Another cool entry into the funny animal genre, offering a Danish strip about Gnuff (an alligator, perhaps?), an unsurprisingly surreal 2-pager from Sam Keith, and a really great Usagi Yojimbo story about a blind outlaw.
I've thought long and hard about the funny animal genre. At one time, Howard the Duck was going to figure into a line of thinking I'd been pursuing, and I became curious about his lineage outside of stuff like Disney or Looney Tunes. I ended up reading some Pogo, and dipping my toes into the more explicit furry adult comics, all in an effort to understand why we anthropomorphize, and why we keep telling stories using animals. I mean, we've been doing it for so, so long.
That, however, is a question, and quest, for another time. I'm going to keep reading through Critters, though, so perhaps an answer, or a suggestion, will present itself.
More to come...
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