I’ve kept a massive document where every so often, I’d go on a kick of scribbling down all kinds of bizarre and inventive images - cats going in through doggie doors in the post-apocalypse, stealing drugs to sell on the emerging black market the lives of humans through the lens of animals as long-lived as whales and tortoises or as short-lived as mayflies - ideas of what might happen elsewhere in the world during the events of the Wake and after. I’ve been developing Animosity on and off for a few years, actually.
How much of this material was in your head, or a series bible, for that matter, before working on the World one-shot? World of Animosity builds on both the main Animosity series, and The Rise mini, in building out the larger world of the storyline beyond Jesse and Sandor’s adventures.
His life expectancy is far less than hers, and he knows he has to get the girl to her brother before he himself dies and leaves her stranded in this vicious new world. Now they must navigate clashes between the United States government and the rise of the Animilitary, the devastating food crisis, population explosions and every other peril on this mad road trip.Īnimosity is a dystopia, a black comedy and a coming-of-age story all in one. The dog who was her child must now become her father and sets out to guide her on the journey to her estranged brother, who lives on the West Coast. Smiling, uncomprehending, she tells him she loves him, too. In New York City, in the midst of these insane, bombastic, blackly comedic backdrops, a young girl’s dog “wakes,” turns to her - the person who has cared for him, saved him, raised him, protected him - and tells her, with utter purity and sincerity, that he loves her. We’ve covered Animosity before, but refresh everyone’s memory: how would you describe it to newcomers?īennett: Animosity begins when one day, for reasons unknown, the animals start thinking, start talking and start taking revenge. Cows plead in slaughterhouses, hens murder their rooster, the orca in SeaWorld splashes from the tank and begs of his trainer, “Jessica, I can’t deny my feelings any longer! WILL YOU MARRY ME?” The world descends into over-the-top chaos.
Heat Vision spoke to Bennett about the new one-shot, her collaborators and Animosity as a whole. World of Animosity will be released to comic book stores and digitally Sept.