Two actor performances in the style of a scene out of a movie.
On a vacation through South America, Danny, an American fox nutritionist, accidentally gets lost in the civil-war ravaged nation of Cordoba. But before he can get out, he discovers an undiscovered fruit with the health benefits of Açaí, aguaje, yumanasa, and applesauce rolled into one. When he tries to smuggle the special fruit out of the country, though, he learns from the military it's not for export.
A Cordoba military officer has captured Danny and has him strapped to a chair in an interrogation room.
It is the year 1991, and the villainous, blood-thirsty sadist Tony Caulfield, who pursued our heroes across the globe in the first volume, is only eleven years old, and not a monster. Not yet. Four stories, where psychological horror butts heads with raucous comedy and savage erotica, four stories that unearth the grotesque roots of the mystery that is Maranatha.
Once when Tony was reading his books on the top ledge of the barn, he found Puck, his family's groundskeeper, with a male prostitute. Instead of turning the doberman in, Puck convinced the young cougar to accept a promise of a future favour. Tony's father Troy has become an angry, violent drunk ever since losing his career, and when one night he beats his wife and child for trying to escape into the night, young Tony finally knows what he wants from the the secret-harboring groundskeeper.
In a distant solar system, a group of tree-living astronauts were sent out on a mission to find another inhabitable planet for their arboreal way of life. When they returned, they found their planet obliterated. Stranded, the team tries desperately to piece together clues of what happened, and more importantly, find any remnant of their civilization. Low on resources, the crew's odyssey finds them battling despair, mutiny, and dwindling chances of survival. Can they find their home, in a new world, before their search destroys them?
Jinix, after being threatened by Captain Horgrath during their argument, decides to take matters into his own paws. The squirrel starts secretly sowing seeds of distrust in fellow crew members, inciting them into a mutiny. Ta'ina, the ship doctor, has been eating in the galley when Jinix sits down and shares his plan, hoping for her support.
It is the year 1991, and the villainous, blood-thirsty sadist Tony Caulfield, who pursued our heroes across the globe in the first volume, is only eleven years old, and not a monster. Not yet. Four stories, where psychological horror butts heads with raucous comedy and savage erotica, four stories that unearth the grotesque roots of the mystery that is Maranatha.
Once when Tony was reading his books on the top ledge of the barn, he found Puck, his family's groundskeeper, with a male prostitute. Instead of turning the doberman in, Puck convinced the young cougar to accept a promise of a future favour. Tony's father Troy has become an angry, violent drunk ever since losing his career, and when one night he beats his wife and child for trying to escape into the night, young Tony finally knows what he wants from the the secret-harboring groundskeeper.
Roger Gagnon is a humble Canadian moose happily supporting his wife and two calves with a good job selling oil equipment over the border. But when the United States elects a brash, unstable, immigrant-hating pig as their next President, things rapidly change. Now a simple business trip will turn into a insane, politically-fueled war between the richest nation on Earth and one lone moose just trying to get back to his family.
Gagnon has traveled by train across the American border hundreds of times, and it's all been quite rote. Until today. In his first trip since the new President's anti-immigration orders, the unlucky moose encounters an American pig immigrations officer all too ready to enforce the new laws as he sees fit.
Judge Harold Killicker is a panda that dislikes 'whiners' - which he defines as anyone that claims entitlement or otherwise gives excuses for even inconsequential crimes. As bigoted and prejudicial as he is, he's also wealthy and influential and has found ways to stay on the bench for a long time. During an intense court case against a donkey defendant, the judge ignores exculpatory evidence, claiming the donkey is playing the 'species card' for sympathy. The innocent defendant loses the trial, and the judge goes home proud. But the next day, when he wakes up in the urban slums with everyone around him - donkeys all - calling him by a different name, he's shocked to see his reflection as a donkey himself! Will he be able to embrace open-mindedness, or is his unchanging mind doomed to live and die in this life of poverty and injustice?
One of the last cases of an average day of His Honor Harold Killicker, the panda has lost his patience after suffering through 'whiners' all day, and now has to hear the case of a kangaroo, brought to the court to answer for hopping in a no-hopping zone. A minor infraction, but the judge finds a way to make it a major one, and make an example of the latest 'whiner'.