io9’s editor Annalee Newitz posts on a very specific and snazzy subgenre of SF literature and comics: stories featuring animals with human-like intelligence. Though straight-up fantasy and not included by Newitz, I’m partial to David Petersen’s Mouse Guard comic series about, well, an intelligent society of mice. Impeccably drawn (think of old timey children’s illustrator Arthur Rackham’s artwork) combined with those good old archetypal characters in a comfy adventure tale, it makes the Mary happy. And who hasn’t had a peculiar obsession with human-like rodents ever since Chip ‘N Dale’s Rescue Rangers aired on Disney afternoon?
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