Near Miss

We laugh about it, but at some point you just have to cry.

122 thoughts on “Near Miss

  1. Poor, poor Gamercat and friends. Sadly, this is true, especially in Australia; there’s been christmas and even easter products for almost the whole year now. :(

    1. I work at Coles and our first Christmas products arrived early September, but it is vastly outnumbered by our Halloween products which onlt got put up at the start of October.

      1. agreed there is a chrismas shack that has been open all year now :[

    2. It’s true here in the States, too. Although I haven’t seen easter yet, our Halloween section at many stores is right next to Christmas stuff. Even home improvement stores have giant yard inflatables out already, only some of which are spooky, right near the tinsel-decked trees.

      It’s enough to make me stay home rather than go out.

    3. even in quebec canada the christmas products where on display in the beggining of september in the Korvette

    4. Yeah I went to Target to buy halloween decorations and there was a big sign saying “christmas decorations”.
      So, what the derp

    5. Only YOU can help prevent premature Christmas Decoration.

      Act Today if you’re tired of this!

      1. Did you notice Gamercat has a scarf instead of a bandanna?

        1. He was cold.

  2. First!!! Also it was late today!!!

    1. Dammit by one minute ;-;

      1. Oooooooooo!!! You said a baaaad!

      2. Sir, This is a Christian Halloween Christmas Store Server. No Swearing!

    2. Maybe next time :) (oh, and next time say something interesting besides “first”.

      1. Anyone notice that that’s the first cuss word in the comments? That means…

        1. The GaMERCaT 2.0

          it means what!!!!!

    3. Means their in the true retail spirit :D
      Happy hecking holidays

      1. it means that they’re gonna have a bad time.

  3. ChaosSorceror_Davidicus

    Holidays are like the seasons… they don’t obey the calendar.

    1. Well, technically they do. The problem these days is the Holiday SEASON.

  4. The stores near me start putting out Thanksgiving decorations in September. I don’t remember this sort of thing when I was a kid.

  5. Glitch in the last panel was so cute I wanted to hug him.

    1. is it me or glitch eye are fixed from the “accident”

  6. Tragically true… -_-‘

  7. Also, I have a suggestion for Glitches costume this year.
    It would make me so happy is glitch was foxy from fnaf this year.

    1. The next comic is coincidentally about Glitch picking out a costume.

      1. And sadly it’s not anything FNAF related, but still have hope, cause the costume that was in there is NOT the costume he gets.

  8. Craft stores have to put out holiday stuff months ahead of time so people can work on projects well in advance. Specialty wreath and tree makers have to start working on orders months ahead of time. What I don’t get is why places like Walmart and home improvement stores stock their shelves so early. I figure people must be buying them, otherwise why waste the retail space? Maybe it’s psychological. Get people thinking about holiday consumerism early and could drive up sales of other products for three whole months.

  9. I hardly bother with decorating now. Get so burned out seeing it all every time I go grocery shopping for so long.

  10. A Sad August Shopper

    My heart’s been cryimg abot this for years. The only reason I laugh about this is the fact that it gets earlier and earlier every year.

  11. Retailers, you make kittens cry!

    1. The retailers must pay now for their crimes

    2. Die Retailers

  12. Kind of glad that in Germany this is better handled. Our biggest shopping mall even gets the fitting decoration depending on what event comes up next

    1. Unfortunately not – we had Christmas stuff in the end of April… All that Lebkuchen, Spekulatius and Stollen is next to the few small halloween stands and I know that a few stores had to restock already.

      1. Well then you seem to live in another part of Germany than I do

    2. Graypaw=Warriors? Aw man the memories! :D

  13. We all feel the kittens’ pain. Some stores seem to have become year round Christmas shops. Honestly, they might as well just divide the store into sections by holiday… I’ve been seeing Christmas stuff since MAY in my area! O.o And whatever happened to Thanksgiving!?! It’s like they all go Halloween –>> Christmas and maybe, if you’re lucky, you’ll see a single solitary lonely turkey. I miss the little Pilgrims and Indians and cornucopias!! You see the colorful leaves, but half the time they have Halloween specific stuff attached to them so they don’t really work for Thanksgiving so that holiday ends up being reduced to fall leaves, uncarved pumpkins and that one lonely turkey. :(

  14. IS NO ONE GOING TO TALK ABOUT GAMERCAT’S FACE?! HE LOOKS LIKE A COLLEGE STUDENT BEFORE FINALS!

    1. OH ME GERD! YOU’RE RIGHT! LOOOOOOOOL

  15. My local store has three full aisles of Halloween stuff!.. next to the five for Christmas.

    1. We just want to give those who want things early what they want.

  16. I wish these would come out twice a week

    1. Me too

      1. Wait NO NO NO- *a train hit Ninsega21*

        1. Heh does any one else watch asdf movie? #asdfmovie

  17. Glitch’s yellow sweater is adorable! I also suddenly read his lines in my head with the voice of Alphonse from FMA Brotherhood.

  18. GOSH DARN IT WALMART, YOU’RE MAKING CHILDREN CRY! SHOW CHRISTMAS STUFF ON NOVEMBER!

  19. You’re comics are great! I love it. Buuuuuut… YOU CAN’T FIGHT THE HOMESTUCK!

    1. Go tell mister “I TYPE IN ALL CAPS AND MY NAME MEANS RED AND ORANGE” that :)

      1. I heard hooomestuuuuuck~

        1. hey you wanna start some sick fires-

  20. It sickens me to see that some people are so obsessed with Christmas (*cough* hallmark channel *cough*)that they start celebrating it TWO holidays before it

    1. The hallmark channel on tv is sending out Christmas movies in JULY and starting the Christmas countdown in SEPTEMBER.

      1. Lol. 100 days till Christmas!

        1. I saw Hallmark channel and immediately wanted to punch something. I have a deep, passionate hatred for Hallmark channel and the crap they put out. My mom is a die-hard Hallmark fan, so I have to sit through all of that crap OVER AND OVER, EVERY YEAR. And what really gets me is most of their “Christmas” movies aren’t even really about Christmas; they’re simply about a romance that occurs during the holiday season and then gets some corny “Christmas spirit message” slapped on the end.

        2. WHO ELSE HATES HALLMARK CHANNEL!? #nobodylikeshallmarkchannel

        3. Also my mom is the same

        4. 369 days until Christmas!

      2. “Christmas in July” is actually a thing (you can read the wikipedia entry about it – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_July) , but it used to be JUST July. Then you wouldn’t see Christmas stuff until November. Then the retailers and advertisers clambered on board the “Christmas in July” train and finally figured out that they could milk it through the entire summer and still push holiday sales through until Easter. Mark my words: by December (if not before) you will see Easter eggs and Mardi Gras masks right beside all the four leaf clovers and Valentines candy. :(

  21. Poor of them X_X

    I’ve seen worse a year : we were end of september and there was already the “kings cake” in shops , when it’s for the 6 of january …………….

    1. I’m always a “duh” face when i see such things happen ……….

  22. PLEASE MAKE AN ULTRA SUN AND MOON POKÉMON COMIC

  23. #whenyoushopforholoweencotstumesandeverythingthereischristmas

    1. It explains why I’ve seen so many Santas, elves and reindeer yelling Trick or Treat on October 31st… I blame Tim Burton and his Nightmare Before Christmas. He gave retailers the idea… ;P jk

      1. YES TIM BURTON GIT OUT

        1. I DONT EVEN KNOW WHO THAT IS
          Iamsosorryiamsosorry

  24. TBH, many people don’t celebrate Halloween. Plus, I watched this movie about a kid who had this cancer and he celebrated Christmas on Halloween because he was going to die before Christmas started. It was a heart-breaking movie, but it was good.

    1. Know about this french movie , but never got the strength to watch ………… X_X

      1. same. literally, a french one.

  25. I spent waaaay too many years on midnight stock for a wholesale club, the xmas stuff usually started coming off the trucks at the end of June and beginning of July. I actually cried a little the first time I saw that, and I am an unusually large man.

  26. It’s finally October… And that means time to get SPOOPYYY- oh no, Christmas already….

    1. Me neither. But if you have played undertale, displaying as Nabstablook is easy.

  27. lol i don’t have a costume yet…

  28. At least transformice isn’t doing that.

  29. this happens every year with me too xD

  30. can please, PLEASE bring back annonymouse!!

    1. yesss!!!

      1. Yeah! They were only in the GC comics twice, but they’re in the character bios. So please, put them in another one!

  31. At the Home Depot near my house, the area of Christmas stuff is twice the area of Halloween stuff

  32. Just so I know, say I if you clicked my name (even is it was by accident), please. Just wanna know if I want the only one that went to my site

  33. Ninsega, is your name a combination of Nintendo and Sega?

  34. I still say GC should play Minecraft

    1. Minecraft is okay, i play it every now and then.
      My mom though…

      1. They NEED to add minecraft comics

        1. They did

  35. I loved Halloween as a kid, and for me it was a party where creativity and gales were kings, unlike christmass when we needed to behave with the family.

    Unfortunately, Halloween is now almost not celebrated in France anymore. Not even the kids disguise themselves.

    I am now considered an outcast for celebrating Halloween and wearing costumes on the 31th…
    At what point the world went so boring honestly ?

  36. so off-topic it’s insane but I survived Friday the 13th yesterday.

    1. ? What you mean?

      1. simply no bad luck I guess. glassy is confusing and glassy is sorry-

  37. Revenge time… keep Halloween decorations up until December 31st.

  38. I went to Jo Ann fabrics in late July…. BAM HALLOWEEN STUFF
    and when I finally want to get my SPOOPS on..it’s Christmas

    (╯ຈل͜ຈ) ╯︵ ┻━┻

  39. I once visited a WalMart in which they had Christmas decorations on one side of the aisle and Halloween decorations on the other side. I am surprised lightning bolts weren’t flying across the aisle.

  40. Lock@Shock@Barrel

    Uh… did they miss halloween or is the decoration store blind?

  41. Wow I was just at a department store and wow, same

  42. I really like reading through a post that can make people think. Also, many thanks for permitting me to comment!

  43. Love it, it’s definitely important to know how to do this properly and efficiently, clients LOVE these.

  44. That’s because OCT 31=DEC 25,isn’t it?
    Well,I mean that demical 25 equals to octal 31.

  45. just what I was looking for :D

  46. xem trực tiếp bóng đá hôm nay

    Great

  47. This line positive thinking can solve anything is on my mind

  48. You should start celebrating in june

  49. they started running the christmas commercials about two weeks ago and i’m already seeing a few ugly christmas sweaters. by the way, i live in the states.

  50. Hi! I am here now. Yeah.

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