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I Segreti Di Burden Hill: Riti Animali (2011)

by Evan Dorkin(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Bao Publishing

series

Beasts of Burden

review 1: for a few months now i have been generally hesitant to offer critical reflections on novels read, partly because the critique would be ultimately personal, appreciation of books more anecdotal than educated. i like to read philosophy, on the other, and reviews of such work have mostly been seeing the extent to which i can summarize thoughts offered. they are not critical but appreciations. even less have i written about graphic work. not myself in the industry, not myself a dedicated graphics reader in any form, not particularly familiar or well-read in graphics, i do not know what to say...a friend artist and graphics illustrator has suggested i should try, so will begin with this work. why did this rate a five? mostly because the work is friendly and accessible, there is... more nothing awkward about these dogs- they could be a pack in any suburb, they are how we humans would like to see dogs, there is loyalty, there is heroism, there is comic relief, all in a slightly de-familiarized human suburb or small town. i happen to most love artwork that is in exactly the right medium. a book must be a book, a film must be a film. this must be a graphic. it is an easy read, neither art nor characters too difficult to know...'suspension of disbelief', is the common requirement for loving a story in any medium, but this suggests we do not know what we are doing, what we want, when we look at a fiction. in this case, well this is clear from the first image, when we have talking dogs, so it is entirely reasonable in this story that we will have witch cats, zombie dogs, giant murderous frogs. the artwork presenting the story is also easy to accept: these are not perfect renderings of dogs, cats, trees- these are gestures that remain open, that ask the reader to accept this fantasy, to see this is how we all would draw, if we could, catching just the right emotional tone, right voice, but remaining entirely in the service of narrative, not contemplation...and then the story, elements of fantastic such as the poet of middle America, Stephen King, might sign off on, if not create himself. playful then comic then serious, never forgetting these are dogs with particular dog behaviour, but here they are a pack, with one cat, busily saving the world. one small town at a time...
review 2: Goes quickly from cute to deeply disturbing. The art and writing both have the feel almost of a kid's book... until awful things happen, and then it turns into stuff that would traumatize children. It's kind of like if the the Pokey Little Puppy stumbled into the universe of Supernatural. A bunch of neighborhood dogs and a stray cat are brought into an ancient organization of canine monster hunters and protect the oblivious human world from witches, werewolves, demons, and ghosts. The animals have personalities that are a nice mix of human archetypes and housepet mentalities, and there's a mix of cheesy humor and grotesque horror. less

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