Feral #9 // Review
It seems like a perfectly nice place with the lady. They were feeding all of the stray cats. And there was a lot of concern about well-being. What with the disease running rampant the way I did. However, when their eyes were open and they saw all the blood to end the fighting and the unsanitary conditions at the woman’s home, they had to realize that they were in the wrong place. That realization drives them through the final pages of. Feral #9. Writer Tony Fleecs ends the current arc of his series with the art team of Trish Forstner and Tone Rodriguez.
Lord believes that the lady really is looking after them. But there’s a whole kinds of suggestion that she may be feeding them but she’s not giving them a good place to be. And she’s not at all well herself. Certainly there seems to be quite a bit wrong with her as well. And she doesn’t know. All she knows is she’s in a room with a whole bunch of cats. She’s in her home with a whole bunch of cats. They don’t always behave for her. So she does things. And it’s not good. And I need to get out.
Fleecs does a really good job of keeping the story earthbound and keeping the cats from being all too anthropomorphized. There’s a delicate balance between how human they can be and how feeling they can be without compromising the central premise of the series. The writer has a really good grasp of his balance. Is able to handle it quite well throughout. Furthermore, the scenes in the issue are paste really well and provide a really believable sort of a reality for what’s going on.
The drama is carried along quite well. And there’s quite a bit of it. That seems to be moving in directions. That seem to make a great deal sense. Visually this is a very potent package. End of the order of seeing what’s going on can be a little overwhelming at times. And almost desensitizing. Seeing all of the cats and all of the blood and all of the mass in big splash pages Can have a tendency to overwhelm the momentum and the emotional draw of this series. Furthermore, it’s relatively rare when a human face is seen. And here it’s showing to be very daemonic. Which feels awkward at our kind of at odds with everything else that’s going on in this series. a human face would need to have been handled with a little bit more care.
There’s a deeper allegory going on about the nature of comfort and the nature of stability that is slowly emerging over the course of the series it will be interesting to see where the creative team of the series takes the larger themes moving forward. There’s a lot of possibility there. There’s a lot of potential there. I think if you go in some really interesting directions. It will remain to be seen just how likely it is that everything goes the way it is to move in order to really make a profound statement about the nature of survival. But certainly this year he does seem to be going off in that direction.
