Wow, you are on a roll here.

Though I admit… it seems like the comic could have ended on the 3rd-last panel. I don’t understand the meaning of Cat’s line. Can anyone help me out?

Is it meant to be something serious, or is it just meant to be a silly comment to take the reader’s mind away from the bleakness of the actual comic (like the function of Garfield in directing attention away from Jon’s lonely life)?

The first 10 panels I see as a comment on the way that relationships with objects substitute relationships with people… and ultimately we surround ourselves with mirrors.

Esn- my interpretation of the last line is that we create these inescapable bottles and we accidentally leave all the things we actually want on the outside.

That ship sailed a long time ago.

super excellent!

Soundtrack for this comic is “When the Ship Comes in”.

really liked this one.
and another view for esn – i considered it more to be like your second option, as cat is usually comic relief.

Could we have coasters to insulate our tables from our Bad Decision Dinosaur shotglasses?

ESN – When people had too much spare time they used to build model ships inside bottles. See? http://ebjones.typepad.com/photos/garage_sale_blogging_netw/ship-in-a-bottle.html

Girl presents the bleak stereotype. Cat breaks it. What is broken?

Is Cat inside the bottle, or does he view himself as being outside a bottle that contains the rest of the world? (Would be fun if it were a Klein bottle…)

Though, a cat in a bottle isn’t as fun as a cat in a box.

I see cat not so much as comic relief as a reminder that despite all our angst, things aren’t really that bad. Yes you’re in a bottle, but fun can be had in bottles!

GUYS. THE COMIC IS SHAPED LIKE AN UPSIDE-DOWN BOTTLE! OH MAN.

Factoring this in, I’m getting: we’re all trapped, but it’s easy to break our bottles by just giving them a little shove, since they’re teetered on a wobbly ol’ neck? And yet we refuse to do so because it’s a lot safer to stay surrounded by our vices and our walls?

Cat’s bottle, on the other hand, both is and isn’t a trapping-bottle.

C&G is performance art! How long can it be before Dorothy is a guest panelists on Wait, wait don’t tell me?

Ooo, let’s make that happen!

Ha ha, oh Cat.

Does Cat forget where he moored his ship? Cat was hunting the elusive Sleep Beast on that ship.

I know of a chap who knows where Cat’s ship is and he said “Call me Ishmael”.
http://catandgirl.com/?p=2406

Ahhh delicious red tag beer. You might be the cheapest beer at Trader Joes but you you certainly get the job done.

utter dog turd

I really like how the drawings look in jpg as opposed to the usual gif format.

How come the cans are full?

Don’t forget that messages from castaways were left drifting at sea in bottles, this comic is super dark romantic if the ship is the maker and there’s no one to take delivery of the bottle aka redemption. The ambiguity lies over there I think.

So Krimson, if the comic is an upside-down bottle, are our comments spilling forth from said bottle? Is communication with strangers on a topic of shared interest a way we get out of our personal little bottles? Or, less hopeful, are these self-absorbed, navel-gazing comments simply the effluvia of our egocentric prisons?

Probably the latter, Ben. I mean, that’s what I’m betting on.

my grandfather used to make ships in bottles, there was one of them in my grandmothers room. when my little brother was four he stuck a mouse in it, but it couldnt get out. so we had a ship and a mouse skeleton in a bottle. not very many of those in the world.

For those who don’t follow Donation Derby, Dorothy drew a comic, of Dorothy photographing a panel she drew for this episode: http://catandgirl.com/dderby/?p=2722
Can’t imagine I’m the only one here who’d get a kick out of the steps of removal there. Right?

bonsai cat appreciates this