The Legend Of Domino The Cat, By The Oatmeal (Comic)

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Feb 11, 2020 3:00 PM EST

This is one emotional rollercoaster of a comic strip. But we wouldn't expect anything less from The Oatmeal! 

You may recall some of their other hilarious comics, 'Having a Baby vs Having a Cat,'  or 'How to Walk a Human Being (a Guide for Dogs).'

Both instant classics. 

Domino, on the other hand, is more of a legend. A cat who is unique, with a derpy face and constantly drooling -- the story of Domino will be told from generation to generation. 


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  • 01
    Cartoon - When I was about ten, my dad brought home a stray cat. We named him Domino because of the black and white spots on his face. He was always a sweet cat, but he was always kind of broken. BLEH HEH НЕН Н!
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  • 02
    Cartoon - Cartoon - He foamed at the mouth when he purred. GURGLE BLEPT THIPT THPT HICK GRTSTHPT he couldn't run in a straight line, Domino's guide to getting from point A to point B- 1.) Sprint 2. Crash 3. Pivot and he never quite figured out how to use the cat boX. THRPT!
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  • 03
    Text - Domino wasn't our only cat. we had more: seventeen of them, to be exact. And they ll crapped in the same box, a box my parents made me clean every day for ten years. (My childhood was The Shawshank Redemption of cat shit.)
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  • 04
    Cartoon - Cartoon - We'd brought them with us when we moved from California to Northern Idaho. My uncle had agreed to drive all of them up a few days after we moved. All seventeen of them for 1,300 miles. And after 30 hours of driving., he arrived at our house, released the cats, And left without saying a word. VROOM
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  • 05
    Cartoon - Cartoon - I always liked to imagine that he left so abruptly because our cats had told him of the location of an ancient cat treasure . guarded by a terrible CatterWocky which my uncle Smote upon the earth And for his valor, he spent his remaining days bathed in gold and glory. NOBEL PRIZE IN CATS AWARDED TO UNCLE GARY FOR DRIVING 17 CATS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND THEN SLAYING THE CATTERWOCKY ON THE WAY HOME This is not the truth. But it's how I like to think of him.
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  • 06
    Cartoon - The first few months in Idaho were hard. These were city cats and within six months half of them Vanished into the woods, never to be seen again. Most likely, they were all illed by coyotes but I always liked to imagine that they survived and formed a cat colony. They had lots of kittens, PEW PEW! PEW PEW! established order, and a sovereign nation was born. ECAT-CIPATION PROCLAMATION A nation which still controls the northern tip of Idaho. People's Republic of Cat- Canada USA This is n
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  • 07
    Cartoon - But not Domino. He never strayed far from the house. We loved him. but he was the kind of pet you had to love from a distance. Domino's at the window. Should we let him in? Not now. He's all drooly. ECK HEH HEHE THRPTTTT
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  • 08
    Cartoon - Text - It was 3 o'clock in the morning on January 8th, 1993 when my brother shook me awake. He yelled something and then ran out of the rooM. The room was really smoky. My brother used to wake up before me and start a fire in the wood stove, though, so I ignored the smoke. I got dressed for school, walked to the bathroom, and proceeded to brush my teeth. I kept brushing. until I noticed something odd. mT There were EMBERS coming out of the ceiling And at that moment, my brother burst i
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  • 09
    Cartoon - Auto part - My sister heard it first, awoken by the sound of roaring flames outside her bedroom door. So she ran from room to room, waking everyone up. OHMYGOSHHOLYGODDAMNSHITTHERE'SA FIRE! There's a fire! Pass it on. Including my brother, who in turn woke me up. It was a three story house, and the fire started near the fireplace on the second floor. We all gathered downstairs, pulled on boots and blankets, and ran outside, up a snowy trail that twisted alongside the house.
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  • 10
    Cartoon - Text - THERE'S A FIRE, BRING WATER AND DALMATIONS AND STUFF My mom stayed upstairs and called the fire department. The smoke was making it difficult to breathe, so she opened a sliding glass door. The sudden change in pressure caused a backdraft, and all the windows in the house exploded at once. Everyone on the side of the house had to dive into the snow, to avoid the ensuing fireball that rained down soot and glass. are most definitely a bad thing, Although explosions it's kinda awes
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  • 11
    Cartoon - Text - Ten minutes after we got out of the house, the third floor collapsed onto the second floor, which collapsed onto the first, imploding the house into one giant room of fire. By the time the fire department showed up. there was nothing they could do, so we ll just sat huddled in my dad's Jeep TA24 and watched.
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  • 12
    Cartoon - Cartoon - The house burned for three days, and afterward an investigator told us that the cause of the fire was a fault in the chimney. Fire was most certainly the cause of your house burning down. I am eternally thankful that my sister woke up when she did and that the story of my family did not end there. The story of our bazillion CATS, however,' did end there. VVLI Because it was the middle of winter, they'd all been indoors when the house burned down, and every single one of them
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  • 13
    Cartoon - Cartoon - Because the next day, I returned to the house and saw the smoldering wreck that used to be our home. I thought about all our kitties, and I wept. But my sobs were soon punctured by a strange Nolse, MREP! a noise that sounded exactly like. HRMPF MRAP! Domino. ECKBLEH HEH НЕН НЕЕ We'd brought seventeen cats with us to Idaho. Nature, predator, and fire took sixteen of them to the grave, but not Domino. Not the broken one. I learned an important lesson that day Count your blessin
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