Duncan the Wonder Dog by Adam Hines burrows into your brain and implants itself, getting us to question our place in the world seen from the perspective of all creatures. Loosely, Hines is telling us a story of several characters in a world where all animals can speak but are still treated as they are now: cows are still slaughtered for food and humans still keep pets. Besides the premise, the most interesting aspect of Hines' work is how he lays a rich groundwork of different scenes in the world from landscapes, to cityscapes, to wild areas, to journal entries, and then places his narrative bits between it all. It seems Hines is telling us there's a wide world out there, and these stories are only one side of the picture. Hines' beautiful black and white art matches the tone of the stories perfectly. The going is slow; it won't be until a few hundred pages in that everything clicks. This is not an uplifting story, but at the end I felt more wonder than discouragement.