French anthro comic: Solo, by Oscar Martin – book review by Fred Patten.
by Patch O'Furr
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.
Solo. T.1, Les Survivants du Chaos, by Oscar Martin
Paris, Delcourt, September 2014, hardcover €16,95 (107 [+ 13] pages).
Thanks, as always with French bandes dessinées, to Lex Nakashima for loaning this to me to review.
The setting: a bleak, war-destroyed future Earth. Think MGM’s/Hugh Harman’s 1939 animated Peace on Earth, where the last humans on Earth kill each other and leave the world to the peaceful funny animals; or the similar sequence in Alexander Korda’s 1936 live-action feature Things to Come, where England (and presumably the whole human race) has been bombed and shot up back to the Stone Age. It’s Mad Max with furries.
Solo’s blurb, translated by the publisher, is:
“Ravaged by nuclear and chemical weapons, the Earth has mutated and many animal species have developed a size and intelligence similar to that of humans. To make life easier for his family, Solo, a young rat, decides to take the road. In this hostile world of predators, cannibals, monsters or pirates, Solo will have to become the best fighter to survive.”