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LOVE: THE TIGER – FREDERIC BRREMAUD, FEDERICO BERTOLUCCI

The Tiger (Love, #1)Love: The Tiger by Frédéric Brrémaud, Federico Bertolucci
My rating: 4/5 cats
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i’m glad i read The Fox—the second volume of this standalone graphic novel “series” first. i definitely liked this one, but that fox one made me immediately order this one in with “must have” fervor, and i didn’t feel the same sense of urgency after reading this one.


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it’s the same format as The Fox—wordless sequential art that represents a “day in the life” of a tiger as it hunts, fights, and eventually gets a good meal. the art is great, but it’s somewhat less-great than fox. i do not have the vocabulary necessary to discuss art, but there’s something about this one that just seems a little more basic; there’s less background detail filling up the panels, and there’s a tendency to show a little too much “emotion” in the animal expressions, which cheapens it and makes it less “this is nature” and more “this could be a disney movie.”


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if this were disney, this tapir would be “dopey.”


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compared to this panel from fox:

it’s still great, don’t get me wrong, and there’s even a fox for greg, although not the same one-eyed fox from the second volume

the best parts are, naturally, the animal smackdowns

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but also worth noting is panther vs. piranha

and, of course, the ending. no spoilers here!

i am definitely going to grab the next volume as soon as i can, and i hope at some point there will be a red panda protagonist. fingers crossed!

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