![]() I don't know what happened to this comic after the first four volume. And we have those annoying captions popping up here and there. But the pacing is horrible, with 8 or 10 issues worth of content jammed into 4 issues, including a crucial side trek that gets almost no coverage. This is a neat bit of world-building, offering a believable picture of an insane culture that's developed following The Wake. What starts out as an interesting story about, as the title says, rites of passage, turns out to be just a setup for the next (final?) arc. A real disappointment, and a real waste of three issues, more than 10% of this series. Ugh, why'd it have to be snakes? And beyond that, why'd it have to be three issues wasted on hallucinatory philosophy. A fine coda to "Power", showing the disruption of our heroes' actions. This arc would have been _great_ if not for them. The problem, and it's a notable one, is that Bennett almost spoils the book with intrusive, artsy narration boxes that detract from the comic itself. Beyond that, we get great development and background really revealing who Kyle is. A strong arc, pretty much the "Governor" arc for Animosity, and at times equally hard to read. All around, another very readable volume, with some depth. On top of that we've got exciting action, shocking losses, and a heel turn that's been foreshadowed. But they still don't look like good guys. The core conflict, between farmers and bees, is a nuanced one, because the farmers need the bees to survive. About the doubts these animals have been cursed with and the truths they find. It's about life and death and souls and existence. However the eighth issue rises above that. It's a good story, but doesn't have the surprise nor the depth of the original. The second volume is mainly an adventure yarn, demonstrating clearly that not all evil rises from humanity. This is the obvious successor to Y: The Last Man. Then the last issue really opens the story up as we suddenly realize what the introduction meant and how it all ties together. There's wonderful imagination here and also wonderful characterization and really heart-felt relations. It's a story about animality (mostly) embracing the new and humanity (mostly) trying to recover what they once had. It's a story about animals forming civilizations. The pacing is a little uneven in the first few volumes, but quickly settles down. Do they hate humanity for what it's done to them? Or, do they love them? How do they live in a world where everything else is a living sentient being?Īnimosity does a great job of teasing out the possibilities, from the catastrophic day of The Wake to the inevitable journey across the United States that follows. ![]() And then one day, all the animals woke to full sentience.Īnimosity is an amazing take on the post-apocalyptic genre, but it's not a measly count of zombies that are ending the world, it's literally billions of billions of animals, all awakened to intelligence. Not sure why they released an omnibus of this incomplete story, but I guess I'm happy to have it. Animosity has a great conceit and was a really great comic at the start, but somehow it stumbled in its later volumes and then stopped without a conclusion. ![]()
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