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Return of the Rescue Rangers
Once again BOOM! Studios have stepped up to the task of bringing the Disney Afternoon back to life. Following on the webbed heels of their successful Darkwing Duck comic book series, now comes the full-color return of Chip ‘n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers, written by Ian Brill and illustrated by Leonel Castellani. You can see a preview of this new series, as well as the various alternate covers for the first issue, at BOOM! Studio’s web site.
Flash 016 - Both Sides Now - Renee Carter Hall gives us two dramatic shorts showing two views of the darker end of the spectrum of human/anthro interactions. "Sideshow" and "Cover of Darkness" by Read by Music cues by
Renee Carter Hall gives us two dramatic shorts showing two views of the darker end of the spectrum of human/anthro interactions.
"Sideshow" and "Cover of Darkness" by Renee Carter Hall
Read by Peter Katt
Music cues by Infinity Squared
Flash 016 - Both Sides Now - Renee Carter Hall gives us two dramatic shorts showing two views of the darker end of the spectrum of human/anthro interactions. "Sideshow" and "Cover of Darkness" by Read by Music cues by*sniff sniff* mmmm
Unsheathed #65 - A blow job reference for every question! Sometimes more than one!
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The Easter Bunny Is Coming… To Stay
By now you might have caught wind (or teaser trailer) of Hop, a new live action/CGI film coming next spring from Universal Pictures. If not, here’s the run-down: It seems that one day the Easter Bunny (voiced by UK comedian Russell Brand) is accidentally run-over by Fred (James Marsden), an out-of-work slacker. Now Fred is forced to keep the bunny in his home until he heals enough to complete his job — a fact that both of them find terribly annoying. The film is directed by Tim Hill, best known for Alvin and the Chipmunks, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, and Muppets from Space. The animation was created by Illumination Entertainment, who created this year’s film Despicable Me. Oh, and that trailer? You can find it on You Tube, or find out even more at Hop’s official web site, I Want Candy. Check out the film when it premiers on April 1st, 2011.
FC-22 Murry Yiffmas - Just like the episode 1 description said, I bet most radio shows only wish they could have kicked off as awesome we just did, not only our first episode, but this entire season. We're happy, proud, excited, pumped, and can not wait t
Just like the episode 1 description said, I bet most radio shows only wish they could have kicked off as awesome we just did, not only our first episode, but this entire season. We’re happy, proud, excited, pumped, and can not wait to be back on air. Fans murred and tails waged as the first season ends, of something that’s only just begun. Murry Yiffmas everyone!
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- “Dealing with bad artists and scammers. This is related to artists that take money before starting on a commission and take between 6 months to a year to complete it, or they just take the money and run, is there a way to avoid such situations?”
- “If you had to create the first furry dictionary, what words would it consist of? How would you define some of the words that you chose? (Please have fun with this.)”
- “Jobs/Career choices furries are likely to take up.”
- “Furries A daily lifestyle or something u deal with on ur own time? Do u tell others that ur furry (not like screaming out ur a furry but like if someone asks do u hide it?) What do u think others think of you if they are not aware of the Fandom?
FC-22 Murry Yiffmas - Just like the episode 1 description said, I bet most radio shows only wish they could have kicked off as awesome we just did, not only our first episode, but this entire season. We're happy, proud, excited, pumped, and can not wait t
Just like the episode 1 description said, I bet most radio shows only wish they could have kicked off as awesome we just did, not only our first episode, but this entire season. We’re happy, proud, excited, pumped, and can not wait to be back on air. Fans murred and tails waged as the first season ends, of something that’s only just begun. Murry Yiffmas everyone!
Topics used:
(note: this list does not include listener-sent emails, and/or spawning sub-topics from these sources. Also, this list may not properly represent the context of topics discussed on the show, and instead merely indicates directly copied content from the Google Moderator system.)
- “Dealing with bad artists and scammers. This is related to artists that take money before starting on a commission and take between 6 months to a year to complete it, or they just take the money and run, is there a way to avoid such situations?”
- “If you had to create the first furry dictionary, what words would it consist of? How would you define some of the words that you chose? (Please have fun with this.)”
- “Jobs/Career choices furries are likely to take up.”
- “Furries A daily lifestyle or something u deal with on ur own time? Do u tell others that ur furry (not like screaming out ur a furry but like if someone asks do u hide it?) What do u think others think of you if they are not aware of the Fandom?
FC-22 Murry Yiffmas - Just like the episode 1 description said, I bet most radio shows only wish they could have kicked off as awesome we just did, not only our first episode, but this entire season. We're happy, proud, excited, pumped, and can not wait t
Just like the episode 1 description said, I bet most radio shows only wish they could have kicked off as awesome we just did, not only our first episode, but this entire season. We’re happy, proud, excited, pumped, and can not wait to be back on air. Fans murred and tails waged as the first season ends, of something that’s only just begun. Murry Yiffmas everyone!
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- “Dealing with bad artists and scammers. This is related to artists that take money before starting on a commission and take between 6 months to a year to complete it, or they just take the money and run, is there a way to avoid such situations?”
- “If you had to create the first furry dictionary, what words would it consist of? How would you define some of the words that you chose? (Please have fun with this.)”
- “Jobs/Career choices furries are likely to take up.”
- “Furries A daily lifestyle or something u deal with on ur own time? Do u tell others that ur furry (not like screaming out ur a furry but like if someone asks do u hide it?) What do u think others think of you if they are not aware of the Fandom?
I Leave at 5 (nsfw) - A classic furry piece by Fluke, now very relevant due to DADT repeal today in Congress
Is it just me, or are they marketing the US release of SUMMER WARS explicitly to furries?
The Adventures of Pug Davis
Pug Davis is a very strange, successful, and popular web comic written and illustrated by Rebecca Sugar. She’s already on her third “issue” (read: story arc), and now the first two have been released as a single-volume black & white trade paperback by Albatross Exploding Funny Books (what a name!). The story concerns a famously dangerous space adventurer known as Pug Davis: Gruff, grouchy, conservative, politically incorrect… Maybe it’s got something to do with the fact he’s got the face of a cute little pug dog, complete with bright and shiny little puppy-eyes. He and his companion, an optimistic and unashamedly gay human known as “Blouse”, travel the galaxy together — one looking to make friends and find a home, one looking to bash some heads. The Web Comic Overlook site has a much more detailed review and explanation of it all… but afterward, it still won’t all make sense!
Yes, Folks, Apple Can Price Aggressively
Mark your calendars: End-of-the-World date set for March 15, 2011
Holy smoke! He’s a toon!
Bait and Switch
By Austen Crowder
Anthropomorphic Dreams Publishing
Anyone who’s ever been a teenager knows that those years are full of awkward changes, and not just in a “Peter on The Brady Bunch” way. You’re starting to become an adult, but you’re not there yet. Your relationship with your family starts to warp dramatically. You have a really tough time figuring out what you do and don’t want.
Some of us have even more drastic changes that we go through. In Bait and Switch, our protagonist Fenton Cobbler has to cope with the fact that he’s turning into a cartoon fox.
This isn’t your typical furry book set in a world populated by animal-human hybrids; instead, this is a world where humans live alongside actual cartoons (picture Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and you have exactly the right idea). The twist: the whole toon thing is a fairly recent development, and the toons themselves don’t just spring out of nowhere—regular people turn into them.
The whole toon thing is the story’s obvious LGBT parallel (and admittedly so). A few years back, Fenton’s best friend Benny turned into a cartoon rabbit, and while the rest of their crowd all turned their backs on him, he and Fenton are still good friends. There’s the worry, of course, that continuing to hang around with Benny will cause him to turn into a toon, as well, leading into the societal debate as to whether becoming a toon is something that’s an innate part of you, or just a choice that you make.
To further complicate things, Fenton’s father is spearheading the anti-toon movement. A whole lot of people are riled up by toons flaunting their antics in public (and, much like the real world anti-gay movement, most of the reasons they cite are unfounded B.S.), whereas other people find the whole toon thing charming and harmless. There’s even a subculture of people called “painters,” who paint themselves up to look like cartoons and hang with the toon crowd, resulting in something that’s equal part fursuiter and fag-hag.
The story itself is fairly straightforward coming-out material: Fenton in slowly becoming a fox, he’s in denial about how much he truly wants it, and he’s afraid of disappointing his anti-toon father. A small number of friends try to convince him to just give in and be himself, while the rest adopt an attitude of, “It’s cool if you are, but it still weirds me out.” Also, a close family friend runs a program that attempts to “Realize” toons back into humans, though the results are less than reassuring.
For the most part, the whole “toon” thing works pretty well from a narrative standpoint, though the analogy isn’t a perfect one, and the way it fits in with the setting isn’t completely flawless. Even as far as a third of the way into the book, the details on how Toon and Real interact are still subject to further explanation, and in the end, it’s still not completely clear if the toon world exists alongside the real world, or in its own pocket dimension, or possibly both. It is pretty fun, however, and it’s clear that the author has a lot of passion for “old-fashioned” cartooning, which isn’t something that you see much anymore.
Perhaps the most glaring thing is the way that toon antics are handled. The book makes it blatantly clear that toon-style “gags” are both their equivalent and substitute for sex. Sometimes it’s played off innocently, but even the characters still maintain that that’s what it is. This leads to the occasional disconnect, such as in one scene where two toons force each other to (harmlessly) swallow grenades in the living room in front of their human friend, and are then completely surprised by his shocked and disgusted reaction at their having effectively having had sex right in front of him, after it’s already been established that that’s basically what they just did. Also, the main point raised by the anti-toon brigade isn’t that they want to ban toons altogether, just that they don’t want them to be performing gags in public—I still can’t tell if that’s an unflattering portrayal of gay pride, or a brilliant bit of social satire about homophobic fears.
(Also, for some reason, whenever an example of a gag is brought up, nine times out of ten, it involves grenades, which makes me wonder if there are people with a grenade fetish out there.)
Still, in the end, the narrative is a solid one, and the logical inconsistencies that are bound to arise from such a fantastical premise don’t detract much from a pretty poignant story. In particular, the resolution of the main plot is quite satisfying in its non-cheesiness. Folks looking for a unique take on a coming-out story could do worse than to pick up Bait and Switch, especially anyone who might currently be dealing with sexuality or gender-identity issues in their own life.
FurAffinity gets Hijacked; Site Pulled
The Art of Camilla d’Errico
Camilla d’Errico is a fine artist and painter, widely known for her pictures of anime-style young women posing with animals. Her work has been seen in publications like Hi-Fructose, Kid Robot, and Juxtapoz. You can view more of her art, often referred to as “pop surrealism”, at her web site. Now Dark Horse Comics are set to release Femina & Fauna: The Art of Camilla d’Errico, this coming March. It’s advertised as “the largest and most comprehensive book of Camilla’s art ever published”. Well at very least it’s more than 100 pages of art in a large-format hardcover book. You can order it now at Amazon too.
image c. 2010 Camilla d'Errico
Cat vs Alligator
Stranger in a Strange Land: Furry Style
A Dirge for Prester John: Volume 1 – Habitation of the Blessed
By Catherynne Valente
Night Shade Books
I have to admit that what hooked me on this book was the book video. I’d read Catherynne Valente’s Palimpsest and enjoyed it, but the myth of Prester John–which I’d never heard of–was really interesting, and Valente sells it well in her video. With Star Wars and comic book figures.
In brief: Prester John is the supposed ruler of a fantastic kingdom which includes the Fountain of Youth, fabulous creatures, and untold riches. A letter, purportedly from him, was sent to the Emperor Manuel I of the Holy Roman Empire. It circulated throughout Europe and fired up imaginations, sparked quests and adventures, and began many religious arguments–Prester John was supposed to be descended from one of the Three Magi, and was a Nestorian Christian (they believed that Christ was a mortal man and that the spirit of God was a separate part of him, to over-summarize it).
So: we have a mythical kingdom that has inspired men for centuries, a sort of Dark Ages version of Shangri-La or El Dorado. And how can an author possibly do this justice?
This is only book one of three, but so far, Valente does an admirable job. In her hands, Pentexore, the kingdom of Prester John, has an element of wonder that is rare in modern fantasy. We expect dragons and wizards; Valente gives us blemmyae and panoti. She takes the various myths of the Prester John stories and weaves them together into an enchanting world where there really is a fountain of youth, where strange creatures live peacefully side by side, where the demons Gog and Magog have been imprisoned, where the ground is so fertile that anything buried in it will sprout a tree: beds, dead bodies, and books.
It is to a tree of books that the narrator of this tale, Brother Hiob, is brought by a mysterious woman in yellow. From the tree, he takes three books, which turn out to be Prester John’s own story of how he came to Pentexore, the story of Hagia, the blemmye who becomes his wife, and the story of Imtithal, a nurse to three royal children whose tale has become famous throughout Pentexore. Through Prester John’s eyes, we see the mystery and wonder of Pentexore; through Hagia’s, we see Pentexore’s bemusement and attempt to integrate Prester John into their traditions; through Imtithal’s, we come to understand the history of the land and how its traditions came to be.
Having reached this land of wonder, Prester John attempts to integrate it into his Christian mythology, with varying degrees of success. His quest in this first book is to find the tomb of Thomas Didymus, who supposedly came to Pentexore and died there. That quest carries the story through the first book, but it is really impossible to convey in a short review the sense of beauty and wonder that infuses every page of this book. For a furry audience intent on furry characters, there is plenty to love: a gryphon named Fortunatus who gives wise advice and a red lion named Hadulph who loves Hagia are among the wondrous creatures we meet.
Valente herself is (according to various bios) pretty familiar with various types of fandom groups, though not specifically the furry fandom. But the culture of Pentexore reminds me in some ways of the culture of fandoms in general: diverse, open, accepting to a fault, and fairly unashamed about sex. Into this mix she throws Prester John, the symbol of the establishment, trying to fit the land and its people into the preconceptions he has rather than accepting them as they are. The blemmyae are people who have no heads; their eyes are in their chests, where nipples would be, their mouths in their navels. The women therefore must bare their breasts, of course, and this disconcerts John to the point that he views them as sinful and avoids talking to them. But of course, it is with these most strange of creatures that John eventually falls in love.
Habitation of the Blessed is volume one of a trilogy, and while it tells a fairly complete story, it also leaves the reader anxious to find out what happens next. The tension of the story does not suffer from knowing the eventual end, not one bit. It is a lovely, beautiful story that leaves the reader with a lot to think about, and I would recommend it to any lover of modern fantasy.