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1. 8 days 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.

2. 12 days 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.

3. about 1 month 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.

4. 2 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.

5. 2 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.

6. 3 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   I was thinking the cat looked a little weird… I guess Walt agrees. In most of the panels we’ve seen it in so far, it always looks less like a cat and more like a human’s face done up like somebody from the musical Cats, if that makes any sense.

7. 3 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   Hopefully the Cat’s Head in question isn’t the giant one that just materialized between them. No way Walt’s finishing that biscuit.

8. 4 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   I don’t really do much writing with it, but I’ve got a fountain pen I use for painting models. Mainly just dotting in the pupils on eyes, which is a real pain to try to do with a brush.

9. 4 months ago on Gil Thorp

   I think P3 is supposed to be us looking up at the bus from the front driver’s side corner. Things are confused because the view of the sky above the lights has inexplicably turned yellow>

10. 4 months ago on Gasoline Alley

    Unfortunately I’ve recently had to look into getting one for my parents, and those things can be pretty expensive. Maybe Walt could finance it by becoming one of those ‘longevity’ influencers I keep seeing ads from… I think I’d sooner take advice from the oldest man in history than from a bunch of guys in their late 30s who swear they’ve definitely found a way to guarantee they’ll reach 100. Particularly if Walt’s advice includes eating two grilled cheese sandwiches for every meal.