Tomcat Comix!

The life and times of a neurotic cat and her best friends, as she and they just try to cope with the world around them.

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That moment when you need in-universe reason to excuse why trying to maintain a daily serialized story the month before you go into a 20-month Bachelor degree program might be a. bad idea.

Almost done with that Bachelor's degree program, by the by.

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Bunny Boss: Wager however you'd wish, Miss. Just hope that salvation is willing to pick up your tab…

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???: It's an eternity in here. In this moment. Isn't it?

???: What do you suppose would be luckier in this situation? One in six chances, after all…

Tomcat: I don't know who or what you are, but I would like to live.

???: For what?

???: For the sake of the inane doldrums of an average life?

???: For the sake of your friends? For the sake of you? For the sake of an average life that just so happens to be yours? The years rolled on with you, and they rolled on without you. You would not be missed.

Tomcat: There's something you're not telling me.

???: Have you truly never wanted for more than this?

Tomcat: …More than what?

Tomcat: More than friends who love you? More than a cat who wants to curl up in your lap? More than a life that's supposed to be so infinitesimal in the face of eternity?

As opposed to what?

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Winner takes all, ready or not, let’s begin...

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Tomcat: Well, I suppose it was always going to all come down to this.

Tomcat: You and I both know that there was an unearned aspect to the rewards I have been granted. I know myself, 

Tomcat: And I know I’m just as incompetent as I am sincerely lucky in just about everything I do. It’s in my nature.

Tomcat: So, how about we all let this come down to a little wager? 2 bullets in the barrel…

Tomcat: For the 2 lives of your employees.

March Hare: huh

Tomcat: Care to wager?

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Bunny Boss: I have said. No words.

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Tomcat: Point of No Return, Week 3! 

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out of the frying pan and into the frier, ain't that just the way.

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Teddy: Well, 

Teddy: You guys should probably get going before the boss remembers that he can move his neck.

Tomcat: You know, you guys could always...

Tomcat: Come with us?

Tomcat: I mean, not for nothing, but if you two could leave without incident, why not?

Princess: You’ve had around 4 customers all day.

Tomcat: And she’s just assuming that seeing the exterior of this place in any context is a revelation that hell can be fully realized on Earth

March Hare: Oh, snitch about it, why don’t you?

Tomcat: I’m just saying, if you two could leave without incident, wouldn’t you?

March Hare: Say “without incident” one more time, why don’t you.

Tomcat: Without inci – oh.

March Hare: That was also still sarcastic and snide.

March Hare: Because I ha - 

Tomcat: Yeah, give it a rest, Georgie.

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Personally, I get all my life philosophy from The Buggles. Have no idea what she’s talking about.

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Tomcat: What do you think this place is? Might as well ask around.

March Hare: Hopefully not the afterlife.

March Hare: Because that would mean in whatever realm of eternal torment I’m trapped in, I’m still going to be stuck at my current dead-end job.

Tomcat: Why do you automatically assume it has to be a realm of eternal torment for you to end up there?

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Tomcat: Okay, fair point.

Tomcat: But, I’d say I’m fairly optimistic about all this as far as it goes. Maybe Belinda Carlisle was right and Heaven is a place on Earth.

March Hare: Wow, you got any more gospel teachings from the lead singer of The Go-Gos?

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Tomcat: You got the beat, but in this specific unmusical context, I don’t know - 

March Hare: I was being sarcastic and snide.

March Hare: Because I don’t like you. 

Tomcat: Okay.

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Hell is other points of analysis that disrupts the narrative you’ve built for yourself.

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Teddy: Is this Heaven? Or…Hell?

Tomcat: Unclear.

Tomcat:  feel like if it was either or in specific it wouldn’t be so easily characterized by its blankness and absence. By its lack, you know?

Tomcat: Who’s even to say what this is, this dimension out of time, when you can only define it by the limiters?

Tomcat: The limiters that you conceive of in a realm that just so happens to bend and break to the confines that you place it in versus the elasticity of one that doesn’t?

March Hare: I’m agnostic.

Tomcat: And Hefner’s friend back there is agnostic, so…

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I can break the laws of the reality we hold so dear so long as it’s funny and sexy.

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Princess: Tommy, 

Princess: What IS this place?

Tomcat: Oh, well, you know how sometimes when you stare out into the agonizing middle distance,

Tomcat: You can kinda sorta feel the corners of your vision melting together into a blur and you become slowly more and more aware of how boxy and limiting the world you live within is,

Tomcat: When you’re faced with the possibility of a blank void on either side of you?

Princess: NO??

Tomcat: Oh, in that case, It might just be a weird medical problem. I’m going to keep that to myself until the problem becomes as blatantly obvious as it is malignant and potentially fatal. Maybe even interesting.

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Tomcat: Pay me no mind.

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HUUUUUUUH??

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Tomcat: Uh, yeah…I think I might have an idea.

Tomcat: Oh man, IF ONLY THERE WAS A GOOD GUY WITH A GUN TO MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER!

Tomcat: ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE INDIVIDUAL VERSUS WIDESPREAD SOCIETAL CHANGE IS TRULY THE NET GOOD EVERYONE THINKS IT IS

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March Hare: HUUH???

Tomcat: I will take literally any opportunity to spite my father.

Tomcat: Alright, let’s bounce.

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Ratatatatatatatat~

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Teddy: Hey Princess, is this wacky enough for you now?

Princess: Oddly enough, no.

Princess: There’s a level of grim realism to all of this that makes it difficult to attribute as fun or silly, but on the other hand, we are being shot at by a - 

Jack Rabbit: OKAY, does anyone have any ideas on how we’re going to get out of this one?

Tomcat: Ughhhh….

Princess: Tommy!!

Princess: Alright, so I know this is kind of a lot to put on a recent victim of head trauma, but…

Princess: Any ideas on how to get out of here? 

Jack Rabbit: Preferably outside of a Chicago overcoat?

Jack Rabbit: What? Why don’t I get to make requests? He’s not shooting discriminately!

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Sorry about the extended hiatus! On one hand, I’ve gotten the carpal tunnel pretty much under control! On the other hand, I have fractured a bone in my foot. So. So.

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Princess: So, if what you guys are saying is correct….

Princess: The casino doesn’t have enough money to pay out Tommy’s official winnings, so, making sure that there’s nobody around to payout became the ultimate goal in this situation.

Princess: Geez, I’m kind of disappointed that this situation isn’t wackier than it is. 

Jack Rabbit: I don’t really understand that particular grievance of yours, but you basically got us dead to rights.

Jack Rabbit: But, come ON, can you blame us? I mean, what are the odds that she would win to begin with? Who’s to say?

Teddy: Actually, it’s very easy to say.  There are a lot of statistics that give you the odds on how –

Jack Rabbit: As immeasurable and unknowable as the stars in the sky.

Teddy: This is YOUR job –

Jack Rabbit: What he said, this is just our job. Nothing personal.

Princess: Okay, disregarding all of that, are you saying that we could basically just leave and as long as nobody says anything we’re good?

March Hare: I mean, yeah, you guys have basically been the only patrons here all day.

Princess: Yeah, I wasn’t going to mention that, but that tends to happen whenever we go anywhere. 

Princess: But upon reflection, maybe that would explain why your casino is in something of a financial col-

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That is all

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Opportunity rarely lets you knock twice.

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March Hare: Look, I'm sure if we're just real careful and quiet-like, this event could go without incident.

March Hare: Is this really what I signed up for when I decided to begin working here? Of course not. I wanted to look cute and get 30%discounts on parmesan hot wings.

March Hare: But, let's face it, it's probably harder on him than it is on us. This is the reality of the modern business owner.

March Hare: And as long as we --

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Jack Rabbit: You know,

Jack Rabbit: She dropped the voucher when I smashed her over the head to begin with. We probably don't have to smash her with the car, too, if that was our only goal here today.

March Hare: WHY BRING IT UP THEN???

Jack Rabbit: WHEN WILL WE GET THE CHANCE TO HIT SOMEONE WITH A CAR EVER AGAIN?

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Smash and grab.

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Jack Rabbit: MARCHIE!! I SMASHED AND GRABBED HER!

March Hare: Okay, you already know that I’m seethingly mad after you did the thing I 

March Hare: SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOU NOT TO DO

March Hare: But I'm going to move into my cool indifference era and cope with the quiet tragedy of my life with a bland slate of apathy to try to help you move past your trifles.

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Jack Rabbit: So, I was thinking we could

March Hare: I could have gone to Julliard

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Jack Rabbit: So, I was thinking we could hit her with a car.

March Hare: I mean, we are smashing and grabbing.

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I don’t know what girls like, I don’t know what girls want.

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Tomcat: Bubblegum?

Tomcat: What do girls like?

Bubblegum: Well, when you get down to it, it isn’t really that simple.

Bubblegum: Gender does nothing to indicate the preferences, role, or relationship you have with the person in question. I suppose as long as you know the person as well as you know your own heart, the answer should come easy to you.

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Tomcat: Teddy, what do girls like?

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Tomcat: Oh, hey!

Tomcat: Do YOU know what girls like?

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hey!! sorry, I'm going to have to skip out on posting tonight to avoid exacerbating the symptoms of carpal tunnel! I might have to skip tomorrow too, but I promise I'll make up for the days I've missed!!

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Tomcat, Point of No Return: Week 2!

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Sorry about missing yesterday’s upload!! I was busy applying to college.

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Jack Rabbit: So, you thinking about doing the classic smash n' grab for the voucher?

March Hare: Ugh, you’re so uncouth.

March Hare: THINK for a moment, Jack. If we really show her the long way out, then the winnings can just as easily default on her friends. especially considering she's never alone.

March Hare: Of course...Given the fact that there is this large unspoken "owed" asset, even death wouldn't allow us to escape, but debt...Debt makes collectors out of us. Debt makes collectors out of us all.

March Hare: And he’s gone.

March Hare: Jack, here’s the --

March Hare: Man, is he booking it.

March Hare: What a guy.