Along with Charlie are his pals Rover, a Bassett Hound from “across the big splash” (“Bloody Hell, lads!”), and the large and naive Red Setter, appropriately named “Red.” As our three heroes find their way through the madness and viscera that constitutes the new world, they come across many colorful tribes.
Because of this advantage, the responsibility falls on Charlie to navigate the band to safety. They notice that Charlie’s feeder relies on him, instead of the other way around. Because of Charlie’s unique disposition in this world, all other dogs view him as singularly clever. The story is told from the perspective of the Seeing Eye dog, Charlie.
In this brave new world full of conniving cats and bloodthirsty bulldogs, it quickly becomes evident that this small band of dogs must grow wiser fast– or else die. The apocalypse serves as an appropriate and colorful backdrop to explore how domesticized animals react to newfound, absolute freedom. Rover Red Charlie is a meditation on what it means to be a dog in a world where there are no masters where all those that designed, controlled, and sustained their environment have disappeared. It is not the type of story whose central drawing points are graphic, inventive kill scenes or bizarre genocide. “The story of three best friends at the end of the world” is no regurgitation of played-out apocalyptic tropes.
As bloody chaos reigns in Manhattan, the canine crew attempts to navigate themselves out of the inferno, and into the alleged safety of the countryside. This 6-issue limited series follows three dogs as they attempt to survive in a grim world where almost all humans (or “Feeders,” as the dogs call them) have suddenly gone insane with violent, suicidal rage. The strangest and best of the lot is his latest miniseries Rover Red Charlie with artist Michael DiPascale. While Crossed has gone onto become a staple title in the Avatar Press register, Ennis has since been dabbling in several other original, darkly graphic series for the Midwestern publisher. His legendary Vertigo series Preacher put him on the map in the early 90s, and his late 00’s pseudo-zombie epic Crossed has inspired half a dozen spinoff series and a successful weekly web comic. Garth Ennis is no stranger to the apocalypse.
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