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MeowTown — a Cat Comic by Tim Schreiber

Hunter

A four-panel MeowTown comic about escalating hunting trophies. The setting is the same throughout: a person in a green shirt sits in a mauve armchair in a light blue room. Panel one: Cheddar (an orange tabby cat) stands proudly beside a dead gray mouse on the floor. The person smiles warmly, charmed. Panel two: Cheddar stands in the same proud posture beside a dead pigeon. The person smiles with the same warmth. Panel three: Cheddar drags the bloody carcass of a deer into the room by its antler, the deer's head turned upward with X-eye and tongue lolling. The person's smile has fallen; he looks concerned. Panel four: Cheddar stands proudly beside a severed human head with X-eyes, blood pooling beneath it on the floor. The person scrambles backward up the back of the armchair, eyes wide with horror, mouth open in a cry of alarm. Cheddar's expression remains exactly as proud as it was in panel one. The joke: every cat owner accepts the dead-mouse phase of feline trophy-presentation behavior without thinking through where that escalation logically ends.