Remember the fuss that was being made about Comet Ison earlier this year? It was going to be the comet of the century. Its tail was going to be so long it would wrap three times around the planet. It was going to cause the end of the world and a plague of frogs. It was going to outshine the moon and be visible during daylight. It was possibly going to very bright. It was going to look not quite so bright but pretty bright nevertheless. It was going to look like a dim hairy star. It was going to look like a big smudge. It was going to be visible to the naked eye. At the time of writing (15 November) it might possibly be visible if you have very strong binoculars, a tripod, and a place to view it from which is at least 100 miles away from the nearest light source.

Nevertheless, lets pretend all that never happened. This strip was inspired by Smudge and Cholmondeley’s reaction to fireworks whenever they saw them through the front room windows. They loved them and tried to paw at them before they fizzled out. This was based on me imagining what their reaction would be to a comet which just hung there in the sky, the way that comets do. Well, the ones that can be bothered to put on a proper show anyway.