Shoe, 8/24/25

You of course all know that one of my favorite things to grapple with in every Shoe strip that's even vaguely bird-related is "Did the Shoe creative team remember that all their characters are birds when they wrote this joke?" Many of the regular bird characters have bird-related names -- P. Martin Shoemaker, Cosmo Fishhawk, Loon, Roz Specklehen, Muffy Hollandaise ... uh, well, not her, but you get the point -- so for this one, I'm concluding that all these celebrities are not the ones we know and love but are their aviamorphic counterparts in the Shoeniverse. "Steven Seagull" was the tipoff. Anyway, no idea what The Birds was about in this reality, but I'm assuming it portrayed birds in a much more positive light than Hitchcock did in his frankly offensive anti-bird polemic.

Luann, 8/24/25