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Adapt This: 'Beasts Of Burden' By Evan Dorkin And Jill Thompson

30 September 2009 1:01 PM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

The Story: "Beasts of Burden" by Evan Dorkin (W) and Jill Thompson (A) – Dark Horse Comics

What It's About: Something's not quite right in Burden Hill. The picturesque American suburb is plagued by haunted dog houses, zombie road kill and far too many black cats. With their "people" distracted by the monotony of day-to-day life, it's up to a hodgepodge of neighborhood dogs (and one reluctant cat) to protect their community from supernatural threats.

Under the guidance of an aging society of "Wise Dogs," canines with abilities beyond those of average pets, the beasts begin to take matters into their own paws.

Why It Works: "Beasts of Burden" is a narrative completely comfortable in its own fur. It's a comic that feels like nothing else on the stands because it's the talking animal film every adult secretly wants to see. It's "Homeward Bound" with monster slaying, "Watership Down" minus moralizing, »

- Caleb Goellner

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'Watership Down' writer orders bunny cull

17 April 2009 8:08 PM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

The composer of the theme song from Watership Down has reportedly ordered a rabbit cull on his English estate. A spokeswoman said that Mike Batt, 59, felt terrible after hiring a marksman to bring the lapine population under control at his Surrey home. His song 'Bright Eyes' was used in the 1978 animation, which tells of a group of rabbits fleeing their doomed warren and overcoming (more) »

- By Sarah Rollo

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[TV] Offensive? Subtitled "Cat Sh-t One" Trailer Arrives

26 March 2009 10:23 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

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I'll let you soak up that trailer for a while first. Dumbstruck? When the trailer for this Japanese computer-generated animated series first hit the web a few days ago, many were sent into a tizzy. The idea of portraying American soldiers as cute fluffy bunnies brutally killing Middle-Eastern camels apparently struck some people as racist. Just what is this bizarro thing? I happen to be familiar with it, so read on to find out. Is it offensive?

You might be wondering just why it's called Cat Shit One, seeing how the trailer shows no cats. That's because this anime is based on a late 90's manga of the same name by Motofumi Kobayashi. Taking a page from Richard Adams' Watership Down and Art Spiegelman's Maus, the manga is a dark, violent and straightfaced Vietnam War comic with anthropomorphised animals, each species representing a different nationality. »

- Arya Ponto

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2009 | 2008

3 articles from 2009

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