A RETRO CATMAN ADVENTURE: CATMAN V. THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY II

CATMAN V. THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY II 

(A Retro Catman Adventure From October and November 2013)

NSA Denies French Spy Reports

AMERICA SPIES ON FRANCE..."No we didn't!" - Monsieur L'Inspecteur en chef Catman is watching the watchers!

US SPYING ON FRANCE AND GERMANY? Catman and Professor Nuts continue the investigation...which takes them to the very top of the French icon, the Eiffel Tower, where the now Catman-Clouseau finds a clue and more than he bargained for!

THE USUAL SUSPECTS: Hot on the US spying case, and a possible rogue NSA, the now Catman-Clouseau encounters two prime suspects in Paris.

WHILE PROFESSOR NUTS REMAINS IN PARIS, Catman shadows his prime suspect all the way to Berlin and with the benefit of his enhanced cat vision and cat hearing, catches the culprit red handed!

HAVING CAUGHT HIS PRIME SUSPECT RED-HANDED, Catman and Professor Nuts catch the 'red-eye' back to the US. Nuts continues on to the super-secret Catman lair on Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay, while Super Sumie joins our intrepid flea-bitten hero in Washington. Together they gain entry into the HQ of the National Security Agency (don't ask how - it's complicated and would take a lot more pictures) and begin to investigate.

HAVING TRACKED THEIR PRIME SPY SUSPECT BACK TO NSA HEADQUARTERS, the fearless felines, Catman and Super Sumie, split up to investigate. Deep within the NSA building, Super Sumie once again encounters the suspect.

AT THE SAME TIME THAT SUPER SUMIE is following their prime suspect through the rows and rows of computer banks used to spy on the world, Catman, on a different level of the NSA stronghold, makes more amazing discoveries!

What is it that Catman has discovered? Are more dastardly deeds afoot? Tune in next week. Same cat channel to find out.

In our last episode, Catman, peering out from a darkened doorway into a corridor of the NSA building, made a surprising discovery, enough to evoke his worst expletive, "Holy catcrap!" Our intrepid caped crusader closed the door to the darkened office and turned on the light, only to be surprised again!

IN AN OFFICE, deep inside the National Security (spy) Agency, Catman confronts a mysterious woman who looks like Natasha Fatale, but due to copyright restrictions is not Natasha Fatale but is instead Natalya Alexandra Simonova, and who was lying in wait for our intrepid hero. Watch out Catman!

IN AN OFFICE, inside the National Security (Spy) agency, our beloved Kaped Kitty Krusader continues his conversation with the nogoodnik and femme fatale, Natalya Alexandra Simonova..."Don't listen to her Catman! Don't do it! She's trouble! She's not your species! You'll live to regret it...if you live!"

FROM AN OFFICE DEEP WITHIN THE NSA, Catman calls Super Sumie on her official wrist radio.

WHEN LAST WE LEFT OUR KAPED KAT KRUSADERS, Catman had made an important discovery and radioed Super Sumie, via their official Catman wrist radios. He would have used his smart phone and maybe Facebook or Tweeeeeter, but the NSA tracks those signals. Anyway, he requested Super Sumie to go back into the matrix and to meet him in the basement. So that's where we find our tiny kitty in blue tights, plummeting downward through the very bowels of the NSA to rendezvous with the Catman.

SUPER SUMIE exits the NSA matrix tunnel and enters the super-secret basement where she at last meets up with Catman and an unexpected surprise.

CATMAN TELLS SUPER SUMIE what he discovered about the NSA leadership.

CATMAN AND SUPER SUMIE BEGIN TO SEARCH the basement level of the NSA building for the nerve center of the domestic and foreign electronic spying operation when they spot a strange, eerie glow from the end of a matrix corridor. Immediately our intrepid heroes leap into the air and jet towards it. But are they jetting to their doom. Standby!

CATMAN AND SUPER SUMIE FLY TO THE VISION at the end of the corridor and are amazed at what they find - the heart, the brain, the mind, the soul of the NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY!

DEEP INSIDE THE MONOLITH CHAMBER Super Sumie makes a sudden, ominous discovery.

SUDDENLY CATMAN AND SUPER SUMIE have company! Things are looking desperate!

SUDDENLY THERE IS A TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION OF ELECTRICITY! What's happened. Are our furry flea-bitten heroes ok?

WHEN THE EMERGENCY LIGHTS come back on, a shaken and upset Super Sumie sees a scene of devastation...and the villainous National Security Agency spies have fled the scene. She calls out to her heroic companion...

ONCE AGAIN OUR MIGHTY FLEA-BITTEN FELINE HEROES ARE TRIUMPHANT. With all the red tape of the American bureaucracy, it will take weeks if not months to repair all the damage and for the NSA to start spying on us again.

(These episodes of Catman Comix were published in October and November of 2013 as a serial.)

This cartoon is intended as a political and cartoon parody. The figure of Simon Bar Sinister is from the cartoon series “Underdog,” Copyright Total Television. The figures of Natashia, Boris, and Fearless Leader are from “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show,” Copyright Jay Ward Productions. The story line and all other characters are copyright ©  2013 and 2015 by the Kitty Mafia Art Worx™, Catman Comix™ and Hayato and Aoi Tokugawa, all rights reserved.

"TRICKLE DOWN" ABENOMICS

Things grow more and more difficult for Japan's middle- and lower classes, hard-working people who didn't have a lot and now have even less. Even the poverty spirts, Bin, Bo, and Gami, are unhappy.

PRIME MINISTER ABE ON FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI

Catman and Super Sumie aren't buying it!

TRAVELLING WITH ABE:

Vlad (the Catkid no one talks about - in the background) stalks Mr. Abe as he travels around Japan.

Catman and Super Sumie try to head him off.

A LESSON IN POLITICS FROM THE CATKIDS

They maybe tiny...but they are smart little fellows.

SUPER ABE II: Shinzo Abe Meets Super Sumie - and she's not happy!

MY NEIGHBORS THE NEKOJINS by Aoi

A satirical social commentary on contemporary

middle-class life in suburban Japan titled "Not Fun!"

MY NEIGHBORS THE NEKOJINS: NOT FUN by Aoi Tokugawa. Copyright © 2014 by Aoi Tokugawa, Catman Comix (™),

 and The Kitty Mafia Art Worx (™).

All rights reserved.

TEAMING UP TO MAKE SAN FRANCISCO SAFER

Copyright © 2013 by Aoi Tokugawa, Hayato Tokugawa, Shisei-Dō Publications, and the Kitty Mafia Art Worx. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without prior written permission of the artist, author, or publisher.

ABENOMICS = REAGANOMICS: THE "TRICKLE DOWN" ECONOMY

By Aoi & Hayato Tokugawa

ABENOMICS: Just a rehash of Reganomics...which marked the decline of the American Middle Class...trickle down economics which turned out to be more like "tinkle down" economics.

Copyright © 2013 by Aoi Tokugawa, Hayato Tokugawa, Shisei-Dō Publications, and the Kitty Mafia Art Worx. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without prior written permission of the artist, author, or publisher.

A PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE FROM CATMAN

    

    This is Shinjuku - seedy tech underbelly of Tokyo. The catch basin of a shocking segment of Japanese youth, addicted to “tech.” Here, day and night, rain or shine, you can find the youth of Japan, “jonesing” for a “fix.” And their numbers increase daily, their minds numbed by apps, tweets, twitters, social media – sometimes they just stare blankly at vacant screens…their batteries having worn down.

     There are both “tech” addicts here and dealers – the perverse purveyors of the latest in “apps,” games, tablets and “pods.” The “pod society.” Addicts flock here hoping to get the latest app from the Apple cult, Microsoft, and a myriad of other manufacturers. Perhaps, they hope, they can “score” the latest Apple pod or some knockoff or imitation.

     You can sense, almost feel, their intelligence being sapped from their brains, right before your eyes. The “dumbing-down” of our future. Kids with finger tips inflamed from texting – kids with severe hearing losses from the blasting of music from iTunes and YouTube. Young bodies and minds damaged beyond repair.

But it’s not too late. There is something you can do to stop this tragic downward spiral to intellectual oblivion. Kids and perhaps a nation with no future. Take away your kids “tech” toys. Ignore the hype that they are harmless. Give your kids a book, some paper, art supplies. Make them go outside and play…even if it means locking them out for a few hours. And don’t whimper and whine that., “Oh, they might get hurt!” Cuts and bruises, scrapes and scratches are part of being a kind. They’ll be better adults for it.

     There is still hope…but time is running out.

     For Eyewitness News…this is Catman reporting.

CATMAN AND PROFESSOR NUTS IN THE UK

     Earlier this year, Scotland Yard, the former employer of Professor Nuts, called on them to come to London to provide security for Prince Charles at the Burough Market.

ORANGEMAN AND CATMAN: THE GAVEL

Is Orangeman planning on misusing his powers of office to get Catman? Oh my!

HIJACKED: Episode 2 Of A New Old Film Starring Catman

     It looks bad! The government has been hijacked! Everything is shut down and the government is systematically being dismantled. The heads of government put their collective heads together and call the only person who might possibly be able to capture the desperadoes responsible and restore truth and justice to a nation that needs to be made safe for democracy. The message, the desperate cry for help goes out to the secret lair of intrepid caped crime-fighter Catman, hidden from prying eyes in the depths of San Francisco's Alcatraz Island.

     Deep within the island, down in the depths of "The Rock," in a laboratory known only to a few, the super-secret Cat Console is activated. Professor Archibald Quincy Nuts, of Scotland Yard, answers the call.

     Meanwhile, our intrepid furry feline hero is at the Fairmont Hotel, high on San Francisco's Nob Hill, doing a set with Tommy Dorsey and Sinatra.

     When the song is over, Catman sensing it is urgent, answers his super-secret two-way wrist radio. It's Professor Nuts.

     Professor Nuts immediately notifies the Washington D.C. Prefecture of Police who immediately jump into action.

     The next call is to Agent Elliott Hiss, head of a special unit of G-men known to one and all as...THE UNSCRATCHABLES!

     Catman immediately heads down California Street from Nob Hill and over to the Flood Building to the office of Spade & Archer, Private Eyes. Actually it's Catman, Spade & Archer, but the fuzzy, flea-bitten crime-fighter decided to become a silent partner in the operation after the Maltese Tuna case.

     And with that, Catman speeds east to Washington D. C. and a date with destiny!

Catman (TM), Catman Comix, The Adventures of Catman, Hijacked, are copyright 2013 by Hayato Tokugawa, Shidei-Do Publications, and Kitty Mafia Art Worx. All rights reserved. No portion of of anything contained in these pages may be reproduced or stored by any means, without the express, written permission of the author.