Samurai Cat Goes to the Movies Author:Mark E. Rogers Here is the latest of Mark Rogers' hilarious satires that poke fun at America's sacred cows. This time Japan's most ferocious feline warrior, along with his sidekick kitty, take on the glamour of Hollywood -- tackling such opponents as the Terminator and The Wizard of Oz. The wild parodies are made even funnier by Roger's illustrations. — -- The ... more »Terminationer: A killer robot from the future wants to ice Shiro for some reason, but has a date with destiny at an convention for overweight SF fans.
-- The Yellow Brick Road Warrior: Dispatched by the Grand Wizard of Australia, Shiro finds himself driving a truck full of dirt through the outback, backed up by a tin man who's really heartless, a scarecrow who's REALLY stupid, and a lion who isn't a coward.
-- Seven Samurai Cats: Kurosawa with felines Tomokato and his brother Shimura recruit five other samurai kitties and tangle with Mexican bandits in a lesser-known action of the Sengoku Jidai.
-- Alienated: Tomokato and Shiro find themselves on a badly-furnished, monster-infested starship manned by geriatric character actors dying for a chance to direct. Horrible larvae chew their way through Bill Shatner's toupee.
-- It's a Terminated Life: Henry the Angel transports Tomokato to a alternate universe where the cat's never been born, Shiro's the Malevolent God-Emperor of the universe, and Will Rogers has met someone who doesn't like him.
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