I like being able to put sentences like that into a cartoon strip about cats. It makes me strangely content.
Tag / Purrman Tank
Ptui
The sound effect ‘Ptui’ is taken from Peanuts. Not too sure where ‘Glom’ came from, though.
This is one of those four panel narratives where everything is a direct consequence of the previous panel and the action just flows in a satisfying way. And it has my usual wet liberal message about the futility of aggression.
Camouflage
I intended this just to be about Sandy seeing something that looks like a stick and chasing after it. But some people saw something more in it – Sandy seeing the twig as a tree, turning this into a pee joke in an unseen fifth panel. It’s actually a better punchline so I’ll let that interpretation go by uncontested. And we can add it to the long list of strange correlations between this strip and Donald Trump’s presidency.
Mauser
I mourn the loss of comments on GoComics. There were many good comments about this one, including one about the gun that provided the headline for this post. And now they’ve all evaporated in GoComics redesign. Lets hope that when we return to the main site (assuming civilisation lasts that long) they get reinstated.
Pun run
I thought this was a throwaway joke, but it grew into something much more. To my surprise it proved to be very popular, and then the invention of the tank provided enough jokes to keep me going up to the big Christmas storyline.