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!fritzmwm@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