BOOM! Studios presents Animal Pound #1, a modern adaptation and partial reimagining of George Orwell’s classic 20th-century text Animal Farm. Written by Tom King, all-star Batman, Nightwing, and Wonder Woman alums, illustrated by industry veteran Peter Gross, with colors by Tamra Bonvillain and letters by Clayton Cowles. Animal Pound #1 is the first of a four-part miniseries slated to release on a bimonthly schedule going into 2024.Animal Pound #1 opens in the titular animal pound, where Fifi, a cat, speaks through the wall separating the feline and canine holding areas to Lucky, a dog sentenced to be euthanized that night. The elderly dog’s final words inspire little Fifi to spend the next years of their life carefully planning for the day she will be able to save a dog from the needle. When that day finally comes, the cats and dogs must unite to pull off a daring ploy — and prepare for what comes next.Failing to replace the central metaphor of communism leaves the comic swimming in the language of empty liberation politics, affecting airs of radicalism while making a host of quite profoundly obvious points. Unlike the obscured and instrumentalized fates of farm animals, it seems a stretch that anybody thought animal pounds or putting dogs to death for convenience’s sake was a good thing prior to reading this comic. The lack of anything transformative or revelatory about its perspective clashes with the tone and makes the comic feel juvenile. It is a hollow and somewhat cheap affectation of radical politics without the necessary substance to talk about liberation as anything more than the abstract antonym of oppression.
BOOM! Studios presents Animal Pound #1, a modern adaptation and partial reimagining of George Orwell’s classic 20th-century text Animal Farm. Written by Tom King, all-star Batman, Nightwing, and Wonder Woman alums, illustrated by industry veteran Peter Gross, with colors by Tamra Bonvillain and letters by Clayton Cowles. Animal Pound #1 is the first of a four-part miniseries slated to release on a bimonthly schedule going into 2024.
Animal Pound #1 opens in the titular animal pound, where Fifi, a cat, speaks through the wall separating the feline and canine holding areas to Lucky, a dog sentenced to be euthanized that night. The elderly dog’s final words inspire little Fifi to spend the next years of their life carefully planning for the day she will be able to save a dog from the needle. When that day finally comes, the cats and dogs must unite to pull off a daring ploy — and prepare for what comes next.
Failing to replace the central metaphor of communism leaves the comic swimming in the language of empty liberation politics, affecting airs of radicalism while making a host of quite profoundly obvious points. Unlike the obscured and instrumentalized fates of farm animals, it seems a stretch that anybody thought animal pounds or putting dogs to death for convenience’s sake was a good thing prior to reading this comic. The lack of anything transformative or revelatory about its perspective clashes with the tone and makes the comic feel juvenile. It is a hollow and somewhat cheap affectation of radical politics without the necessary substance to talk about liberation as anything more than the abstract antonym of oppression.
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