Gross delivers some great art in the issue. I love the look of the characters and the world of the series a lot. Read Full Review

All in all, if you love a good story about survival and moral conflict, with a hint of dark humor, this comic should be on your pull list! Read Full Review

Readers interested in political science will recognize many of the competing arguments at play as a pure democracy devolves into chaos and the subsequent republic debates how to weigh individual votes. It's an interesting thought experiment but also one that readily explains to readers why specific ideas will not work. That didactic approach makes long segments of narration in Animal Pound read like a lecture, especially as the reality surrounding these animals remains so ill-defined. Read Full Review

I'm very shocked by the reception to this issue from readers. I feel like it's important to remember what Animal Pound is attempting to be. It's Animal Farm but instead of satirizing the Russian Revolution and eventual rise of Stalinism, it's satirizing the American Revolution and the rise of whatever you'd want to call America now. This issue is directly satirizing the constitutional convention and the establishment of the electoral college. There's also a very direct immigration component with the all doors shall remain open bit. We know where things go from here, don't be thrown off when they go that direction. Piggy has found Capitalism, expect the poison of that to lead wherever this story goes. This isn't incredibly difficult storytelling but it is important to lay the groundwork, much like Animal Farm did, otherwise things will start happening for seemingly little reason and the satire will be lost. more

It was a little heavy in its explanation, but it was extremely interesting. It has potential to be great or also bogged down with Tom Kingisms

I enjoyed this issue MUCH more than the first but the one thing that brought my score down was something I didn't understand, and it may have been mentioned earlier and I missed it but...where are the humans? I know they were ran off but why have they not returned? Did they just decide to abandon the pound!? WTF? The animals have obviously been there on their own for a while now. I will say the art is perfect for this series.

Ugh this was a painful read. It was so long and drawn out I felt like I was reading a political textbook. 😔 this isn't what i want in a comic. I don't know if I can even keep reading this one.

More Tom King awfulness - he overexplains the obvious while he underexplains everything the reader needs to get a proper context to what they are reading!