History Webcomic / BreakingCatNews

* HandicappedBadass: Puck is missing a hind leg, and Lupin is deaf (he reads a teleprompter at the desk). This does not stop either of them from bravely reporting on the news that matters to cats. Averted with Iggy, who is missing an eye but is currently just a sweet-tempered, diffident kid.

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* HandicappedBadass: Puck is missing a hind leg, and Lupin is deaf (he reads a teleprompter at the desk). This does not stop either of them from bravely reporting on the news that matters to cats.

* {{Homage}}: In the [[https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2023/10/08 October 8, 2023 Sunday strip,]] it turns out The Woman is a big fan of ''Literature/{{ScaryStories|ToTellInTheDark}} [[BlandNameProduct to Mess You Up Forever]]'', and Georgia Dunn draws the cats in the style of Stephen Gammell's infamous illustrations (and pretty well at that!).

* CastHerd: As the strip continues, expanding on the cat coverage and explorations into the nearby Wildlands, the number of characters and storylines has increased, confusing newcomers. A longtime fan of the strip [[note]]the late William Kyser Jackson[[/note]] created a spreadsheet, listing and cross-indexing significant elements in the strip. Georgia Dunn confessed she even used it herself to look up character appearances.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: CastHerd type. As the strip continues, expanding on the cat coverage and explorations into the nearby Wildlands, the number of characters and storylines has increased, confusing newcomers. A longtime fan of the strip [[note]]the late William Kyser Jackson[[/note]] created a spreadsheet, listing and cross-indexing significant elements in the strip. Georgia Dunn confessed she even used it herself to look up character appearances.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: As the strip continues, expanding on the cat coverage and explorations into the nearby Wildlands, the number of characters and storylines has increased, confusing newcomers. A longtime fan of the strip [[note]]the late William Kyser Jackson[[/note]] created a spreadsheet, listing and cross-indexing significant elements in the strip. Georgia Dunn confessed she even used it herself to look up character appearances.

[[caption-width-right:350:Lupin, Puck, and Elvis being their usual catty selves]] A webcomic about the three cats Lupin, Elvis, and Puck, drawn by Georgia Dunn, owner of three real cats with those names.[[note]]Later joined by orange tabby Goldie, who's portrayed as a detective and investigative reporter; later adoptees Iggy and Ora Zella have yet to appear in the strip[[/note]] They act like news anchors, and encounter other news agencies and recruit new cats. The cats act like normal cats in all other respects, and the comic is inspired by the antics of their real-life counterparts.

* MorningSickness: The cats see the Woman suffering from this in one strip, but they don't know much about human pregnancy, so they assume she has a hairball.

* GoshDangItToHeck: When Beatrix, the four-months' kitten, is nervous about getting microchipped, she exclaims, "It's been the week from HECK, in a year of STRAIGHT-UP POOP!" (This was in 2020.) Then she says she [[LampshadeHanging doesn't mean to be using such grown-up language.]]

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Georgia Dunn has frozen the characters at their current ages (aging the children up a tiny bit). She did this because she wanted to keep Baba Mouse. Baba is immensely old -- she was 26 in 2015 -- and could not have lived much longer. She is based on one of Georgia's real cats, and Georgia says she could not stand to lose her a second time. (The real Sir Figaro Newton died some time ago, but is still alive in the strip, as is Beatrix, who died when she was just four months old and remains a kitten in the strip. The real Lupin died of heart failure January 11, 2022, but of course will also remain active in the strip.)

[[caption-width-right:350:Lupin, Puck, and Elvis being their usual catty selves]] A webcomic about the three cats Lupin, Elvis, and Puck, drawn by Georgia Dunn, owner of three real cats with those names. They act like news anchors, and encounter other news agencies and recruit new cats. The cats act like normal cats in all other respects, and the comic is inspired by the antics of their real-life counterparts.

* HotDrinkCure: [[https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/11/30 In one strip]], a sick Woman has a box of tissues and a mug of hot tea beside her.

* HotDrinkCure: [[https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/11/30 In one strip]], a sick Ginger has a box of tissues and a mug of hot tea beside her.

It has [[http://www.breakingcatnews.com/ its own website]]. It is also syndicated at [=GoComics=] [[http://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news here]]. At the time of writing [=GoComics=] plans to offer the comic to newspapers as well. As of January 2021, about 100 papers have picked it up.

* ConeOfShame: Elvis was once put in one of these, to Lupin's joy and Elvis's wrath.

* {{Crawl}}: As befits a news show.

* GoshDangItToHeck: When Beatrix is nervous about getting microchipped, she exclaims, "It's been the week from HECK, in a year of STRAIGHT-UP POOP!" Then she says she [[LampshadeHanging doesn't mean to be using such grown-up language.]]

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Georgia Dunn has frozen the characters at their current ages (aging the children up a tiny bit). She did this because she wanted to keep Baba Mouse. Baba is immensely old -- she was 26 in 2015 -- and could not have lived much longer. She is based on one of Georgia's real cats, and Georgia says she could not stand to lose her a second time. (The real Sir Figaro Newton died some time ago, but is still alive in the strip, as is Beatrix, who died when she was just four months old and remains a kitten in the strip.)

** The Man and the Woman [[https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2020/10/14 summon Tillie's ghost during a Ouija session]]. Being a cat, Tillie alternates between swatting the planchette around and spelling out cat noises like "M-O-W." The People can't see her, but the Woman does note that the board is behaving like "a laptop with a cat on it."

* WainscotSociety: The Robber Mice are [[BlatantBurglar BlatantBurglars]] who swipe food and various objects from the People to festoon their living arrangements. [[http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/the-peoples-annual-gratitude-feast-is-underway/ Here they are, out of "uniform" for their Thanksgiving celebration]] ([[https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2018/11/24 updated newspaper version here]]).

* ThisMeansWar: When [[spoiler: the Robber Mice abduct Puck's favorite toy Buzzy Mouse]], Pucky [[http://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2017/02/04 does not take it well]]. Even ''Elvis'' is terrified.