'Captain Ginger Volume Two: Dogworld' by Stuart Moore with art by June Brigman and Roy Richardson continues the saga of cats in space by adding...dogs.

Captain Ginger and his crew are in imminent danger when this volume opens, so they shove as many people as they can in escape pods and crash land on a nearby planet. There they find a race of sentient dogs who were also set adrift among the stars by now vanished humans. Things are tense between the cats and dogs, but a larger enemy may force them to call a truce.

I really liked the first volume of this series, and this one continued to be good by adding the dog element. I like that these really feel like evolved animals, not just animals acting like humans. The art is fun and sometimes as odd as the premise.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Ahoy Comics, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

This was a fantastic second volume! Having read volume one I was very excited to read this next volume. I liked the dogs and how they interacted with Captain Ginger and all the crew. I'm really looking forward to reading the next volume!

Lots of action going on here. The Cats have been making some progress since the end of Volume 1, but then the Lumen show up again, and the Cats' ship is badly damaged. The crew is evacuated, but the Captain stays aboard to try to stop The Lumen from following them. He damages their ship, but ends up crashing on the planet the signal the Cats were following came from. The rest of the crew is split up on the planet's surface, some near some ruins, some near an encampment of Dogs. There are obvious tensions between the Cats and the Dogs- will they be able to work together against their common enemy, or will they end up fighting like...well, you know.
Lots of feels going on here, there's death, betrayal, love, hate, dashed hopes, and more mystery surrounding the Creators. A lot happens, but nothing gets resolved (this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it keeps the story going, right?). We do get a cliffhanger though! So, yay for that? I'll be looking for the next volume!

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I had a blast reading this graphic novel. The crew seemed to be making progress, until an old enemy showed up. A battle ensued that left this ship in bad shape. This crew abandoned ship, and ended up crashing on a mysterious planet. At first, these two species refused to get along but after talking for a bit it looked like an alliance was forming between them. They had a common enemy, and stopping them wasn’t something either one could do alone. As this graphic novel comes to a close, it looks like things might get worse for this crew before they get any better. Fans of the first Captain Ginger graphic novel won’t want to miss this one.

I had a copy of the first volume that I hadn’t read yet and seeing this available for request on NetGalley was the perfect excuse to read it.

I'm a self-proclaimed cat lady, I've had cats all my life, I can’t remember a time where cats weren’t at the center of my world. So of course I had to read this adorable book.
You can best think of this series as cats on steroids trying to survive in space. And what a world of fun it is. I like that the creators made the cats look and feel kinda rough, their not all cute and rom-com like, they are badass survivors! There are so many aspects of this series and this book in particular that I love.
In this volume, we delve much deeper into the cat's world and the wider world that is out there in this seemingly barren universe. They meet their foe, the lumen, that force them onto this foreign world where they run into a colony of dogs, and Captain Ginger and his crew must learn to cooperate with these strange beings in order to ensure survival for all.

This one really tore at my heartstrings, there are some very tragic moments, and while others that made me laugh, and of course we have the classic enemies to frenemies storyline.
With an ending such as the one we were left with, and more questions answered, and some left- I'm curious and excited to see where this story could go.

Overall, yes, I very much enjoy this series and will be looking forward to seeing volume 3.
4 stars.

**ARC provided by Diamond Book Distributors via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Good artwork and a really engaging story, very reminiscent of Adrian Tchaikovskys Dogs of War which is one of my all time favourite books, well worth a read

Continuing the cats-in-space series, though this time out the fairly generic Star Trek-type motifs dominate, at least initially. Which is a shame, because I don't even much like Trek itself, never mind the knock-offs, whereas cat-people being amusingly awful is quite entertaining. On the upside, as the title suggests and the end of Volume 1 teased, this installment does see the introduction of the uplifted descendants of the other, better chief pet species. Alas, the writer is a cat person, so they come out of it far less well than the cats, which is of course an outrageous calumny. Some very cute pictures of the real dogs who modelled in the back, though.

(Netgalley ARC)

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Captain Ginger, Vol. 2, by Stuart Moore
★★★★★
144 Pages


Volume 2 of Captain Ginger takes us into a whole new exploration – Dogs!
As a dog lover, I was thrilled to see that the diversity and variety of the cats extended to the dogs, too. It certainly was a great follow-up to that last corrupted file log we got to read in Volume 1.

Not only does the story continue exactly from the end of Volume 1, but it also further explores the origin of cat/dog intelligence and how they became the way they are. It was interesting to see the cats and dogs interacting with each other, how they each had their own history, their own problems, their own way of coping with the situation they'd found themselves in. Typically, their natures remained – the cats saw an obstacle and battled it, while the dogs accepted their new life without much complaint.

The characters stay with you, and each have their own unique personality. Ecru is playing a seriously dangerous game. I was gutted that Rattle and Roll were separated. Devastated for Science Cat and Big Dog. Very intrigued to see that Captain Ginger isn't just telling this story to a comm or a diary, but is actually speaking to someone.

Volume 2 manages to not only explore a complete storyline, but leave me wanting me. I'm left with a lot of questions. Who is Ginger speaking to? Will the cats ever get off Dog island? Where did Ecru go? Why did she steal the AI, how and what does she intend to do with it? Will we ever find out who Ginger's father was?

So much to explore and discover in Volume 3. And you can get your butt I'll be there for it.

In the first book in this inventive series, we saw how humankind had homogenised itself genetically, and died off, leaving some of earth's creatures floating through space in colonising spacecraft. Our key concern was the one containing the cats, and their incessant ways of getting kittens and getting on the furniture when they weren't wanted. This time, we start with their discovery of another species – the planet of the dogs. But if these cats are the ones seeking their destiny, their safety and their maker, and are clearly Adama's lot of humans in BSG, how close are the dogs to being the Cylons? Yes, this book would have had to be inventive, the amount of analogues you might think of while reading this. Luckily it is inventive, and luckily it is fast-paced enough to stop you thinking around it too much, and just enjoy it for what it is. I don't think the ending here allows this series to be wrapped up with a third trade – I would presume to get five books in total. As long, that is, as I get a chance to see them all – as before I liked this book more than I'd expected to.