Friday, February 11

There's Always a Bigger Cat

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Since Scratch is the size of a 8-year-old human child, Hungry Cat's size relative to Scratch's seems to indicate that this new cat is probably some kind of panther that has fallen victim to domestication's wiles. He's either eating mud or about to plaster the mud all over the back of Scratch's head; either way, our introduction to Hungry Cat immediately lets us know that A) Hungry Cat is huge, and B) Hungry Cat is not to be fucked with.

Honestly, I love Hungry Cat. What a great character design! He has a hint of Heathcliff striping to break up his broad expanses and help keep him from looking too featureless (The way Scratch usually does), a false brow (That's what I'm going to call it) that gives his face a very vague similarity to Felix the Cat's, and overall he just looks like a goddamn classic third-string cartoon character that you feel you're familiar with already but have never actually seen before. The kudos I give are serious and not the candy bar kind -- Hungry Cat is fantastic. For some reason I'm thinking of Shecky, now, and how much I abhor everything from his design to his character. I shouldn't have mentioned him. We're probably jinxed because of it, and will see three strips explaining how he also moved to Seattle.

This storyline is not all Hungry Cat's, though. It's also about Kevin (Kevin was the child Skull mentored and sort of killed. The resemblance is vague, I suppose) Scratch's reverse-Hobbes doll! My memory tells me I didn't like what PvP did with the doll's potential the last (And first) time around, but so far? This arc is very good.

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The interaction between Hungry Cat, Scratch, and the doll is a bit confusing. In the previous strip, Hungry Cat is apparently calling himself "Hungry Cat" through the doll -- but he's telling Scratch that he doesn't like that name, here? If that's not what's happening, then Scratch is continuing to put words in the doll's mouth and Hungry Cat is even now coming up with the prognosis that Scratch is afflicted by dissociative identity disorder.

I'd call attention to Hungry Cat's sudden Marilyn Monroe beauty mark, but the obvious answer is that its just one of the thousands of specks of food that randomly dot Hungry Cat's face every week.

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