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Commander Kitty is a weekly webcomic by Scotty Arsenault featuring the misadventures of a cast of Funny Animals in space.

Commander Kitty is an aspiring spacer, always on the lookout for ways to make a name for himself in the annals of space history, but with his resources consisting of a ship that barely holds together, a barely competent helmsman, an engineer that speaks in fluent gibberish, a little girl who's on his ship for no discernable reason, a cut-rate teleporter he doesn't have a license for, and the most user-unfriendly AI imaginable in charge of everything, it doesn't look like he's going to get there any time soon.

Meanwhile, after a job gone bad separates her from her crew and gets her arrested by the Triple-I, rogue spacer Nin Wah is summarily Thrown Out the Airlock and saved only by a chance teleporter accident that puts her on board CK's ship. She's not happy with being shanghaied into his crew of fools, but once she learns he's going to team up with Ace and his Velvet Knight crew for a job, she plays along...if only for a chance at joining up with the greatest spacer crew in the galaxy.

Little do any of them realize that the villain who lured Nin Wah's crew into a trap is still at large, and the key to her plans of galactic conquest is a certain legendary spacer's brain!

Was on hiatus for a year, as the creator focused on his new job in the animation industry but returned in 2016. However in December 2017 the comic went on indefinite hiatus due to the financial problems of the creator and the comic failing to become commercially viable. At the end of 2019 the comic came back from the dead yet again, only to promptly return to being on hiatus in early 2020, where it has remained since.


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  • Only Sane Man: Surprisingly, Kitty himself gains this role during the Zenith arc, being the only one to think to just yank out the hard drive with the galaxy's population on it and wanting to plan their escape while everyone insisted he get a new outfit.
  • Pardon My Klingon: The all-purpose swear word "numph."
  • Police Are Useless: The Triple-I kinda zigzag on this, being competent to pose a threat to the heroes, but useless against the real threat. Justified by the majority wearing iKnows.
  • The Pollyanna: Ace, surprisingly. Despite looking for all the world like Han Solo if he were a cartoon cat, he often has an almost childlike optimism about everything, from the prospect of meeting a Jerkass like CK to being completely oblivious to creepy crowds calling his arrival.
  • Punched Across the Room: With a belly, in fact!
  • Ridiculously Human Robot: Zenith, so much that she doesn't even realize she's a robot. She's even implied to eat and cries at one point.
  • "Second Law" My Ass!: MOUSE. // I HATE THE LIVING...
  • Sexy Man, Instant Harem: This happens to CK early in the story. Or seems to—it's part of the All Just a Dream sequence.
  • Shout-Out: Has its own page!
  • Similar Squad: The Velvet Knight, run by Ace. Ace is charming, liked, and respected by his crew, and has a reputation as a spacer who can get the job done. In short, he's everything Kitty wishes to be but just isn't. Needless to say, Kitty doesn't like him one bit.
  • Slapstick: Nin Wah quite possibly takes more abuse than the Commander himself.

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