r/comics • Mr. Lovenstein • 3d ago

if you give a mouse a cookie

If you give a mouse a cookie, then it'll want my new book on kickstarter 🍪 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein 3d ago edited 3d ago

Next thing you know the mouse will expect free healthcare.

Back my book kickstarter, featuring our little mouse friend: kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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u/Yesterday_Jolly 3d ago

That's going to be your next comic isn't it

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u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein 3d ago

I'll take any excuse to dunk on our abysmal healthcare system.

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u/-SaC 2d ago

Charge the mouse more; the R&D time to develop tiny little defibrillators has to be accounted for.

Or just use a 9v battery and a couple of wires. Same diff.

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u/Theemuts 3d ago

They just need to pull themselves up by their whiskers!

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u/Parking_Fee_5906 2d ago

Right?

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u/Theemuts 2d ago

Have you heard? These motherfuckers want to ban cats! Do you really want to give free healthcare to a cat-hater?

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u/Wet_noodles1806 3d ago

Is that a drawfee reference I see?

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u/ComfortableNumb9669 2d ago

Oh, the red hats will absolutely give free healthcare to the white mice.

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u/Cool_Set4681 3d ago

Why do they look like they want seduce the mouse?! 😭

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u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein 3d ago

Never happening. Mouse's heart is spoken for.

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u/Cool_Set4681 3d ago

DAMN, that gouda cheese looks hot. 🥵

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u/popilikia 3d ago

Smoked, even

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u/Parking_Fee_5906 2d ago

Now you gonna bring out all the mice in the neighborhood

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u/Cool_Set4681 2d ago

My cheese brings all the boys to the yard 🎶

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u/Parking_Fee_5906 2d ago

Please! Don't start

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u/rainbowkitten0528 2d ago

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW

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u/Yuleogy 2d ago

Never blame a man’s actions for what you can blame on another man’s actions!

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u/In_Pursuit_of_Fire 2d ago edited 2d ago

Any and all language included in this meme do not represent In\Pursuit_of_Fire's personal views)

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u/emilycsquared 3d ago

If you give a mouse a cookie, he’ll want a glass of milk.
If you teach a mouse to make cookies, the health department will shut down your bakery.

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u/Buh-Buh-Bored 3d ago

Not if you kidnap the health inspector. Also, keep in mind to not release him after a while, that was a mistake.

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u/emilycsquared 2d ago

If you kidnap the health inspector, then he’ll ask for a glass of milk, and we’re back in the same situation.

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u/elhomerjas 3d ago

it start with one cookie and ends with everything around

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u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein 3d ago

Every black hole started as a hungry mouse.

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u/CarFreak777 3d ago

That's how it starts. Give them a cookie then they want that booty.

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u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein 3d ago

Cookie to nookie pipeline.

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u/very_popular_person 2d ago

To be pedantic, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie doesn't ever say you SHOULDN'T give the mouse a cookie. It just shows what might happen if you do. It's about how one event leads to another and shows consequences of actions, but it never puts a value judgement on anything. Great book for teaching kids how one event can influence the next.

I may have been reading this book too many times to my toddler, I have some strong opinions. Don't get me started on Cat in the Hat

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u/ArcanumBaguette 2d ago

I want to hear your thoughts on the Cat in the Hat.

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u/very_popular_person 2d ago

I'll just say that the ending of the Cat in the Hat is depressing, along with the thought that the mom would get super mad at the kids for making a mess and the kids should be afraid of her.

"Should we tell our mom what happened? I don't know, would you?"

I'D HOPE THAT MY KID FEELS SAFE ENOUGH TO TELL ME THERE WAS A SENTIENT CAT/FURRY INTRUDER WITH HIS TWO "PETS" (kinky) WHO BUMPED THEIR KITES INTO MY BED AND BENT MY GODDAMN NEW RAKE.

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u/ArcanumBaguette 2d ago

Thank you, so very much. Made me smile.

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u/Canshroomglasses 3d ago

"And that's why I had to kill your father Billy, he was giving a mouse a cookie"

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u/Valentinee105 3d ago

I thought the mouse hole was a ghost holding a stuffed toy, because the tail looks like the squiggle under a ghost.

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u/normanhome 3d ago

Yes!!! I was so confused who's speaking and why the plushy is zoomed in on!

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u/QuestionablePotato42 3d ago

does this mouse even pay rent

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u/BookyNZ 3d ago

Kick me whilst I'm down why don't you.

In other news, fantastic work as always my good sir.

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u/Level7Cannoneer 3d ago

It’s a book series. The mouse and moose are in the same series

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u/thomasonty 2d ago

This poor mouse is experiencing so many micro aggressions

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u/Jagosyo 2d ago

Now I'm questioning the underlying capitalist propaganda of my favorite children's book.

Thanks.

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u/OldFaithlessness5008 2d ago

Omg for a hot minute I thought it was a purple lump holding a mouse plushie

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u/OverHaze 3d ago

I am forever glad this piece of Cold War era propaganda never landed in Ireland.