It looks a bit like she let go, but I don’t think the Cat and Girl art style is designed for dynamic action sequences. I’m quite sure she’s supposed to get swept away there.
The birds in the last panel look like 2’s. Wonder if that means something. 22? A catch-22?
The tree seems to suggest that they aren’t at sea, but rather on land after a flood or tsunami. Somehow I’m reminded of Noah’s Ark, and how the dove brought back an olive branch to show Noah that the water had gone down enough to reveal some trees. (Of course, no tree could survive being underwater 40 days, so we can only assume that the olive branch it brought back was dead and waterlogged, and that olives and most other plants are really extinct; we’re just imagining them.)
In panel 2 they are running with the wave coming after them, which is strongly suggesting a tsunami hitting the shore. There’s a tree since this was dry land a mere minutes ago.
I think she let go because she realized she was all alone in the world. Notice how in the eighth panel the water has calmed down and she’s looking around.
Although she let go of the tree in the last frame, she is still reaching up, indicating that she has not lost faith. sometimes the greatest faith requires letting go of what you think will save you, and believe with all your might that God will provide an answer/solution to our woes that we as humans are too blind to see. Maybe those two birds in the background are getting ready to clutch her by that lifted hand, and fly her to safety…
If I were the sort to believe in the purity of authorial intent, I might have been scared away from it on March 24th by Cat and Girl.
Thankfully, since I don’t believe in it, I can love the fact that Cat clearly shows “faith” as the last desperate (and fruitless) cry of the doomed, while Girl shows those who have a mindset of the worst-case scenario are most likely to survive. And yet that survival is worthless if you’re left alone in the end.
She might have been happier with the frenzied search for easy solutions that killed Cat.
I think it does a disservice to Cat and Girl to imagine they exist in reality. Even when they’re inhabiting fantasy worlds we all know, they’re not in the real fantasy.
May 12, 2011
Hard work perished soonest, and pessimism survived the longest? Hmm…
May 12, 2011
Looks more like she let go.
May 12, 2011
Definitely no escape from failure. On the other hand, there’s no need to embrace the waves of failure either.
May 12, 2011
Welcome to the wonderful world of customer service, Girl. Don’t forget to smile.
May 12, 2011
“For a song to be beautiful, the artist must be brave”- Big Dipper
May 12, 2011
Only when success is impossible are we truly free.
— MrJM
May 12, 2011
Fail early, fail often!
May 12, 2011
DOOM.
May 13, 2011
It looks a bit like she let go, but I don’t think the Cat and Girl art style is designed for dynamic action sequences. I’m quite sure she’s supposed to get swept away there.
May 13, 2011
If at first you don’t succeed you fail.
May 13, 2011
Too soon.
May 13, 2011
The birds in the last panel look like 2’s. Wonder if that means something. 22? A catch-22?
The tree seems to suggest that they aren’t at sea, but rather on land after a flood or tsunami. Somehow I’m reminded of Noah’s Ark, and how the dove brought back an olive branch to show Noah that the water had gone down enough to reveal some trees. (Of course, no tree could survive being underwater 40 days, so we can only assume that the olive branch it brought back was dead and waterlogged, and that olives and most other plants are really extinct; we’re just imagining them.)
May 14, 2011
Cat’s last line should actually be rendered as “faaaaith” as he fades away into the distance.
May 14, 2011
In panel 2 they are running with the wave coming after them, which is strongly suggesting a tsunami hitting the shore. There’s a tree since this was dry land a mere minutes ago.
May 14, 2011
graduate school
May 15, 2011
I think she let go because she realized she was all alone in the world. Notice how in the eighth panel the water has calmed down and she’s looking around.
May 16, 2011
Although she let go of the tree in the last frame, she is still reaching up, indicating that she has not lost faith. sometimes the greatest faith requires letting go of what you think will save you, and believe with all your might that God will provide an answer/solution to our woes that we as humans are too blind to see. Maybe those two birds in the background are getting ready to clutch her by that lifted hand, and fly her to safety…
May 16, 2011
If I were the sort to believe in the purity of authorial intent, I might have been scared away from it on March 24th by Cat and Girl.
Thankfully, since I don’t believe in it, I can love the fact that Cat clearly shows “faith” as the last desperate (and fruitless) cry of the doomed, while Girl shows those who have a mindset of the worst-case scenario are most likely to survive. And yet that survival is worthless if you’re left alone in the end.
She might have been happier with the frenzied search for easy solutions that killed Cat.
May 16, 2011
I think it does a disservice to Cat and Girl to imagine they exist in reality. Even when they’re inhabiting fantasy worlds we all know, they’re not in the real fantasy.
May 16, 2011
Condoning suicide much?
May 17, 2011
The free market has decided that you weren’t holding on to that branch hard enough.
May 20, 2011
Naw… grabbing onto a branch when all your friends are dissipating? What constitutes failure, kids?
June 2, 2011
But what if you are a great success at failing?
June 6, 2011
Thats not fair! using Hokusai to represent failure! SHAME!! :)
August 17, 2011
i think she found some ground to stand on.
also, the birds look like 2’s.
August 31, 2011
Ah, crap.