Mutant Cats: Volume 1

by Morgan Rosenblum, Alex Arizmendi (Artist), Morgan Rosenblum

Mutant Labs is your typical science lab. They do work on rockets, gene splicing, finding cures, and you know…interdimensional energy type stuff.

The company is currently working on their potentially biggest breakthrough a renewable energy device strong enough to power an entire city block, but small enough to fit into the palm of your about the size of a ball of yarn, and comprised of a powerful synthetic thread that draws power from alternate planes of existence. It’s complicated, but it works, trust us. So what’s this great innovation called? Mutant Labs are currently calling The Cluster.

But with all great inventions, hubris is always a problem. The Mutant Labs higher-ups want the Cluster ready for market “yesterday”, forcing project leader Flux and his team of idiot geniuses to scramble and cut some corners to get it working in time for the big event. But taking shortcuts can be dangerous when you’re working with that interdimensional energy type stuff.

With realities overlapping, we’ve now entered the Mutantverse. And let me tell you, it’s a real cluster fu@%.

Genres: Graphic Novels

152 pages, Hardcover

Published August 20, 2024

Reviews

[Joe Dutton · Rating 1 out of 5]

Promise that i only read this for work bc i had to

[Theediscerning · Rating 2 out of 5]

Coming on like a book coloured, written and prepared by and for ten year olds, this does settle down into something more amenable. A bunch of humanoid cats are experimenting on some weird energy source, when BAMF, it goes wrong, some weird zombie things that are supposed to look like the cats (except they completely fail to do so) emerge from some other corner of the multiverse, and the now-wrecked energy supply has to be readied not only for the commercial roll-out but to get the zombies back home.

What this isn't is funny, nuanced, or well-made, but it's not dreadful. It gets silly for silly's sake – it knows it is to succeed with young teenaged boys and nobody else – and unapologetically doesn't care about being that coherent. Heck, it pretends like we know this franchise and these characters of old when this is the first we've heard of them. (Or probably is, I should say.) The very randomness of it all means I'd be forced to give it two and a half stars, but as I say it's not a complete waste of paper.

[Raven Black · Rating 1 out of 5]

Totally and completely warped. If that is you, this is the book you want to read. I am not that person. There are a few funny moments, but overall the gross out effect was too much for my tastes. If I was the person who likes over the topness, this would be a four.

[Kate · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was interesting.