Fat Freddy's Cat Reading Response

Fat Freddy's Cat Reading Response

Fat Freddy’s Cat was definitely something I wasn’t expecting to enjoy. Knowing that the material I would be reading had nudity, violence, and drugs; didn’t really make me that excited. In the first few panels of the story we are introduced to this cat; Fat Freddy’s Cat. This cat destroys everything in his path, picks fights with random cats and ruins people’s days. Immediately I thought, ok this is going to be a crude parody version of Garfield. Also why is he named Fat Freddy’s Cat? Who is Fat Freddy? Nobody knows. The entire story focuses on this one character; Fat Freddy’s Cat who remains himself a mystery.

All of a sudden the story goes from normal cat shenanigans to a completely different direction. The cat tells us that he wasn’t always Fat Freddy’s Cat. He told this story through a flashback of how he was a spy for the White House. During his mission, the cat had to go stop a group of invaders from polluting the United State’s water supply with Hee Hee Hee juice. It was a drug which made whoever drank it turn queer. Talk about coming out of left field! The story just keeps on going. The cat finds a colony of nudists who he thinks are actually the invaders but in disguise. He then proceeds to kill all of them, then finds out that he killed the wrong people. He then goes off to another location where he finds a man who is holding a big barrel. Thinking the contents of the barrel was the Hee Hee Hee juice; the cat shot and killed the man. However it turns out that the man was innocent and was just taking out the trash.

Fat Freddy’s Cat fails his mission after finding out the invaders had already poisoned the nation’s coffee supply. He goes back to the White House and sees the President drinking out of a cup of coffee. Thinking that the coffee had already been filled with the Hee Hee Hee juice the cat shoots the President in the back of the head, the end. What a crazy humorous comic! After reading the story I could not believe how stupid this cat was and his personality kind of reminded me of Marvel Comics’ Deadpool. We started off with a cliche cat, Garfield-esk story and end up reading something completely unexpected. Ultimately I really enjoyed reading Fat Freddy’s Cat and I encourage everyone to read it if they haven’t done so already.