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The Collected Omaha the Cat Dancer #4
The Collected Omaha the Cat Dancer, Vol. 4
Omaha The Cat Dancer # 4. Publisher Kitchen Sink Press. Comic book format.
336 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1990
About the author
Reed Waller
56 books7 followersArtist, writer, musician, computer whiz and a pretty good short-order cook in days gone by, Reed is best known as the creator of the groundbreaking comics series Omaha the Cat Dancer in the late 1970s.
--from the Omaha the Cat Dancer website
--from the Omaha the Cat Dancer website
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April 4, 2019
Issues 11-14 MIGHT be the best so far but I've thought often, as everything has elevated to a more serious strata, that the humanized animals angle was a mistake.
Reed revealed his reasoning in the first introduction and I agreed with his logic at the time; possibly because that line of thinking was new to me and sounded correct in its way. He said, paraphrased by me, that using a kind of being that we aren't accustomed to instead of creating "imitation humans" would give the characters more authenticity. I've slowly changed my opinion and now I've decided that it disconnects them from their EXTREMELY human natures- one could even say that it trivializes them.
One advantage, that I've noticed from the start, is the ability to choose what animal each character appears as- easily handeling the visual stereotyping that must (most don't realize) be employed to sell the intended perceptions to the readers. Some are ideal and the rest do the job well enough unlike the animorphs of the Norwegian "Jason" who all look the same to me- even if they are different species. Reed's ballsiest choice: why was the agent a camel? Such an aloof and hardly cooperative animal seems the wrong fit, in personality, so I ask you to think about looks and tell me what you see in terms of human stereotypes.
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Five and a half years = 66 months = 2009 days! I don't keep track unless I'm reminded but when you're the son of a 100% Italian mother you needn't worry of such things. My life, before AND after my about-face, has been RIPE with the fruit of interesting prose and I've decided that it's time to harvest so does anybody out there have recommendations on how to "break in" to the writing game? I have a stack of notebooks (that I can find at the moment) taller than the average person that I want to re-work/add to/combine but don't know what route to take with my material.
Reed revealed his reasoning in the first introduction and I agreed with his logic at the time; possibly because that line of thinking was new to me and sounded correct in its way. He said, paraphrased by me, that using a kind of being that we aren't accustomed to instead of creating "imitation humans" would give the characters more authenticity. I've slowly changed my opinion and now I've decided that it disconnects them from their EXTREMELY human natures- one could even say that it trivializes them.
One advantage, that I've noticed from the start, is the ability to choose what animal each character appears as- easily handeling the visual stereotyping that must (most don't realize) be employed to sell the intended perceptions to the readers. Some are ideal and the rest do the job well enough unlike the animorphs of the Norwegian "Jason" who all look the same to me- even if they are different species. Reed's ballsiest choice: why was the agent a camel? Such an aloof and hardly cooperative animal seems the wrong fit, in personality, so I ask you to think about looks and tell me what you see in terms of human stereotypes.
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Five and a half years = 66 months = 2009 days! I don't keep track unless I'm reminded but when you're the son of a 100% Italian mother you needn't worry of such things. My life, before AND after my about-face, has been RIPE with the fruit of interesting prose and I've decided that it's time to harvest so does anybody out there have recommendations on how to "break in" to the writing game? I have a stack of notebooks (that I can find at the moment) taller than the average person that I want to re-work/add to/combine but don't know what route to take with my material.
September 11, 2010
Considerably less sex this time around, and really much less happening in general...but what happens is heavy-duty! A couple surprises, and some mildly psychotic boyfriend-girlfriend behaviour, makes this a very human-heavy run of the story.
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