Jump aboard the Good Ship Slaymaker, a realm of sword-slinging adventure where fearless felines live out their dreams of plunder and looting. In True New Raiders, Johnny Romeo reimagines an ordinary tabby cat as a swashbuckling sea rogue eagerly waiting to pounce on their latest voyage. With a bandana tied tight and danger in her eyes, Romeo’s corsair cat lives life on the edge, prowling the high seas in search of treasure and infamy. The cat wears her skull-and-crossbones bandana as a badge of honour, a reminder that this once average feline is now a brine-soaked buccaneer braving the ocean’s depths with a taste for poison and plunder. There is a glint of quiet intensity to the cat’s radiant golden stare as she gazes out into the horizon, contemplating her past life as a passive but playful household cat milling away in sleepy suburbia. No longer a bystander in her world, Romeo’s fearless feline is now a True New Raider, free to break the rules, redefine her nature, and claim her territory with wild-eyed glee. Once limited to the trill of her household purring, the cat has now roared into action as the living embodiment of a ‘Thrill Seeker’, raiding ships and pillaging islands in a dashing attempt to curb her zoomies. The painting acts as a spiritual sibling to the Cat Woman featured in Candy Pop Shop, two feline femme fatales who have broken free from the weight of society’s expectation and been reborn as full-blown rogues ready to stare fear in the face with all their nine lives hanging in the balance. A symbol of feminine ferocity, freedom, and feline audacity, True New Raiders is a visual ode to those who dare to reinvent themselves, who reject the safe path and pounce into the unknown.