#Pirate penguin versus ninja chicken series
This first volume starts with a series of bite-size chunks, originally web comics, doling out blackout routines in two to four page portions. The supporting characters’ voices could be better distinguished from one another, since everyone speaks in rapid high wit, but it’s a small issue. A few other animal characters hang around to fill out the cast – Kung-Fu Koala, Astronaut Armadillo, Ninja Squid, Cosmonaut Capybara and an assortment of background animals (their world is human free). The pirate and ninja spend more time bantering than physically fighting, making the relationship closer to a friendly sibling rivalry than any sort of fantasy genre struggle.
This book, which now has two volumes of stories, is more strictly for child readers, and despite the title, is as free of violence and battle as the average Bugs Bunny cartoon. The humor is simpler in Penguin/Chicken than it is in Friesen’s slightly older-skewing books, such as Another Dirt Sandwich, which frankly, is funny for any adult that still has a little person hiding inside. I’m not really interested in anything you have to say.”Īnd so forth. “Stop answering before I ask! It’s making me cranky.” “Okay, then I change my answer to ‘yellow’.”
Ninja Chicken.įriesen’s specialty is witty dialogue and absurd non-sequiturs, and every page is loaded with set up/punch line combinations that work. Any ten-year-old would probably giggle themself silly over Pirate Penguin Vs. Funny person Ray Friesen has been steadily building a retinue of books for young people that one hopes are finding their target audience because they are an original and sublime treat.
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