Animosity Reading Order: How to read Marguerite Bennett and Rafael de Latorre comic book series?
From Marguerite Bennett, the writer of InSeXts and DC Comics Bombshells, and artist Rafael de Latorre (Superzero), the Animosity series is a road trip working as a coming-of-age story with black humor and a sci-fi twist.
The pitch is: One day, for no reason, the animals woke up. They started thinking. They started talking. They started taking REVENGE. The story takes place in a chaotic world where the newly intelligent animals fight humanity, or each other, for their own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. In the middle of this, 11-year-old girl Jesse and her dog, Sandor, who is devoted to her and her protection, begin a cross-country journey to find Jesse’s half-brother, Adam, who is living in San Francisco.
How to read the Animosity Series in Order?
I. The Main Animosity Series
- The Wake – The world is plunged into chaos as the newly-intelligent Animals fight humanity, and simply fight each other, for their own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Collects Animosity #1-4.
- The Dragon – As Jesse, an 11-year-old girl, and Sandor, her faithful and protective bloodhound, continue their cross-country journey, their faith in life, death – and each other – is tested at last. Collects Animosity #5-8, plus the special one-shot issue The World of Animosity.
- The Swarm – Sandor, Jesse and the survivors hear rumors of a mysterious Walled City where safety may be waiting…but will their journey there be too high a price to pay? Collects Animosity #9-13.
- The Walled City – Jesse has been separated from Sandor. The old hound dog will stop at nothing to return to his cowgirl, but there are some things Sandor can’t shield Jesse from – and once innocence is lost, it’s lost forever. Collects Animosity #14-18.
- Southern Gothic – The Animals rest and consider their path. Where have they come from? Where can they go? When they were taken from the wild, how did their fates change humanity forever? What will they become? Collects Animosity #19-23.
- Kings of Texas – Sandor, Jessie and their companions stray into the oil fields where the bloody kings of Texas reign. Collects Animosity #25-28.
II. Animosity Evolution
In parallel with the main series, the World of Animosity expands with a new series called Animosity Evolution. It’s better to start after the first year of the main series.
- The Rise – A three-part miniseries. A city by the sea rises, ruled by animals who become more human and humans who become more animal.
- Lex Animata – One day, the animals woke up. They started thinking. They started talking. They started taking revenge. Now, they’ve started building. In a city by the sea, a new power is on the rise…and they’re making an animal kingdom all their own. Collects Animosity Evolution #1-5.
- Lex Machina – Will Wintermute be able to hold onto control of her beloved city? Tensions reach a breaking point after the murder of the Animata – an elite force comprised of animal/tech hybrids. Conspiracies tighten around Adam and his companions as a bloody interspecies gang war explodes in the City by the Sea. Collects Animosity Evolution #6-10.
Other Collections
The Main Animosity Series has also been collected in a hardcover edition:
- Animosity Year One [hardcover collected edition] – One year after the incident, Jesse and Sandor begin a cross-country journey to find Jesse’s half-brother, Adam, who is living in San Francisco. Collects Animosity #1-8, plus the special one-shot issue The World of Animosity.
- Animosity Year Two [hardcover collected edition] – Tensions run high as betrayal stings Jesse in a way she could have never imagined. Can Kyle shed his humanity enough to aid Jesse in her quest? Can Sandor forsake his bestial nature in order to save that which he loves? Collects Animosity #9-18.
- Animosity Year Three [hardcover collected edition] – The Animals rest and consider their path. Where have they come from? Where can they go? When they were taken from the wild, how did their fates change humanity forever? What will they become? Collects Animosity #19-28.
The main series as well as Animosity Evolution are available in Omnibus:
- Animosity Omnibus [Omnibus] – The world is plunged into chaos as the newly-intelligent Animals fight humanity, and simply fight each other, for their own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. In the midst of the turmoil is Jesse, an 11-year-old girl, and her dog, Sandor, who is devoted to her and her protection. One year after the incident, Jesse and Sandor begin a cross-country journey to find Jesse’s half-brother, Adam, who is living in San Francisco. Collects Animosity #1-28, plus the special Free Comics Book Day issue, Animosity Tales.
- Animosity: Evolution The Complete Series [Omnibus] – In the aftermath of war, Fall’s End is littered with the dead. Chip has his territory back…until something else walks into his town. Something not human. Not vampire. Something hungry. Collects: Animosity: The Rise #1-3 and Animosity: Evolution #1-10.
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