwHaHa%26pid%3DApi&f=1

A recently elevated goddess is Tama.

https://www.channel24.co.za/Viral/Meet-Tama-the-stationmaster-cat-who-became-a-goddess-in-Japan-20150701

Her story here:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2403739/Meet-Tama-cat-Japanese-station-master-helped-save-railway-bankruptcy.html

I think you can safely look at this one.

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But don’t try to find out about Bakeneko. And don’t look at this:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.JT21LrqZvkT4OgD2KXNhLwAAAA%26pid%3DApi&f=1

Pray to Fat Elvis, Kit. He shall guide you!

And it looks as though Paisley was right in her interpretation of the reversed card. Will this give That Guy Brad a chance? Only those outside the Grumbling Room will find out.

Say not you swore by the moon, Kit! “The inconstant moon that monthly changes in her circled orb.”

Have you seen this Associated Press article by Mark Kennedy?

“Cartoonists to thank frontline workers playfully this Sunday”

https://apnews.com/5bb7626afe82a4a37e9f60a516ffca69

Oooh, and an angry swat from Bandit along with Angry Eyebrows.

Is that banner/scarf celebrating gay pride month? That would be a nice touch.

I don’t understand a word of this play.

No, no Kit – you’re not getting out of this discussion that easily. This is a soap opera so you and Bandit have to talk for at least 4 days about how you’re turning your back on Angora.

♪DRAMATIC MUSIC♫

Yeah, Kit, justify to yourself why you left Angora to the mercenary attentions of Brad the Cad.

Yum Yum is currently amusing herself by driving a squirrel she treed into a nervous breakdown. I expect her to come sauntering in shortly, demanding treats.

Poor dear Kit is looking so sad in the last panel… I may have to open a fresh box of tissues; inferior screen, you know.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Queen Catshepsut the Golden: On our way. Is everyone ready?

Puckmosis: Everything is packed and everyone is here.

The Queen: Good. On the way to Afar for some choicest trash talk.

Sometime Later

Ta-Natash: Your Majesty, there are three desert rats ahead.

The Queen: Rats, state your business. We have dealt with desert rats before.

Head Rats: Oh those guys. A bunch of juvenile delinquents. No, we need your help. We found this tiny rabbit wandered off from Afar.

The Queen: That’s where we’re headed. Yes, we’ll take care of the little one.

The Queen: What is your name, little one?

Baby Rabbit: I are bunny.

Usually the father is upset when the son turns their back on a serious profession to become a magician or dancer. Hilarious that Bandit is doing it backwards!

Soap operas are organic.

Now we need an old trashy girlfriend of Kit’s to show up and complicate matters further. It’s the Soap Opera way!

I suspect that Kit is continuing to feel inferior to Brad because he is looking at the wrong things. See this strip, https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/08/10

Be careful waving that wand around, Kit. That’s powerful magic.

Don Don Don

Bastet was the Egyptian cat goddess, the original holy Cat so far as my limited knowledge of history goes.

Well that comment was supposed to be a reply to Robin’s post about feline deities. Guess I hit the wrong box. I’m a little fuzzy-brained, sitting in the vet’s parking lot while Zeus gets a look-at by the V-E-T for an ear infection in a curbside appointment.

Didn’t last time we say our IX lives Bandet was already in the force?

He will, however, allude to it in a dark and moody manner for many, many episodes.

By the way, anyone thinking this soap opera is unlikely in its themes should look up “Dark Shadows”, a 60s soap opera with a vampire as one of its leading characters. It ran for YEARS. Georgia Dunn is a true, loving parodist of the genre.

You must express your feelings, Kit.

Kit needs to remember the important things.

Well now I’m confused, what happened to Kit and Angorra?

Today is Repeat Day … Repeat Day … Repeat Day … Repeat Day … (Something seems to be stuck …) Repeat Day …Repeat Day …Repeat Day … (WHAM! WHAM! whamwhamwhamwhamwham) [PerCUSSive maintenance] … Repeat Day.

This has been a message from The Department of Repetitive Redundancy Department.

This has been a message from The Department of Repetitive Redundancy Department.

This has been a message from The Department of Repetitive Redundancy Department.

KAWHAM!!!! … tinkle … sproing … (I found a bigger hammer.)

Thinking about getting a second (or third) copy of “Take It Away Tommy”? The paperback is 40% off now at Amazon. $7.23

It’s hard to believe that two cats are completely ignoring the birds flying right over their heads. This discussion is intense.

The trouble with someone posting links to other days is that I always have to go look at it. Then of course I have no choice but to read ahead or back for several days before I remember that I am supposed to just look at one strip. It takes me so long to get through the comments on this comic. Oh well, what can you do?

OT: Spud is two weeks old…

OT: I glimpsed Bandit’s vision today on Snow Sez https://www.gocomics.com/snow-sez/2020/06/03?ct=v&cti=2084216

A bit belated, I guess, but I’m actually pretty glad that this references the idea of falling out of love (or at least, Paisley did and this potentially follows after). A lot of people seem to believe that once you fall in love, you’re guaranteed to stay in it forever… but truthfully, reality doesn’t work that way. =(

Well, this sound effect might work for panel 3 …

http://www.dramabutton.com/