Each of the characters occupies a niche, but our main character, a tired lone wolf, can't find a place in this totalitarian machine. He works modestly at a factory next to sheep, but one day the predatory nature makes itself felt - and the protagonist gets into an emotional altercation with the director of the enterprise. Of course, no one here will tolerate such insubordination - the wolf immediately finds himself on the street, turning from an ordinary cog in the system into a marginal, dangerous and disenfranchised anomaly.
As in the case of Ukrainian cinema, domestic comics sometimes have to make allowances - so, maybe some panels are painted in a hurry, and somewhere motives slip through, but we all understand that the industry is quite young, and publishers are still operating on small budgets. Therefore, when you hear that there is a cool drawing in "Among the Sheep", you immediately expect something good, but it is amazing only by the standards of the Ukrainian market. And in vain - despite the fact that Alexander Koreshkov somehow manages to independently be responsible for the plot of the comic, and for the lettering, and for the drawing, and for the coloring, each page looks just great.
Emotional close-ups, dynamic action scenes, detailed landscapes, spectacular perspective play - all this is done at the highest level. So, four small issues of the comic were released in four years, but the technical skill and attention to detail are impressive. Especially when it comes to building a world - each issue contains enough newspaper clippings, archival documents, drawings and photographs that expand and deepen our understanding of the setting, and which are simply incredibly interesting to look at and study. If you like to keep track of visual Easter eggs and barely noticeable features of the drawing, then "Among the Sheep" is not the first Ukrainian comic that allows you to have so much fun.
Of course, there are drawbacks here too - the characters rather resemble fairly unambiguous archetypes, and in the world of "Among the Sheep" there is not much room for moral ambiguity or multiple interpretations. Perhaps this is all from the canon of the classic dystopian plot, or maybe it's because it takes a lot of time for each issue, and he just hasn't had time to show the characters from some unobvious sides yet. And yet, if you perceive the comic not as a multi-level social criticism like conditional "Guardians", but as a concise parable about the dangers of totalitarianism, then most of the claims disappear. Yes, the characters speak in short, simple sentences. Yes, the plot here is pretty straightforward. But what did you want from the allegory? sensuelas.com/nl/service-massage-avec-happy-end-oral/
