Strays Dogs and Stray Dogs- Dog Days: My Little Puppy Horror/Thrillers

Trade Paperback graphic novel Stray Dogs- was brought to us by Image Comics and two of the geniuses behind the My Little Pony comics. Comic creators Tony Fleecs and Trish Forstner reall hit it home with this 5 part comic single compendium. Also released was a Prequel called Stray Dogs: Dog Days - A 2-shot comic of backstory singles for many of the characters plus a comic book store day exclusive (Not exclusive anymore! Hahaha.. Sorry).

The comic has a simple premise, but a deep well of emotional territory. Dogs have short memories. they remember the generalization of who their human is, the day to day and the NOW, but beyond that... Goldfish memory. They say that dogs remember the stability, but not the details. I don’t know that I agree with all that. In my experience dogs have a long memory, but are quick to forgive rather than forget.

Sophie is a tiny scared little pup. She is brought 'home' where she meets several new dogs. All of them are rescues. They are nice, varied personality, food obsessed and kind. When master comes home he brings them treats and scratches and they all sleep in his room at night as a pack.

Sophie however, can't shake the scary stress of being a 'rescue' and she doesn't remember much before arriving, until Master puts her in a warm red scarf to help her calm down and warm up. It was her Lady's scarf, and she watched Master murder her with it. Now Sophie needs to escape and save the other pups from a man whom they all look forward to seeing, and who they keep forgetting is dangerous.

The publisher and other bloggers seem to like to juxtapose this as Lady and the Tramp meets Silence of the lambs... But there is no love story here and I see only a super watery link to Lambs by polluting the plot line. Another juxtaposition was Secret Lives of Pets meets Seven (Se7en). I think this is closer (Brad Pitt: "what's in the punishment shed! WHAT'S IN THE PUNISHMENT SHED?!")

As mentioned, this Trade is only compiling the 5 issue run of comics, the first of which is available to read for free on the publisher website. This is not a bad thing, but it does men it is fast to digest.

Dog Days is also worth checking out. As mentioned, it is a related release, a series of short backstory comics. These really flesh out the offering and lessen the concern over length or speed to consume those original Trade. as it adds another 1/3 length to the series and really should be paired with the original story for all readers. Reread factor on this is middling, I can see myself rereading this 1-2 times, mainly because of the length and art. It includes a myriad of issue covers, many themed after horror movies with the dogs as the replaced main characters

Give this a look. Spend some time with your furry companion. Cover their eyes at the scary pages if they are reading over your shoulder.











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