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Samurai Cat Goes To Hell

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This book wasn't as funny as the previous Samurai Cat installments, largely (I think) because it relies less on satire than it does on its own legs. But it's still a very imaginitive work and many parts made me laugh out loud. All in all, it's very satisfying.

It uses a very clever premise to end the series: Samurai Cat descending into the depths of Hell to avenge his master, where he can re-encounter all of his foes who perished by his blade (or gun, or grenade, or ...) in the previous books. Admittedly, a first-time Samurai Cat reader probably won't catch all the references.

So if you've been following Samurai Cat through the years, what are you waiting for? But if you're a Samurai Cat virgin, then you should probably read at least one or two of the preceeding volumes before attempting this one.

Mark Rogers is hilarious and erudite! SCGTH is absolutely full of the most vividly bizzare imagery and clever wordplay. Plus, this guy knows more about Chinese history than any Gwailo I've ever read! Anyone who likes dinosaurs, Dante, decapitations, or, (to break the d-pattern,) the films of Ching Siu Tung should check out this book..and the other Samurai Cat books too!

Boy does this guy know a lot about everything---guns, Chinese history, Dante, Christian and Muslim Neoplatonism...I'm a Dante scholar, and the stuff about the Hell for the Virtuous pagans is a well-informed hoot. Where Dante only gives you a couple of medieval moslem philosophers, Rogers gives you four(that's excluding Al-jolson and Al-Capone)---if you catch a third of the jokes in this book you'll be lucky. Great stuff---C.S. Lewis on speed.

This is the final book of the adventures of samurai cat and what a perfect ending it is. Tomakato and Shiro versus all of their most famous enemies on the battlefield of hell. Mark mixs humor and violence better then any other writer. The jokes run the range from basic gag humor to serious jokes you have a good bit of knowledge to understand. The action is over the top and non-stop. The opening battle between our heroic duo and the hordes of Ghengis Khan is graphic and laugh out loud funny at the same time. Also a plus the book has so of the author's best drawings as well.

One of the funniest, if not THE funniest books I've ever read. I picked it up on a lark (the title intrigued me) and began reading it shortly after the death of my sister-in-law. If you need a book to snap you out of a depression-this it it! The jokes and puns are wickedly apt (Kurt Loder as a face of Satan?), and some are just plain groaners. All in all, I thorougly enjoyed it!

As a friend of Ninja Midget, who read it to me, we were both laughed till it hurt. GET THIS BOOK!

This book is great for ages 15-30. Its humor is great , and different from any other book I've read. This book is just the greatest.

Rogers end this series with his classic wit. If you enjoed the others from the first one on, you will get just as much out of this one.

I grew up reading the Samurai Cat series and cannot recommend the books eneough. I've read each book number of times, and every time I reread them I get jokes that I had previously missed or hadn't gotten. The only books that I have ever read that made me laugh out loud.

Rogers is a master and his work is incredibly unique and refreshing. Thanks for taking the time and making the effort to write some truly wonderful satire.

I'm sorry to see him go, but thankful for knowing him.

Saionara Tomokato.

This book was stomach-churning bad. Mark E. Rogers hit the nail squarely on the head with the originall (and excellent) Samurai Cat. Subsequent books were all downhill; this is the nadir.

Buy the original, skip this one.