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Animosity
Animosity, Vol. 6: El rey de Texas
Un día, los animales se despertaron. Empezaron a pensar. Empezaron a hablar. Empezaron su venganza. Sandor, Jessie y su cuadrilla llegan a los campos de petróleo y se adentran en el reino de los sanguinarios tres reyes de Texas. De la creadora y guionista Marguerite Bennett (INSEXTS, DC Comics Bombshells, Batwoman) y los dibujantes Elton Thomasi y Rafael De Latorre. Este sexto tomo recopila los números 25-28 de ANIMOSITY, la longeva serie de AfterShock.
136 pages, Hardcover
Published June 8, 2022
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February 26, 2021
(3,2 of 5 for cold farewell to Animosity)
This book was weaker and more boring than the previous one. It feels the series lost its breath (well, the rest of what still was left), with no interesting progress and with a cliffhanger. Animosity may come back but I won't miss it if it doesn't.
This book was weaker and more boring than the previous one. It feels the series lost its breath (well, the rest of what still was left), with no interesting progress and with a cliffhanger. Animosity may come back but I won't miss it if it doesn't.
May 16, 2022
Terrible conclusion (or lack thereof) to the series - hard to believe this is meant to be the ending. Even if it gets picked back up at some point, I don't think I'd continue. It was a strong premise that very quickly fizzled out, with not enough support from an uncentred, meandering plot and characters that were never strong or complex enough to make you care. I still maintain it takes some genuine kind of anti-skill to have a dog as a main character and end up with someone as thoroughly unlikable as Sandor - gloomy, pompous, creepily possessive, guilt-wracked yet supercilious, and somehow also boring af.
July 29, 2023
Loved the series and most of this volume, but hated the ending (or lack-there-of). Read this volume one or two years ago and I still remember the dissapointment when I looked up if the next volume was coming out soon and realised this was the last one. Like... i feel like it wouldn't take much to write something better. I'd still recommend the series, but would probably warn them about the lackluster ending.
Series gets a 4.5, volume 6 gets a 3/5, the last issue gets a -1/5
Series gets a 4.5, volume 6 gets a 3/5, the last issue gets a -1/5
March 21, 2024
This series began with an absolutely dynamite concept, and even though it never quite seemed to know how to realize the full potential of it, it got along well for awhile . . . but man, I don't think I've ever seen a series tank like this. It feels like everyone involved just totally lost interest in the story 10 issues ago and tried to phone it in for awhile before just abruptly giving up. Zero resolution.
I had actually stopped after volume 4, but I stumbled across the last 2 volumes in the library recently, so I decided to pick them up. Big mistake. The concept for the last 2 arcs wasn't terrible, but the execution felt utterly devoid of talent or effort. The art took a sharp nosedive, as well. Things even became hard to follow from page to page, and there were multiple times that I flipped back, convinced I must have turned a couple of pages at once because it would just skip over things out of nowhere. They just could not be bothered to do anything beyond limp this thing across the finish line with the bare minimum of pretense that this is a finished product.
I haven't had strong enough feelings about any of the previous volumes to bother typing up a review one way or the other, but this was just such a disservice to the readers and to the whole series. I can't imagine what happened that led to this kind of lack of care with the final product. This is beneath everyone involved, and they should be deeply embarrassed about it.
I had actually stopped after volume 4, but I stumbled across the last 2 volumes in the library recently, so I decided to pick them up. Big mistake. The concept for the last 2 arcs wasn't terrible, but the execution felt utterly devoid of talent or effort. The art took a sharp nosedive, as well. Things even became hard to follow from page to page, and there were multiple times that I flipped back, convinced I must have turned a couple of pages at once because it would just skip over things out of nowhere. They just could not be bothered to do anything beyond limp this thing across the finish line with the bare minimum of pretense that this is a finished product.
I haven't had strong enough feelings about any of the previous volumes to bother typing up a review one way or the other, but this was just such a disservice to the readers and to the whole series. I can't imagine what happened that led to this kind of lack of care with the final product. This is beneath everyone involved, and they should be deeply embarrassed about it.
January 23, 2021
This volume of Animosity rings in on the short side at just four issues, but they're big ones. The two groups set out in search of Ben, bringing them into conflict with the Kings Of Texas and their arena. Plus some flashbacks reveal a little more about what happened between Sandor and Jesse's parents.
The actual fighting etc. seems almost secondary to this arc - to the point that the titular Kings Of Texas aren't even named, they're that unimportant. Once again Jesse and Sandor manage to bring down a whole community without even trying, but it's what they learn about each other along the way, and how little they actually know about each other already, that is the true focus of what's going on. Their relationship has always been the lynchpin of the series, and this volume takes them on a hell of a journey, with an ending that has some definitive answers on the horizon.
I wasn't as enthused about the art in the last volume, with Elton Thomasi and Rafael De Latorre sharing the duties. The same happens here, but they seem a little more in sync than before. The line between the two blurs to the point where I couldn't tell who was who, which is probably a good thing.
Kings Of Texas has an almost inconsequential A plot, but the B plot is so important that it's worth the roundabout way it takes to get there.
The actual fighting etc. seems almost secondary to this arc - to the point that the titular Kings Of Texas aren't even named, they're that unimportant. Once again Jesse and Sandor manage to bring down a whole community without even trying, but it's what they learn about each other along the way, and how little they actually know about each other already, that is the true focus of what's going on. Their relationship has always been the lynchpin of the series, and this volume takes them on a hell of a journey, with an ending that has some definitive answers on the horizon.
I wasn't as enthused about the art in the last volume, with Elton Thomasi and Rafael De Latorre sharing the duties. The same happens here, but they seem a little more in sync than before. The line between the two blurs to the point where I couldn't tell who was who, which is probably a good thing.
Kings Of Texas has an almost inconsequential A plot, but the B plot is so important that it's worth the roundabout way it takes to get there.
January 31, 2022
King of Texas (#25-28). This is a neat bit of world-building, offering a believable picture of an insane culture that's developed following The Wake. But the pacing is horrible, with 8 or 10 issues worth of content jammed into 4 issues, including a crucial side trek that gets almost no coverage. And we have those annoying captions popping up here and there. I don't know what happened to this comic after the first four volume. Also: not particularly an ending. Will there be more? [3/5].
December 24, 2022
Was a bit confused by this one, it seems like a bit was glossed over in the first comic in this collection. They got to Texas, they got separated? Or did Sandor jump into the pit to fight anyway?
So this one didn't seem as clear to me as the other collected books and I don't think it's because I read the others more than a few months ago.
Still the ongoing saga of Jesse and Sandor still compels me to read more.
So this one didn't seem as clear to me as the other collected books and I don't think it's because I read the others more than a few months ago.
Still the ongoing saga of Jesse and Sandor still compels me to read more.
June 5, 2026
Pretty upsetting to be giving this only 2 stars (and that only because of the artwork) but this is a rambling, confusing mess with a total lack of resolution. It almost feels like the author just wanted to wash her hands of the series and phoned in some napkin brainfarts to get it over and done with. Such a shame, as this was a fantastic series to begin with.
April 28, 2022
I'm torn on the rating for this volume. I LOVE th story and artwork but dammit that's how it ends???? Legit 3 stars just because of that. Maybe in time I can get over it and up the rating...maybe.
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June 29, 2023What the hell is up with that ending????? I did not like!!
October 9, 2023
I must say this was the weakest of the series. I don't really like the end.
Maybe there will be a volume 7.
Maybe there will be a volume 7.
March 31, 2026
So that's the end? Felt like there was a little bit more story left and now that Aftershock is defunct who knows when this title will ever get picked up again
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