It's Critter Time!

At the recommendation of a friend last year when I was looking for horror comics to read. I absolutely loved them and figured I'm make this thread for both series here both to talk about it and to draw more attention to them. These two comic series are written by Tony Fleecs, drawn and colored by Trish Forstner, Tone Rodreguez, and Brad Simpson, and published by Image Comics. Both series fall into a horror from the point of view of an animal genre with Stray Dogs being a psychological horror described by the author as "Lady and the Tramp meets Silence of the Lambs", while Feral tries to do a zombie survival story from the point of view of some cats trying to evade wild animals infected with the rabies virus.

These are really good comics that I'd highly recommend. Though with the obvious content warnings for dark themes, death, and blood. Stray Dog has concluded a few years back while Feral is currently on it's 14th issue and still going.

Stray Dogs allegedly has an animated adaptation in the works, though no news or updates have come of it in over a year, but while I was in the middle of typing this up, this trailer for a fandub with some big name voice actors popped up in my bluesky feed.

Feral is pretty compelling, and I love finding new issues for sale at my local comic shops.

I never thought I would get into splattery "petsploitation," yet here we are. Maybe the fact it is a comic and not fully animated is what allows me to engage with it? (I'm really not a horror fan.)

The guy who operates one of my local comics shops is a big fan of Stray Dogs and Feral. He told me that at least one of the illustrators had met Don Bluth, or something like that. I forget the details, but I think I can see a Don Bluth influence on the character design.

You know the cat photos at the end of every issue of Feral? One of those cats is actually the shop owner's pet! That was fun. It was almost like meeting a minor celebrity, heh.

I hope you got to meet the cat.