Which is necessary, because the subsequent story is a vision quest at the behest of a coven of snakes, who after all have a valid point: isn't magic as likely an explanation for animals suddenly gaining speech as anything else? Maybe likelier than most? It's trippy as blazes and I love it. Here, though, it serves to alert us that naturalism has been left behind. The first issue does something which often riles me it's fine having one character declaiming a revolutionary sermon on history (especially if that character is a Pallas cat), but once it becomes a relay race, I start to find it didactic and implausible. Her animal friends want to give her something special for her 13th birthday, but the lemur gets captured. So basically, the story is crap and I skipped most of the text. They ask Jesse to help them understand the Wake via a vision quest. Though they are feared predators, they choose to heal other animals in exchange for goods and services. Jesse's gang reaches a sinister house filled with snakes. There's a strong, independant woman in the making. Jesse is more sure of herself as she takes her friends and leaves. Bottom line, they're debating their own existence. I don't need exposition for the level of confusion the camp is going through. I skipped the pages that have more space for text than for images. Dear God, couldn't they abridge anything? It feels like reading a novel. This is the great text-rich chapter of the saga. Why did they leave the relative safety of the Walled City anyway? So the humans are dumb and the animals are no better. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned. Received a review copy from Aftershock and Edelweiss. That's a real issue for a comic that is 90% animals. I've been reading comics for over 30 years, so that is rarely an issue for me. I was constantly lost by which panel I needed to read next. He also draws all these two page spreads with terrible panel structure. Thomasi doesn't have near the talent for drawing realistic animals. Then there are two issues that set up the next arc.Įlton Thomasi steps in for Roberto de Latorre on art and it's a steep downgrade. It was 4 issues of psychedelic nonsense that didn't advance the story at all. Jesse and Sandor meet some snakes who believe in magic and go on a vision quest for the god of animals. In the aftermath of The Walled City arc, the survivors are dealing with having been slaves. I absolutely love this series so it pains me to only give this 2 stars, but this arc was a real dud.
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