Granted, the concept of cats saying HEY also works, so maybe it's more universal than one would think.
It's kind of surprising how well this works. The men's version of meowing is them saying HEY, but punctuation and other lettering effects help to decipher the context, just like you can tell from your cat’s tone of meow what they’re trying to communicate. It's a theme that's probably all too real for many of us.
In fact, the B-plot is about Steve, our main character cat, overextending himself in his creative endeavors. Our feline protagonists deal with many “human” problems, like banks suddenly redefining the terms of student loans, or feeling overworked, and the damage that does to people’s lives. It's relatively low-stakes, compared to superhero books about saving the universe, and the role reversals make for a lot of humorous situations. The page layout isn't the only thing that makes Manfried Saves the Day a quick read. It’s also fun to see how Major and Bastow play with that strict layout in different ways, like a page filled with profiles for each man on the shelter’s website. At 224 pages cover to cover, it's about 100 pages more than your typical Image trade paperback.However, the rigid 6-square-panels-per-page layout leaves a decent amount of white space and causes the book to be a relatively quick read.
You get a lot of bang for your proverbial buck. It all seems so different done to people instead of pets. Leaving them in a box on a doorstep, possibly overnight. While it's humorous, watching tiny naked men stick their arm under the door begging to be let in, or chasing a laser pointer, reversing the roles is also an interesting way to address how we treat our pets in regards to food quality, attention, and dignity.
The comic's opening is smart, showing how cats' and men's roles are switched, and hilariously establishes how things work in the universe, some of our main characters, and the book’s overall tone.
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