What if your cat could talk? Tobin's answer, it would probably try to take over the world, I can't disagree.Burma is a cat that has lived many lives, he hires a woman to write his memoir and we get to see the various points in history where he tried to take over the world.Some of these time periods were more interesting than others, but I found I enjoyed the present storyline much more.A must read for any crazy cat lady!

Imagine you could trace your cat's nine lives, to relive his history and his deaths. That is the magic of this comic. The wonders the cat discovered, the times he lived in are a historical carpet ride. The downside is always having to be there for his deaths. It is part of life and the cat takes it in stride. I found it fascinating and found myself looking at my cat wondering if.... LOLNice illustrations support the story without taking away from it. I hope we get more cat's stories in the futur...

Issue one was promising, but issue two starts with a cat being run over by a motorcycle. So, no way Jose. I won't continue it reading it.

I've just found a great book for cat lovers: I Was The Cat by Paul Tobin tells the story of Burma, a cat who seems to be on his ninth life and is finally ready to have his memoirs presented to the world. In order to do so, he contacts Allison Breaking to act as a ghost writer for his biography. Allison is an American in London staying with her female friend Reggie, who is very wary of Allison's new job working for Burma. And who wouldn't be? Allison is contacted by a strange "man" who says he wa...

3.2 Talking Cats out of 5STORY - 3.5/5 (really interesting! The melding of all kinds of historical elements that even someone who doesn't study history would recognize was really fun. It did get a little out of hand a couple time though.)CHARACTERS - 3/5 (I don't really feel I know the human characters but I'm add a half a point because Burma the cat was EXCELLENT)WRITING & ART - 2/5 (the writing was ok but sometimes stunted. The art on the other hand I really didn't like.)UNIQUENESS - 3.5/5 (It...

I think all cats could and would try to take over the world if they could talk and had access to resources, like the comic’s main protagonist. The other two characters annoyed me a little—I think they could have been workshopped to be a bit tighter—but it’s a fun read. I especially liked the first 75% of the book.

I purchased this book when it released and although I started reading it, for some reason I didn't get far initially. However, I am a fan of writer Paul Tobin, especially since his Witcher series from Dark Horse over the past couple of years. Finally, I gave this a proper read and very much enjoyed how Tobin brought in the historical accounts from the perspective of Burma, the talking cat, as his memoirs are recorded by Allison Breaking. As with Bandette, Tobin proves his skill with portraying p...

Allison Breaking is a character whose name is purely a pun so that writer Paul Tobin can name her blog, Breaking News. Sigh… that’s the level of creativity we’re dealing with here, people. So, Allison, a blogger, gets picked up to write a high profile autobiography of a wealthy mysterious figure called Burma because you know, bloggers get chosen over industry professionals all the time! Burma - you’ve guessed it - is the cat on the cover, and he’s lived for centuries and centuries and now wants

this book reminded me of the best garfield book ever: Garfield: His 9 Lives, which was basically authorized garfield fanfic, taking the reader through his past incarnations, all with completely different styles of artwork, many of which terrified the crap out of me when i was just a little kid. good lord. goosebumps, still.this one is a little less jarring, since i didn't have to watch the death of a beloved cartoon character again and again, but it still has its moments of subdued horror.this i...

Here is a list of things I liked about this comic:1. It has cats!2. It has speech bubbles shaped like cats!3. Ummm, I can't think of anymore...

Meh. This had promise, but the dumb MC, who was supposed to be this great "Breaking News" blogger, couldn't follow a simple instruction to call but not on her cell phone. Reporter instincts? Not so much. Also, if the blinking butler was on the other side once long ago, why can't he just kill the darn cat? He's the BUTLER, he LIVES there. Also, I can't see people willingly kill other human beings because a CAT SAID SO. The suspension of disbelief was waaaay too much. I liked the food as a way to

I really don't know what to say about this one. The premise was really interesting but I feel like a lot of it fell flat. "I Was the Cat" tells the story of a talking cat named Burma chronicling his past 8 lives while orchestrating nefarious dealings. I really wish they would have delved into Burma's past lives more than they did, most of them are boiled down to brief single panel sketches. The one life they did go into detail about I found to be tedious.The two main female characters are so bli...

You know how cats think they rule the world? That's this book. Bonus points for having two women who are friends and look out for each. Bonus points for a female reporter who is African-American.

49th book read in 2017.Number 349 out of 613 on my all time book list.

This is one of the books we bought from the Oni Press booth at Pax West last year. It's the story of a cat writing the memoirs of his previous eight lives, most of which involved him trying to take over the world. It's a great looking little hardcover and was on sale, so how could we resist?A rich stranger invites an American journalist (or, blogger, I guess?) to London under much secrecy in order to write his memoirs. The stranger, it turns out, is a talking cat, and he tells the blogger tales

More reviews (and no fluff) on the blog http://surrealtalvi.wordpress.com/ Ah, Tobin and Dewey, you little minxes, you had me from the first page. Your exquisitely illustrated pages, the layered storyline, and fun but quirky characters. I was completely enthralled reading about the story of the world's only talking cat and his doomed attempts at world dominion. But then I came to an ending so abrupt, so anticlimactic, that I could only stare at the last panel in shock, a tear in my eye and a

This book seems like it has a lot it wants to say, but I'm not sure it ever gets its point across.On the surface, it's a book about a long-lived talking cat who is dictating his memoirs. But it's also a conspiracy thriller, a treatise on human failings, a historical novel, and a relationship drama. But it doesn't ever do any of those things particularly well, and they don't come together well enough to really justify all the different tangents gone on throughout. Like the cat's past lives are ki...

I Was the Cat is a graphic novel in which a talking cat hires a woman to write his memoirs, including his many attempts to take over the world. Allison Breaking-- an American woman in London who has a Breaking News blog and who has been hacking sites since fifth grade-- is the person to whom Burma dictates his memoirs.Paul Tobin and Benjamin Dewey have crafted an interesting premise, but I don't know that I'm quite sold on the conclusion. I turned the last page and saw "Bonus Material" and was w...

This is a comic book, and though it's a little bit different than some other comics, it still has a lot of that flavor in it. The main human character has a joke name, and there are a few bits in the story where the artist clearly just wanted to draw naked women, but at least it wasn't particularly pinup oriented. The story is interesting, if a bit slow, with a unique talking cat having memoirs written of his nine lives throughout history. It's interesting as far as it goes, imagining ways in wh...

Catpocalypse! My first book of 2017!This was a fun read and I really liked the artwork, especially how Burma was drawn but unfortunately the plot wasn’t good. The whole idea of having different lives within a cat’s nine lives was a really neat idea but I felt like I would have enjoyed it more if Burma hadn’t been so old, if he had started in the early 1900’s instead of in Ancient Egypt. Then the author could have really focused on explaining stories in detail rather than vague overviews of impor...