Mike currently lives in sunny San Antonio, Texas, where he works as a news illustrator and animator for the San Antonio Express-News. He has a fabulous wife, Margi, and three cool kids, Joe (17), Andrew (14), and Faith (10). Mike really likes the smell of old, decaying comic books.
Looking back, I see that my initial hope for this episode was that the mud would have a heartbeat and a heart that has teeth and crippling anxiety. Some of that hope has become a reality, but at what cost?
Significantly, neither the humans nor the tigers are shown to possess an original or authoritative version of the narrative, and it is only in such collaborative and dialogic encounters that human-animal relations and entanglements can be dis-entangled.