My Cage: Difference between revisions
Rescuing 2 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8
(Rescuing 2 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta10ehf1)) |
(Rescuing 2 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8) |
||
(5 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{work}}
{{outdated}}
[[File:My_cage_logo_200711.png|frame|"This is King Features calling to inform that you have been cancelled."]]
''[[My Cage]]'' is a syndicated comic strip by Melissa DeJesus and Ed Power. It features a world of [[Animesque|anime-inspired]] anthropomorphic animals, including our hero, Norman T. Platypus, who looks to survive the daily rigors of his soul-sapping office job at [[McGuffin]] Inc. when he would much rather be poor and creative. He's joined in his personal hell by his co-workers, included Ashley, a tiger that delights in tormenting him, Maureen, his attractive gold-digging office mate, Jeff, an incredibly stupid shark that works out of a bathtub, Rex, a doberman who is the egotistical fiance of Violet, a chihuahua with the darkest of hearts, and finally the boss Max, a red dog who Norm believes to be Satan himself. Rounding out the cast is Norm's
The strip ran from May 6, 2007 until it was suddenly [[Too Good to Last|
{{tropelist}}
* [[Acme Products]]: [[MacGuffin|McGuffin]] Inc. and its rival [[Deus Ex Machina]] Industries
* [[Alliteration]]: [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20091020&name=My_Cage Emil the Emo Emu]
* [[After the End]]: [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20081109&name=My_Cage Maureen explains to Lily that humans disappeared off the Earth a long time ago and animals
* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]: Norm is a platypus, but he's blue.
* [[Animesque]]: King Features boasts of it being the first anime-inspired newspaper comic. [[Did Not Do the Research|Despite evidence]] [[The Boondocks|to the contrary.]]
Line 16 ⟶ 17:
* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20080724&name=My_Cage Maureen does her impression of a "celebutante".]
* [[Book Ends]]: The final strip, much like the first, has Norm reading a Snapple fact on a bottlecap. This one says "The End".
* [[Brand X]]: Parodied when buying [[ISO Standard Urban Groceries|more generic groceries]] Norm asks what's in the box
* [[Call Back]]: Norm tells Bridget that [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20070522&name=My_Cage Ashley is a 300-pound crack addict with a rare skin disease.] About five months later [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20071002&name=My_Cage Ashley returns the favor.]
* [[Carnivore Confusion]]: Parodied in one strip: Ashley (the ''tiger'') mentions she's a vegetarian. Norm replies "We live in a world of talking animals! If we're not vegetarian we go to jail!"
Line 49 ⟶ 50:
* [[Four-Girl Ensemble]]: Norm admits everything how knows about women is what he's seen on TV, as depicted in [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20090611&name=My_Cage this strip].
* [[Furry Confusion]]: Subverted with Squishy the Amoeba.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140917045543/http://www.gocomics.com/mycage/2011/05/17 Parodied here.]
* [[Geeky Turn On]]: [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20081002&name=My_Cage Norm has a thing for smart women.]
** [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20090904&name=My_Cage Its also why Norm and Bridget belong together. Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming]
Line 95 ⟶ 96:
** The strip for [http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/comic.asp?feature_id=My_Cage&feature_date=2010-10-17 October 17th, 2010] made another shout to the Comics Curmudgeon community and its founder, Dean's Comic Booth, The Daily Comics Review, and several Curmudegeonites and other fans of the strip by name.
** To [[John Hughes]] in a Sunday Strip shortly after his death.
* [[Species Surname]]: Just about everyone, including the parody celebrities.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20081017&name=My_Cage Kenny The Unicorn is definitely not Max's illegitimate son.]
Line 100 ⟶ 102:
** [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20090510&name=My_Cage Norm and Bridget's off-panel break-up] was also intended as a slam against ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'', which ended its run with a [[Wall of Text]] epilogue after a main character's wedding that attempted to explain what should have been shown in the strip in only a few panels. In ''[[My Cage]]'', the only people happy after the wedding are the bride and groom, because they hated the wedding and the honeymoon and they thrive off being miserable.
* [[Take That, Critics!]]: [http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/comic.asp?feature_id=My_Cage&feature_date=2010-10-06 In one of the final strips,] the authors made a special mention of a Comics Curmudgeon forumite named kahvigirl who had written a diatribe where she accused ''My Cage'' of being nothing more than "''[[Cathy]]'' in furry drag". They awarded this poster the Golden Squishy for "Best insult of 'My Cage' on the Internet".
▲* [[Ted Baxter]]: Rex.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Norm quits his job after yet another idiot was put in charge. "We'll be OK as long as there aren't any [[Law of Inverse Fertility|surprises.]]"
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Used in this [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20080817&name=My_Cage sitcom parody], and then later made official with Norm and Bridget's marriage. In still more [[Lampshade Hanging]], [http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20100207&name=My_Cage Maureen once complained] about people expecting her to go through with this trope. Cue Norm's panicked attempt to distract Bridget.
Line 111 ⟶ 112:
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Newspaper Comics]]▼
[[Category:My Cage]]
[[Category:
▲[[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 2000s]]
|