Fruit Bat

By Coire Rococo and Freda Maletsky

Fruit Bat opens with Dove, beginning to piece together her life as a human, having recently been morphed from an animal into a human. She still has inklings of her former animal self (in her case, a desire to fly) and doesn't quite understand how to be a human. Upon meeting others who were also morphed from animals, jovial Hans (lesser blind mole rat), stoic and menacing Ox (a blood-sucking bird, oxpecker), and aloof Katherine (sphynx cat), who initially help her grasp the basics of existing as a human, she learns that the "born animal" (BA) folk are scattered around town and mostly disorganized, each needing to mostly fend for themselves. When the experiments started, the BA folk would receive training on how to be a human and given a free house; however, a local politician, Mayor Turley, has recently enacted policies that cut those supportive programs, under the guise of being "fiscally prudent" and "good for the taxpayers." These new policies set the BAs (including our protagonist, Dove) up for failure at adjusting to their new lives. Quite often the BAs fail at gaining employment and fall into foreclosure and homelessness or worse, dying. A controversial procedure to transform BA people back into the animals they once were, Re-Evolve, often seems like their only recourse. Can they band together to help each other survive in the cut-throat human world? 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tight Two Studio
• Release date: Jun 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223365204

Coire Rococo

Coire Rococo is a comic book writer living on stolen ohlone land. They've been writing their entire. They're currently working on Heavy Boots, Why Did We Ever Break Up? and a couple other projects with artist, illustrator, and partner in all the things, Freda Maletsky. They also make music; more on that later. Email: [e-mail] Instagram: @coirerococo

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