I see issues of Eb'nn in quarter bins everywhere, both this Now series, and the previous Crowquill Comics issues. I've never given it much thought, but after today's issue, perhaps I will. It was very well-scripted and drawn, though the title character really seemed to do very little in today's issue. It was more about his companions and how they deal with a couple of mad scientists from whom they seek shelter.
There's more than a little of the Rocky Horror Picture Show going on here, as the two lion scientists decide to use Eb'nn and his compatriots as test subjects in their experiments. Fortunately, thanks to the intervention of a previous test subject, the group escapes a sticky fate, and leaves the house no worse for the wear. The same cannot be said of the two scientists, whose fate, at the tale's end, is sealed.
Eb'nn falls into a category of comics that I only rarely touch on, the funny animal/furry comic. It's unfair to call comics like this "funny animal," I think, as this is a throwback to the days in which comics told tales of rascally rodents and curmudgeonly critters. There's little resemblance between those comics and the comedy-adventure of Eb'nn. Granted, without those early anthropomorphs, we wouldn't have something like today's comic, but there's got to be a better way of speaking about the genre. Perhaps "Anthropomorphics" is a better category.
Regardless, an entertaining read. Glad I finally had a chance to see what this series is all about.
More to come...
