Shooks Run (Week 21)

Shooks Run (Week 3)

I love that everyone's stopped reading!

Shooks Run (Week 2)

Crazy?  At an asylum?  Nooooo.

Shooks Run (Week 1) & A-to-Z Reflections

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Shooks Run will be posted weekly for the remainder of the year and complete the story some of you may have been following in Eponymous Monk earlier this year, which kind of continued in April's Interrupting Cat feature for the A-to-Z Challenge.  Together, they finally complete a story I started writing back in high school, which has been given the title Zooropa (which is also the name of a U2 album).  I never knew how the story ended.  I stopped writing the story in high school, and stopped again when I tried to completely rewrite it in 2005.  So I'm glad that I've finally reached that point, and you hopefully might be as well by December (if you want to suffer that long!)...

(I can't pretend I made up Shooks' scale predicament.  Of course, Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll played around with that sort of thing, but it was Grant Morrison's modern classic Joe the Barbarian that served as my chief source of inspiration in that regard.  There's also the matter of dismissing Shooks as crazy.  Which is I'm sure how he ended up in the institution in the first place.)

Interrupting Cat - The Letter Z

Z...Z...you've had enough!

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter Y

Cats are normally so polite, too...!

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter X

In completely unrelated news, cats hate getting wet.

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter W

Don't believe them! Don't trust them!

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter V

Unos, dos, tres...catorce!

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter U

Long story short: "Udder" is a funny word.

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter T

Boo is definitely holistic.

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter S

She may have her science a little messed up...

S is also for Survivor.

...but not for any reasons

that can be discussed here...

Suffice to say,

but that's this cat's

favorite show.

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter R

Last time Boo sleeps, y'all.

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter Q

(Don't tell The Cat, but The Dog can hear them, too!)

Bonus!  Different art!  Longstanding characters named!

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter P

Cats hate dogs.  Especially The Cat and The Dog.

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter O

Yesh!  What does she do, sleep all day?

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter N

The Cat's version of The Goat's [munchmunchmunch]!

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter M

For the record, I love monkeys!

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter L

See?  Back to normal!

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Interrupting Cat - The Letter K

Let me explain this one for those of you in the viewing audience who are not pathetic geeks like me.  Before I do so, however, I'd also like to note that if I were better at this quasi-cartooning, this whole month will have involved terrible puns.  Twenty-six terrible puns.

Anyway, Kandor is a city from the fictional world of Krypton, better known as Superman's birth planet.  Kandor is best known, however, as the so-called Bottled City.  It became such thanks to the supervillain Brainiac (who is much, much more awesome than his name implies, especially when depicted by Geoff Johns, whose version would make for an excellent addition to the Man of Steel's latest cinematic adventures).  Brainiac's visit to Krypton was one of the last things to happen to the planet before its destruction.  He visits worlds a little like Marvel's Galactus, but instead of eating them he collects representative samplings, which amount to cities, naturally, which he shrinks and bottles (some of this becomes self-explanatory, even if it sounds...somewhat implausible if you're not familiar with comic book logic).

So, for geeks this one hopefully is slightly funnier than usual.  For everyone else, Boo will be getting back to her usual cat logic tomorrow!

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