Another Friday 13th cartoon – this year is full of them. And there’s going to be another one in November.
Tag / Jones
Polka dots
Cath Kidston is one of those girly things that this bloke just doesn’t understand. Our Cath has a range of boutiques in chi-chi locations selling inexpensive tat for vastly inflated prices, just because they have a polka dot pattern or a chintzy facsimile of a 1950s fabric print printed on them. It’s the same trick that Hollister pulls on clothes that would normally be found in Walmart, only this seems to be aimed at a generation of young people who want to pretend they’re living in a Ladybird Book.
The spider and the ‘fraidy cat
Fight or flight
Billy and Bella will spend an entire day prowling around something on a wall, mewing at it to some down and trying to work out if they can pounce up at it. The thing in question invariably turns out to be a picture hook.
Living on the ceiling
This kind of practical joke is so much easier if you have claws.
This will be the last cat tree strip for a bit – it’s finally starting to get a bit warmer so the cats can go outside and play in real trees again.
Doing a Jeffy
I always liked those Family Circus cartoons where Jeffy would go out for a wander and you could follow the dotted line to see what his doings were. This is the cat equivalent – it’s a bit more acrobatic that Jeffy could ever manage, but what the hey? I’ve seen Bella chase her own tail up and down the cat tree much like this – it’s like a competition to find the longest distance between two points.
The curse of ears
…and repeat
Just a record of standard cat behaviour. Bella’s favourite game, once she’s tired of chasing her mouse up and down every level of the cat tree, is to place her mouse directly behind one of the posts and then try to catch it by pouncing at the post with her front legs splayed either side of it. If she doesn’t make it difficult for herself it’s not worth doing.
Bnerk?
Friday the 13th Part One
Every Friday the 13th I go a bit meta, and engineer a comic that goes wrong in some way. In the past the strips have been posted upside down, reversed, had the cast replaced with dogs, gone all blurry and so on. The script is essentially the same every time, with Jones pointing out that it’s Friday 13th in the first panel, supplying some exposition in the second panel, and Smith saying “Well nothing has gone wrong yet” in the third panel, as everything goes wrong around him. In this case, something’s gone wrong with the soundtrack settings, and we’ve switched to Hindi in the last panel. Hopefully Google Translate hasn’t made too much of a hash of the translation