Flappy

Though he's more popularly associated with pepe, brett, andy and landwolf, the Boys' club isn't what matt furie would consider his seminal work. rather, it's one obscure book that he'd rather become the foundation of his legacy.

That work is entitled "The Night Riders," a self-described piece of children's literature but one that has been enjoyed by all ages since its publication in 2012.

In that book, the main characters were a frog named hoppy and his pet rat named, well, ratty. But There's one side character there who totally stole every scene he was in - a free-spirited bat named Flappy! Flappy is a video-game loving old soul who'd rather spend his time in his cave with his pet dragon, draggy. Of course. It can be argued that night riders was a story about getting out of one's comfort zone to explore and experience new things, and that's what Flappy learned in the end after joining Hoppy and ratty in their adventures. In this light, it can even be argued that Flappy is actually the main protagonist of the story!

This shouldn't even come as a surprise. Flappy, after all, is a bat, and bats are Matt Furie's Most favorite things to draw. Of all the hundreds of thousands of characters he has created, Bats comprise the specie that he has drawn the most. There is, of course, a rational explanation for this. Matt Furie is a nocturnal creature, just like bats. Matt FUrie is a self-professed introvert, much like Bats and just like FLappy! And Matt Furie can fully relate to how misunderstood bats have been throughout history.

And of the hundreds of bats, Matt Furie has drawn, only one was ever featured in a prominent work of his - the most prominent and most critically acclaimed at that - and only one was ever given a name.

Flappy!