fritz@hpfclk.UUCP (fritz) (09/19/84)
If you're looking for a healthy dose of excessive silliness, you might want to check out *The Adventures of Samurai Cat*, by Mark E. Rogers. This oversized, illustrated book chronicles the exploits of the great feline samurai, Miaowara Tomokato, as he seeks to revenge the murder of his daimyo (lord). Tomokato is a *mean* mother (bystanders are wont to utter "What a stud!"), but is also the picture of *bushido* (samurai chivalry), and takes on everything from armies of Porks (orcs) to Fenrir Wolf, the Midgard Serpent, and Surtur the Fire-Giant with aplomb. His venegance takes him through several adventures in strangely-familiar-sounding places: Catzad-Dum (^ over the u), where he meets up with an old greybeard with a blue light on his staff and a retinue of 8 elves, dwarves, humans, and short guys with furry feet, and battles disgusting Porks and the fearsome B'aalhop ("Give us a tip, my love") The Book of the Dunwich Cow, where he meets the Real Old God K'Chu (Cthulhu) and his sidekick Bl'syu The Pictish woods, where he and Con-Ed the Barbarian defeat the Porka Picts (th-th-th-that's all, folks!) and the evil wizard Thpageti-Thoth You get the idea. The book is full of punny names, in-jokes, and sight-gags, and is a good time for light entertainment. The illustrations are almost as hilarious as the text. Just don't expect any literary classics! Gary Fritz {ihnp4,hplabs}!hpfcla!hpfclk!fritz
mwm@ea.UUCP (09/29/84)
A resounding second to the notion of reading "The Adventures of Samurai Cat." Very funny, very silly. Thpageti-Thoth, indeed! Pure Intellect One, <mike