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From the magnificently masterful mind of Paul Dini comes a new 48-page graphic novel that turns the game of cat and mouse on its (paranormal) head … BOO & HISS! How many comics and cartoons have you seen where the cat chases the mouse endlessly, rarely catching him and never succeeding in vanquishing his rodent nemesis? In the world of BOO & HISS, that all changes: Hiss (the cat) catches Boo (the mouse) and DEVOURS him. There’s no coming back from that, right? WRONG! That’s where the story really begins! Boo returns as a ghost to enact vengeance on his feline murderer.Wherever Hiss goes, Boo follows, tormenting him in various ways: nearly scaring him to death, possessing his body and making him do terrible and embarrassing things, and just generally making his life a living hell. The cat becomes the hunted and the ghost mouse the hunter in the twisted, comic, scary, and poignant world of BOO & HISS! (source: BOO & HISS Kickstarter campaign page)
I love creators with a brilliantly original voice.
Paul Dini, the man who gave us Batman: The Animated Series and Tiny Toon Adventures, is certainly one of those people, turning the old cat-and-mouse dynamic entirely on its trope-heavy head.
In his take on the Tom & Jerry / Itchy and Scratchy world of cat chases mouse / cat doesn’t get mouse / cat tries again while mouse triumphs, the cat HISS gets the mouse BOO, believing of course he has won where so many of his cartoon feline contemporaries have failed.
Uh-uh-uh, no sirreee kitteh – for BOO comes back to haunt him, possess him and utterly and completely change his life in ways that he simply doesn’t see coming.
It looks absolutely, winningly, originally brilliant and you owe it yourself, to Dini and to all the unique voices out there to support his Kickstarter campaign and get the initial 48-page first issue, due out in May 2018, to everyone looking for something new, different and whole lot catty and mousey.
You can rest assured that Dini, assisted by illustrator Dave Alvarez and Stephanie Buscema who’s dreaming up some great covers and “gruesomely gorgeous designs”, has put a lot of thought and creativity into this cleverly entertaining idea:
“BOO & HISS has been a passion project of mine for a couple of years. I was intrigued with the idea of what would happen in a classic cartoon predator/prey relationship if the predator, in this case a cat, got to finally do in his adversary only to have the mouse return as a ghost and bedevil the cat. That sparked a bigger story about the afterlife, involving angels, devils, zombies, and just about everything else I could work in.”
What’s not to love? So get running after that cat and mouse story, support the campaign but whatever you do, don’t catch the mouse!
You have been warned.
The Boo & Hiss Kickstarter campaign officially finishes Friday, 24 November 2017 5:00 AM AEDT.
