Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch #1Script: Evan Dorkin
Art: Jill Thompson
Solicitation
Adventure, mystery, horror, and humor thrive on every page of the Eisner Award–winning Beasts of Burden. The four-legged occult-investigating team—a heroic gang of dogs and one cat—are doing their best to protect their home, Burden Hill, from a chicken-stealing goblin, a frightful basilisk, and a strange lost herd of sheep!
* This special one-shot reprints three stories from Dark Horse Presents!
* Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson return to the characters that won them the 2005 Eisner Award for Best Short Story!
Preview
Why I Bought It
It was a book with number one in the title and had Jill Thompson's name attached. Being a fan of her work, I decided to give it a try.
What I Liked
This was solidly entertaining. Coming into the story not knowing anything outside of the description on the inside cover, I gave it a whirl and enjoyed it. You could say that the stories are rather generic or ones that you've heard of before, but its the delivery with the artwork and the setting that really pulls the story through all that. I read the comic straight through the first time and just enjoyed it.
From the funny goblin in the first story to the end page, this book definitely played with what your assumptions would be. That last panel alone was such a turn for the scary. And it worked. It was such a good showing of Thompson's art that sold it.
What I Didn't Like
That now I have to find the previous issues and read them. I hear that there is a trade out there so I should give it a try and find it.
Panel to Remember
The look on the dog's face on the very last panel. It is full of fear and the art sells it.
Quotable
"Huss up an' eat y'mushooms." - The goblin to his kids when they say that they want chicken.
Grades
Words: 8/10
Pictures: 10/10
Buy Next Issue: I will pick this book up if there are more stories coming. Great stuff.
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