The groundbreaking graphic storytelling event series continues as the animals find themselves faced with a new challenge: freedom.
With food supplies dwindling, the animals must decide quickly how best to organize their burgeoning society and make decisions as a group... or risk losing everything.
Eisner Award-winning writer Tom King (The Human Target, Love Everlasting) and New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-nominated artist Peter Gross (American Jesus, The Books of Magic) continue their collaboration on a series that critics are already calling a classic in the making.
Animal Pound #2 sees the trials and tribulations behind establishing a society, as well as the early pitfalls that may come back to bite the citizens later on. Read Full Review
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
Absolutely loved this issue.
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 storytel 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
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.
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