This book was odd. I didn't dislike it and it was funny at times but it was very strange. I don't know that I would read it again but I highly suggest checking it out if you're looking for something that's a bit different from the norm.

This graphic novel was hilarious and well-drawn, definitely worth the money and the hype, and I hope will be successful!

Well. That was unusual.
This is an odd collection of stories, with small connections to each other, a thread running through them. The humans in the stories are kind of bland, which was annoying me in the first couple of stories, but the ending of the second story made me rethink how things were developing - what was going on with the animals? The pigeon story ends abruptly, with no explanation of the twist, and the second story amps that up further, bringing out some "wtf?" for our brains to play with. These and the rest of the stories are sort of like Aesop reads the Old Testament while visiting the Twilight Zone's Outer Limits, and made a comic about it. And it works! I still don't know what was going on with the animals, but that okay, some things will always be mysteries in life, amiright? The art adds to the strangeness; it almost looks like a sim game, with flat panels, static humans, and speech bubbles filled with bland dialogue. Anyway, this moves kinda slow, but don't give up - taken all together, this is a quietly weird, funny-strange rather than funny-haha story that will leave you contemplating.

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This book is a bit odd but I did enjoy it. It’s just surreal enough to make me stop and think but not so surreal that it irritated me. I liked the fact that the stories were slightly interconnected and I found the art more enjoyable the longer I read. My only complaint is the choice in text boxes. The narration boxes are the same shape as speech bubbles and more than once I was confused as to whether the narrator or a character was talking.

This graphic novel tells stories featuring animals such as pigeons, dogs, cats, and wild animals. I think perhaps this sense of humor is lost on me because the stories are odd...I would describe them as being written by folks with a dry sense of humor. Not my taste, but perhaps another person would enjoy them.

I wasn't sure what to think when I started this book. The art style is very direct and clear. Some pages were difficult to read because they went left to right across to the next page and as an eARC that's hard to read and was a little confusing. Some of the stories had fun layouts for the graphic story telling.
The book consisted of several short stories about animals. Each story left me with a single thought, "What just happened?" They were all kind of unique and strange. Two or three of them mentioned the first one. They were interesting and had me thinking but I'm not so sure if I really liked them.

We make a debut visit to the Twilight Zone of this book via a teenaged girl who has a pigeon loft of eight birds, getting pencilled messages strapped to the leg of a ninth that turns up now and again before flying off with her reply. Secondly, a character mentioned in the first part has his own self-enclosed story, when he works on a ship that undertakes an unusual rescue. Shame about the lack of ending, here, although the Biblical fun to come makes up for it. In all we get six stories, sharing characters from one to the other, and hinging not on something earth-shattering, but someone asking a question in a pet shop.

There's good comedy here as well as a peculiar brand of the unusual, but a welcomely peculiar brand – this is not being oddball for the sake of it. Some wanton inability to stick to one tense – past or present – doesn't fully manage to distract (and yes, dear reader, I know it's hypocritical of someone like me to mention it), and that may well be subject to the 'change is possible' warning every screen of my preview file carried. Something else that does not distract is the visual style, half Chris Ware and half ligne claire, and wholly precise, clipped and well-thought-through. As was, of course, the narrator for the Twilight Zone – and while this is said to borrow from the Bible, Aesop and film noir, I think it's that kind of mindset that matches these contents most. It is, of course then, recommended.