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From Book 1: The Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale writes her first graphic novel, a cat-centric all-ages New York Times bestselling adventure.
On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by his own experiment and merges with the DNA of a cat and an owl. What follows is a humorous, action-driven, pulp-inspired superhero adventure-- with a lot of cat puns.
Lauded novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate on one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of the year!
Published in over thirty-five countries, Margaret Atwood is one of the most important living writers of our day and is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her work has won the Man Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, Premio Mondello, and more. Angel Catbird is her first graphic novel series.
Atwood's The Blind Assassin was named one of Time magazine's 100 best English-language novels published since 1923 and her recent MaddAddam Trilogy is currently being adapted into an HBO television show by Darren Aronofsky
On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by his own experiment and merges with the DNA of a cat and an owl. What follows is a humorous, action-driven, pulp-inspired superhero adventure-- with a lot of cat puns.
Lauded novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate on one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of the year!
Published in over thirty-five countries, Margaret Atwood is one of the most important living writers of our day and is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her work has won the Man Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, Premio Mondello, and more. Angel Catbird is her first graphic novel series.
Atwood's The Blind Assassin was named one of Time magazine's 100 best English-language novels published since 1923 and her recent MaddAddam Trilogy is currently being adapted into an HBO television show by Darren Aronofsky
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Margaret Atwood
669 books90.2k followersMargaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
Associations: Margaret Atwood was President of the Writers' Union of Canada from May 1981 to May 1982, and was President of International P.E.N., Canadian Centre (English Speaking) from 1984-1986. She and Graeme Gibson are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International. Ms. Atwood is also a current Vice-President of PEN International.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
Associations: Margaret Atwood was President of the Writers' Union of Canada from May 1981 to May 1982, and was President of International P.E.N., Canadian Centre (English Speaking) from 1984-1986. She and Graeme Gibson are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International. Ms. Atwood is also a current Vice-President of PEN International.
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March 16, 2022
After 162 pages, in which lots of silly battles between rats and cat-people occur, I just didn’t care anymore. The characters had no depth, the puns and word-play were so bad and took up more space than the plot. Half-cats came out of the wood work and half-owls too (Atheen-owl!) and the rivalries were just sad.
It made me think that Atwood really had only read the really bad pulp comic books when she was about 10 or 12 and that’s what she thought they had to be like. The story line might have been good, but the execution was just horrible and it was waaaay too long.
My son might actually read this though and enjoy it. I’ll try it on him and see what he says.
It made me think that Atwood really had only read the really bad pulp comic books when she was about 10 or 12 and that’s what she thought they had to be like. The story line might have been good, but the execution was just horrible and it was waaaay too long.
My son might actually read this though and enjoy it. I’ll try it on him and see what he says.
July 8, 2018
Quien se lo compre porque ha leído El cuento de la criada o algo en plan serio de la autora y espera encontrar lo mismo, que se olvide.
En Angel Catbird, Atwood despliega un sentido del humor delirante y en ocasiones muy absurdo pero que funciona de maravilla. Un cómic ideal para los amantes de los gatos (y de los búhos, los cuervos y los murciélagos!).
En Angel Catbird, Atwood despliega un sentido del humor delirante y en ocasiones muy absurdo pero que funciona de maravilla. Un cómic ideal para los amantes de los gatos (y de los búhos, los cuervos y los murciélagos!).
June 3, 2022
Cartoon or graphic books are not my usual genre, however, as a Margaret Atwood fan I wanted to read this book. THE COMPLETE ANGEL CATBIRD was gifted to me by a secret reader, and I must say "Thank you, Secret Reader. This is a book that I can read more than once or twice."
I love the graphics and the plot! The art done by Johnnie Christmas along with colours by Tamra Bonvillain is fantastic. The 'cat' puns made me smile. The cat facts and tips at the bottom of some pages are enlightening.
I recommend this book to cat lovers and middle grade and older students.
4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I love the graphics and the plot! The art done by Johnnie Christmas along with colours by Tamra Bonvillain is fantastic. The 'cat' puns made me smile. The cat facts and tips at the bottom of some pages are enlightening.
I recommend this book to cat lovers and middle grade and older students.
4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 27, 2018
💪🏻En mi propósito de terminar libros que tengo en casa ....me metí en lecturas XXL,así que las novelas gráficas y los cómics están siendo una alternativa para intercalar lecturas.
🐦 Así me encontré con esta sorpresa y es que no conocía esta faceta de la conocidísima Margaret Atwood que en este caso vemos en este tomo que recientemente Sexto piso nos trae al español de "Angel Catbird".
📚Os adelanto que no pienso leerme nada más de la autora en esta línea .
Pero me ha encantado conocer lo polifacética que es y como es capaz de llegar a todos los géneros,la introducción me maravillo.
👏🏻Merece un aplauso el dibujo de Johnnie Christmas y el trabajo de Tamra Bonvillain .
💛De Margaret destacó sus golpes de humor ,a pesar de ser una historia tan rocambolesca .Con su sentido del humor me he reído aún sin querer.
Destacar el ingenio al crear grandes personajes apoyándose en la historia literaria como el Conde Gatula,Buatenea... 🐱 Tiene una labor de concienciación hacia el trato a los animales ,en especial a los gatos y los pájaros .Pero a mí los pies de páginas con datos reales e información sobre las especies ...no me interesan en un comic y me sacan de la historia...quizás en un epílogo hubiesen funcionado mejor.
🐦 Así me encontré con esta sorpresa y es que no conocía esta faceta de la conocidísima Margaret Atwood que en este caso vemos en este tomo que recientemente Sexto piso nos trae al español de "Angel Catbird".
📚Os adelanto que no pienso leerme nada más de la autora en esta línea .
Pero me ha encantado conocer lo polifacética que es y como es capaz de llegar a todos los géneros,la introducción me maravillo.
👏🏻Merece un aplauso el dibujo de Johnnie Christmas y el trabajo de Tamra Bonvillain .
💛De Margaret destacó sus golpes de humor ,a pesar de ser una historia tan rocambolesca .Con su sentido del humor me he reído aún sin querer.
Destacar el ingenio al crear grandes personajes apoyándose en la historia literaria como el Conde Gatula,Buatenea... 🐱 Tiene una labor de concienciación hacia el trato a los animales ,en especial a los gatos y los pájaros .Pero a mí los pies de páginas con datos reales e información sobre las especies ...no me interesan en un comic y me sacan de la historia...quizás en un epílogo hubiesen funcionado mejor.
March 14, 2022
This starts like a typical superhero comic. Ordinary guy, something unusual happens and he turns into a superhero — in this case he shapeshifts. The process goes pretty quickly. Dude plus cat plus owl… it‘s a flying cat-bird!
More to Issue #1…
No deeper thoughts or elaboration, one cliché follows the next. Simplistic story telling. Feels like middle-grade/YA. No surprises, no tension, it sort of pointlessly ambles along. The bad guy is obvious, because ugly. Women traipse around half naked in their shapeshifted half-forms. The MC has a silly name. And why is there a vampire in this? Seriously, this comic is silly.
I expected interesting story telling from Margaret Atwood. This is as shallow as it can get, one-dimensional and formulaic. What was she thinking?
So much for Issue #1. Why on Earth is a story this shallow taking so many pages? It‘s not as if there is any character development or decent world building happening. Normally I would toss this, but as it‘s a buddy read, I will proceed to Issue #2… ★★☆☆☆
Onwards to Issue #2!
Oh good, the evil rat-guy tells us exactly what he wants to do to our heroes. Suspense, where art though? Ok, the rats doing charades with him, because they can‘t talk—that was pretty funny… other than that this issue was pretty much a waste of space. Seriously, the meagre plot could have been told in a third as many pages, because the artwork certainly didn‘t make up for the almost non-existent story. I skimmed through half of this. Boo-Hoo Mew Mew! ★☆☆☆☆
Issue #3! Sigh…
Yeah, no. I skimmed though half of this, then fast forwarded to the end. This is too daft to read. The artwork is getting sloppier as well, with less and less detail. Last words of the one-dimensional bad guy: „I will return!“ Please don‘t, this was no fun. And 70 pages of additional artwork etc., you have got to be joking. This is an embarrassment for any self-respecting pulp fiction. ★☆☆☆☆
More to Issue #1…
No deeper thoughts or elaboration, one cliché follows the next. Simplistic story telling. Feels like middle-grade/YA. No surprises, no tension, it sort of pointlessly ambles along. The bad guy is obvious, because ugly. Women traipse around half naked in their shapeshifted half-forms. The MC has a silly name. And why is there a vampire in this? Seriously, this comic is silly.
I expected interesting story telling from Margaret Atwood. This is as shallow as it can get, one-dimensional and formulaic. What was she thinking?
So much for Issue #1. Why on Earth is a story this shallow taking so many pages? It‘s not as if there is any character development or decent world building happening. Normally I would toss this, but as it‘s a buddy read, I will proceed to Issue #2… ★★☆☆☆
Onwards to Issue #2!
Oh good, the evil rat-guy tells us exactly what he wants to do to our heroes. Suspense, where art though? Ok, the rats doing charades with him, because they can‘t talk—that was pretty funny… other than that this issue was pretty much a waste of space. Seriously, the meagre plot could have been told in a third as many pages, because the artwork certainly didn‘t make up for the almost non-existent story. I skimmed through half of this. Boo-Hoo Mew Mew! ★☆☆☆☆
Issue #3! Sigh…
Yeah, no. I skimmed though half of this, then fast forwarded to the end. This is too daft to read. The artwork is getting sloppier as well, with less and less detail. Last words of the one-dimensional bad guy: „I will return!“ Please don‘t, this was no fun. And 70 pages of additional artwork etc., you have got to be joking. This is an embarrassment for any self-respecting pulp fiction. ★☆☆☆☆
December 23, 2019
Heavy-handedly didactic and just full to bursting with the lamest jokes, it also has a cast too large by half and a silly plot (or: sillier than you’d imagine, given the premise). I want to say I liked the art, but I guess it’s just regular fare. Cats deserve better, all round! I’ve yet to read ”The Testaments”, but for now this is another proof that in this decade Atwood just hasn’t been trying too hard.
December 17, 2020
триста сторінок катастрофічних котячих каламбурів – це значно більше, ніж мені будь-коли треба було. це жахлива книжка, і не в сенсі so bad it's good, а просто.
втім, мушу зізнатися, i had fun. but a very peculiar kind of fun – як від відео з претендентами на премію дарвіна, коли ви з жахом уявляєте, що буде далі, не втримуєтеся від фейспалмів, бо вашу уяву виправдовують і перевершують, але відірватися не можете.
втім, мушу зізнатися, i had fun. but a very peculiar kind of fun – як від відео з претендентами на премію дарвіна, коли ви з жахом уявляєте, що буде далі, не втримуєтеся від фейспалмів, бо вашу уяву виправдовують і перевершують, але відірватися не можете.
August 6, 2021
I…. did not enjoy this.
March 15, 2024
Margaret Atwood, literary superstar, turns her hand to writing a superhero comic! I'd never heard of this before, and it turns out there's a good reason: it absolutely sucks. Three hundred pages of awkward exposition, overwritten dialogue, and an endless machine-gun barrage of bad jokes. Angel Catbird is based on a character Atwood daydreamed as a young child (we even get to see some of her original six-year-old-Margaret art of some winged cats). So for this project she set herself the task of bringing this childhood fixation into the 2010s, and transforming an adorable flight of fancy into a spunky, handsome hero for herself and all the other 78-year-old cat ladies out there. The artwork is that special kind of "American artist drawing anthropomorphic characters but with no connection to furry" ugliness that gives all but two characters an uncanny Cats (2019) look and robs the proceedings of any residual charm. (There are two exceptions: Ray, a bit-player who turns into a cool raven, and the villain, Dr. Murine, who turns into an actually fun- and monstrous-looking rat-man). The writing is particularly bad: one-note characters, an interminable barrage of cat/bird/rat puns...it's like Atwood was afraid of silence, because every, EVERY scene is laden with quips and snarky comments from the cast, that were probably meant to be cute and charming but get extremely annoying after the first ten pages. This book is also very, very horny, but it's the chaste heterosexuality that I can only compare, again, to Cats (2019).
Our protagonist is personality-free and driven only by plot necessity and a version of feline (and avian) psychology that seems cribbed from "#JustCatThings" Facebook pages and novelty greeting cards. He immediately accepts his new life as a cat-bird-man and falls instantly in love with the first cat-lady (and later the first bird-lady) he meets. The supporting cast are barely first draft ideas, the most cringeworthy of which is "Count Catula", a vampire-bat-cat-man who dominates the middle third of the book. Really, the entire thing is empty of tension or excitement or fun, with the occasional exception of the villain. Dr. Murine is a whisker-twirling supervillain with an army of rats poised for world domination, and he actually has some good scenes (he has a Ratmobile, even!), though Atwood might have wanted to take another pass on the "secret half-rat society pulling the strings behind every world government" thing. Especially in a book whose foreword namedrops Maus.
And speaking of much, much better comics, I have to talk about the forewords. In the first, Atwood lays out her credentials as a young and deeply invested Golden Age comics fan, paying particular attention to titles such as Pogo and early superheroes. The other forewords, by G. Willow Wilson and Kelly Sue DeConnick, spent a lot of time talking about Atwood's greatness and literary legacy, and the rest of their time trying desperately to fit Angel Catbird into the same lineage as Pogo, Jack Kirby or classic pulp comics. There is an implication that Atwood, by turning her enormous Booker-Prize-winning mind to the humble world of comics, is engaging with the medium on a level not seen in decades. DeConnick even spends time gushing about how this is a great example of 'Comics as Pedagogy': the regular pop-up info-boxes about responsible cat ownership and ecology facts that accompany relevant (and clunky) moments in the text. In one hilarious example, the protagonist and cat-lady kiss, but she tells him "This is moving too fast...I've never been a one-cat kitten". The information box at the bottom of the page tells us, helpfully, how important it is to spay your cat. This has less edu-tainment potential than the average episode of Captain Planet.
Despite its relentless crappiness, I am happy I read this, as it is a good reminder that even the greatest creative minds can produce absolute stinkers, especially when given carte blanche. I feel bad for Christmas and Bonvillain, who did their best with a big pile of bad ideas. A dreadful, tedious, unfunny vanity project produced by a great writer whose brain must have been riddled with toxoplasmosis.
Our protagonist is personality-free and driven only by plot necessity and a version of feline (and avian) psychology that seems cribbed from "#JustCatThings" Facebook pages and novelty greeting cards. He immediately accepts his new life as a cat-bird-man and falls instantly in love with the first cat-lady (and later the first bird-lady) he meets. The supporting cast are barely first draft ideas, the most cringeworthy of which is "Count Catula", a vampire-bat-cat-man who dominates the middle third of the book. Really, the entire thing is empty of tension or excitement or fun, with the occasional exception of the villain. Dr. Murine is a whisker-twirling supervillain with an army of rats poised for world domination, and he actually has some good scenes (he has a Ratmobile, even!), though Atwood might have wanted to take another pass on the "secret half-rat society pulling the strings behind every world government" thing. Especially in a book whose foreword namedrops Maus.
And speaking of much, much better comics, I have to talk about the forewords. In the first, Atwood lays out her credentials as a young and deeply invested Golden Age comics fan, paying particular attention to titles such as Pogo and early superheroes. The other forewords, by G. Willow Wilson and Kelly Sue DeConnick, spent a lot of time talking about Atwood's greatness and literary legacy, and the rest of their time trying desperately to fit Angel Catbird into the same lineage as Pogo, Jack Kirby or classic pulp comics. There is an implication that Atwood, by turning her enormous Booker-Prize-winning mind to the humble world of comics, is engaging with the medium on a level not seen in decades. DeConnick even spends time gushing about how this is a great example of 'Comics as Pedagogy': the regular pop-up info-boxes about responsible cat ownership and ecology facts that accompany relevant (and clunky) moments in the text. In one hilarious example, the protagonist and cat-lady kiss, but she tells him "This is moving too fast...I've never been a one-cat kitten". The information box at the bottom of the page tells us, helpfully, how important it is to spay your cat. This has less edu-tainment potential than the average episode of Captain Planet.
Despite its relentless crappiness, I am happy I read this, as it is a good reminder that even the greatest creative minds can produce absolute stinkers, especially when given carte blanche. I feel bad for Christmas and Bonvillain, who did their best with a big pile of bad ideas. A dreadful, tedious, unfunny vanity project produced by a great writer whose brain must have been riddled with toxoplasmosis.
November 22, 2018
Por bien que me caiga Margaret Atwood, no puedo evitar decirlo: ¡Qué malo es este cómic! Tiene la ingenuidad de ciertos tebeos tempranos de superhéroes, que en estos resulta entrañable, pero no así en Angel Catbird, porque nada en él contribuye a ello. Ni la trama simplona, ni los personajes de cartón pluma, ni el ritmo narrativo que va a tirones, ni los chistecillos que dan vergüenza ajena. Es un híbrido de cómic (malo) para niños y folleto de sociedad protectora de animales. De las dos estrellas que le doy, una es sencillamente porque habla todo el rato de gatos.
Ay, tengo ganas de enterrar la cara en la tripa de mi gato y gemir suavemente hasta que se quite el rubor de mis mejillas, a ver si así logro dejar de pensar en este faux pas de la señora Atwood. Y lo haría, si mi gato no fuera a intentar arrancarme la nariz a bocados. Otra vez.
Ay, tengo ganas de enterrar la cara en la tripa de mi gato y gemir suavemente hasta que se quite el rubor de mis mejillas, a ver si así logro dejar de pensar en este faux pas de la señora Atwood. Y lo haría, si mi gato no fuera a intentar arrancarme la nariz a bocados. Otra vez.
April 21, 2019
In the intro, Atwood talks about that the inspiration for this came from her interest in comics as a kid. Unfortunately, the plotting and dialogue read as if they were written by a kid. This emulates pulpy comics of the '50s in all the worst ways, and has every cat pun imaginable. And the random cat facts/statistics scattered throughout break the flow.
Honestly if this had been a single-issue comic, it might have worked, but a multi-volume series was too much.
Honestly if this had been a single-issue comic, it might have worked, but a multi-volume series was too much.
February 18, 2021
Entretenido, divertido y bastante bobo. Me gustó mucho la información que da sobre cuidar y proteger las aves y los gatos.
Acabo de descubrir The Sandman de Neil Gaiman un día después de leer esto jaja y me ha hecho preguntarme si alguna editorial seria de cómics aceptaría publicar Angel Catbird si fuera de un autor novel... me parece que no.
Acabo de descubrir The Sandman de Neil Gaiman un día después de leer esto jaja y me ha hecho preguntarme si alguna editorial seria de cómics aceptaría publicar Angel Catbird si fuera de un autor novel... me parece que no.
August 22, 2021
Super weak and punful. I was kinda looking forward to this and the introduction from Atwood as well as forewords from G Willow Wilson and Kelly Sue DeConnick promised so much, but it's utter tripe. No character development, no jeopardy, just an endless stream of silly gags and preachy footnotes. This was a real drag.
January 5, 2019
This was really disappointing. I rather enjoyed The Handmaid's Tale, but this was dumb, punny humor, preachy, and not particularly well developed. Easy pass
December 29, 2024
This was an interesting graphic novel written by Margaret Atwood. Where different species come together to save the world! From the book jacket “ A genetic engineer, caught in the middle of a chemical accident suddenly finds himself with superhuman abilities. With these new powers, he takes on the identity of Angel Catbird and gets caught in the middle of a war between animal/human hybrids. What follows is a humorous, action driven, educational, and pulp inspired superhero adventure with a lot of cat puns.
May 16, 2020
Margaret Catwood, pardón, Athoot! 🐈🦉
No dobre, Margaret Atwood napísala šarmantne silly komiks o zvieracích ľuďoch (alebo ľudskosťou postrašených zvieratách?) a ponúka s ľahkosťou všetko, čo len superhero komiks ponúknuť môže (a aj čosi atwoodovské a vzdelávacie navyše). Zhltnuté za dva dni, super oddychovka!
No dobre, Margaret Atwood napísala šarmantne silly komiks o zvieracích ľuďoch (alebo ľudskosťou postrašených zvieratách?) a ponúka s ľahkosťou všetko, čo len superhero komiks ponúknuť môže (a aj čosi atwoodovské a vzdelávacie navyše). Zhltnuté za dva dni, super oddychovka!
December 28, 2018
I really wanted to enjoy this!
The pitch was promising: "Margaret Atwood writes a genetic engineer turned superhero, with cat puns!" It didn't really work for me, though. The characters were thin, the worldbuilding was confusing and/or underdeveloped, the love story was unjustified, and I didn't care about the villain and never thought he had a hope of success.
It did work on a pedagogical level- I am less likely to have an outdoor cat after reading. Maybe that's what mattered to the author.
The pitch was promising: "Margaret Atwood writes a genetic engineer turned superhero, with cat puns!" It didn't really work for me, though. The characters were thin, the worldbuilding was confusing and/or underdeveloped, the love story was unjustified, and I didn't care about the villain and never thought he had a hope of success.
It did work on a pedagogical level- I am less likely to have an outdoor cat after reading. Maybe that's what mattered to the author.
December 14, 2020
He leído muchas novelas gráficas y cómics, me encantan y me ayudan a a hacer una divertida, y muchas veces también interesante, pausa entre lecturas pesadas, laborales y por placer... pero esta definitivamente me decepcionó en muchos sentidos. Sólo voy a decir que es una historia simple, plana, llena de chistes bobos... y que sólo la estoy terminando de leer porque los dibujitos me entretienen y pues ya la compré. Si hay que escoger entre un abanico actualmente muy amplio de novelas gráficas de diversos temas y estilos, yo no recomiendo invertir dinero en esta.
November 4, 2021
This book was entirely insane, which I can certainly respect, but it was also desperately reaching for the wide-eyed naivete of the golden age of comics (which makes perfect sense as framed by the author's introduction) that doesn't work well at all any more. I finished reading it because I was interested in how we were going to tie up the insanity, but I wasn't rewarded in equal measure. Anyway, recommended if you're a furry into golden age comics and can say "it's a bird! It's a plane!" without irony.
February 7, 2023
This is the second graphic novel I've read by Margaret Atwood this year...who knew??? Although I loved the illustrations and seeing the fun side of Ms. Atwood, this got almost too corny for me with all the cat jokes and references. I did, however, enjoy the cat facts that showed up on the bottom of some pages. They were good information for cat owners and certainly imply that Ms. Atwood is a cat lover herself.
July 19, 2019
I've always liked Margaret Atwood. I LOVE cats! I love puns. This should be a home run. Sadly, I hated this. It was just dumb. The things that could have made this work all missed their mark. The plot wasn't silly or cute, it was incredibly lame. The half animal hybrids made no sense and then you add vampires, gods, and mummies? Not for me.
December 11, 2020
I'm sure there's a market for 300 pages of bad cat puns, but I'm not it. At its best, this has a certain amount of Batman 66 charm. At its worst, it has very unfortunate jokes about rats taking over the world by using banks to enact their secret agenda (seriously, Atwood?). Most of it, though, is just rather tired attempts at being funny with very little substance.
January 8, 2021
If you're expecting the kind of intelligent and meaningful writing you normally get from Margaret Atwood, you'll be disappointed. Instead, this is a somewhat inane storyline and a constant stream of punny cat (and bird and rat and mouse, and even vampire and mummy) jokes that are so lame and overdone that they are almost painful after a while.
March 25, 2021
A too faithful tribute to the action comics Atwood read as a child. Unlike most of Atwood's writing, I put this down when done reading and felt nothing about it. Unremarkable, and mostly silly. This feels very much like a vanity project and I'm not so big an admirer of hers to be excited by auto-fanfic.
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January 23, 2024Margaret Atwood got to age 80 and decided to write a comic about her anthropomorphic owl-cat OC, and who was going to stop her? I really hoped it'd be good, but sadly not. I know it's meant to be cheesy and it's paying homage to old comics, but that didn't make it any easier to read. I don't want to give it a bad rating for the sake of the artist and colourist, but I don't recommend it.
March 9, 2021
Vaya desilusión, pero es que además de tener las expectativas altas, no he encontrado nada original la historia ni los personajes. Un conjunto de tópicos, estereotipos y lugares comunes que no lo salva ni el protagonismo de los gatos.
May 2, 2021
Not really my cup of tea. Had nothing else to listen to. It was a full cast audio which was good, like being in the theater, but without the visual effects it wasn't as effective.
The story was kind of silly too, some funny puns but nothing special.
The story was kind of silly too, some funny puns but nothing special.
January 16, 2023
Es un cómic muy bobo, lleno de mil estereotipos. Pero esta bien dibujado y entretiene. Dudo que si no estuviera detrás el renombre de la autora, esto Hubiera visto la luz. Pero al final cumple su función y entretiene. No muy bisne, pero entretiene
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January 9, 2019A superhero comic by Margaret Atwood promoting bird conservation!
I didn't like it as much as I'd hoped, but it was still pretty good. I like the sketches and storyboards in the back of the book.
I didn't like it as much as I'd hoped, but it was still pretty good. I like the sketches and storyboards in the back of the book.
February 1, 2019
I really wanted to Love this! To me the dialogue was stilted and somewhat awkward. I liked the art but found the story jarring slot of the time
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