 Hi everybody, welcome to another exciting episode, another edition of A We Can Geek Them Here on YouTube. This time we're back with another comic book review and I kind of wanted to deviate a little bit and talk to you guys about this little gem right here, Mirka Andolfo's Unnatural from Image Comics. This was originally an Italian and Italian production and a European comic and it was recently translated into English here in America. So we finally get to read this. I'm a huge fan of Mirka's artwork in Instagram plus her work on Harley Quinn and DC Comics bombshells. So I was very interested in just finding out what the hell was unnatural about it. I'll be honest with you, I had no idea so this was a blind purchase. All I knew it was some not safe for work imagery here and there but the whole book isn't like that. Now the story itself is about Leslie Blair. She's a blue haired, she's a blue haired pig that is, that she lives in a society I guess or in an alternate earth where anthropomorphic animals live in this totalitarian world where they have to pair up with the same species otherwise they will either get jail time or get executed for their crimes because it is unnatural and does not follow the laws of nature and you know really it's all one big metaphor and social commentary for all the injustices when it comes to sex, love, romance, all that stuff that people face in today's world, today's society. Whether it be transgender people, whether it be homosexuals, whatever that may be, just yeah it goes into that it's not like super preachy because I know some people get like offended by that for some reason but the comic is pretty interesting. Like I said, anthropomorphic animals usually in a lot of people will dismiss a book like that as kind of pervy storytelling but I've read some stories that you know you can do some very interesting quirky things with the way animals behave and their personalities, they can be a lot more expressive or they can, you can go further than what you can do with human characters like with a book such as Blacksat for example. Now I'm not saying this is the next great thing like Blacksat because that is actually one of my favorite comics of all time, this is more fun, it's more quirky and spicy and just it knows what it's doing. Mirka tells us a very simple story that evolves naturally as you go along and gets grander and grander into something that involves a little bit more about folklore and mythological themes and why characters behave in certain ways, how this society has modeled itself after a sense of morality and the way they go about doing things and how prejudice and sexist and misogynist or just plain racist people can be because it doesn't fill the needs or the standards of a determined group or individuals. Plus the book has a very interesting dynamic with the way the characters behave with technology and how technology is so integrated in their lives that is well it's very similar to how we live nowadays in 2019 as I'm recording this video and the way everything just revolves around the internet and social status via social media pages and all that stuff they have this dating app that pairs everybody sort of like a like an e-harmony thing but it pairs them up for dating and mating purposes so everything can continue and I just think it's bonkers that people will deny other couples their love simply because they don't match the standard or they don't follow a law per se. Now I don't want to get too into the whole topic because I know somebody will probably dislike it because I am talking about these themes that are so hot-button issues in the world so just know that it is a beautiful drawn book. Mika's artwork is spectacular I absolutely love it. Aside from you know the exposed not-safe work bits it looks astonishing like when you have when you have panels like this so yeah I don't know part of the appeal is seeing how these characters look because we're so used to human characters that I guess it's fun to visualize these stories with you know characters that aren't necessarily human like you know there's an appeal to that I guess plus there's this whole fandom that really likes that stuff I was just curious this is not my forte but I gotta say as a fan of her of the artist online and stuff I think she did a really splendid job with the artwork it looks really cool to me the only drawback or negative thing here's Leslie with her friends she enjoys sushi and just hanging out and talking about stuff the only negative thing I would say is the wording and the I don't know if it's the translation or not but the wording and the way the lines are delivered by the characters they might they read a little bit too superficial or too simple like like I'm reading a lot of valley girl talk you know where other comic books might have a little bit more sophistication to their dialogue this is a little bit simple it progresses later on and you do get some very interesting interesting themes but for the actual script or lines or however you want to say it it could be a little bit tighter in my opinion also I didn't mention at the beginning here's some more cool artwork I didn't mention at the beginning that Leslie is getting some very naughty dreams about this white wolf obviously she can't date them because they're prohibited from doing that or else they'll get jail time or possibly murdered and this has to do with the main plot because you know there's a purpose to it there's a purpose to that dream there's like this destiny that's about to be fulfilled or the characters are learning about it and yeah you see the how the world works and it's it's a it's a fairly simple yet pretty comic to look at I think for being a solo endeavor and Mirka doing not only the pencils and colors and the script and everything she's a one woman army if you will she does a fantastic job with a natural I don't know as of this post how long the series is I do know there's a volume two with more issues I I would assume it is a total of eight plus issues but it's it's it's interesting if you look past the odd premise you might enjoy a fun cookie version of of a possible way that humans might want to live their life and by restricting the parameters of what love is or should be I don't know that's my take on it I know there's some people out there that might hate this type of book and concept but be open to interpretation just be wary that it does go into not safe for work imagery so it might not be for everybody it is rated M for mature if I'm not mistaken it's an image title so you sort of know what you're getting by those standards and yeah unnatural from Mirka Andorffo I am very much looking forward to her volume two of this series have you read unnatural let me know what you thought down below if you have if you haven't let me know if you like any other comic book with anthropomorphic animals it's it's pretty interesting I'm open to the idea of reading bizarre series after bizarre series if that makes any sense I don't know guys thank you so much this was sort of a quick review I just wanted to share my thoughts on unnatural and and hopefully you like this video and thank you so much for supporting a we can geek them we have so many new followers and I'm very excited about that look forward to more reviews soon ish I'm also participating in the omnibus collectors network so if you don't see me posting on this channel just know that I am on omnibros live usually Mondays and Thursdays usually so yeah that's it for now I will catch all of you on our next video