![]() ![]() (The climactic plot twist involves a white character turning out to have a small patch of black fur.) Like any good gumshoe tale, the story's crammed with sex and violent gunplay, and Guarnido manages to set even his wackiest-looking characters within gritty, realistic backgrounds and lighting. Blacksad is a black cat a racist politician is a polar bear there's a black power gang led by a black horse etc. It's a standard-issue detective-novel plot, if nicely handled-but the twist is that all the characters are animal-headed humanoids, and the tension revolves around not the color of their skin, but the color of their fur. PI John Blacksad gets involved with an investigation having to do with a white power group, the Arctics, that's been murdering blacks a kidnapping and a dark secret of illegitimate birth. The entire work is constructed around a single joke, but a brilliant one. ![]() The second volume of Canales and Guarnido's hybrid of hard-boiled detective and anthropomorphic-animal comics is a visual masterpiece. ![]()
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