Issue Description

The startling Vietnam War series continues, with Americans portrayed as rabbits and Vietnamese as cats. Our hero, Sgt. "Perky" Perkins, and his buddies Bota and Rats continue their recon mission deep in the bloody jungles of Vietnam. In this volume Perky begins to see the moral complexity of the war. He witnesses the French, Chinese, and Japanese military involvement in the war, and beneath it all, he sees the suffering of the Vietnamese civilians. While he and his buddies are on R&R in Saigon, Rats gets in trouble with an MP and ends up on a forced military leave of absence. He goes to visit his family in New York City, where (by witnessing various anti-war demonstrations and talking with his childhood friends) he gets a taste of how the American public feels about the war. While Rats is away, Perky and Bota are captured by the Viet Cong and held as prisoners of war. Rats hurries back to Vietnam to join the rescue effort. Perky is a real hero and is loved and respected by his American buddies and their South Vietnamese counterparts. They are not going to let Perky and Bota go down without giving it their all!

Inside Cover Blurb

Complete and Utter Terror...

The missions continue in Apocalypse Meow, Volume 2, as Perky, Rats and Botaski -- the Roadrunners of the Special Operations Group -- face imprisonment, collateral damage and death. This time, their latest orders expose them to the tragic brutality of the conflict, but do they possess the gumption to vanquish their enemies?

Chapter TitlesMission 10: Year of the MonkeyMission 11: The FrenchMission 12: Happy HolidayMission 13: Rat's VacationThe Start of the SOG Recon TeamLRRP TrainingPhantoms of the JungleWeapons of the Australian SASBonus: Motofumi's WorkshopBonus: Postscripts

Apocalypse Meow (2004)

Publisher

ADV Manga

Volume Description

A manga series that follows the lives of three American soldiers, Botasky, Parky and Rats, during the Vietnam War. They are part of a recon team called Cat Shit One, which also happens to be the title of the original Japanese manga. The American release was named after the movie Apocalypse Now.

Characters in this manga are depicted as animals based on their nationality. For instance: Americans are rabbits, the British are rats, and the Vietnamese are cats. There is some reasoning behind these depictions, as the Americans for example are rabbits due to a pun on the Japanese word for Americans: "usagi", or USA GI.

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