Today’s strip was gonna be a standalone that would be a foothold into a later story, but I figgered, eh, what the hell, let’s expand it into a mini-storyline now. So comics are daily this week, until this is done. Whenever that is!
(The Singularikitty is the freak offspring of Choo-Choo Bear of Something*Positive and Sprinkles of Girls With Slingshots.)
Oh god, those teeth.
It’s like that giant desert mouth thing from The Return of the Jedi.
You mean the Sarlac? It is called the Sarlac, right?
According to Google, it’s the Sarlacc with two Cs.
I thinl it is closly related to the giant sand worms of DUNE.
A really lethargic sandworm.
Actually, Sarlaccs are more plantlike than wormlike.
***The more you nerd***
I thought it was like the robot submarine shark from Games and the Giant Peach.
That was my first thought too.
Those things bother terrified me and bothered me greatly. JatGP was a surreal book, but not in a way that made robotic sharks a good fit. But their spinny maws were also scary.
Oh gods they’re crossing Game of Thrones over with James and the Giant Peach now??
I’m not gonna lie, that sounds amazing.
Why can’t Hollywood have ideas like that?
I bet he’s still digesting Ethan’s first toys.
WELP SO MUCH FOR SLEEPING TONIGHT.
That friggin thing is going to devour me in my flat. Or my dreams. Or both at the same time.
…it’s not safe.
I’ve seen scarier stuff in my nightmares.
Yeah, but this is both scary AND adorable. That makes it somehow worse.
Rabid bear? Bad.
Rabid Care Bear? Worse.
Robot that wants to kill you? Bad.
Robot that wants to kill you while looking like an Apple product and speaking in a childlike voice (Portal)? Worse.
Someone having a psychotic episode, hearing voices, and believing their friends have turned against them? Bad.
Someone having a psychotic episode, hearing voices, and believing their friends have turned against them and it’s a pink pony on a children’s cartoon? Worse.
Someone causes a city wide riot just to finish his or her assignment while slowly losing his or her sanity? Also worse.
Someone eating to much sugar, stripping down nude and going on a gollum-esque quest for sugar? It’s perty bad.
So, if Robin and Walky were combined
More teeth than the Osmonds.
Never tangle with anything with that.
More teeth than brain cells?
Reminds me of my sister
It reminds me of a lamprey… not only does it have a mouth like that, if I’m not mistaken it also has no esophageal muscles, and thus has to ties its little eel-like body into knots in order to swallow. You know, the bits of corpse it eats.
The ocean: satisfying your desire for Lovecraftian horror, like it or not, for millions of years. And counting.
101 Uses for a mutant cat.
use # 56
silly putty. Press it up against newspapers and see the news of the day.
I remember that trick.
uses #55
A vacuum cleaner.
use # 26
pillow
use #49
Replacement GAK for leslie
#1. Evidence disposal unit
I will see singularikitty’s mouth in my nightmares forever now, thank you
Read more of Milholland’s stuff and you’ll never be bothered by anything Willis prepares again
Aww, I was starting to miss that little black hole =D
There has got to be an easier-to-pronounce nickname for her.
How about Skitty?
What’s next, a pet whale named Wailord?
that’d be as dumb as naming your duck psiduck or your butterfly butterfree.
Indeed it would be — his name is PSYDUCK. Lol.
Don’t be silly, that’s Amber’s nickname!
Because she’s really big but not that heavy.
So, are we expecting any Hot Wailord on Skitty Action anytime soon?
Yes, Amber will place Skitty on her head.
Completely tangential (though possibly of import, should Mr. Willis ever decide to re-name the cat officially), but there is a short story out there somewhere, in a surprisingly good anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories involving cats, where there is a telepathic cat whose name eventually gets shortened to “Skitty”. I think that may even be the short story’s title.
If you ever want to check it out, I actually quite recommend it, as it has some really great and often really funny stories in it (my favorite is “It Must Be Someplace”); it’s called Cat Fantastic. It came out yeeeeears ago, so I don’t even know if it’s still in print, but I still hang on to my copy.
For some reason, when I see the name “Skitty,” I think of the moon cat from the Doctor Dolittle books I read as a kid.
This may be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out there, but how bout singy?
Hard G or soft?
hard
Sink. As in “eats everything but the kitchen.”
After seeing that mouth, I want to call it “Estaog”.
And to think I thought putting Singularikitty in that one strip in Jacob’s place was just an Easter Egg. Very clever.
I have stared into the void…and the void mewled back.
And then you spend the afternoon together.
That was Amber’s Bowser toy, wasn’t it.
ALL SHALL BUUUUUUUURN!!!
Will it be with a flamethrower or napalm?
With a napalm thrower…with attached grenade launcher.
That’s like something out of Dead Rising or something.
It launches grenades covered with napalm.
Hail Dab!
Looks like not, based on the comic that Bowser actually appeared in.
Funny thing is, I hadn’t got the impression that Ethan was a mint-in-box style collector. So what was in that packaging?
I was wondering what happened to Singularikitty. Glad to know he’s being made useful by helping manage Jacob’s hoarding issues.
Jacob didn’t have hoarding issues. He had never cleaning up the pizza boxes issues and fast food dinner mess issues.
Inability to discard items (which can include stuff like garbage) is considered a symptom of hoarding (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hoarding/DS00966/DSECTION=symptoms).
That’s cute, but it’s more likely to just be a case of “not cleaning up”. Slobs aren’t all hoarders.
And Symptoms don’t work that way.
Symptoms are not simplistic one to one indicators that allow automatic diagnosis as soon as you spot one. A sore throat is one symptom of a strep infection but not all sore throats are strep infections. Fatigue is a symptom of anemia. Yet people can feel fatigue without being anemic.
Also “inability” is not the same thing as “tendency not to”.
Yikes, the interior of that thing is horrifying. <<==== Just throwing this comment on to the pile with the other ones.
That horrible horrible moment when you’ve read through all the archives and you get to todays comic and the “Next” button is dimmed…..*heartbreak*
Careful Roz, make sure not to point that thing the wrong way…