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Fat Whack: The Fat in the Machine
Fat Whack is back!
It's New Year's Eve, 1999. Time to celebrate the beginning of a new millennium! Instead, people all around the globe are waiting in trepidation for computers to rise up and take over the world. It's a silly thing to fear—or is it?
Meanwhile, Carina Lopez is still on the road to recovery after a traumatic experience involving a fat man pumped full of demons and medication. Ninja #5's daughter, Kumiko, has begun training her in the Fat Whack Way. She will be the clan's first trainee in over a decade.
Steven, also known as Ninja #5, has decided to take a well-deserved break, and everyone's surprised when Alda decides to go with him.
Billy Ito and Drew have taken on the monumental task of rebuilding the Fat Whack brand from the ground up. It will take hard work, patience, and some imagination to get the public back on board after all these years.
The Fat Whack family are all moving forward with their new responsibilities. Unknown to them, a new threat is on the rise. People are being torn apart like cheese in a grater. A path of severed limbs and gruesome death leads the Fat Whackers into a violent confrontation—one that they might not all be able to survive. This murderous machine is fat with evil, and some fat is harder to whack than others.
It's New Year's Eve, 1999. Time to celebrate the beginning of a new millennium! Instead, people all around the globe are waiting in trepidation for computers to rise up and take over the world. It's a silly thing to fear—or is it?
Meanwhile, Carina Lopez is still on the road to recovery after a traumatic experience involving a fat man pumped full of demons and medication. Ninja #5's daughter, Kumiko, has begun training her in the Fat Whack Way. She will be the clan's first trainee in over a decade.
Steven, also known as Ninja #5, has decided to take a well-deserved break, and everyone's surprised when Alda decides to go with him.
Billy Ito and Drew have taken on the monumental task of rebuilding the Fat Whack brand from the ground up. It will take hard work, patience, and some imagination to get the public back on board after all these years.
The Fat Whack family are all moving forward with their new responsibilities. Unknown to them, a new threat is on the rise. People are being torn apart like cheese in a grater. A path of severed limbs and gruesome death leads the Fat Whackers into a violent confrontation—one that they might not all be able to survive. This murderous machine is fat with evil, and some fat is harder to whack than others.
148 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 10, 2019
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Andrew Franks
7 books48 followersAndrew is a former pastor that now tells horror stories that reflect the mental struggles his young mind dealt with as it navigated church culture.
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May 18, 2020
Well, well, well .... Andrew Franks does it again! A fantastic continuation to Book One, It's A Fat World After All.
It's 1999! The millennium ... Y2K! Do you remember what you were doing? I do!! I was just a teenager at a party with a bunch of friends, it got a bit silly ... I remember that countdown, waiting for the world to end. What an anticlimactic result that was. 3,2,1 .... nothing. Well, except for it was actually everything, nothing crashed, power stayed on, party continued. Life goals!
Most mind blowing/satisfying chapter goes to - New Year's Baby - ha ha ha - revenge is a dish best served cold ;)
Page 109 - omg I haven't laughed that hard in forever!!! Seriously! I cried! Then proceeded to send pictures to every person in my life that shares my ridiculous sense of humor .... HAAAAA!!
Overall another very entertaining and enjoyable read!! I for one am VERY excited to see where the next book takes these characters ...
Huge thank you to Andrew for my copy!!
It's 1999! The millennium ... Y2K! Do you remember what you were doing? I do!! I was just a teenager at a party with a bunch of friends, it got a bit silly ... I remember that countdown, waiting for the world to end. What an anticlimactic result that was. 3,2,1 .... nothing. Well, except for it was actually everything, nothing crashed, power stayed on, party continued. Life goals!
Most mind blowing/satisfying chapter goes to - New Year's Baby - ha ha ha - revenge is a dish best served cold ;)
Page 109 - omg I haven't laughed that hard in forever!!! Seriously! I cried! Then proceeded to send pictures to every person in my life that shares my ridiculous sense of humor .... HAAAAA!!
Overall another very entertaining and enjoyable read!! I for one am VERY excited to see where the next book takes these characters ...
Huge thank you to Andrew for my copy!!
April 4, 2020
"Pick up your ear, put in your pocket, and let's go."
I loved the insanity of the first book and it certainly didn't stop with this one. Prison blimp wars, giant mutated animals, vampire scientists, ghost blankets, Terminator-esque robots, and fat whacking ninjas with . . . *unusal* . . . powers - if anyone has proven he can tie these things together in a crazy, coherent story, it's Andrew Franks. If you liked the first one, you'll love this one, and if you haven't read either, then what are you waiting for? These books are the perfect escape to our surreal reality right now!!
I loved the insanity of the first book and it certainly didn't stop with this one. Prison blimp wars, giant mutated animals, vampire scientists, ghost blankets, Terminator-esque robots, and fat whacking ninjas with . . . *unusal* . . . powers - if anyone has proven he can tie these things together in a crazy, coherent story, it's Andrew Franks. If you liked the first one, you'll love this one, and if you haven't read either, then what are you waiting for? These books are the perfect escape to our surreal reality right now!!
August 13, 2020
“ I want to make America fat again.”
Are you having trouble with your diet? Junk food calling you to the fridge in the middle of the night? Can you even see your toes anymore?! Well, I have a solution for you. Master Chapton Ito’s Fat Whack business where you can hire a ninja to literally whack that junk food straight out of your life. Business is booming, calories are being KILLED - until obese children start to go missing. Abducted into the woods.
What a book to have crossed my path! Not my typical read but hey, I love variety. I’m going to start off by being honest and say that the first book was not my favorite of the two. I felt it was rushed, the story uncared for, and I could just tell it wasn’t taken seriously so it made me passive. What I could ALSO tell, however, is that the second book is much more cared for! Definitely an improvement! It’s always a pleasure to see a writer grow.
This book is lighthearted and fun. Expect a few laughs, expect a few toilet humor jokes and child’s play. What I would suggest is this book would be a great read aloud with a child. There are ninjas and some interesting characters such as Anteater and Bad Preacher that, although I haven’t been a child for quite some time, I think children would greatly enjoy and get a laugh out of. The artwork on the cover is amazing - I love food and seeing these food-animal hybrids brings interest. Check it out, and, if anything, relish in the fact that amazing, whacky ideas like this exist in story form!
Side Note: the books were originally meant to be comics and after having read them, I could definitely see them benefiting greatly from graphic form.
Are you having trouble with your diet? Junk food calling you to the fridge in the middle of the night? Can you even see your toes anymore?! Well, I have a solution for you. Master Chapton Ito’s Fat Whack business where you can hire a ninja to literally whack that junk food straight out of your life. Business is booming, calories are being KILLED - until obese children start to go missing. Abducted into the woods.
What a book to have crossed my path! Not my typical read but hey, I love variety. I’m going to start off by being honest and say that the first book was not my favorite of the two. I felt it was rushed, the story uncared for, and I could just tell it wasn’t taken seriously so it made me passive. What I could ALSO tell, however, is that the second book is much more cared for! Definitely an improvement! It’s always a pleasure to see a writer grow.
This book is lighthearted and fun. Expect a few laughs, expect a few toilet humor jokes and child’s play. What I would suggest is this book would be a great read aloud with a child. There are ninjas and some interesting characters such as Anteater and Bad Preacher that, although I haven’t been a child for quite some time, I think children would greatly enjoy and get a laugh out of. The artwork on the cover is amazing - I love food and seeing these food-animal hybrids brings interest. Check it out, and, if anything, relish in the fact that amazing, whacky ideas like this exist in story form!
Side Note: the books were originally meant to be comics and after having read them, I could definitely see them benefiting greatly from graphic form.
January 10, 2021
Forgiveness is key.
Sometimes authors have a hard time with the second book in a series, Andrew Franks did not.
The cover art is on point and a definite draw and on point.
The author does a good job with building upon the familiar characters from the first book. The addition of Bad Preacher was a bonus, especially with his message about forgiveness.
The story builds upon some aspects and melds it with Y2K. By the time I read the last page I realized I wanted more.
This is the perfect book that keeps you on your toes and turning the pages. If you have not read Fat Whack: It's a Fat World After All yet, make sure you pick that one up before you dive into this one.
Sometimes authors have a hard time with the second book in a series, Andrew Franks did not.
The cover art is on point and a definite draw and on point.
The author does a good job with building upon the familiar characters from the first book. The addition of Bad Preacher was a bonus, especially with his message about forgiveness.
The story builds upon some aspects and melds it with Y2K. By the time I read the last page I realized I wanted more.
This is the perfect book that keeps you on your toes and turning the pages. If you have not read Fat Whack: It's a Fat World After All yet, make sure you pick that one up before you dive into this one.
December 18, 2019
Even better than the first! Just enough closure for this book, and yet it left me looking forward to the next! Loved Bad Preacher...loved the underlying message of forgiveness. A touch of love being in the air was nice!!
March 20, 2020
The second book in the Fat Whack series was full of surprises and just a fun book to read. It is great to see a truly original story.
July 31, 2020
The author did an amazing job of building on the story he created in the first book. This book has a startling amount of pathos and heart for such a fast pace story. Fun and witty homages to pop culture references are cleverly woven throughout the book. He also adeptly sustains the sense of wild unpredictability that made the first book so appealing. I thoroughly enjoy his creative shenanigans juxtaposed to deep emotional moments. It really is a rare read and well worth your time.
March 13, 2020
Fat Whack The Fat in the Machine is the sequel without sequelitis. It improves on the first and continues the story with twists and emotional strings you wouldn't expect possible in a 150 page book. Read it, you won't regret it. In fact, you'll regret it if you don't!
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