Silly and hilarious. Lots o' fun!

Dragon Puncher is part comic book, part fumetti, and all cool cartoon action. It's about a grumpy superhero cat who reluctantly teams up with a friendly young monster to defeat a dragon. Perfect for reading aloud and doing voices with your little comic book fan. I hope we see more Dragon Puncher in the near future. A quick, fun and very good read.

Dragon Puncher is about a fighting cat in a suit who has a passion for defeated dragons. Him and his sidekick take on their main foe, a giant dragon. Dragon Puncher is a graphic novel or comic. We can tell because it has illustration and bubbled text to go with it. According to Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, comics show pictures in a deliberate order to convey information. I give Dragon Puncher a 3/5 stars. I enjoyed the illustrations a lot, but graphic novels have never really interes...

The first time I read through this, I REALLY didn't get it. Wow, that was weird. And then I read it through with my kid. and then I read the blurb on the back from Booklist that points out how this book "magically captures the exact sense of zaniness often discovered in backyard playtime" and I thought, 'Oooooohhhhh. I get it now!' Yes, this book is definitely zany, but my son has it memorized (after only a few readings) and we're both now looking forward to the sequel. Hmmm.... I think this wou...

One tough kitty, in armor, and his never-ending battle with dragons! A very cool mix of cartoons and photographs.

I'm not going to give a JK book featuring his son and cat anything less than 5 stars, so cram it with walnuts, ugly.

This was a lot of fun. The author’s cat stars as the hero, his son is the lovable sidekick, and the author appears as the villainous dragon. This is cute, strange, and quirky. It’s fast-paced and bright, and it seems reminiscent of children’s imaginative play, which I’m sure is the point. I think kids would enjoy this, and I think it would also be fun for parents and other grownups who are used to playing with children.

I consider myself to be a fan of irreverent or pretty out there humor. Sure, some of it can be a bit pretentious at times, but there often is generally a bit of silver lining to every bad, played out joke or sketch made by the likes of Tim and Eric or Kyle Mooney to name a few. I got the impression that "Dragon Puncher" by James Kochalka was trying to do something in a similar vain, but in reading it, the book, it kind of fell just a little bit short of really landing anything close to humor. Th...

Read it to my 4 year old. It was cute, short, kept her entertained.

Hmmm... I can usually find some kind of meaning behind Kochalka's silliness, but not in this case. This one seems to be about defeating a dragon with a wooden spoon, and that's it.

I honestly don't know what to say about this one. I wouldn't have given it 3 stars had my kids not enjoyed it and had I not other kids would to. I certainly did not, but that may be because I'm getting OLD! (or it's just not my thing!) I know that my 6 year old really liked the real-picture-faces. Here's my booktalk:A cat, aka Dragon Puncher is on the lookout for sneaky, evil dragons but instead comes across some sort of hairy spoon-wielding monster. Dragon Puncher is less than pleased to have t...

Dragon PuncherThe brave Dragon Puncher is on a mission to fight Dragons. On his way he runs into an likable partner, who only wants to help. Will these two come together to complete the mission? Dragon Puncher is a comic style format book. According to Children’s Literature, Briefly, Chapter 8 explains these types of formats are exceptional because the pictures and words share the responsibility building the story. Comic style books are becoming more and more popular with young and old alike. Th...

Funny art, the rest of it pretty meh.

The Dragon Puncher is a lone cat famous for being a lone tough dragon hunter, and once again he is out in search of the ruthless dragon so he can save the meadow. But when the Dragon Puncher stumbles upon a would be sidekick, little Spoon-E, he gets a bit more than he bargained for. Will Spoon-E help the Dragon Puncher defeat the dreadful dragon? or will the solitary Dragon Puncher dash little Spoon-y's dreams? Only time will tell in the Dragon Puncher by James Kochalka.In this story telling nar...

Dragon Puncher is a grumpy cat in a battle suit that punches dragons. He meets Spoony-E, a baby-faced chap with a wooden spoon, and the two team-up to battle a gigantic James Kochalka-faced dragon.So obviously this is a kid’s book but a number of Kochalka’s comics could be called that and still turned out to be surprisingly good, like Monkey Vs Robot, Pinky & Stinky (the pig astronauts) and Peanutbutter & Jeremy (about a cat and a bird who're chums). Dragon Puncher though wasn’t that great. The

The book is about a dragon puncher who is on quest to find the dragon. However, he run into a sloth with a spoon. The sloth follows the dragon puncher throughout his journey and helps him fight the dragon. This books format is a hardcover graphic comic. Its diction is made up of speech balloon and sound distinction which is common in graphic novel/ comics. I thought this was entertaining because of the realistic elements it has in its illustrations.

A pissed-off cat in a battlesuit fights a dragon while trying to fend off the attentions of a would-be sidekick obsessed with spoons. Oh, and the backgrounds and faces are photos (the battlesuit and dragon body are not. Nor the spoon). Very silly and entirely insubstantial, but neither of those is a complaint.

The main thing worth noting about this book is the unique illustration style. Kochalka uses photographs as his backgrounds - various photos of a field with woods in the distance, in this case - as well as as the facial details of his characters. The only drawn parts are the bodies (including the heads) of his characters, and any props and elements relevant to the battles being fought.Because, of course, this is a book about punching dragons.Which is interesting, actually, because dragons are cur...

LOVE IT.

I’ve been a James Kochalka fan for awhile, ever since coming across that old pre-YouTube viral video “Monkey vs. Robot” and then discovering his journal comics online and his energetic musical oeuvre in his band "James Kochalka Superstar." A multi-talented person, cult musician and cartoonist laureate of Vermont, this little picture book is a great intro to Kochalka’s childlike brand of comics, with its mix of simple drawings, vibrant colors, and action. Frolicking on the green grass under a blu...