As with other posts in this series, these #booksread2022 posts go anywhere from a few weeks to a month after I’ve read them. I finished this particular book quite recently, though! Unlike the previous three books in the series , The Sword of the Samurai Cat was released not as a coffee table book with copious, large, full-color illustrations, but instead as a smallish trade paperback with far fewer illustrations, all of them black-and-white. That means that where the previous books were really heavily illustrated and contained three or four novelettes, this volume (and, I assume, the later ones) are …
Tag: Mark E. Rogers
The Adventures of Samurai Cat by Mark E. Rogers
I first read this book as a teenager: I think my mother found it among the remaindered books at a local bookstore and brought it home for me, as she had so many other books I fondly remember. It’s gonzo parody featuring a samurai cat named Miaowara Tomokato adventuring as he avenges the death of his master—accompanied, at times, by his homicidal little nephew Shiro. The world of these books—it’s a series—is a patchwork jumble of pop/geek culture franchises and canonic works tossed it into a blender with Norse mythology and Japanese history, except with (a few) anthropomorphic cats. It …