Pride of Baghdad

I love Brian K. Vaughan's Saga series soooo much but I usually seem to end up disappointed when I read some of his other works. This one I thought was also disappointing. The story is about lions who have escaped the zoo after an attack. Instead of maybe having a powerful outsider looking in approach or having the lions represent the ordinary citizens of Baghdad, they are just lions who seem to have human society cliches attached to them. I really felt the characters of the lions where poor and I feel like this work (similar to Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned) the women were silly, don't get along, or weak when there was a challenge but the male was not. I also don't know how long this story was being told, was it over a day or week or month? They tried to say something maybe profound at the end but whatever they wanted to set up seemed muddled because the story and characters were messy.

I thought this was interesting since it was based on a true event and I thought the art was nice. ~Ashley