The Return of Plot

Odd that Scancarelli would put the start of what could be an actual storyline on Saturday — I’d think that would be the lowest day for comic-reading. (Don’t a lot of papers have special “weekday” rates that don’t include Saturday or Sunday? I don’t honestly know; I’ve read news exclusively online for about 8 years, ever since I first moved into the city of Chicago from the suburbs, and the Chicago Tribune, which I had subscribed to, told me that it couldn’t deliver the paper to my apartment.)

Anyhow, despite Chef Meowrice’s claims, the contest is not really all that exciting, unless you’ve got a postal fetish. But I am excited that a) we’re starting a new story and b) we’re going to a new character. Not new, actually, I believe (don’t quote me on this, because we know how well I am at identifying characters) that the ‘new’ character is Rufus, who I think lives in the dump and drives around hauling things on basically a mobile dump with his cat (Kitty) and a hanger-on named Joel. But new in the sense that we get away from the Wallets for a bit.

Although I hope that Teeka has some part in this cat food contest story. I’d like to see the extremes to which she goes to win this thing, being a massive fan of the commercial but not, unless I’m forgetting something, a cat owner herself. I’m thinking she could get Gourmet Cooking With Cat Food in 20 Easy Lessons (or 1 Hard One) from the library and make some micemeat pies. And then she’ll feed them to Adam, because he’s a bit of a jerk, and she’s an evil genius.

It’s great that Rufus feels the need to explain the contest prize to Kitty, rather than just letting her listen to Chef Meowrice. You’d think she’d be better able to understand the Chef, what with them both being cats, but clearly Rufus understands cross-species communication better than I do.