0092b — Forbidden scraps from the alpha cat vapor trail
Added 2024-10-18 19:00:09 +0000 UTCSo I told you the story, in the caption to this strip's primary release, of the strange boy from the woods, who tried to pull a really b-grade Deliverance on me one day. The rest of the story of this strip is that I suddenly wrote it Saturday night at the Nation of Language show, maybe a week after remembering that incident. Lauren had surprised me with tickets, and I love Nation of Language, so it was a great night. But when duty called — in this case, a strip started writing itself out of thin air while I was trying to enjoy some pretty excellent synth-wave stuff — I had to trot my phone out, invert the screen to black, and hunch over in my balcony seat so that my "screen time" was not a downer to the other exuberant attendees of the show. I don't know why I care so much about this kind of thing, but it does feel rude to write on your phone during a show. I justified it by telling myself inspiration for the strip comes before all else.
It was soon enough apparent to me that this kind of story makes sense for a pre-alpha like Ray, who, in his budding adolescence, would have certainly felt the instinct to dominate what he saw as his species' alpha/omega-male. Did you notice this aspect of the strip?
Comments
One man’s trash is another man’s interesting trash
Chris Onstad
2024-10-19 03:44:04 +0000 UTCwe subscribe to your Patreon for A Reason.
Jordan Buck
2024-10-19 02:14:15 +0000 UTCThis makes me want to do a speed chess-style arrangement of next week's discards and see if they fall into some kind of order. What if the main comic...is actually just the warm-up ...........
Chris Onstad
2024-10-18 22:36:24 +0000 UTCI read it in the standard L-R, top-bottom order, and you know, it's actually more coherent than most other comics I've read lately. I'm not tooting my own horn, but I absolutely am shitting on other cartoonists for creating output that's uglier than my garbage pail.
Chris Onstad
2024-10-18 22:33:57 +0000 UTCRay would think it was hilarious if he became a bisexual icon, but would also probably be too lazy to dispel anyone's notions about this, even though he has no urges to rock a dude's can or love him *en romance.*
Chris Onstad
2024-10-18 22:31:36 +0000 UTCFellas, is it gay for one male cat to bone a doll of another canonically male cat? It is just a doll after all. Or is Ray a bisexual icon?
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-10-18 19:55:55 +0000 UTCthis is a pretty good strip in its own right.
Jordan Buck
2024-10-18 19:33:08 +0000 UTCThe melodrama and horror developing over the different Garfield-faces weave a story all on their own.
Distant Egg Song
2024-10-18 19:29:03 +0000 UTC
