MeowTown

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.
Transcript

Panel 1:

A person in a green shirt sits in a mauve armchair in a light blue room. Cheddar (an orange tabby cat) stands proudly on the floor beside a dead gray mouse. The person smiles warmly at the offering.

Panel 2:

Same scene. Cheddar stands in the same proud posture beside a dead pigeon. The person's smile has not changed.

Panel 3:

Same scene. Cheddar drags the bloody carcass of a deer across the floor by an antler. The deer's eye is an X, its tongue lolls out, and a small pool of blood marks where its head meets the floor. The person's smile is gone. He looks concerned.

Panel 4:

Same scene, escalated. Cheddar stands proudly beside a severed human head with X-eyes and a slack mouth, blood pooling beneath it on the floor. The person has scrambled backward up the back of the armchair to get away, eyes wide and mouth open in horror. Cheddar's posture and expression are identical to panel one — same pride, same calm.