Review by C.J. Bunce
Back in 2006 artist-writer Chris Grine published his first of a two-volume Eisner-nominated comic called Chickenhare, featuring a unique hero in a strange new anthropomorphic world, mixing adventure and dark comedy. This weekend his hero makes it to Netflix in his own animated movie, Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness. The creator himself has acknowledged in the past the scripts in development for the movie were different than his source material. The artwork looks nothing like Grine’s characters. Fans of Grine will find little in common with the new movie, but it’s relatively harmless for really little kids, or older kids who have already seen far better treatments in the talking animal genre, notably Zootopia and Chicken Run–actually all the Aardman Animation shows–and major studio efforts like Ferdinand.
takes putting a puppy in a man-made object to a completely different level. I recently finished the trade hardback that compiles all three individual issues of this series (written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Frank Quitely) as it tells the story of a dog, a cat and a rabbit outfitted with cybernetic exoskeletons that enables them to fight and battle with just about any enemy. (Editor – would that make them Aniborgs?)* Each animal brings its own specific skills to its cybernetic life and how the scientists created and augmented the animals draws out those natural abilities. To get feedback in both directions, the animals even have automated speech systems to translate thoughts into words. Their English communication is rudimentary, as you’d expect, but wonderfully written and the concerns of 
