Samurai Cat Goes to Hell Author:Mark E. Rogers Miaowara Tomokato is back -- and he's gone to his reward. The warrior who's defeated everyone from Darth Vader to Nazi dinosaurs has died and gone to Heaven -- the fitting end to his illustrious career. Or not quite. — For taking a little too much enthusiastic glee in wreaking vengeance, his faithful sidekick, Shiro, has been sent to Hell. Tomoka... more »to must now descend and retrieve Shiro from eternal damnation. Shiro, of course, isn't the only resident of Hell who knows the Samurai Cat. Tomokato encounters all the folks he's consigned to the lower realm, who want their last chance a the furry samurai.
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