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suzene (suzene) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-22 19:28:00

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creator: evan dorkin, creator: jill thompson, theme: halloween, title: beasts of burden

Beasts of Burden #2
Title: Beasts of Burden #2 - "Lost" (Dark Horse, 2009, 24 pages)
Creators: Evan Dorkin (writing) and Jill Thompson (art)
Availability: On sale now -- Previous installments available online

I wanted to save this for Halloween Week, but...

When last we left the dogs and cats of Burden Hill, the Wise Dogs had taken them under their tutelage and began teaching them the ways of the supernatural. The novices are approached by Hazel, a mother dog desperate to find her puppies, who were kidnapped from their yard.

After a long, fruitless search, the rescuers are directed to search the lake at Devil's Well. Thinking that the puppies might have fallen in and drowned, they perform a summoning...

The puppies communicate through their host that "it took us...it hurt us...it put us in the cold dark with the others...they're so angry...THEY'RE AWAKE NOW! YOU WOKE THEM UP!"

And it gets worse from there...

Good book -- deserves your money.

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	kagome654 2009-10-23 09:36 am UTC (link)
	Whoa! Okay, usually I'm not down with fatal retribution (yes, even when it comes to people who hurt/kill animals or other vulnerable beings), but that was an extremely effective scene. I'm gonna have to look into this title. (Reply to this) (Thread)

suzene
2009-10-23 06:56 pm UTC (link)

Agreed. One of the reasons this scene works for me is because our protagonists aren't acting under their volition and that they don't consider this a good thing -- this isn't the justice they'd choose, and they're clearly horrified by what they've just been made to do, particularly Hazel, who's been through hell already that night. The other is that there are consequences to the act, so I didn't put the book down feeling that either camp got out unscathed for their actions, though I suspect the full extent of some of it may not be explored until later stories.

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