More Adventures of Samurai Cat Author:Mark Rogers A collection of stories by Mark E Rogers Samurai cat Miaowara Tomokato, introduced in The Adventures of Samurai Cat, returns here in three illustrated, novella-length parodies. — -- A Samurai Cat in King Arthur's Court -- Tomokato joins the Round Table. — -- A Fighting Cat of Mars -- he troops through the world of Edgar Rice Burroughs. — -- The Emp... more »ire State Strikes Back -- takes him on a visit to a galaxy "far (but not far far) away".
More Adventures of Samurai Cat, Rogers goes after the movies (while still referencing pulp literature), satirizing Indiana Jones, and fusing it with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in the search for the Holy Spad (a biplane armed with two 15 mm machineguns and God's own special effects, complete with 3D glasses for safe viewing). From there Tomokato (and his firearms-obsessed nephew, Shiro) travel to Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian Barsoom. Rogers saves his most biting humor for the last chapter which takes on Star Wars.
Samurai Cat (aka Miaowara Tomokato) is the main character in a series of books by Mark E. Rogers. In addition to the detailed writing, almost every page in each book has a picture painted by Rogers, depicting the events described on that page. Each chapter is a bizarre parody of some historical or pop culture event, but it is always treated as entirely serious. For example, no one finds it at all unusual that Tomokato is a walking, talking, sword-wielding cat.
The basic premise of the story is that Japan's greatest warrior Tomokato is out for revenge after his master Nobunaga is killed. The group that led the attack on Nobunaga's castle was made up of characters from throughout time and space, so Tomokato travels all over the Earth and beyond to seek his vengeance (from Japan to Camelot to Valhalla to Mars, to name just a few) in the most violent ways possible, involving the deaths of hundreds of beings.« less