What if I told you making a story with anthropomorphism should actually have a point? I’m not a pet person, so I guess the first thing I ask myself when I read stuff like this is: why is this the way it is. And the answer, in this one, is that there’s no particular reason; they just like animals, I’d wager. The story is exceptionally plodding, the worldbuilding didn’t make any bit of sense. And once again, people throwing their notion of how animals act and behave just rings completely untrue, fetishistic, and wreaks of colonialism. If you can’t empathize with people going through hardships and immediately connect with animals enduring human hardships, well, therapy exists.

I assume this was in the Eisners because pet people are a thing and the visual craft is actually stunning. Imagine being an artist and getting paired with writers like this. Hope they made money because I’d love to see more of the art, at least.