Oliver the frenchie finds himself in a kennel car's back that brings in stray animals from the street, he had his life till now with whipped cream-like daze everyday having fun with his family but he says be was dog-napped and while he escaped his captors when in reality he is just repressing the memory of being abandoned by his humans. then running after their departing car Oliver got caught up by the kennel peoples collective imprisonment.He is oblivious to the fact that he is in prison and he...

A hard-bitten prison drama with anthropomorphic animals, because why not? But even to characterise this as Oz meets The Unfunnies (the Mark Millar comic that isn't soon to be a major motion picture, ever) doesn't quite capture the strangeness. Everything we see or hear about life before prison suggests the animals were formerly just animals in a human-run world like this one; the prison guards are disembodied arms of darkness; and the lead is not right in the head, so keeps overlaying his grim s...

A hidden gemLong story short it's a metaphor for abandoned and abused pets told from their perspective.In a colorful and unique way.

Classique dans son approche du genre (univers carcéral) mais extrêmement original par son traitement (animaux, monde onirique, ...). Agréablement surpris par cette lecture.

Velmi zajímavý koncept, krásně nakreslený. Jen možná příliš rychle ukončený a stahovaný k běžnému vězeňskému dramatu.

Shawshank Redemption musical. bizarre. OK. Teen friendly.

This was a fantastic idea for a comic book, treating the dog shelter like it's Shawshank. However, there's very little coherent narrative here. Our hero keeps seeing things as old-timey cartoons every time he gets stressed. It happens so frequently and for so many pages that it takes you out of the story. The guards are just smokey arms that show up randomly to take an animal away. They keep talking about escaping, but there's no narrative here. The animals are just running around until they eve...

NerdBurger recommendation!I thought this was a really unique concept, but I'm not a dog person. Cats are always portrayed as villains and the single bunny in this story didn't do much. Kennel Block Blues is when wayward pets are scooped up and taken to the kennel, it becomes an epic jailbird story. It becomes gritty with heavy backstories and steep rivalries between the dogs and cats. The main character had bouts of lunacy where the hard gray colors would change to a technicolor Disney rainbow.

I'm the end it had more depth and character development than I thought it would, it got past the gimmick.

Found the ‘singing’ and cartoon interludes a bit jarring. I like the idea - just not my cup of tea.

Kennel Block Blues is a strange comics. A musical (in comic form) inside a prison (for animals) with a grounded and deeply disturbing atmosphere (except when it turns into an insane, hyper-colorized cross between a Walt Disney cartoon and the Itchy and Scratchy show).This is not the comic for everyone, that is for sure. The surreal atmosphere of the main character's attempts to remain optimistic in a crushingly depressing situation can turn people off but it's something that I really appreciate....

Had some issues with the story details, art was WICKED good.

4.0/5.0

'Kennel Block Blues' by Ryan Ferrier with art by Daniel Bayliss is the kind of graphic novel I had to think about before reviewing. It's that strange and unusual.Oliver is a dog sent up to Jackson State Kennel. He sometimes bends reality, so when things around him get stressful, he sees everything as a cartoon musical. He's certain he's not supposed to be in this grim world where the cats seem to run the place and the guards are nothing but shadowy arms.He makes some friends, like Cosmo, a bulld...

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read a digital copy of this book in exchange for a review. All opinions are my own.All kinds of crazy fun.The comic opens up with the main protagonist, a French Bulldog named Oliver, getting checked into the Jackson State Kennel. When stressed, Oliver seems to have these mental episodes where he starts seeing everything as an old-timey dance and singalong. This happens quite a lot throughout his struggle to deal with prison life and interact with the other

If you like pets, then this is the comic to read. "Kennel Block Blues" takes its title from paraphrasing Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues". We have the prisoners song, but the ones who are singing are dogs and cats. Dogs and cats left from their previous owners, dogs and cats left on the street. Now, when they're in prison they just want freedom. But, as you can imagine, freedom comes with a cost. Even if they succeed in their quest, where will they go? Most of them don't have families and Peo...

Why would someone attempt at rewriting ‘acid trippy dogverse’? this question kept popping up in my mind all the time I read this book. Is it right to judge? was another! I still have not found answers to these important questions. I believe at the end of reading a book based on something as stupendous as western genre however good or bad the book is we do end up with some learning or the other. That is one way of looking at the ‘money’ aspect especially when the pandemonium around the book relea...

A great series. I felt the rawness and emotion. Also, gotta love talking animals.

One of the most original stories I have read in a long time. I'm still trying to unpack all of it. There's a great deal of nuanced about the justice system, mental illness, and of course pet ownership. I would recommend this to anyone who has ever adopted, or thought of adopting an animal from a shelter. Really anyone who loves animals will find something to enjoy in this graphic novel.

Kennel Block Blues is a bonkers prison drama starring cats and dogs and the protagonist Oliver often retreats into his own mind and the world starts to look like a classic cartoon from the 40's complete with everyone bursting into song. This is a wild ride and the art by Daniel Bayliss is superb. Something just didn't quite click for me and I'm not sure what. It was a good read but didn't blow me away.