• Doc Rat

    From Joy Beeson@jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid to rec.arts.comics.strips on Tue Oct 14 22:45:37 2025
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    https://www.docrat.com.au/comic/she-has-the-legs-for-it/

    Daniella has a litter of pups, but only two dinnerplates.

    In both this strip and Kevin & Kell, carnivores must eat
    people. Kevin & Kell plays it for laughs, Doc Rat is in the
    middle of a long arc dealling with it, and the tragedy of it
    has often featured before.

    In Kevin & Kell, female characters have human-type hairdos.
    The closest Doc Rat comes to that is Kathy's swept-back ear
    style.

    But I guess that there are limits to realistic portrayals of
    animals who are people.

    In Freefall, where there is only one sapient non-human
    mammal, when Florence is depicted naked, there are three or
    four censor bars.
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  • From ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan@tednolan to rec.arts.comics.strips on Wed Oct 15 04:13:58 2025
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    In article <uh2uek9pfpoinqh61p1gfv4follf4uqv5k@4ax.com>,
    Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:


    https://www.docrat.com.au/comic/she-has-the-legs-for-it/

    Daniella has a litter of pups, but only two dinnerplates.

    In both this strip and Kevin & Kell, carnivores must eat
    people. Kevin & Kell plays it for laughs, Doc Rat is in the
    middle of a long arc dealling with it, and the tragedy of it
    has often featured before.

    In Kevin & Kell, female characters have human-type hairdos.
    The closest Doc Rat comes to that is Kathy's swept-back ear
    style.

    But I guess that there are limits to realistic portrayals of
    animals who are people.

    In Freefall, where there is only one sapient non-human
    mammal, when Florence is depicted naked, there are three or
    four censor bars.


    The issue would come up from time to time in Pogo. Perhaps most
    memorably with the Louisiana Perches & the Beanbag team from Ptarmigan U.

    Pogo himself had some near misses:

    http://columbiaclosings.com/pix/memes/pogo_restin.jpg
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    What's not in Columbia anymore..
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