Lord of Kakapo’s is the latest cartoon adventure of the characters from ‘Coda the Cat with Friends’ (published 2012).
The main theme is to change the story ‘Lord of the Flies’ into a black comedy using the Cats as the main characters.
In this story Coda, Timmy and Sparky are running a Kitty Tiki Tour company to fly tandem hang-gliders off Paekakariki Hill.
On a beautiful clear morning they set off with three client Cats: Rox-Anne, Whiteie and Goldie. Unfortunately the weather changes quickly as a bad wind blows out from Wellingtown and sends them northward to finally crash land on Kapiti Island. Here they have to survive before being rescued and they have several adventures with Wally (an opossum), a plague of Rats, Johnny the Pig, Gecko’s, Huhu bugs, Weeta’s and Tane (the Kakapo).
Author’s note:
David wanted to change the close fatalism of paranoia into an open future where choice can make a constructive difference.
In respect to this David has tried by being indirect and subtle to confront the cultural conflict occurring in modern day New Zealand.
Below is a sample of the book, there are 39 pages in total.
The main theme is to change George Orwell’s 1984 story into a dark dramatic comedy using Coda the Cat with friends as the main characters.
In this story Coda builds a time machine with Timmy, Sparky and new friend Whitey travel back in time to 1984.
In this alternative reality, Paekakariki has been taken over by the Cats and other Animals.
What humans are left are submissive to the Big Tom Cat that rules the Village with guards, fences and cameras. Yet even by all his power Big Tom can not eliminate the Free Cats who live outside the compound and off the land.
Coda, Timmy, Sparky and Whitey all arrive in 1984 safely with the time machine. However Coda finds he needs two new AA batteries to operate the remote for the time machine to return. In pursuit of finding these batteries Coda and friends have several adventures that end in conflict, sacrifice and tragedy.
Author’s note:
David wanted to confront extremism and the conflict between control and nurture.
Below is a sample of the book, there are 56 pages in total.
The main theme is to confront the emotional conflict of ‘To love is to hate’ and why we do have to kill each other to be able to live together using Coda the Cat with friends as the main characters.
In this story Coda, Timmy and Whitey while attempting to return from 1984 to the present over shoot by some 500 years. They arrive to a future where the Cats are losing the war but the tide is turned with the help of Coda and the Boys and a newly developed fourth dimensional weapon developed by the Professor. Yet in winning the war they unknowingly create a fourth dimensional life cat. Meanwhile the power of victory corrupts the Republic in favour of an evil Emperor, whose only intent is to purge all who appose his absolute rule.
Unable to stop this tyranny the Boys flee home to try and return to the past in their time machine, only to find it gone and replaced by a golden pyramid. Knowing their escape is thwarted the Emperor’s fleet arrives and they choose to stand and fight against overwhelming odds.
Author’s note:
David wanted to express his view on why conflict is healthy in relationships but in extreme is destructive. It is our choice to act and through our actions to accept the consequences rather than not to act and deny our life (fate).
Below is a sample of the book, there are 62 pages in total.
