I can't believe I forgot to upload this last year after my previous post based on Michael Chabon's 'Summerland' - https://www.furaffinity.net/view/33336528/
Here's my lineup of the heroes of this excellent and sadly underrated American fantasy novel. They're a ragtag baseball team out to stop the trickster Coyote from bringing on the apocalypse, and they do involve a few anthro characters.
Bottom Row - L to R: Ethan Feld, Catcher - the hero of the story. Eleven years old, he sees himself as the worst baseball player ever and has no interest in being a hero, until his father is captured by Coyote. With a bat carved from the World Tree, he may change that.
Cinquefoil Boartooth, 1st Base - Home-run king of three worlds, leader of his fairy (or ferisher) tribe until they were captured by Coyote. Also acts as the team's manager.
Jennifer T. Rideout, Pitcher - Ethan's best friend, half Native-American, a tomboy, tough, sassy, passionate about baseball, and fiercely loyal.
Second Row - Spider-Rose Dandelion, 2nd Base - A ferisher princess, banished by her tribe when Coyote tricked her into introducing the designated hitter rule. A teenager by fairy standards, tends to be sullen and pessimistic. There's a dark secret around that doll of hers.
Grimalkin John (Grim), Shortstop - A giant by birth, but birth defects caused him to never grow bigger than a human child. Sold into slavery to a ferisher tribe by his full-size brothers before joining the team. Still a tough fighter, despite his size. Also the group's driver, mechanic and engineer.
Thor Wignutt, 3rd Base - A friend of Ethan and Jennifer T., a nerd who's tall for his age and believes he is an android. Generally an outcast at home, he finds he has a talent for teleporting in the world of Summerland, as well as some other things about himself.
Dick Pettipaw, LF - A were-rat, thief, and best frenenemy of Grim the giant, he joins the group to continue swapping insults with him. Also the team's chef.
Third Row - Rodrigo Buendía, RF - A former big-leaguer whose career is in decline. He joins the group for a chance at redemption. Refuses to go to the Summerlands without a good supply of cigars.
Taffy, CF - A Sasquatch, rescued by the group after spending several centuries as a giant's pet. Tough but motherly, mourning the loss of her children and her herd, she starts to see the human children as her new family. She considers the term 'bigfoot' highly insulting.
Cutbelly Reynard, CF Standin - A Were-fox, first sent to recruit Ethan as a hero. Like Thor, he has the ability to teleport, or 'scamper' between worlds. Patient, levelheaded and acerbic. Prefers the company of humans to immortals.
Here's my lineup of the heroes of this excellent and sadly underrated American fantasy novel. They're a ragtag baseball team out to stop the trickster Coyote from bringing on the apocalypse, and they do involve a few anthro characters.
Bottom Row - L to R: Ethan Feld, Catcher - the hero of the story. Eleven years old, he sees himself as the worst baseball player ever and has no interest in being a hero, until his father is captured by Coyote. With a bat carved from the World Tree, he may change that.
Cinquefoil Boartooth, 1st Base - Home-run king of three worlds, leader of his fairy (or ferisher) tribe until they were captured by Coyote. Also acts as the team's manager.
Jennifer T. Rideout, Pitcher - Ethan's best friend, half Native-American, a tomboy, tough, sassy, passionate about baseball, and fiercely loyal.
Second Row - Spider-Rose Dandelion, 2nd Base - A ferisher princess, banished by her tribe when Coyote tricked her into introducing the designated hitter rule. A teenager by fairy standards, tends to be sullen and pessimistic. There's a dark secret around that doll of hers.
Grimalkin John (Grim), Shortstop - A giant by birth, but birth defects caused him to never grow bigger than a human child. Sold into slavery to a ferisher tribe by his full-size brothers before joining the team. Still a tough fighter, despite his size. Also the group's driver, mechanic and engineer.
Thor Wignutt, 3rd Base - A friend of Ethan and Jennifer T., a nerd who's tall for his age and believes he is an android. Generally an outcast at home, he finds he has a talent for teleporting in the world of Summerland, as well as some other things about himself.
Dick Pettipaw, LF - A were-rat, thief, and best frenenemy of Grim the giant, he joins the group to continue swapping insults with him. Also the team's chef.
Third Row - Rodrigo Buendía, RF - A former big-leaguer whose career is in decline. He joins the group for a chance at redemption. Refuses to go to the Summerlands without a good supply of cigars.
Taffy, CF - A Sasquatch, rescued by the group after spending several centuries as a giant's pet. Tough but motherly, mourning the loss of her children and her herd, she starts to see the human children as her new family. She considers the term 'bigfoot' highly insulting.
Cutbelly Reynard, CF Standin - A Were-fox, first sent to recruit Ethan as a hero. Like Thor, he has the ability to teleport, or 'scamper' between worlds. Patient, levelheaded and acerbic. Prefers the company of humans to immortals.
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Have you thought about sending it to Chabon? I suspect he would immensely enjoy it. (BTW he's one of the (numerous) executive producers on Star Trek: Picard, and he wrote that great novel about comic books, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay; he definitely digs pop culture.)
I've wanted to get in touch with Chabon for a while, just to ask him about the one Tall Tale character in Summerland whose name I can't place.
After sitting through a screening of Birdman and then watching an interview where the director called superhero comics 'Fascist' I remember thinking 'I would really love to force this guy to read Kavalier & Klay.'
After sitting through a screening of Birdman and then watching an interview where the director called superhero comics 'Fascist' I remember thinking 'I would really love to force this guy to read Kavalier & Klay.'
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