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Samurai Cat #4
The Sword of Samurai Cat
Traces the adventures of Miaowara Tomokato and his nephew Shiro, as they encounter mad Russian zombies, vampires, and aliens from outer space
307 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1991
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Mark E. Rogers
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Mark E. Rogers was an American author and illustrator. Rogers, while a student at Pt. Pleasant Beach High School, wrote a short novel, The Runestone, which has since been adapted into Willard Carroll's 1990 film starring Peter Riegert and Joan Severance, although it remains unpublished, except as a numbered, signed limited edition chapbook published by Burning Bush Press in 1979. At the University of Delaware, he continued his interest in writing, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. He was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
He thereafter became a professional writer. His published works include the Samurai Cat
series; a number of novels, The Dead, Zorachus, and the latter's sequel, The Nightmare of God; a series of books known as Blood of the Lamb; and another series called The Nightmare of God. He has also published three art portfolios and a collection of his pin-up paintings, Nothing but a Smile.
Rogers often had heart problems, he died from apparent heart failure while hiking with his family in California's Death Valley.
source: Wikipedia
Please see: Mark E. Rogers
Mark E. Rogers was an American author and illustrator. Rogers, while a student at Pt. Pleasant Beach High School, wrote a short novel, The Runestone, which has since been adapted into Willard Carroll's 1990 film starring Peter Riegert and Joan Severance, although it remains unpublished, except as a numbered, signed limited edition chapbook published by Burning Bush Press in 1979. At the University of Delaware, he continued his interest in writing, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. He was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
He thereafter became a professional writer. His published works include the Samurai Cat
series; a number of novels, The Dead, Zorachus, and the latter's sequel, The Nightmare of God; a series of books known as Blood of the Lamb; and another series called The Nightmare of God. He has also published three art portfolios and a collection of his pin-up paintings, Nothing but a Smile.
Rogers often had heart problems, he died from apparent heart failure while hiking with his family in California's Death Valley.
source: Wikipedia
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July 23, 2016
Miowara Tomokato and his little nephew-slash-sidekick-slash-apprentice Shiro take on all kinds of villains. Why did I write out the word "slash" like that instead of using "/", you might wonder? Well, Grasshopper, that's because there's a lot of slashing, not to mention slicing, dicing, shooting, blasting, dousing, pulverizing, annihilating, wasting and other types of obliterating going on here. All of it aimed at the villains, of course. And what outrageous baddies they are too, borrowed from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Indiana Jones and more pop-culture staples.
Unfortunately for me, it's number four in a series of six, of which I lack numbers one to three and five to six. In other words, it's the only one I've got, and I'd like--no, scratch that, love--to find more. However, it works quite well as a stand-alone.
A very over-the-top, violently self-conscious but nevertheless hilarious parody from first to slashed--er, last.
Unfortunately for me, it's number four in a series of six, of which I lack numbers one to three and five to six. In other words, it's the only one I've got, and I'd like--no, scratch that, love--to find more. However, it works quite well as a stand-alone.
A very over-the-top, violently self-conscious but nevertheless hilarious parody from first to slashed--er, last.
May 21, 2020
This volume just isn't as fun as the previous volumes, probably because there are only a few oil paintings which were an inherent part of the humor of the various stories. Also, this seems like a "grudge" book-the last story is nonironically called "Heart Of Darkness" when it refers to Hollywood and the movie industry.
This volume makes the usual entertainment parodies-zombie movies, The Temple Of Doom, an alien invasion of a cruise liner, as well as the aforementioned final chapter. Still has its laughs, though not as good as the previous stories.
This volume makes the usual entertainment parodies-zombie movies, The Temple Of Doom, an alien invasion of a cruise liner, as well as the aforementioned final chapter. Still has its laughs, though not as good as the previous stories.
March 24, 2012
The best thing about Samurai Cat, at least as I remember him, was always the illustrations. The story, always rehashed material too heavy on puns, seemed to be an excuse for the absurdist pictures and a hero who had minimal awareness of the ridiculousness during his hijinks.
Unfortunately, The Sword of Samurai Cat (the version the library sent to me) is very low on illustrations, heavier on puns and awkward spelling (which tends to slow my reading speed way down), and insists on having Tomokato give a running commentary about how other successful writers and filmmakers suck. This is most jarring when Rogers spends the entire second short story (I treated the book as a series of connected short stories) ragging on Stephen King for not being original. But nothing Rogers does is at all original; it relies on parody, satire, and outright appropriation of other people's intellectual property.
Eventually, the stories start to go somewhere, but I was severely disappointed in this effort.
Unfortunately, The Sword of Samurai Cat (the version the library sent to me) is very low on illustrations, heavier on puns and awkward spelling (which tends to slow my reading speed way down), and insists on having Tomokato give a running commentary about how other successful writers and filmmakers suck. This is most jarring when Rogers spends the entire second short story (I treated the book as a series of connected short stories) ragging on Stephen King for not being original. But nothing Rogers does is at all original; it relies on parody, satire, and outright appropriation of other people's intellectual property.
Eventually, the stories start to go somewhere, but I was severely disappointed in this effort.
August 12, 2013
2.5 stars. This volume feels like Rogers typed it up and printed it out without checking for typos or flat jokes.
January 26, 2015
Absurd and gratuitously violent, yet not actually funny. I expected more from you, Tomokato.
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