Back in February 2021 writer Tony Fleecs and artist Trish Forstner released the first issue of their four issue comic series Stray Dogs from Image. This review isn’t about that at all, but I wanted to mention it as background. Stray Dogs was the answer to the question “What would a smash up between Silence of the Lambs and Lady and the Tramp be like?” If you haven’t read it, do yourself a favor and fix that. But again, this isn’t about that. It’s about the two of them reuniting for a new ongoing series from Image, this time focusing on cats.

I think the only reason it didn’t have the title Stray Cats was because of the song (your brain is welcome now as you internally sing it for the remainder of reading this, and possibly the day.) All kidding aside though, this series primarily is following a trio of house cats who are suddenly thrust into the wild. The setup we see is that they have been taken from their home by force. For some reason. By animal control no less. Oh yeah, I know it’s a comic, but did I mention that just like in every Disney movie the animals can talk to each other? The three house cats keep going round and round about wanting to find a human to take them home. Because humans are all nice. Because home is where safe is. Because outside is just plain scary. (Two of those last three sentences I feel are grounded in reality. You decide which two.)

Safe from what though? We quickly learn that there is some sort of virus affecting animals. Making them incredibly vicious and aggressive. The three main housecats though are like children. Not expecting anything bad to be happening, because at home things are good. And all they have to do is find their way home and then everything will be all better.

I’m not through the first story arc yet as they haven’t published enough to finish it. I hadn’t yet mentioned that this is an ongoing series. Which means that you too can get a monthly recurring dose of new cute and cuddly horror kitties all of your own!

As of the current issue I comfortably give this an 8 star rating. When a new issue comes out, it will certainly be the top of my read stack. As an aside, my weekly comic book read stack is no longer the 60 some odd books it was when I had my comic shop. But still, top of the stack is top of the stack.