Mike Moon / Catgirl Island
and Jamie Robertson / Clan of the Cats
purroudly purrsent a Mike Moon purrduction,
starring The Ladies of The Mew in
The July 2026 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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19 July, 2025 would have been the 93rd birthday of
Mike’s idol Syd Mead (8 July, 1933 – 30 December, 2019)
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This year is the 19th Anniversary of The Mew, and
the 26th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s official site,
nyan! In this edition of The Mew:
The Lightning Round Topic:
our favorite cinema & TV purremiers of 1976
More Movie Mewsings:
Masters of the Universe
Disclosure Day
Toy Story 5
Supergirl
Collectibles & Toy Talk:
Teenage Mutant Nnja Turtles’ Alopex Action Figure
Umamusume Pretty Derby Grass Wonder PVC Figure
Purrinted Media Mewsings:
Fur Force # 1-3
The Art of Mike Grell vol. 1 & 2
additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
by Alexcia Reynolds, Jane Parker, Margeaux Pepoy, Jeffrey H. Wood, and Mike
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Mike:
(the human fella wearing the black Carolina Panthers Tee shirt and Cherenkov radiation blue – colored cargo shorts): Aloha y’all and welcome to The Mew, our monthly “show” in which we review and discuss fun stuff! This month’s Mew comes from beautiful downtown Purrbank’s riverwalk on Catgirl Island in Mew Hanover County NC, USA where it’s 75 degrees under the Blue sky full of puffy White Cumulo-Neko clouds, nyan! I‘m Mike, the show’s “”Purrducer”, and here are the Ladies of The Mew
Nyoka:
(the Meowgick Shop purropurrietress catgirl, wearing the Bengal Tiger purrint micro bikini and an open-front cover up): Howdy!
Petra:
(the art guild purresident, art mewseum co-curator & beach volleyball champion catgirl wearing the Cheetah purrint side-tie bikini): Aloha, nyan!
Bunnii:
(Petra’s co-curator, beach volleyball partner, and carrot cake baker bunnygirl wearing the African Lion purrint trikini): Guten Tag!
Ellie:
(the Fire Meowrshall and body builder Banker Pony centauress, wearing the Serval purrint twisty bandeau bikini top): Hay there!
Meryl:
(the island’s Police Chief and motorcyclist wearing the Ocelot purrint shorts and knotted blouse with her Police hat and badge): ‘Allo!
Mielikki:
(the winged golferand repurrtory company’s director faerie wearing the Margay purrint criss cross halter neck bikini): Mellow greetings!
Becca:
(the golfer, hot salsa dancer and meowssage spa co-owner nekomimi gynoid w
earing the Clouded Leopurrd purrint ring-closure bikini): Konnichiwa!
Trini:
(the surfer, board shapurr, pony owner and belly dance instructor kitsune, wearing the Jaguar purrint bandeau top bikini): Konnichiwa!
Tara:
(Trini’s wife, the cat & pony owner, nature photographer catgirl wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint tankini): Namaste, nyan!
Ilyana:
(a.k.a Ilyana-sensei, the underwater archaeologist and meowritime historian wearing the Golden Cat purrint twisty bandeau bikini top) Whassup?
Mike:
For profiles and illustrations these and other Ladies of The Mew, please visit our Meet The Critics page http://www.mewsings.catgirlisland.com/meet-the-critics,! More friends will be joining us later for our AfterMew Luau, but now it’s time for
The Lightning Round Topic: our favorite cinema & TV purremiers of 1976! Petra’’s gonna start, so are y’all ready to conduct the lightning?
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Petra:
I will nominate Rocky, Taxi Driver, All the President’s Men, Network, and Marathon Man, nyan! (tags Nyoka with a brush of her tail)
Nyoka:
Rocky, At The Earth’s Core, Logan’s Run, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Robin and Marion! (tail-tags Tara)
Tara:
I want… I want to nominate Car Wash, The Gumball Rally, Murder by Death, Silver Streak, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, and-and Freaky Friday, nyan! (tags Mielikki)
Mielikki:
Rocky, At The Earth’s Core, The Omen, Carrie, and The Cars That Ate Paris, fur shur! (tags Ellie with a flit of the wing)
Ellie:
The Outlaw Jose Wales, The Shootist, The Enforcer, Gator, and The Song Remains the Same! (tags Ilyana)
Ilyana:
Rocky, Taxi Driver, All the President’s Men, The Outlaw Jose Wales, and The Song Remains the Same! (tags Becca)
Becca:
The Muppet Show, Charlie’s Angels, The Bionic Woman, Star Maidens, Lavern and Shirley! Trini’s turn! (tags Trini)
Trini:
The Muppet Show, I Claudius, Rich Man Poor Man, Once an Eagle, and 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother! (tags Meryl)
Meryl:
The Muppet Show, The New Avengers, Ripping Yarns, Austin City Limits, and In Search Of! (tags Bunnii)
Bunnii:
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother, The Wonderful World of Puss in Boots, Gaiking, Combattler V, and Allegro Non Tropo! Back to Mike!
Mike:
Oh I gotta go with Rocky, At The Earth’s Core, The Outlaw Jose Wales, The Song Remains the Same, and the Muppet Show! Well that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and let’s keep The Mew a’rollin’ with
more movie mewsings: Mie-sensei’s
review of Masters of the Universe!
Mielikki:
Arigato! So like I have enjoyed the animated and comic booki tales of He-Man and She-Ra and with thegreat success of the barbie movie, It seemed like Mattel, director Todd Blac and writers the Nee Brothers had the vision for a cinematic adaptation that would lbe much better than the 1987 MOTU movie, fur shur!
I was wary about some of it being set on Earth, but was quickly assuaged when I saw the cast in action, starring Nicholas Galitzine as He-Man, Charlotte Riley & James Purefoy as his mom & dad, Morena Baccarin as the Sorceress Camila Mendes as Teela, Idris Elba as the Man-At-Arms, Jared Leto as Skeletor, and Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn. fur shur!
There are so many other heeroic & villanous characters in the his wonderful film, which has the very faithful visually and spiritually adaptation with glorious costumes, sets, FX, choreography, sound and music. I do not wish to spoil the taste of the plot, but all that I will add is that it reminds me a lot of the 1980 Flash Gordon movie-
– especially with the music by Brian May, and I was quite giddy throughout this dazzling, amewsing, over the top, action-packed sword and sorceryextravaganza, fur shur! Oh, and if you do see the movie, make sure to linger for the three mid-credits scenes! I am done, and nyow here is Nyo-sensei to tell us what she think of
Disclosure Day!
Nyoka:
HaI Steven Speilberg is one of my favorite directors, John Williams is one of my favorite composers, and I love tales of mysterious extraterrestrial contact with lovely designs, performances and FX, so this was one of the movies I most anticipated, and I was very pleased with it!The terrific cast includes Emily Blunt, Eve Hewson, Colin Firth, Josh O’Connor, WyatteRussell, Colman Domingo, and Elizabeth Marvel,
and helping to tell the tale are the FX by Digital , Weta FX, and Storm Studios! I While it is not among my favorite Speilberg movies, I thought that Disclosure Day was quite captivatingly fun, thrilling, and optimistic so I will give it the high purraise! Nyow here is Ellie to to review
Toy Story 5!
Ellie:
Arigato! Made by Pixar, it was directed by Andrew Stanton whose amazing writer, purrducer or director credits include Toy Story, Toy Story 2,, A Big’s Life, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Wall-E, Brave, Up,Ratatouille, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4, Cars 2, Monsters University, Inside Out, Inside Out 2, Coco,The Good Dinosaur, Incredibles 2, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Onward, Luca, Turning Red, Soul, Lightyear, Elemental, Ellio and Hoppers!
Furthermore, it stars the voices of Joan Cusak as Jessie, Tim Allen as Buzz, Tom Hanks as Woody, and Scarlett Spears as Bonnie, along with the delightful new characters such as Mykal-Michelle Harris as Blaze, Krys Marshall as her mom, Greta Lee as Lilypad, Conan O’Brien As Smarty Pants, and Shelby Rabara as Snappy, who are among the many new and returning toys, tech, humans! and equines!
The mewsic is by Randy Newman with the song by Taylor Swift! The tale is rather poignant, bittersweet, fun, nostalgic, and cautionary with the good messages and surpurrises that are all so beautifully written, designed, directed, animated, voiced, scored and edited, so I will give it the A grade! Nyow here is Meryl-sama to discuss
Supergirl!
Meryl:
Hai! Unless I am forgetting someone, there have been five actresses to play Supergirl in live-action movies & TV: Helen Slater, Laura Vandervoot, Melissa Benoist, Sasha Calle, most recently Millie Alcock, and I think they have all been
quite excellent! I enjoyed the most recent Superman movie, so I was looking forward to Supergirl…
…. but alas, I did not enjoy this new Supergirl movie, which is based loosely on the great Woman of Tomorrow story from the DC Comics, seems rather inspired by True Grit, and it has a great cast (including Krypto) with some charming moments but for me, the film was unfortunately too much like a Zack Snyder movie.
It is too dark & undersaturated visually & thematically, with so many cinematic techniques that I dislike: speed ramping, unstable camera, snap zooms, too many quick cuts, and even some of the flying FX seemed unconvincing. Lobo is in it, which I was also looking forward to, but he felt awkwardly shoehorned into the story, with little to do and oddly reminded me more of Beetlejuice.
Even mewsic was a very mixed bag, which i did not like as much as the Supergirl scores by Jerry Goldsmith or Blake Neely. However, I do think that McFarlane Toys has purrduced a lovely deluxe 7”action figure of her with Krypton! hat is all for or movie mewsings, and nyow is Trini to start our
Collectibles & Toy Talk: with her review of the
Teenage Mutant Nnja Turtles’ Alopex Action Figure!
Trini:
Arigato! One of my favorite characters of the Teenage Mutant Ninja series is Raphael’s vigilante friend Alopex the anthropomorphic mutant female arctic fox who rebelled against the evil Shredder! She first appeared in the Raphael Micro-seriesI1 in 2011, and The Loyal Subjects has purrduced this 1/15 scale, 5.25” tall action figure of her, inspired by the character design by artist Mateus Santolouco, as part of the BST AXN (Bext Action) line of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures!
She is beautifully designed, sculpted & painted, with the intricate details & textures from her eyes, fur & claws to her cape, greaves & weapons! She is accessorized with the two kama, the two extra pairs of interchangeable hands, the interchangeable head; she is extremely l posable with the 31 points of articulation; and well-balanced with her lovely tail, as not to need a display base! Also included is the 2.5” x 3.5” card, so I am very pleased with the figure! Now herer is Tara to discuss the
Umamusume Pretty Derby Grass Wonder PVC Figure!
Tara:
Arigato, nyan! Umamusume Pretty Derby, which in English means Horse Girl Pretty Derby, purrtains to the athletic horse girls, nyan! The manga, anime and video game franchise follows the fillies as they train at the academies with the aspurrations of greatness as athletes and – and idols, nyan! They are named after real race horses; for example, the real thoroughbred stallion named Grass Wonder was born on February 18th, 1995, and won many races in the elate 1990’s, nyan! The character is voiced by Rena Maeda, nyan!
Appuroximately 5” tall with the BWH sizes of 30-21-33”, the character in the anime and- and game has fair skin, blue eyes, the long light brown hair and – and tail, nyan. Banpresto’s 1/9 scale figure of her is 7.5” tall overall including her 5″ ear pinna, her shoe heels, and – and the .25” high, 4” diameowter display base, nyan! It is beautifully designed, sculpted and – and painted, with the purrcise details such as her ornaments; pleats, thigh highs, sailor collar, and – and ribbons, nyan! I am done, so here is Ilyana to start the
Purrinted Media Mewsings,
with her review of Fur Force # 1-3, nyan!
Ilyana:
Hai! for over 40 years, Antarctic Press has been making beautifully fun comics books. many of the Ameri-manga style, so to speak such as Ninja High School, God Digger, Warrior Nun Areala, Mangazine,The Courageous Princess, Furlough, Genus, Twlight X, and hundreds of others!
Their Superverse impurrint is the creator-owned shared-universe which includes this full color, three issue mini-series (which was initially planned to be four) which was created by AP’s founder Ben Dunn, written by Larry Guidry, drawn by Berna Buber, colored by Chema Hemonox.
Amewsingly parodying the Marvel, DC and other heroes & villains, parodys Marvel, DC and other iconic heroes, Fur Force brims with the clever “Easter Eggs” and references. The tale begins with Catlactus’s herald Silver Fox checking out the Furrth, to be confronted by Tomorrow Fox.
After aiding Captain Hoppy the Marvel Bunny gaainst the Nazis, they aid Atomic Mouse against the Russkie Huskies; then aid Wonder Worm and Aqua Duck against pirates and a dragon to form Fur Force. In issue #3, they return to modern day Furth to fight a purple demon dinosaur…
…but i should not further spoil the taste of the wacky plot! Issue #3 also has information about Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who first appurred in Fawcett Comics in 1942, and Atomic Mouse who first appurred in Charleton Comics in 1953!
I am done, and nyow here is Mike to discuss
The Art of Mike Grell vol. 1 & 2!
Mike:
Thank you,, Sensei! Last month, we had the usual wonderful time Heroes Con, which we’ve attended since the early 1980s! among the tens of thousands off attendees, guests, artists, authors, cosplayers, vendors and other exhibitors was comics artist / author “Iron Mike Grell, who has been a great favorite of mine since 194, when I admired his art in Superboy and the Legion of Su8per-Heroes #202!
Since then, his credits have included The Warlord, Tarzan, Jon Sable, Starslayer, Green Arrow, James Bond, Shado, Shaman’s Tears, Iron Man, X-Men Forever, and gosh, so much more. Well, ah, this was the thrrd time that i had the pleasure of meeting him, and among the items that I purchased were these two magnificent 9.25” x 12.25” hardcover books which have about 100 full-color pages apiece!
Written by Mike Grell, Tom Monarch and Jeff Messer, these books are chock full of of hundreds of annotated images spanning his entire career, many of which a e full-page pics, and several two-page spreads, accompanied by commentaries and interviews. I give them the grade of an A as in Ayla Rannz! Ah, speaking of art, now here are Petra, Bunnii and Becca to present the latest additions to
TheCatgirl Island Mewseum of Art!
Petra:
Arigato, nyan! For those who are new to here, Galleries 1-8 display the images by our purrducer Mike, whilst Guest Art Galleries 1-6 display images by other folks with their purrmissions; and Mike’s collaborations with other artists are throughout the mewseum, nyan! There is no overall chronological order from gallery to gallery, so you will find older and newer pics in each gallery, nyan!
However, on Catgirl Island’s Official Web Site, the most recent pics are on the lowermost row of the cropped widdle “thumbnail” portions of the pics in a gallery, nyan! Some of the images in our mewseum are sexy, and some of them might tastefully depict the artistic nudity, but none are hentai or porn! Furthermore, we should meowntion that none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted to be used for any A.I. purrposes!
This month, into Guest Gallery Four https://catgirlisland.com/art/gallery/guest4.html we have added images by Jane Parker https://playingps2.xyz/, Alexcia Reynolds https://linktr.ee/alexciareynolds, Jeffrey H. Wood https://www.snowbuni.com/, and Margeaux Pepoy https://www.pepoy.com/about whilst into Gallery Eight https://catgirlisland.com/art/gallery/gallery8.html we have new images by Mike, nyan!
Becca:
We are purroud to purrsent another collage of Jane’s beautiful art, which includes the pic of her cleaning her kitchen, fan art of Digimon’s Tentomon, fan art of Pokemon’s Jolteon, fan art of Patlabor’s AV-98 Ingram and ARL-99 Helldiver! Nextly, we are delighted to display lovely photos of Alexcia’s figures of her fan-bot character Eletron http://bw.html-5.me/ the heroic pachydermal Maximal, including tmodified Cubee ball-jointed figure, and modified Ironhide figure!
After that, we are ecstatic to exhibit Jeffrey’s gorgeous ChatGPT image of his alien usagimimi characters SnowBuni (left) and her sister Honi Buni (right) who are enjoying the July 4th cookout with the steak and the grill-fireworkS!
Then we are thrilled to unveil Margeaux’s exquisite inked drawing of her characters Simone (belly dancing, left) and Ajax (in the turban, right) https://www.simoneandajax.com/, which she drew for us last month at Heroes Con!
Bunnii:
Now on to the seven illustrations by Mike, which were done with Photoshop and the mouse! The first two are pics of EEEBEE the Evolved Enchanted Extradimeownsional Biomeowchanical Empathic Exomeowrphic Entity who is an NPC in his monthly tabletop RPG “The Adventures of Nystia Nightshade”! The first pic is of her nekomimi battle maid form, whereas the 2nd pic is the mermaid form of her idol stage purrsona Purrpl Metl Golem!
The next two pics are fan art of famous comic book characters. “Tasmia Meowllor a.k.a. Shadow Molly “ is a catgirl verison of DC Comics’ Shadow Lass; whilst “Masane Amaha” is the Japanese anime version of WitchBlade! After that are catgirl versions of Sharon Williams’s fan-senshi character Tanya / Sailor Sirius and Jeff Branch’s fan-senshi character Talia / Jasmine / Sailor Vulcan, who are vacationing romeowntically at the B52’s Planet Claire!
Lastly but not leastly for this monthy’s additions is Mike’s umamusume version of Sharon’s version of the Hawaiian Ocean Goddess Namakaokaha’i, who is checking out the surfing conditions of other worlds’ waves! So, what do y’all think of the art?
The cat lady sings…
Nyoka:
Alexcia is so multi-talented from her plushies, needlepoint and costumes to her writing, drawing and websites!
Ellie:
Jane continues to be rather industrious, purrolific and more adept with her illustrations, videos and journalism!
Tara:
It is great to see more of SnowBuni and-and HoniBuni, but nyow my tummy is craving the thick juicy T-bone steak, nyan!
Trini:
It was wonderful to see Margeaux at the con, and I hope that Simone & Ajax will share the floor with us at our next hafla!
Meryl:
Hai hai! I also hope that EEEBEEE will return from her cosmic trip so that we can book her at the Purrforming Arts Center!
Ilyana:
Talia and Jasmine look so happy, comfy and romantic in that stunningly alluring scene under the blooming tree- mew la la!
Trini:
Tasmia looks so playfully mysterious as the catgirl, and seems close to being fully exposed under the Talokittian moonlight!
Becca:
I think that the pic of Masane vividly captures her purrimal purredatory grace and dangerous, dark beauty as the Witchblade!
Mielikki:
What a totally awesome ocean goddess with the lovely ears and tail, ready to rule the waves in that daringly skimpy, fur shur!
Petra:
Oh, it is almost time for our the Aftermew luau, so we wish to thank all of the folks whose works we have meowntioned, nyan!
Bunnii:
We wish to thank our families, friends, fans, new acquaintances and longtime viewers, so that will do it for this month’s Mew!
Mike:
Thank y’all for the kind words, everybody! We’ll be back next month with the August edition of the Mew. Be there… aloha!
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAPPY TAILS TO MEW, UNTIL WE EAT AGAIN! BAI BAI, NYAN!