The Little Red Fish #2

The Little Red Fish just gets better along the way! I really love the allegory of the fish society and how it so reflects our societies. It's scary how accurate the comic can be. The whole thing with the birds making deals with the fish, who are ready to betray their own for protection, is just so interesting. It all centers around the orb that's the key to the fish transforming into birds. No one knows where this orb has come from and the birds are obsessed to have it and at the same time most of the fish don't even know it exists. This brings us to the problem that is the betrayal of the fish, since the fish don't know what they are about to lose and at the same time they are eager to find a culprit or at least find a scapegoat to things they cannot handle. The comic is so insightful and scary at the same time. It resonates to everything around us.

The art looks quite nice and artistic, the best part being the colors that are dark and deep. The line work is thin and smudgy, but it works well and the art overall has evolved already since the first part. The panels a better constructed and the story flow is more harmonic now. I'm eager to know what happens and at least now this surely seems like a comic everyone should read. I hope Moffitt and Khodabandeh keep up the good work!

Issue number two did not disappoint. Love the art in this series. Now I'm wondering how is the little fish going to help his people?

The Little Red Fish's greatest strength is its simplicity. It reads like a fairy tale. To great extent, it is a children story. However, the book's creators did reveal the book as an allegory. The Little Red Fish is based on Iran's revolution of 1979 leading to the coup of Prime Minister Mossaddegh and the rise of Khomeini.

The art is unlike anything I've seen. It is unique, dark and broody - like that of a story belonging to the horror genre. The drawing lines are thin and structured in a way that makes you think of a metal sculpture, especially when you consider the dark backgrounds of the art. I love it.

You don't need to grab the Volume 1 of this book to understand the whole story, which is a plus.

Conclusion:
If you fancy, light leisure reading, then you might like this The Little Red Fish #2.

Many thanks to Rosarium Publishing for review copy.

A good story with beautiful drawings. The themes are clear and more adult than for kids. Not my usual genre but I enjoyed it.

This was a good heroes journey story so far. If you want to read a story about someones journey to being a hero than read this book.