![]() Jesse’s character is reminiscent of Clementine in season one of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, a fragile yet growing child that is slowly succumbing to the world she lives in. The two issues put Sandor in the spotlight, with Jesse acting as a person that he has to protect at all time she is his motivation to live. While it focuses mostly on the animals, Animosity does have a human lead in Jesse while she is a main character, her role is a sort of deuteragonist at the moment. It’s these small things that make the comic unique every animal has a different personality, and create a pseudo society that runs analogous to our own. ![]() Throughout the two issues, we’re treated to bits and pieces of this interaction: a couple of birds express their disagreement with living together and having kids in a nest, chickens try to pawn off their eggs in a market, a cat threatens an abusive boyfriend to not hit its owner. Like their human counterparts, animals in this universe react to the Wake differently. One of Animosity’s greatest strengths lies in its complex diversity. The second issue jumps around through the year after the Wake, as human and animal relations are tense some circumstances leave Jesse with only Sandor as her protector as they begin their journey to find shelter. After a brief encounter with a hostile animal, Sandor, concerned with Jesse’s safety, promises to take care of her. After fleeing for safety, Sandor and Jesse are separated from the rest of the neighbors. However, the surprise and heartwarming times are short-lived, as other animals begin to rampage the complex where Jesse and her family are living. It’s these moments (complete with Sandor crying tears of joy) that humanizes the comic. Sandor, an old yet trusty canine, speaks to his owner, a young child named Jesse, as she’s astounded by the situation at hand. By the third spread, which kick-starts the world changing event known as the Wake, each panel’s animals gain sentience and react to their situations differently, ranging from comedic (a bunch of pandas shooting themselves with rifles) to horrific (baby hamsters trying to run away from their mother, who is currently eating one.) It’s the final panel, a dog and his owner, on which the series is focused. After an introductory page quoting the biblical book of Genesis, we’re treated to three two-page spreads with almost identical art, showing eight different scenarios with animals playing out. Illustrated by Rafael de Latorre and written by Marguerite Bennett, the first two issues masterfully critique this interspecies interaction while slowly building its world through its visceral art and provoking dialogue.Īnimosity’s first issue opens up with a seemingly ordinary vermin situation tasked with killing a few rats, an exterminator gets ravaged by them as cries of “die bastard” are yelled. Enter Aftershock Comics’ Animosity, an ongoing series that delves into a universe where every animal suddenly develops logic and reasoning, as well as the ability to speak. However, not a lot of people wonder the consequences of such sentience, and if that might be a good thing for society as a whole. ![]() There comes a point in everyone’s life when they wish animals could speak.
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