Catty Remarks
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| Catty Remarks | |
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| Chapter | "12.1" of 127 (list of chapters) |
| Published | June 20, 2006 |
| Page count | 2 |
| Major characters | Mike, Lucy, Yashy, Paulo, David |
| Minor characters | Lily, Chirpy, Blur |
| Locations | Lucy's house |
| Collected in | Volume One, Omnibus 1 |
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Mike just wants a quick nap after a sleepless night. What he gets is a stowaway in Lucy's bag, two soaking-wet friends at the door, and a household determined to speak entirely in cat and dog idioms.
Synopsis
Mike, exhausted after a sleepless night, settles down for a nap, only for Lucy to shout him awake with "WAKE UP!! No time for a catnap!!"[1] Her bag starts moving, and Yashy bursts out of it in a shower of candy.[1]
Mike catches himself blushing at Lucy and shyly deflects when she notices him staring. David bursts through the door, soaking wet and wailing that it's raining cats and dogs.[1] Paulo trails in just as soaked, and his flirting gets shut down flat.[2]
Lucy puts two and two together and smacks Mike and Paulo with a shout of "Quit the catty remarks!"[2] The idioms only pile up from there, until Paulo pushes one taunt too far and takes a fist from Mike.[2] Chirpy gets the last word, telling the reader the whole situation is bird-brained.[2]
Trivia & observations
- Practically every line of dialogue is a cat or dog idiom, well over two dozen of them across just two pages. A few even happen literally on-panel: Yashy really is the cat out of the bag, and it really is raining cats and dogs outside.[1]
- Lucy delivers the chapter's title herself, mid-smack.[2]
- Oliver's commentary introduces the decimal-numbered chapters as "cute little mostly-comedic stories" between the main ones, and warns readers not to skip them, since "you'll miss out on puns like these!" This is the first such intermission in the series, and the whole thing was posted in a single day.[1]
- Veronica's commentary recalls that readers thought Paulo looked "different" when the chapter first ran. The culprit was the rain: his whiskers hang down under the weight of the water droplets. She credits the reaction with pushing her to make his whiskers stick out more afterward, and notes the pages have since been redrawn.[2]
- Chirpy's closer is the only idiom in the chapter that isn't about cats or dogs. It's also far from her first line, as she's been chattering since Simple Pleasures.[2][3]
Related chapters
- Off to the Movies: The chapter immediately before this one ends with Mike brushing Lucy's cheek and Lucy panicking and slamming her door in his face.[4] That might well be why Mike couldn't sleep all night, though the comic never actually says so.
- Gaming Rivalry: An earlier round of pet-filled comedy at Lucy's house, and the chapter where Yashy first calls Lucy "Mommy".[5] She keeps the habit up here with "You don't gotta have kittens, Mom."[2]
- Blurry Memories: The chapter where Blur, the bird behind this chapter's "cat on a hot tin roof" line,[2] finally gets a name.[6] Yashy is the one who names him, and the name is not a compliment.
- Puppy Love: The next chapter keeps the animal puns going in its title, but that's the only thing it carries over. Its story is its own, with Mike suddenly buried in love letters.