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Editing Is Everything recently produced this video mashing Zootopia rather skillfully into several Genres. Enjoy.
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The Furry Book Review program is a book review outlet specializing in furry literature. The top furry publishers send us books to review, and we provide a great marketing tool for them but also honest recommendations to the fandom, here, on Goodreads, and on Amazon.For those interested in signing up as a reviewer, Here is the link for the Furry Book Review application: https://goo.gl/forms/u2G3d8YrLyPikF8H2You are also required to send in a sample of one of your book reviews to furrybookreview@gmail.com

Rune’s Furry Blog showcases “people within the Furry Community… their characters, life, thoughts, and beliefs”. It also covers furry issues and media plus some personal blogging. Rune joins other guest posters to Dogpatch Press like Andre Kon (What’s Yiffin’?) and Arrkay (Culturally F’d). Welcome Rune! – Patch

Originally, when I heard about BioMutant, I wasn’t sure whether or not it should be featured on my Furry Blog or my Gaming Blog— so I just put it on both!

The last time I saw cute, little, fuzzy creatures being the main stars of ANY console RPG, was when I learned about TERA. Did I ever play it? No…

But for those who love the MMO-scene, and especially for furries, this was a huge deal. When it comes to RPGs on consoles, I don’t ask for much. I don’t care the race of my characters so long as there’s a bit of customization involved (even if it’s just a difference in your appearances based on weapon or armor equipped).  If the game has a deep-story, I’m all set.

If I want character customization, I just stick to my PC-MMORPGS like World-of-Warcraft or Guild Wars 2… but I must say that after reading about BioMutant, I’m actually curious to see what more it will offer in the future.  With it being on the XBOXone, I’m actually considering making this a part of my purchase wish-list when it hits the market.

• So what is BioMutant?

”THQ Nordic revealed BioMutant, an “open-world, post-apocalyptic kung fu fable,” for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One.”

— But we want more of an explanation than that, right?

We don’t know who these raccoon-like creatures are, where they originated, or anything like that but, according to the Official Website for the game, we know that the Tree of Life is DYING.

The main life-source for this world has been contaminated. Now it’s up to your character to save the world – or can it even be saved? According to the website, there are divided tribes which must be reunited to face off against the great evils coming from the root of the plague-stricken tree… buuuuuut that’s all the developers seem to be leaking about the main story.

• What makes the game so unique?

— The game itself is supposed to be a unique twist on 3rd person combat. The main allure will be the way in which your character utilizes their own fighting style. These little creatures learn combat from various Masters scattered across the land. You can mix-and-match kung-fu combos. It’s supposed to keep the combat new and fresh so it never gets boring.

Hand-to-hand combat isn’t the only thing that can defeat the monsters of this world. There’s a weapon crafting system, allowing your characters to mix-and-match parts to create unique weapons. They can defeat enemies as well. However this article from Polygon suggests that while the weapon-system may seem cool, the main focus will be the mastery of the kung-fu styles and really getting up-close-and-personal with your opponents.

Lastly there are the “powers”. These are harder to explain. While they can be used for various things including fighting, this also seems to tie in with the way character customization will work.

• So what are these Mutations?

— The game is called BioMutant, right? So how do Mutations work in this world? According to the official website, as you traverse this world, radioactive substances and bio-contamination (as well as other chemicals) let you re-code your genetic structure to unlock attributes. This can change your appearance such as giving you long claws, barbed tails, and more. Other attributes aren’t so visible… but it’s said you will be able to unlock things like Telekenisis and Levitation. That’s sure to change the way you play the game. Some things may make combat easier, while others might be strictly for traversing the world in new ways.  Not much else has been said or shown on this development.

For other character customization options, nothing has been shown. It’s uncertain if there will be more. Gear and mutations might be the limit of character customization.

• Is it an MMO?

— Screenshots have shown multiple furry-creatures in one frame, but this doesn’t seem to be an MMORPG. It’s not being advertised as such. It might be cool if it were, but with all the stuff being incorporated, I think keeping it a single-player experience is for the best.

• An Open World…

— There’s little known of the game, but it has been claimed that a player can build their own adventure in this open world. The official website also said that the ending depends on the actions of the players. It gives a very “Fable-ish” feel because it claims that we can either be the force that unites the tribes, or the force that brings them down. The official website says it’s an “Unusual Story with an Unusual End”, guided by a narrator as we make choices that determine the fate of this world. So, replay-ability seems rather high for this game already. It promises limitless possibilities since the world is going to be so massive!

• Conclusion:

— Open-World games have always been a favorite of mine, so I’m excited for this! I do get lost sometimes in just exploring (and forget to do the campaign), but that’s really the appeal of games like this. It’s all done at your own leisure. I love the fact that I get to choose how my story ends, and unique character customization will allow fun experimenting to get that “perfect character” for your personal play-style.

It looks beautiful. The characters are unique. I think it has been awhile since we had a good RPG set in a fantastical world that wasn’t all online. I love MMORPGs, but I miss the old days of Oblivion and Skyrim, even Fallout and Fable… and just having that singular adventure.

I’m also excited because this game mixes my two favorite genres, Fantasy and Post-apocalyptic-worlds!

But what do YOU think? Are you excited for this game?  What would you hope they add to make it better? Let me know in the comments, and I’ll see you all in the next blog.

– Rune

If you regularly read Previews magalog to find out the latest about upcoming comic books (and graphic novels and so forth) you might be familiar with Comic Shop Tales, a funny animal comic strip (written by Andy Mueller and illustrated by Scoot McMahon) about the strange and funny goings-on at a comic book shop both run and frequented by furries. Well now Previews has finally decided to release a collection of Comic Shop Tales in a new paperback collection. Check it out: “It’s all work and lots of fun at the fictional Berke’s Comic Shop, where owner Berke the Badger tries to keep his crazy band of comic shop goers and employees like Phil the Hippo and Kit the Cat in order! This 64-page book collects the madcap comic strip adventures as printed each month in the Previews catalog and single gag strips from previewsworld.com.” Comic Shop Tales: Book 1 – Grand Opening is coming to shops itself this November.

 

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This is it! The end of Season 6 is upon us! This episode had so much awesome, we broke it into two parts! Listen to the best parts of Season 6 with Roo and Tugs, and laugh at the things you might have missed! We have new Space News, Get Psyched, and something you won't expect! Season 7 starts next month!





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Special Thanks

Alec T Kit
Simone Parker
Anonymous
Bevcalter
Skylos

Music

Opening Theme: Husky In Denial – Cloud Fields (Century Mix). USA: Unpublished, 2015. ©2015 Fur What It’s Worth and Husky in Denial. Based on Fredrik Miller– Cloud Fields (Radio Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. ©2011 Fur What It’s Worth. (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)
Some music was provided by Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. We used the following pieces:

Spy Glass
Fun in a Bottle
Hero Down
Waltz of Treachery FX


Space News Music: Fredrik Miller – Orbit. USA: Bandcamp, 2013. Used with permission. (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)
Mystery Skulls – Ghost. USA: Warner Bros Records, 2011. Used with permission.
Closing Theme: Husky In Denial – Cloud Fields (Headnodic Mix). USA: Unpublished, 2015. ©2015 Fur What It’s Worth and Husky in Denial. Based on Fredrik Miller – Cloud Fields (Chill Out Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. ©2011 Fur What It’s Worth. (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)
Our interstitial bumpers were all from the Bedfellows Frenzy Original Soundtrack by Husky in Denial. You can buy a copy as a bundled item on Steam with the game or purchase it separately at Bandcamp. The music we used was Fools of Destruction.

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Next episode: We'll announce this soon! S6 Episode 20: Finale – Part 1 - This is it! The end of Season 6 is upon us! This episode had so much awesome, we broke it into two parts! Listen to the best parts of Season 6 with Roo and Tugs, and laugh at the things you might have missed! We have new S

We are proud to announce the Third [adjective][species] Poetry Collection! We have run two such collections before, one in 2015 and one in 2016, and are looking to continue the tradition of featuring some of the fandom’s poets here on the site.

As with last year, we are looking to feature poems with a specific focus. This year’s theme will be community and belonging. Poems can be about furry itself, or about animals (anthro and otherwise), but must include at least some mention of animals or furry. There are many excellent poets out there in the subculture, and we’d love to showcase their work here!

 

The fine print on what to send:

• Length, form, style: Totally open. Send us free verse, formal verse, whatever you like. If you’re using an obscure form that I might not be familiar with, let us know what it is so we can understand the full effect. If your poem requires specific formatting, let us know, and we’ll do our best to accommodate that.
• Submissions may be published or unpublished. If a poem has appeared previously in a print or online publication, please let me know where, so we can give proper credit. (If it’s only been posted to FurAffinity, SoFurry, your personal blog, etc., there’s no need to note that.)
• Submissions don’t have to be new. You can write something new for this call, or if you have something you wrote years ago that fits, send it along.
• If in doubt, send it. Sometimes we don’t know what we’re looking for until we see it, and the worst we can say is “no thanks.” So if you’re on the fence as to whether your work might suit, send it and let’s see.
• Be kind. We are not looking for poetry that involves positive depictions of rape or violence, homophobia, transphobia, etc. We also don’t want any work that demeans other individuals. As above, though, if in doubt, send it! You may also ask Makyo at the address below.
• You retain all ownership and rights to your poetry. [adjective][species] simply licenses your work for posting on the site. If you need your work taken down at any time, simply let us know. All posts are made under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license, unless you specify otherwise.

How to submit:

• Send 1-6 poems, either in the body of the email or attached as a document, to:
  makyo+poetry@adjectivespecies.com no later than September 22.
• Be sure to include what name you want your work published under (real name, pen name, furry name, whatever works for you), and if you like, you can also include a link where readers can find more of your work.
• Everyone will get a yes or no response, but we’re afraid we can’t offer feedback or critique on submissions.

We’d like to draw from as many perspectives as possible, so if you can help spread the word about this call to other poets and poetry communities, please do! Any questions, post a comment here or send them to the email listed above.

Once again, from out of nowhere, this one. We’ll let Image Comics explain it: “Journey into the thrilling world of international espionage as one of Britain’s most covert MI-6 divisions, The Nest, recruits a brand-new secret agent to their team: SPY SEAL! An exciting new comic series-reminiscent of The Adventures of Tintin and Usagi Yojimbo.”  Spy Seal is written and illustrated by Rich Tommaso (She Wolf) and the first full-color issue is available now.

image c. 2017 Image Comics

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While CJ was off being a bad dog again we improvised a nice roundup of news and interviewed Shisha about EF. HE’S SO CUTE.

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Watch Video Link Roundup:

• Interview with Shisha about EF:
  • 2,804 in attendance!
  • https://twitter.com/coppersaurus/status/899992350075875328
  • https://twitter.com/exodusarias/status/899971350382735361
  • https://twitter.com/eurofurence/status/900815505078071298
  • https://twitter.com/eurofurence_sec/status/900099707053256704
  • https://twitter.com/kealianwolf/status/898705598786801664
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ntXLzlkZeI
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-YKuj8E3Ws
• National Dog Day
• Total Solar Eclipse photo by Freeze Badger!
• Man Yearns for a Simpler Time Before He Knew About Furries
• Vice Canada furry video feat. Culturally F’d
  • Culturally F’d Post
  • Vice Post
  • Vice Video Post
• Metro has weird article about new furry convention in Philly
• Biomutant Game
• Bojack Horseman Season 4 Trailer!
• ZDF does a piece on Eurofurence
• Half-Life 3 Conf- Plot Reveal by an ex-employee?

News:

• Only Clowns Can Attend this Special Screening of “It”
• Parasite Infects Fish Eyes And Makes Them More Likely To Be Eaten By Birds
• Piglets Saved From Blaze Are Served Up To The Firefighters Who Rescued Them
• There’s Actually A Wrestling Villain Called ‘The Progressive Liberal’
• You’ve been Drinking Whisky Wrong Your Whole Life, According To A New Study
• Japanese Scientists Make “Unmeltable” Ice Cream

FC-275 Just One Snuggle - While CJ was off being a bad dog again we improvised a nice roundup of news and interviewed Shisha about EF. HE'S SO CUTE.

While CJ was off being a bad dog again we improvised a nice roundup of news and interviewed Shisha about EF. HE’S SO CUTE.

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Watch Video Link Roundup:

• Interview with Shisha about EF:
  • 2,804 in attendance!
  • https://twitter.com/coppersaurus/status/899992350075875328
  • https://twitter.com/exodusarias/status/899971350382735361
  • https://twitter.com/eurofurence/status/900815505078071298
  • https://twitter.com/eurofurence_sec/status/900099707053256704
  • https://twitter.com/kealianwolf/status/898705598786801664
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ntXLzlkZeI
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-YKuj8E3Ws
• National Dog Day
• Total Solar Eclipse photo by Freeze Badger!
• Man Yearns for a Simpler Time Before He Knew About Furries
• Vice Canada furry video feat. Culturally F’d
  • Culturally F’d Post
  • Vice Post
  • Vice Video Post
• Metro has weird article about new furry convention in Philly
• Biomutant Game
• Bojack Horseman Season 4 Trailer!
• ZDF does a piece on Eurofurence
• Half-Life 3 Conf- Plot Reveal by an ex-employee?

News:

• Only Clowns Can Attend this Special Screening of “It”
• Parasite Infects Fish Eyes And Makes Them More Likely To Be Eaten By Birds
• Piglets Saved From Blaze Are Served Up To The Firefighters Who Rescued Them
• There’s Actually A Wrestling Villain Called ‘The Progressive Liberal’
• You’ve been Drinking Whisky Wrong Your Whole Life, According To A New Study
• Japanese Scientists Make “Unmeltable” Ice Cream

FC-275 Just One Snuggle - While CJ was off being a bad dog again we improvised a nice roundup of news and interviewed Shisha about EF. HE'S SO CUTE.

While CJ was off being a bad dog again we improvised a nice roundup of news and interviewed Shisha about EF. HE’S SO CUTE.

Download MP3

Link Roundup:

• Interview with Shisha about EF:
  • 2,804 in attendance!
  • https://twitter.com/coppersaurus/status/899992350075875328
  • https://twitter.com/exodusarias/status/899971350382735361
  • https://twitter.com/eurofurence/status/900815505078071298
  • https://twitter.com/eurofurence_sec/status/900099707053256704
  • https://twitter.com/kealianwolf/status/898705598786801664
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ntXLzlkZeI
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-YKuj8E3Ws
• National Dog Day
• Total Solar Eclipse photo by Freeze Badger!
• Man Yearns for a Simpler Time Before He Knew About Furries
• Vice Canada furry video feat. Culturally F’d
  • Culturally F’d Post
  • Vice Post
  • Vice Video Post
• Metro has weird article about new furry convention in Philly
• Biomutant Game
• Bojack Horseman Season 4 Trailer!
• ZDF does a piece on Eurofurence
• Half-Life 3 Conf- Plot Reveal by an ex-employee?

News:

• Only Clowns Can Attend this Special Screening of “It”
• Parasite Infects Fish Eyes And Makes Them More Likely To Be Eaten By Birds
• Piglets Saved From Blaze Are Served Up To The Firefighters Who Rescued Them
• There’s Actually A Wrestling Villain Called ‘The Progressive Liberal’
• You’ve been Drinking Whisky Wrong Your Whole Life, According To A New Study
• Japanese Scientists Make “Unmeltable” Ice Cream

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Bonus video for Saturday! I found this on an old VHS tape labeled "Shazaam: Sinbad" which appeared to had been recorded over with this. "The Nick Wilde Files is an American television drama series starring Nick Wilde that aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974, and January 10, 1980, and has remained in syndication to the present day. Nick portrays Zootopia-based private investigator Nick Wilde with Flash Slothmore., in the supporting role of his father, a retired truck driver nicknamed '100 Yard Dash'."
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As you may have heard, a couple years ago Berke Breathed once again fired up his seminal comic strip Bloom County. Well for those among us who remember the first go-round, IDW has brought together a special box set called Bloom County: Real, Classy, & Compleat, 1980-1989. Here’s the press release: “Presenting every Bloom County daily and Sunday strip in chronological order from the first to the last! Bloom County debuted in late 1980 and ran until August 1989. Featuring an exceedingly quirky cast of characters, including the sweetly naive Opus the penguin, the flea-bitten Bill the cat, womanizing attorney Steve Dallas, Milo Bloom, Cutter John, and many others, Bloom County soon became one of the most popular comic strips in history, appearing in over 1200 newspapers. Then, at the peak of its popularity, Berkeley Breathed did something unprecedented… he walked away. Now, more than 25 years later, the complete collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip is collected into a deluxe, two-volume box set.” It’s available now at your local comic book store.

image c. 2017 IDW Publishing

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Barnaby Dixon (Dabchick) has a new amazing puppet and it's a glowy bug.
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Guest post by Arrkay from Culturally F’d, the furry youtube channel.

With all the fire and ‘furry’ in the news, I think we should take a break from the political hardship to look at some awesome positive activity that’s been going on in the fandom. So let’s see what Furry has to celebrate lately:

“Vix N dwnq” reaches 100,000 Subscribers on YouTube

 

A milestone for the fandom. While not the first YouTuber who is a furry to gain the “Silver Play Button”, such as “Your Movie SucksDOTorg” and others, Rika and her channel Vix N dwnq is the first fursuiting channel to gain this level of success on her own merit. She wasn’t raised to this point by collaborating with mainstream YouTuber’s or by an aggressive marketing campaign. Instead her genuine fun in fursuit videos have gotten there organically, and she’s not alone. Majira Strawberry and Kero The Wolf are quick behind her which shows that this isn’t a single one-off event but a trend of rising Furry stars on the YouTube platform. It’s a big win for the fandom, and especially those on YouTube.

IT IS TIME GUYS pic.twitter.com/IcBTLPco2W

— Freaka (@VixNdwnq) August 16, 2017

 

Take all the furries attending cons last year and DOUBLE IT #100KFurries @tallfuzzball @VixNdwnq @KerotheWolf pic.twitter.com/NVfFAMnH9B

— Culturally F'd! (@CulturallyFd) July 23, 2017

The most popular artists on FA have ~70K subscribers. Furry YouTubers are topping that! #100KFurries @tallfuzzball @VixNdwnq @KerotheWolf

— Culturally F'd! (@CulturallyFd) July 23, 2017

Astounding subscription numbers. Could fill stadiums like The Rose Bowl, or LA Coliseum #100KFurries @tallfuzzball @VixNdwnq @KerotheWolf pic.twitter.com/XeAPberz8g

— Culturally F'd! (@CulturallyFd) July 23, 2017

Documentary maker Eric Risher Receives an Emmy

So this arrived yesterday. I'm still in great disbelief, but I'm honored to announce that I'm officially the owner of an Emmy Award. pic.twitter.com/ehElMsCBh7

— Eric (Ash) @MFF (@FurryFilmmaker) August 22, 2017

The Emmy award that Eric received is for his editing work on “Insight with John Ferrugia: Surviving Suicide“. Eric is the mastermind behind “Furries: A Documentary” which saw some success in the film-festival racket and even got a major distribution deal. The creator has also been working on short-format online videos like this amazing “Art Jam” video, the first of many we hope.

This is just in the past few weeks of course. You could argue that Zootopia’s Oscar win counts toward fandom recognition and of course we have had writers and artists receive other prestigious awards such as Ursula Vernon’s “Digger” series getting a Hugo award. I think this is yet another sign of mainstream acceptance of our quirky fandom. In a recent Vice Media Special on the fandom, Cooper/Roach said this:

“If you look back in fandom history, people were calling Trekkies weird, Trekkies were the weird thing. Being huge into Star Trek or huge into Star Wars was freaky. Now it’s casual. It’s like an initiation process for every different fandom or different lifestyle or hobby. It’s going to go through a period where it’s made fun of for quite a while or beat to shit and then it’s going to basically be accepted”

I think we’re nearing this breaking point of acceptance in pop-culture. Big companies are noticing us. Walmart, Hot Topic and Target are all selling what are essentially cheap fursuit heads and kigurumi’s, and Chinese mass-production facilities are stealing our very fursonas out of our paws. As a fandom our press coverage has never been more positive or well informed. As Furry becomes more known and accepted, it becomes easier for Furries to share their large portfolios and get meaningful, paid work out of it. As more furries see mainstream recognition, it gets much less awkward to share your weird hobby. Everyone benefits when they can be open and comfortable and taking on the bigger and better opportunities coming from it.

It’s a good time to be a furry.

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Things take a furry turn once again over at Vertigo’s Astro City comic. (Remember that gorilla drummer?) This time, it’s canine costumed crusader. From Previews: “Meet G-Dog, possibly Astro City’s most unusual superhero ever. Half man, half dog – but who’s running the show? The answers will change a life, reveal another hero’s deepest secrets, and possibly, just possibly, save the world. Oh, who are we kidding… they’ll definitely change the world. Do you see that handsome face?” Issue #47 hits the shelves in early September.

image c. 2017 Vertigo

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So we bear bears own a Nintendo switch? I suppose that figures.
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Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer

The Big Bad Fox, by Benjamin Renner. [Translated by Joe Johnson.] Illustrated.
NYC, First Second, June 2017, trade paperback $15.99 (187 pages), Kindle $9.99.

Benjamin Renner is a French animator and cartoonist. He first became known in America as the co-director of the 2012 Belgian animated feature Ernest & Célestine, released in America in 2013. That was an adaptation of Belgian children’s books by Gabrielle Vincent, and featured Vincent’s art style. It was an international animation festival favorite, winning many awards, and was a 2014 Oscar Best Animated Feature nominee.

In 2015 Renner began to develop Le Grand Méchant Renard, a cartoon idea for a series of three French half-hour TV specials in his own art style. He wrote and drew his own cartoon-art book to promote them, published by Delcourt in January 2015. The TV cartoon specials grew into an 80-minute theatrical feature, Le Grand Méchant Renard et Autres Contes … (The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales …), released in France on June 21, 2017.

Now Renner’s French book has been published in English as a trade paperback by First Second Books, an American publisher of literary graphic novels.

The main characters in The Big Bad Fox are the title fox, a wimpy loser; the fearsome Mr. Wolf; what Amazon calls an idiot rabbit, a gardener pig, a lazy guard dog, and a typical hen who organizes the other hens into The Fox Exterminators’ Club; and the three little chicks that the fox becomes the Mommy of.

The main reason that the fox remains endearing is that, although he is a puny weakling who never gets respect (a sparrow calls him “fartface”), he never gives up. He always comes back for another try. He develops a personal relationship with the farm animals. The duck, rabbit, and goose call out friendly greetings. The dog grumbles that his visits always mean cleaning up after him. The gardener pig sets aside a basket of turnips or beets for him. His entering the henhouse leads to one of the favorite scenes of the book or the movie trailer. Fox (to hen who is ignoring him): “GRROWWWL!!!” Hen: “No way! Not again!! This is the third time this week!” Fox: “Well, yeah, but I’m hungry.” Hen: “I DON’T CARE!” (p. 5)

Later, when the fox is talking with the wolf: Fox: “I don’t get it! Why doesn’t it work for me? What’s my problem?” Wolf: “I don’t know. Maybe it’s because you look about as strong as an oyster. Or because you have as much charisma as a dried slug in a jar of salt. Also, you’re about as ferocious as a geriatric tortoise.” (p. 13)

Continuing routines include the hens’ demands for the guard dog to take his job more seriously, and the lazy dog’s attempts to avoid any real work; the wolf’s attempts to get the fox to lure the hens from the farm into the forest, where he can get at them; and the book and movie’s main plot: the fox’s stealing three eggs to raise into hens they (mainly the wolf) can eat, and the fox’s becoming the three chicks’ “Mommy” who comes to care for them, and to protect them from his wolf partner.

The fox can’t convince the chicks that he isn’t their mother. At first they see him as a Mommy Hen. When he finally convinces them he’s the Big Bad Fox, they decide this means they must be Little Bad Foxes. When he can’t put off the hungry wolf any longer, the fox flees with the chicks to the farm. There he has to go disguised as a chicken, and the chicks endanger themselves by insisting that they are Little Bad Foxes and biting the other chicks instead of playing with them.

The Big Bad Fox tells only the middle of the three tales in the movie. According to the movie reviews in The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, the three tales are “A Baby to Deliver”, in which a stork who breaks his wing tries to persuade the rabbit, the pig, and a duck who can’t swim to deliver a human baby for him; “The Big Bad Fox, this tale which is the longest; and “The Perfect Christmas”, in which the rabbit and duck believe they’ve killed Santa Claus and frantically try to fill in for him.

The movie and book both feature Renner’s art (or its animated imitation) as watercolors. The watercolor sketches in the book seem almost like storyboards for the movie.

The book contains much witty dialogue. A sparrow about to be eaten chooses the wolf over the fox. “If I have to get eaten, it might as well be by a creature with flair.” (p. 17) The guard dog to the hen, who has just stomped the fox into pulp: “In the future, I’d rather you didn’t throw your trash into my home. Thank you in advance.” (p. 26) Chick: “You love us, don’t you? Fox: “I don’t know. I haven’t tasted you yet.” (p. 103)

The book has an Amazon age rating of 7 to 11 years old; grades 3 to 7. Everyone else seems to consider it an All Ages book. The Big Bad Fox certainly is a graphic novel that furry fans should enjoy.

–Fred Patten

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• Eight Page preview on Mac Millan

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