Starting with an explanation of what happened in Underwoods And Overtime, the previous volume of Jon Lewis'True Swamp book, we have the next part of his talking animals series. Despite being led by this cast of conversing animals True Swamp quickly gets past any notion the reader may have that this is for kids. Overall we encounter the idea that when a human dies they go to the swamp. There they live out there animal life, with the suggestion that how they lived as a human affects what animal they become, and how they live as an animal affects their chances of returning to the city when the animal dies. Life for the animals if defined by the Minster, the current servant of the tree of life, who reads from the leaves. In turn knowledge is gathered and maintained by living books, animals who dedicate their lives to a particular topic. This is just the top level detail of True Swamp, through the 68 pages of this black and white comic we can see that Lewis is delivering a complex environment - filled with the ritual and history of the animal tribes, the interaction of the swamp and the truly strange characters that make it all stand out.
