To The Last Page

Animal certainly has an interesting premise, one that sets it out as a graphic novel of ideas and philosophical consideration of a fundamental question about what it means to be human. As something also of a character study, that might not immediately suggest a suitable subject for a graphic novel, and indeed there are more pages of talking heads than there are of any real action, not that there is much in the way of conventional ‘action’ as such, but the artwork and character detail provided make this a surprisingly more visual story than you might imagine. Since it’s trailed for a most of Part 1 before it gives you any real indication of the extraordinary action that one man takes, it might be considered a spoiler, but since it’s given up front in the synopsis for the book provided on the back cover, what is at the centre of Animal is a man’s determination to renounce his status as a human being. Since that revelation eventually comes close to the end of what is only the first part...