I'll give this one a 4-star. This one told a story I wasn't expecting in a way I wasn't expecting it. Best installment of the series thus far.

I really like this series. The premise is that one day animals become sentient and no longer want to remain subservient to humans. The young girl Jesse and her faithful dog, Sandor, are headed to California to find her brother. Bennett captures not only the brutality of the animal world but of humanity as well. It can easily be compared with The Walking Dead to a certain extent but with the added caveat of the zombies being as smart of the humans. In this volume, Jesse is taken to a humans only

'Animosity, Vol. 4' by Marguerite Bennet with art by Rafael de Latorre is a later volume of a series I read early on. It seems that it has improved a bit since I read it.Animals have taken over, and now they can speak. The main characters in the series are a young girl named Jesse and her faithful hound Sandor. Sandor is dying, but wants to see that Jesse is safe.Unfortunately, Jesse has been taken to the Walled City by Kyle, where humans live in a world where they rule. Jesse finds that the Wal...

Trapped within the Walled City, Jesse finds herself at the mercy of the Headmistress and her twisted vision of what a post-Wake world should look like. On the outside, Sandor struggles to cope with his past and save Jesse from her future.Animosity is an intense book. It is not afraid of dealing with tough concepts that apply to the real world even while viewing them through the Animosity world's lens. This one is especially poignant and will leave you staring off into the distance once you've fi...

(3,8 of 5 for the little apocalyptic breeding dystopia)This book was fun, full of action, drama and thrill but it strengthened my opinion - Animosity is basically Walking dead. And the story arc about the Walled City was exactly the Walking Dead kind of stuff (and not its basic means like "it is the apocalypse, laws don't apply, people do crazy shit", but in ways, which Kirman uses in his WD worldbuilding and storytelling). But missus Bennett got one helpful thing from Kirkman - avoid explaining...

Even in series which begin with the end of the world, some arcs are darker than others. The Walking Dead, for instance, had bits that were primarily exciting, or even close to gentle – and then others which were truly harrowing. Same for Animosity, and this is very much one of the harrowing ones. Jesse, the main human protagonist, has been drugged and kidnapped by Kyle, the only other human in the core cast. He has concluded that Sandor, Jesse's bloodhound, is not a good dog, and wants Jessie to...

reading the undertakings of jesse in the walled city causes us to grow up with her and ponder issues that are very current, including the remuneration that happens for the exorbitant presence of a specific creature animal variety on a domain, the control of births and overpopulation when all is said in done. the condition of emergency needs to confront icily the issues that emerge and things being what they are well, anyway improper or extraordinary it might appear, everybody endeavors to locate...

This went quite dark in a few interesting ways, and I enjoyed Kyle's backstory. My overall problem with this series is that I can't stand Sandor even at the best of times - he doesn't read like the morally grey character he's obviously meant to be, just like a genuine asshole/stereotype, and I loathe his psycho parenting shtick. I can't believe a series about self-aware animals managed to create a canine MC that I dislike so much, but there you are.

I think what a lot of this series is showing is that there is always going to be good and bad within the world, and it will depend on what side you are on what you do or how you are percieved. In this one, a colony called the Walled City is thought to be a heaven on earth, especially for the women of the world, but when Kyle brings Jessie there, it's shown that this is no heaven on earth. As one woman tries to bring back human society, through cruelty and violence both to humans and animals, Jes...

Oh wow, this was the darkest part so far. There was definitely some dirt thrown on some of the beloved characters, changing who they are and what they stand for. Also, all the creeps our crew keeps bumping into along the way... oh boy, is that evil. Of course, there were as always some hard to believe parts - this time from the medical field (SPOILER WITHIN PARENTHESES: how could all those women who had been kept asleep for months wake up and walk just like that?!). But overall, Animosity is get...

Animosity, serie a fumetti ad opera di Marguerite Bennett e Rafael de Latorre, continua arrivando al quarto volume intitolato “La città fortezza“. Ho già avuto occasione di parlare di Animosity con la recensione del terzo volume “Lo Sciame” e la serie, curata da SaldaPress in Italia, si fa sempre più promettente.Animosity 4 prosegue il racconto dei numeri precedenti e, per chi non conoscesse la storia, mi permetto di fare una breve ma importante introduzione: un giorno gli animali si sono risveg...

Something that I like to remind people of from time to time is that we are not as civilized as we like to pretend we are. The threads of human civilization are thin indeed and I feel like for most of us we are all just one collective bad day away from throwing dung at each other. We are not so far flung in the evolutionary chain from our ape cousins and our grip on civility is tenuous at best. (Don't believe me? Read Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo and try to deny it.) Of course, the fact that...

Kyle is apprently concerned for Jesse, a human like him but also a perfect stranger, so that's why he takes her away from Sandor. The Walled City welcomes Jesse, but shoots Kyle. So karma works. The Walled City seems like a haven for humans, but it will also be Jesse's prison.(view spoiler)[The lament of an orphan is the most emotional moment so far. It's Kyle's backstory and it's moving. Also it's little more than the story of his life flashing before his eyes as he inches towards death. Sandor...

This series is easily one of the most thrilling I've ever seen. To be honest I actually read the spoilers from a Free Comic Book Day issue. But that actually heightened my anticipation when actually reading the whole thing. Post-Apocalypses always have similar stories; humanity and civilization falls out, people are pushed to their limits, others do what they have to in order for survival or living.Kids like Jesse often get the worst of all this. A lot of adults like Kyle want what's best but th...

Čtvrtý book a tahle série pořád jede hodně slušně.Mám totiž rád, když postavy o kterých jsem chtěl vědět víc dostávají svůj prostor a když se zodpovídají věci, které už byly načnuty. A stejně tak mám rád, když je nám servírován pořádně drsný svět, kde smrt číhá za každým rohem.Po událostech v minulém díle se konečně podíváme za zdi opevněného města a nutno říct, že je to zajímavý pohled. Na to, co všechno dokážou lidé udělat, když mají správného psychopata ve vedení. Feeling, že jsou tohle další...

Gah. Just when this title seems to be gaining in coherence, being able to stick on one dramatic thread – the paternal feelings our hero dog has for our heroine preteen girl – we get a whole issue that sticks out as yet another stand-alone, and a monologue in riposte to all we've seen so far. Can we not just have one arc and stick with it? Yes, flutter from character to character, from current drama to back-story, and from telling us about these people to telling us about the state of the world,

Power (#14-18). A strong arc, pretty much the "Governor" arc for Animosity, and at times equally hard to read. Beyond that, we get great development and background really revealing who Kyle is. 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. Ugh. This arc would have been _great_ if not for them [4/5].

This continues to be one of the best and most thought provoking comics being made. It tackles so many questions about morality when it comes to animals and raising a child. I absolutely love it and can't wait for volume 5!

320/365

This series just continues to get better with each volume.