I admit it; I’m almost totally confused. I don’t mean by the usual Rivera parody of animals in the dailies (panel 1) that are posed like hunting decoys and outlined in heavy magic marker. That’s just the standard and juvenile “Rivera spit-in-your-eye” insult to those readers she apparently believes are a bunch of fat, white male “sportsmen.” Goodness, I do seem to be getting more acidic in my commentary. I’ll try and write with a bit more decorum, or at least dress it up more acceptably. Next time. 

Catios do exist, I discovered, and are relatively inexpensive. So, I don’t see what the big deal is. Just have the Sunny Soleil Society pull out their credit card and order the biggest one they can get from Home Depot. Ernest can put it together, if he wants to be helpful. But how is it Cherry thinks Mark has any carpenter cred? What has he ever built? 

Panel 4 shows a bunch of panel lumber propped up against a building. But a catio is composed mostly of 2x4s and screening. This certainly supports Cherry’s assessment that nothing good is coming out of that deal with Honest Ernest. 

Finally, “Holy Winchester Mansion!” Okay, what does a Victorian period house in California have to do with this story, except to act as the object of a hipster Batman trope? There’s certainly nothing about haunted houses or ghosts in this story, so far. I may be taking this comment too seriously.