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From: fritz@hpfclk.UUCP (fritz)
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Subject: Samurai Cat (very mild spoiler)
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Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 17:55:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 18 17:55:00 1984
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Nf-From: hpfclk!fritz    Sep 18 13:55:00 1984

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
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