The graphic novel is one of the goriest I’ve ever read. Than again, I haven’t read many graphic novels, but still. The text in this graphic novel are kept short, which helps move the action and the book along pretty quickly. This graphic novel felt like I was watching a Guy Richie/Jason Statham film because there was a lot of blood and action. The book also starts off with a twist that made it a lot more entertaining to read because at first all we see are feet running and red glowing lights which almost always means that something is going to go wrong. Then what I thought were bugs completely massacare the humans who were inside the house. Of course we later learn that they were bad and that the animals were the “good” guys. The graphic would have lost some of it’s mystery if it would have started off with some scientist explaining who and what they rather than teasing us along. The best part of the book, in my opinion, were the six pages where there were eighteen panels that don’t say anything, but just show the action. I liked the repetition technique that they used in those six pages where they would zoom into the computer screen just a little bit until the word SAVE took up the whole panel. I thought that it was a brilliant way of moving the action and suspens along.
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I completely agree about the level of gore this graphic novel seemed to display. I myself have read more Manga than graphic novel so I am no expert on it at all. Though, as we said a little in class today, the amount of gore kind of made me, and others, feel disgusted and made the novel feel over done. I do agree that the way they did the panels was amazing and great with moving along the story. But when the gore appeared it made me not really see the main characters (dog, cat, and rabbit) as heros, instead just vicious beast slaughtering people left and right. I think, also the way the portrayed the pictures in the graphic novel gave it a more realistic feel, which also made me step back a little. The gore in the end, I think, was more of a distraction to the readers.
I actually felt that for the purpose of the story the gore was necessary. I think that because they were vicious killers that the gore helped show that. I really didn’t see it was a distraction, but more of a means of helping sell the idea that they’re not normal animals anymore. Well, at least until the end.
I’d agree that the gore (for the most part) is there to demonstrate the savagery of the human-made cyborgian animals. The gore doesn’t indict the beast, though, as much as it indicts the humans who made them.
To Asuarez2: Yeah, you did say that you thought it was necessary, Im sorry if that got twisted in my response. The whole distraction is just my opinion. That kind of gore makes me twitch and usually Im ok with that as long as it’s the bad guys who do it. But when I see the heros do that (knowing that they are being controlled or trying to be free) it just doesn’t make me want to feel sorry for them.
To Professor: Yeah I can see what you mean by that. The only thing is when I see something crunch down or rip apart another creature or person it makes the killer look more disturbing and in a way more beast like.