Bittersweet Ending: All of the main cast are shot and killed by U.S Soldiers, but, at the very least, they died free, and Zill got to see one last sunset.

Bears Are Bad News: Fajer, a monstrous black bear, and the most morally black character in the comic.

Black bears are relatively small and shy and prefer to avoid danger when possible, while Fajer is depicted as gigantic and extremely aggressive, closer in appearance and temperament to a brown bear apart from his color.Zill and Noor are unable to cross a stretch of water to save Ali from a group of monkeys, with one mockingly asking 'When did your kind learn how to swim?' While real lions prefer to avoid water, they're certainly capable of swimming when they need to.Artistic License – Biology: Mostly averted, but there are a couple of examples:.Completely and utterly averted by Saddam Husein's horses, who don't speak and spend the whole time they're in the book running away from the lions.

However, their reasoning is that wherever the tanks come from must be safe after all, how could something so enormous have any enemies? They are intelligent enough to backtrack parallel to a column of tanks in search of food. Both played straight in the Beast Fable sense and averted with the story's heartbreaking appeal: watching the animals utterly fail to comprehend human machinations.It deliberates on the nature of freedom and, to a certain extent, the responsibility of mankind to the innocents caught in the crossfire. It also encompasses both how War Is Hell and how war destroys more than just the enemy side. The allegory is fairly open it insinuates the collapse of Iraqi culture after being 'freed' from Hussein's Baath Party.

Vaughan and illustrated by Niko Henrichon, it is a seriously massive Tear Jerker. Only earned.'īased on the true story of four lions who escaped the Baghdad zoo during the American bombing of 2003, Pride Of Baghdad is a Beast Fable about the horrors of war, and the nature of freedom and captivity.

Brian vaughan's pride of baghdad