Night of the Living Cat # 1, by Hawkman & Mecha-Roots

[rachelmanija]

It's a zombie apocalypse, only instead of zombies, there's cats.



In a future in which 90% of the population owned a cat, a strange virus spreads. If you cuddle a cat, or a cat nuzzles you, you turn into a cat! It's a catastrophe! A catlamity! A nyandemic!





Not only are cats everywhere, but the cats are either instinctively trying to turn humans into cats, or they just want to be petted. Cue every zombie movie scene ever, but with cats. Cats scratch at the doors! Cats peer through the windows! Groups of cats ambush you in tunnels!

The characters are all very upset by this, because they love cats! And now there's cats everywhere, just begging to be skritched! And they can't skritch them! "We can't even squish their little toe beans!" The horror!

Needless to say, they would never ever harm a cat. In fact they feel bad when they're forced to spray cats with water to shoo them away.

I'm not sure how this can possibly be sustained for seven volumes, but on the other hand I could happily read seven volumes of it. The cat art is really fun and adorable. I would definitely do better in a zombie apocalypse than a cat apocalypse, because I would never be able to resist those cats.

Content notes: None, the cats are fine.

Comments

[sixbeforelunch]

It's a zombie apocalypse, only instead of zombies, there's cats.

Well, I'm sold.

[larryhammer]

This.

[james]

...okay but why not let the cats turn you into a cat? How is this something we're avoiding???

[swan_tower]

That was my thought! I mean, I like being a human . . . but if the world is turning into cats, and my choice is between "eke out a living frantically trying to avoid becoming a cat" and "become a cat," I know which way I'd go.

[movingfinger]

SOMEbody has to open cans!

[pauraque]

The question that arises for me is after everyone has been turned into cats, who will open the cat food cans?

[kass]

This looks and sounds hilarious. I am so delighted by this post that I just read most of it aloud to my visiting friend and my teenager.

[thomasyan]

I saw the first episode of the anime. I found it amusing and am reasonably likely to return to it.

[bzedan]

"I'm not sure how this can possibly be sustained for seven volumes, but on the other hand I could happily read seven volumes of it."

Right? The anime's first season goes further into the story, though I don't know how many volumes in. What remains a delightful thing throughout is encountering every horror and sci-fi trope, but cat-ified.

[osprey_archer]

I also don't know how this cat be sustained for seven volumes, but I hope you make the sacrifice of finding out for us.

[silverflight8]

You can't even touch the toe beans?! 😭

[oracne]

ZOMG THIS LOOKS GREAT.