The paw of doom

One of the odd things about 'Smith' is that it makes no sense to anyone reading it in black and white. Jones and Smudge look exactly the same as one another before the colouring is added, and there are a few strips that rely on the colour renderingbefore the joke appears. In this case the shadow of Smudge's paw doesn't appear in the original artwork.

I saw Bella playing with a wasp today, and she got stung on her paw before I could stop her. She licked her paw a couple of times and then went back to her game of bashing the wasp, letting it go and bashing it again. She's hardcore.