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Ex-neighbor
Posted on November 30, 2019 by David M Willis
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121 thoughts on “Ex-neighbor”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    I mean, cat butt is still cat

    1. Ana Chronistic

      name is “Sarah’s cat”

      or

      “assbutt”

      1. Chris Phoenix

        Depends on whether it’s Dora or Faye’s insult – it could be either assbutt or buttass. (just binge-reading QC again, why?)

      2. ValdVin

        Assbut: Between Faye using it in-universe at QC, and Jeph Jacques calling Willis that, one more would be too confusing.

        1. Ana Chronistic

          I mean, I guess technically Anal is a name

          (no really, and unfortunately)

      3. Tan

        The cat’s name should be simply Catbutt.

      4. Jhon

        It isn’t Sarah’s cat until it goes home with her.

        “Catass” was the pet name a coworker had for his girlfriend.

        1. David

          Was she betting on becoming a catass trophy wife?

    2. plasticwrap

      It is important, however, the degree to which the cat properly cleans its butthole.

  2. Suet

    You’re welcome.

    Yes. Name that cat.

    1. King Daniel

      #TagTheCat

      1. Suet

        *hashtags the cat*

        Tag, you’re it!

        1. Yet_One_More_Idiot

          Catty McCatface.

          There, I said it. 😀

      2. Needfuldoer

        Tag the cat! Tag the cat!

        That’s his name. Tag, the Cat.

        1. Deanatay

          We named the cricket Tag.

        2. Needfuldoer

          All untagged critters are Tag until tagged otherwise.

        3. thejeff

          I thought it was the lettuce we named Tag.

          After it escaped.

    2. Marsh Maryrose

      It there’s a Mark Twain fan in Becky’s apartment, it has to be Catiline.

    3. Suet

      ♫ Happy Buttday to you, Happy Buttday to you… ♫
      ♫ Now where is the pursuit, Happy Buttday to youuuu ♫ ♫

    4. Wack'd

      Look we all know the cat’s name is Heathcliff

      1. ValdVin

        This cat has been in three panels today and has not been especially, unfeline-ly, annoying. It can’t be Heathcliff.

    5. Keulen

      Yes, the cat needs a name.

    6. AbelUndercity

      “The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter.” – T. S. Eliot, possibly also Taylor Swift

    7. Walky_Talky

      Blowjob the Cat

      1. Ryek Hvek

        BeeJay

    8. Lacuna

      I propose Stinky, named after Power Girl’s cat from the Amanda Connor comics.

    9. HeySo

      I’d go with Alexander O’Malley, as a partial tribute to Aristocats, but O’Malley already has a bit of a different association within this universe. :S

  3. Max_Headroom

    Weirdly, this is one bad habit my cat completely lacks. I’m very grateful for that.

    1. Kinoko

      Same. Rarely if ever do I get a butthole display, if I do it’s by accident, and I have TWO cats.

  4. ValdVin

    Okay, I wasn’t expecting Ruth to control the cat to do that to Sarah.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Her meds haven’t just unlocked her ability to feel emotions, they’ve also unlocked the unused 90% of her brain and given her psychic abilities.

      Yes, I know that 90% thing is bullshit.

      But does the cat?!

      1. Needfuldoer

        Assuming human psychic abilities can override a cat’s natural spite and obstinance.

  5. Marsh Maryrose

    Cat butts, cat butts,
    Roly poly cat butts…

    1. rick

      Cat butts, cat butts,
      Eat them up, yum…

      ??? yeah that’s weird

  6. Illithid

    Captain Buttface? I mean, sometimes simple is better.

    1. Sunny

      Drop the “Captain”. The cat’s name is Buttface, that goes perfectly with Fuckface.

      1. Fobane

        I usually use Fuzz Butt or Brat Butt is a favorite, also cats totally do this butt and all but especially laying right on your chest 😛

  7. Danielle

    name the cat!

  8. TheKelliestKelly

    This mean the cat really likes her though, right? Take the compliment, Sarah

  9. Charles Phipps

    Ruth, it’s not on Sarah to forgive or like you. She’s not a prop in your personal redemption quest.

    1. Deadjolras

      I don’t think Ruth was trying to get Sarah to do any of those things. I’m not sure how you got that impression either.

      1. Charles Phipps

        She tries to defend Billie here. She’s also trying to chat up Sarah when Sarah makes it clear she wants nothing to do with her.

        1. BarerMender

          She simply apologized to Sarah for using the room. Which she had a right to do.

        2. Deathjavu

          Yeah…for all Sarah says she’s not invested in this interaction she is interacting a lot. She said a lot more here than Ruth!

        3. Deadjolras

          She’s said two sentences, none of which indicate any of that to me. I’ll give you the first one, maybe saying “you’d be happy to see anyone move” can be interpreted as defending Billie. Wishing Sarah a “happy birthday”, at Sarah’s own birthday party, is at worst a formality and at best an attempt to make things slightly less awkward. None of those sentences seem like Ruth is trying to get Sarah to forgive her, like her or to engage with her in lengthier conversation.

        4. Lexi

          Wishing Sarah a happy birthday is also like, the bare minimum of her job as RA.

        5. thejeff

          Wishing her a happy birthday is also a comment on the cat sticking their butt in Sarah’s face.

        6. Kittie

          How does “trying to defend Billie” have anything to do with making Sarah feel a certain way about Ruth? Sarah doesn’t have to like or forgive Ruth, by the same token Ruth doesn’t have to put up with Sarah’s melodramatic hostility without comment.

  10. Stephen Bierce

    There was an ad here for ComeUntoChrist.org here just a moment ago.
    I hope that doesn’t mean the cat’s name is Brigham Young.

    1. BarerMender

      Damn, I’m tired. I thought I saw “Comet Unto Christ.” I was about to look that up.

      1. ValdVin

        “Comet unto Christ” is a Pure Flix movie about one of the reindeer who Finds God and just won’t shut up about it on the proverbial shop floor.

        1. Clif

          I thought it was the Branch Davidian movie.

        2. ValdVin

          Good one.

        3. Illithid

          That would be the Heaven’s Gate cult. The Branch Davidians were the David Koresh followers who fought the BATF at Waco.

  11. Confuzor

    What is that black blob shape on Sarah?

    1. Ghastly

      That’s Billie’s hair. You can see the rest of her in the fourth panel.

    2. Bathymetheus

      I believe it is Billie’s hair.

  12. Cheesy1

    Sphinxter

    1. Ana Chronistic

      I was gonna say Sphynxter but cat’s not bald

  13. Emperor Norton II

    *reads alt-text*

    No we’re not, Willis.

    You know why?

    ‘Cause you give cats bad names.

    1. Lawzlo

      Yeah, Blowjob Cat should clearly have been called “Fellatio Feline”!

    2. ValdVin

      What about Jocelyne’s cat, Miss Sakaki?

      1. Emperor Norton II

        Look, We may or may not have made that post without any knowledge about cats (comic universe or otherwise) that Willis may or may not have named.

        In fact, if pressed, We might just admit that We simply wanted to make that punch line in response to the alt-text, facts be damned.

        1. ValdVin

          I accept your adherence to the rule of funny.

        2. Clif

          Rank hath it’s privileges and who could be ranker than the rightful Emperor?

  14. pdp15

    The last panel reminds me of the time I got a text message from a cat owner friend, who was voice-texting. Text went “What are we doing tomorrow get your ass out of my face” …

  15. mrnoidea

    Just call the cat Butts.

    Simple, relevant, poignant.

    1. Dr. T

      Malaya would name it Assface and would struggle to disagree.

  16. Ohmsford

    He’s called Susan and he wants you to respect his life choices

  17. Abdomino

    The cat’s name is Tag, because:

    A: It’s made Sarah’s day

    B: It’d technically be in the tag list already.

  18. Sporky

    I don’t think you should name it, but I do think you should tag it. As “a stray cat”.

  19. BBCC

    I mean, kitty. Unless you’re allergic or afraid of them, you gotta.

  20. Miri

    Haras. Sarah backwards coz the cat is sat on Sarah backwards. Depending on how you say it sounds like harass or her ass. Or Harris, when s/he isn’t being a buttface or you need to call for them and don’t want your neighbours to think you’re odd.

  21. Dark_T_Zeratul

    We’re not going to make you name the cat. I mean, come on, it’s a cat. That would be ridiculous.

    However, we ARE going to make you feature it in next month’s Patreon bonus strip.

    1. He Who Abides

      Yeah, it would be ridiculous. We’ll just have to wait for the cat to share its name with us.

  22. sultryglebe

    I lean toward “Buttface” for the cat, both for the obvious and for the analog to the other named animal.

  23. JessWitt

    Name suggestions: Fanny, Uranus, Button, Hugh Jazz, Peach.

  24. Tacos

    I mean, well of course we commentors want the cat named. It’s like our nature to want unnamed characters named regardless of if they’re human or otherwise.

  25. brionl

    The cat shall be named Heinrich von Buttzinface.

    1. Ren

      the very fact that you posted that with Galazzo as your gravatar somehow makes this EVEN BETTER because I read it in his voice…. uh… well… imagined voice, because, you know, not voice acted.

      1. Needfuldoer

        I always imagined Galasso sounds like Clancy Brown doing his Dr. Cortex voice.

        1. Michelle J. Caboose

          I dunno. I hear Galasso as Liam Neesan doing an American accent. And that really makes brionl’s comment hilarious.

          Go ahead, picture Liam Neesan saying that with a perfectly straight face. I dare you.

          I triple-dog-dare you.

        2. Michelle J. Caboose

          Or, you don’t have to imagine it for yourself.

          You’re welcome.

  26. Bagge

    Cat achieved.

  27. Black Bumblebee

    The cat’s name is Butterscootch. I have spoken.

    1. vitalProximity

      Seconded wholeheartedly. I don’t know why, but this is my favorite so far and I’m like 3/4 down the page already. 🙂

      1. Meagan

        +1

        1. vitalProximity

          Willis. The PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN. And they have said:

          Do whatever the hell you want, because we all know that’s what you’re going to do anyway. And we love you for it. But still, Butterscootch would be a pretty awesome name for this kitty. K thx bai.

  28. Opus the Poet

    Well he/she behaves like my cat Clint. Also colored much like Clint, orange tabby with white socks.

    So, Not Clint

    1. BBCC

      I have an orange tabby too!

      I named him Garfield.

      1. lensi

        Me too. He is named Schnitzel, because of the colour resemblens and is a very weird and lovely little eunuch.

  29. He Who Abides

    Just going to respond to Sarah in the first panel: it wasn’t your birthday party until this in-comic morning, when Becky decided to tack it onto Dina’s.

    Also, does Sarah’s family just ignore her desire to be left alone? She did (sarcastically, I know) offer to let Dina’s parents adopt her when she saw how quiet they are, and this is a “Top 5” birthday for her, so I’m thinking that they might try too hard to get her out of her shell.

  30. Aggrax

    Anyone else miss Billie laying down and wondering when the second large black cat showed up and started sleeping on the bed?

    1. John

      I didn’t notice her until I began trying to figure out who Sarah was talking about in the first panel. Then I had to go back to yesterday to see if I’d missed the strip where she showed up.

  31. Bluewind

    Me cat does this! His name is Danny (yes, after the character because he was a sweet adorable stalkerish boy who followed me EVERYWHERE XD) and he likes to lay down with his butt over half my face when I feel bad XD

  32. Keulen

    My uncles had a cat named Butthead. Not sure why they named it that, though they also had another cat named Dammit at the same time.

  33. Tan

    Dumbing of Age Book 10: I’d Still Put This in the Top Five

  34. John

    Teabag Cat?

  35. BenRG

    Cat has two warm human-shaped pillows to claw-massage and snooze upon. Cat is content.

    Meanwhile, I think that Sarah should be alarmed at just how well Ruth knows how her mind works.

  36. TheFlamingonator

    mustard mustard MUSTARD MUSTARD MUSTARD MUSTARD

    1. 0kami

      That’s COLONEL Mustard. He did not do three tours in the Cat Army to not be addressed by his standing rank.

      1. TheFlamingonator

        My apologies.

      2. Roborat

        But, what is his sitting rank?

  37. AbelUndercity

    No, Mr. Willis. It is WE who shall name the cat!

    Begun, the Cat Name Wars have.

  38. Reltzik

    Really, Sarah? You really think you can’t be reasoned with?

    I’m sure someone could correct you with an adequate rebuttal.

  39. DarkoNeko

    don’t be such an arse, kitty

  40. Rabisch

    Awwwww. The cat love Sarah♡♡♡

  41. Kaz

    I’m willing to bet you already have a name for the cat.

  42. Megan Rivera

    1. I’ve been asking for the cat’s name since the first panel it existed

    2. I really like this cat

    3. Yes, you have to name the cat

  43. Vukodlak

    As I was lying in bed reading this my cat came up cuddled up and sent to sleep.

  44. Deanatay

    *Danny busts in playing a song on his uke*

    But…
    The…
    Cat came back, he wouldn’t stay away
    Started back again
    When he heard them say ‘Birthday’

    Well the cat came back
    With a present of his own
    He had to tell Sarah
    That his butt had found a home

    1. Clif

      Danny may lack judgement on occasion, but he isn’t suicidal.

  45. Shane Wegner

    Now the cat starts kneading her boobs like they do.

  46. kaitou

    Name the cat: “Buttplant.”

    1. kaitou

      Second: “Assplant”

  47. Yugnat

    Took me a while to actually notice where Billie was, so I assumed the cat should also be named Billie.

  48. nightshade

    you know i see Sarah somewhere in the future in the basement of some law office doing schlub reference totally wasting any talent and degree she was simply because she cant voluntarily talk to most human beings and yes if you want to be in law you have to be socially inclined even if you never set foot in a courtroom

    1. nightshade

      erm schlub reference work

  49. Van Jealous

    Cat Tastrophe

  50. Van Jealous

    BTW, I have a 13-year-old, 18-lb, Orange Tabby named “Hoss Catright”
    (for those of you old enough to remember the Bonanaza TV show).

  51. Michael Haneline

    That cat’s name is Asterisk.
    (_*_)

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