"Bad dog," Bandit repeatedly scolds himself after taking down yet another soldier. Morrison, perhaps the greatest writer in comics today, endows his animals with synthesized cyborg speech in which they express their most basic desires for warmth, food and love, as well as their attempts to process their unnatural capacities for violence. They've been bioengineered to act as military killing machines, but, as the covers reveal, they started out as house pets, and readers will feel heart-tugging empathy even as the former pets are driven to acts of shocking violence while escaping from the military. The difference here is in the awful loss of innocence wreaked by human ingenuity upon the animals. –style forebears, work together as they travel through a hostile human world. This collection of Vertigo's three-issue release tells the tale of a dog, a cat and a rabbit, who, like their Incredible Journey Bandit, Tinker and Pirate are three pets who just want to go home.
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