Beasts of Burden #1

Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites collects the supernatural adventures of a scrappy neighborhood animal watch, and Jill Thompson's cover painting sets the mood beautifully — a pack of dogs and a ginger cat scramble across fallen logs in a moonlit forest, skulls littering the ground below while a ghostly wolf-shape drifts through the mist and a black cat watches warily from a bare tree branch above. Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson make an irresistible team, blending genuine warmth for their animal characters with eerie, atmospheric horror in a way that feels unlike anything else in comics. If you've ever wanted a story where the pets of a quiet suburb stand as the last line of defense against the uncanny, this 2010 hardcover is a wonderful place to start.