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Hey Oscar

by Paul Taylor on March 8, 2010 at 12:00 am
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  1. Jocelyn
    March 8, 2010, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Aww, I’ve missed Katherine. 😀

  2. Zogh
    March 8, 2010, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    LOVE IT!!

  3. Jim
    March 8, 2010, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Okay . I need to finish catching up on the last two years , in the archives . I think I’m missing something about her .

    • Kellisanth
      March 8, 2010, 12:07 am | # | Reply

      She likes to talk to her plants and goldfish. 😉

      Yay!

      Er, wait… where’s the spider?

      • Jim
        March 8, 2010, 12:36 am | #

        Yeah , I remember that from the archives . I left off somewhere in 2008 . I though maybe I was missing something , though , it’s probably just me .

        BTW , Katherine’s lookin’ hawt .

      • Neveko
        March 8, 2010, 8:53 am | #

        It’s a betta.

  4. Fairportfan
    March 8, 2010, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Whoa. Kath lookin’ good!

  5. Marshall
    March 8, 2010, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    A) Why is she repeating herself to the fish? B) I hate oscars. So many better fish to have.

    • Paul Taylor
      March 8, 2010, 12:12 am | # | Reply

      That’s a betta named Oscar. =)

    • Paula
      March 8, 2010, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

      the betta fish is her best friend i think. Least her best friend non-human/demon/golem.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      June 6, 2017, 7:56 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, spitting at Kath like that…You’d think he was Oscar the Grouch.

  6. GunnerWalker
    March 8, 2010, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Jeez, could you make Katherine any more creepy looking than in the last panel? Wow

    • Paula
      March 8, 2010, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

      i actually thought she looked georgous in the last panel ^^

      • BigBadRichard
        September 28, 2010, 7:12 pm | #

        Perhaps not gorgeous but she does have a haunting beauty.

  7. Marie
    March 8, 2010, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    I had totally forgotten about her. It’s great to see her again. Yay for old characters appearing again.

  8. The Old Wolf
    March 8, 2010, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Love Katherine’s new look. She’s got so much upstairs – and elsewhere – that she’d be a hot GF. Just a little self-esteem tweak, and she could rip up the stage anywhere…

    • Fairportfan
      March 8, 2010, 12:20 am | # | Reply

      And dark glasses.

      Until she’s got you reeled in.

    • Fairportfan
      March 8, 2010, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      I liked the Forties look she had going when Monica took her to the Library.

      • Llewellian
        March 8, 2010, 1:50 am | #

        Yeah. Katherine could be my Dita von Teese anytime ;o). Just need a Martini Glass big enough for her ;o)

  9. ziggy78eog
    March 8, 2010, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    So, Monica tells Katherine about what happened to the calendar machine, but neglects to inform her that their boss is giving/gave a tour of the museum to the sphinx?

    • Fairportfan
      March 8, 2010, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      If they meet, Kath will remember Phix, i suspect.

      • fatuncle
        March 8, 2010, 2:25 pm | #

        And vice versa, I think. Phix doesn’t seem to miss much.

  10. SoWhyMe
    March 8, 2010, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    Oscar seems to be singularly unimpressed. I preferred the creepy totally introverted Katherine as opposed to the current creepy babe Katherine.

  11. jwhouk
    March 8, 2010, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    Something missing… oh, yeah, her lack of clothing while in her apartment.

    • ziggy78eog
      March 8, 2010, 12:58 am | # | Reply

      She just got home, give her a few minutes.

  12. Jim
    March 8, 2010, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    Uh , how’d she know it was destroyed ?

    • Fairportfan
      March 8, 2010, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      Monica told her?

  13. Leak
    March 8, 2010, 2:22 am | # | Reply

    “Oscar, that’s an über-bingo!” 😀

  14. freeradical
    March 8, 2010, 2:55 am | # | Reply

    Yikes. Is it just me, or does Katherine look just a little bit more…. evil in that last panel?

    • Llewellian
      March 8, 2010, 3:22 am | # | Reply

      No. That is just a girl standing her ground. Her raising self confidence. She extra repeats the fact that she talked with Monica. Which is not a normal thing for her.

      • Paula
        March 8, 2010, 12:27 pm | #

        i recon thats just her giving up trying to say everything that happened in one sentence by saying she just spoke to monica.

        kinda like the monty python spanish inquisition thing i think..
        “Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise…. Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope…. Our *four*…no… *Amongst* our weapons…. Amongst our weaponry…are such elements as fear, surprise…. I’ll come in again.”

  15. Nitfol
    March 8, 2010, 3:41 am | # | Reply

    Yay! Katherine’s looking _good_, and confident… and more than a little bit creepy.

  16. Nitfol
    March 8, 2010, 3:42 am | # | Reply

    And, yes, I agree with Jocelyn: I’ve missed Katherine, too. Good to see her back.

  17. D. Walker
    March 8, 2010, 3:51 am | # | Reply

    Katherine is my favorite character, she really deserves some more limelight.

    She’s smart, sweet, and lovably strange – in short, my idea of a wonderful friend. Would be nice to spend my afternoons reading or doing ‘boring’ museum work with someone like her.

    ~D

  18. SoWhyMe
    March 8, 2010, 4:45 am | # | Reply

    I think if Oscar could speak he would say

    “Oh great YOU talked with Monica today. YOU get to go out and do interesting things with others while I stay here all day, swimming around and around in this unbelievably tiny little bowl. If you really cared about me you would at least spring for a larger tank with those plastic plants and ceramic castles. Oh! And one of those bubbly treasure chests with the lid that opens and closes. I could watch one of those things all day. Chasing the bubbles would be rad! You know, make my miserable little life a bit more interesting. I don’t even have one of those little castles with the big hole I could swim through over and over. But don’t worry about me. I’ll just be over here practicing floating upside down.”

    Oscar is a bit less wordy, saying as much with that spit.

    • Don B.
      July 12, 2010, 1:59 am | # | Reply

      I’ve heard somewhere that the average attention span for a fish is somewhere around 3-5 seconds. So the conversation would have to be short, something like this:Q-“Who are you?” A-“Katherine.” Q-“Are you going to eat me?” A-“No.” Q-“Who Are you?”…etc

  19. Dusty668
    March 8, 2010, 4:56 am | # | Reply

    Oscar sure likes to spit.

    • bastlynn
      March 8, 2010, 11:59 am | # | Reply

      Spitting is flirting for betta fish. The males make bubble nests that way when they fancy a pretty fishy lady.

      • fatuncle
        March 8, 2010, 2:28 pm | #

        I was under the impression that the Archer fish was the only one that spits. Live and learn.

      • Paul Taylor
        March 8, 2010, 3:29 pm | #

        They don’t spit long distances like Archers do, just small spits to make bubbles. 🙂

  20. Mike Brendan
    March 8, 2010, 8:31 am | # | Reply

    Ah Katherine… good to see you again. And still looking lovely.

    Now if I could only “poit” myself into the toon. 😀

  21. Heartsong
    March 8, 2010, 8:50 am | # | Reply

    I missed Kath 😀 It’s good to see her again.

    As for the repeat of ” Hey, Oscar!”, I kinda saw it as: “I talked to her and she did stuff.. but she didn’t…. Uhm… I’m not making a lot of sense.. Hmm.. You know what? Let’s start over!”

    “Hey, Oscar! I talked to Monica today!”

    Oscar: ” 😛 Spaz…”

    • fatuncle
      March 8, 2010, 11:02 am | # | Reply

      Exactly so.

    • SoWhyMe
      March 8, 2010, 9:48 pm | # | Reply

      I see it more like she is amazed at herself for talking to Monica at all. Amazed herself that she was actually being social and someone responded in kind with important and personal news. That she acted like a normal, non-introverted person. She is really saying it to herself for emphasis on this historic ocasion.

  22. Neveko
    March 8, 2010, 8:54 am | # | Reply

    Bettas never want to hear your good news. They’re such grumpy butts. :B

    • Neveko
      March 8, 2010, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

      I suddenly just got it. Oscar the grouch. Because anyone who’s had a betta will tell you, grouchy is all they are. (Yes, I’ve had a lot of them. I have a particularly bitter one named Emerald who hermits himself from his goldfish friends)

      • SoWhyMe
        March 8, 2010, 9:54 pm | #

        If you were as perpetually as sex crazed as Betas and had no female upon which to bestow your “gifts,” you would be grouchy too. Come to think of it, maybe that’s why I was so grouchy as a young teen?

  23. Joe England
    March 8, 2010, 11:32 am | # | Reply

    Hey, it’s her again! Creepy-but-doesn’t-mean-to-be chick. I missed her!

    • Leak
      March 8, 2010, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

      How about a Katherine cameo in Zebra Girl, then? There’s a lot of townsfolk running around currently… 😉

  24. Paula
    March 8, 2010, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

    She looks great 🙂
    I am curious about her hair though. She must be conditioning it or going to the salon cuz i know previously her hair was kinda sucky and now its woah!

    Are all these chars based on peeps from real life (eg is there a girl whos hair was like that and she changed it) or pure imagination?
    I seem to recall monica was based of a gf?

    • RKSAustin
      March 8, 2010, 11:56 pm | # | Reply

      It’s good to see Katherine’s doing a better job with her hair products than she was with make-up the first time she tried it lol

    • Fairportfan
      March 20, 2021, 2:07 am | # | Reply

      She’s getting over her PTSD

  25. Marchbanks
    March 8, 2010, 7:40 pm | # | Reply

    Wossa deal with the aprés-Morris wallpaper (of which, btw, I completely approve)? I didn’t remember seeing that in the apartment before.

    • SoWhyMe
      March 8, 2010, 10:14 pm | # | Reply

      Perhaps we can pretend that, along with her new look and attitude, she put up new wallpaper as well. Now she just needs a boyfriend (girlfriend?). Maybe a morgue attendant or mortuary embalmer. Better yet, an entomologist with a large collection of living specimens.

  26. Centaur1971
    October 30, 2010, 10:17 pm | # | Reply

    Her fresh hairstyle makes her look MUCH more attractive (even with spider eyes…) Lookin’ forward to seeing more Kathryn.

  27. Kimbra
    February 9, 2011, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

    I do that ALL the time. My husband just sits there with a ‘wtf?’ expression until I explain what I am talking about.

    Aahh gotta love Kath!

  28. GaijinGuy
    May 28, 2012, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

    Gorgeous textures and patterns in this strip, Paul. Top-notch!

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