Kennel Block Blues #4 wraps up an excellent series that had all members of the creative team providing a high level of quality within their own expertise to capture a real sense of heart, humour, and entertainment, all while continuing to play with the comic form.
Kennel Block Blues #3 is a high point for the series so far. What began as a satirical, comedic take on the prison genre through animals in a kennel has turned into an even more emotional story than originally expected.
The creative team continues to present a very playful and funny prison drama, parodying the genre in all the right ways so far. Switching Oliver’s fantasy sequences to more morose images was rather unexpected but definitely works with the ante going up and the action moving forward in this issue.
Kennel Block Blues does an excellent job at parodying prison genre tropes through many of its sequences that perhaps shows how beaten down the genre really is but manages to stay fresh and even off-putting at times within the anthropomorphic world.
The Tomorrows follows a slew of titles that attack the current state of the technologically hypnotized society that we live in now. It is great to see an influx of books that tackle a very timely subject matter existing in both the present time, such as Material, or even the future, with The Surface and this very title. No matter the locale, the influences, or the timeframe of said books, analyzing and deconstructing how control and consumption is exhibited through the mass individuals of the world can be uniquely tackled through the visual medium of comic books.