Are those the other shoes?

I live in the suburbs of metaphor city, similetown.

And the shoes are a metaphor for… ?

“Your journey is over,” perhaps?

Oh, I get it. It’s a metaphor.

aren’t similetown & metaphor city twin cities? and personificationville their connecting suburb? and analogyburg where the property values are plummeting?

They’re all in the state of Syllogism, connected by the Circular Logic Frwy.

Can’t figure whether Ironyville would be the part of town where no one can afford the houses they live in, or the ghetto.

You live in Similetown? What’s that like?

Alan wins this round.

I imagine walking a mile in cowboy boots would be the best out of those.

Brace yourselves, I feel a meta-storm coming on…

:( I can’t figure out the shoes thing…

*cough*overanalysis*cough*

I like to think that cat and girl is just a really clever way of confusing people who critically analyze everything.

I want to know what happens when You leave Metaphor City…

WHAT’S THAT? GRAMMATICAL ERRORS? ALLOW ME TO IGNORE YOU!

:p

Well – alright, but I still don’t get the shoes…

the shoes are a metaphor for metaphors.

It is ironic. “Waiting for the shoe to drop” is used when a person expects something to happen in conjunction with a specific occurrence. In this case, cat arrived at Metaphor City. When he sees the city, he (or perhaps the reader) expects something to happen. He (or the reader) is thus “waiting for the shoe to drop.” Since he is at Metaphor City, the metaphor immediately embodies itself. In effect, something happens, which is what he (or the reader) expected. But as soon as what was expect actually occurs, the metaphorical shoe has fallen, and so the shoe that is the embodiment of the metaphor also falls.
Are you with me?
Now, the reason there are so many shoes is because each time Cat (it is probably just Cat) sees a shoe, he expects it to drop, that is, expecting something to happen. As a result, he is perpetually “waiting for the shoe to drop,” which it inevitably does–over and over and over…
Although, the reason there are so many shoes could also be because each person who reads this comic reaches the end of it expecting something to happen and are thus “waiting for the shoe to drop,” and thanks to the powers of Metaphor City, they do, allowing the readers to, in a sense, bring about their own punchline. Now, this final interpretation is entirely dependent on the size of Cat and Girl’s readership…or the author wants us to think she does…

Fox talks smart things at us.

Maybe Cat even got burried under the shoe heap, that is, under the expectations of readers over-analyzing the strip

Don’t tread on me.

Thanks Fox, very insightful

BTW, “for the other shoe to drop”. We would only “wait for the shoe to drop” if it were a one legged man. And not an unexpected volley like Cat got.