This was inspired by the occasional run in with a student off campus, and the utter shock they suffer from such incidents. I think they’re truly traumatized to realize that teachers are real people with real lives.
Dr. Klownus looks particularly styling in this comic.
Is this an incredibly mean act by Mr. Mittens? Sure. Is he really just taking his anger out on the animals, and not the vet directly? Sort of. One assumes a vet losing all of its animals to a rabies outbreak can’t be great for business. But yeah, Mr. Mittens is mostly just being a jerk.
I happen to own a cat that is an embarrassment to take to the vet. While she doesn’t physically attack people, she does manage to scream and wail enough to strike fear into the hearts of every other animal in the building. She’s a joy.
Vet is one of the few words, with more than one meaning, that is almost always viewed in a positive light. We like people who take care of animals, and we like people who take care of the bad guys. In fact, the only kind of vet we don’t like is the kind that is a vet of fighting for Hitler, and maybe the vet who treated his dog.
Administrators are never talking about what you think they are. They tell you to add a few students to class, and surely they mean ten or twenty. That was the basic premise for this strip.
President Czar is sort of a super villain, what with the laughing in the last panel. Get that man an island base.
While the iPad is probably a wonderful tool to do very cool things, like most technology it won’t work when it’s forced upon an audience. However, that’s obviously a lesson many haven’t learned yet since this same thing happens again and again with each new technology out the door.
Female Professor does seem to be enjoying it a lot, though.
Mr. Mittens is at his most fun when he’s most evil. This is pretty evil, even for him. I do like to contemplate exactly who’s stuffed into that bag. Any guesses?
Strips like this raise the issue of why Professor Hobo keeps Mr. Mittens around? I prefer to view their relationship more as Mr. Mittens allowing Professor Hobo to stick around.
There’s been a push for some twenty plus years to make video games “educational” so kids will enjoy learning. From Reader Rabbit to The Oregon Trail, software has come and gone but the idea remains. I’m not exactly sure why, except that kids like video games, and wouldn’t it be ideal if video games were teaching them something, too? Of course, a game like God of War can teach you something about mythology, but hardly the same that you could learn from a few hours of reading a book. But that’ll be our little secret.
Mr. Mittens looks so excited in the third panel.
