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Oct 25, 2018

The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1338: Critters #8, January 1987

https://www.comics.org/issue/42432/

Forgive me, I'm tired. I'll talk a bit about this and it may sound like rambling. Something about anthropomorphic animals actually makes the stories more realistic?

Here's the thing: very often anthropomorphs are involved in fantastic situations. Even someone like HTD, who just wants to live his life, is enmeshed in the fabric of strangeness and fantasy in the universe. These fantastic situations, were we to see them depicted with relatively realistic looking humans, would be quite ridiculous. Hence superhero comics (obviously said with love). So if a situation is ridiculous to begin with, the insertion of a focal character with whom we can partially identify, but not wholly identify, allows us to suspend our disbelief of the situation more so than would the same situation with human beings.

Yep. Rambling. Good night.

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