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Animal Eye Comic Book Issue #1: All-ages GameLit Where Players Become Animals

Most video game RPGs have you playing a human or demi-human going on quests and solving puzzles. Sometimes these players have beasts as helpers: maybe a dog, a horse, perhaps even a bird.

But what if you could play the animal helpers?

What if a game allowed you to run that character through a virtual reality simulator, so you could see or smell or hear what the animal does or use animal skills like flying or running as fast as a horse?

The Animal Eye Comic book portrays game playtesters Khin May and Jake getting that opportunity.

Khin May plays a crow named Ahva and Jake plays a large, shaggy dog named Nagheed.

The comic shows them starting in different parts of the game world on a converging course that begins with finding their humans and helping them solve quests. (One quest includes helping Jael the bear.)

At first fascinated with the ability to fly, see, and smell as animals do, Ahva the crow and Nagheed the dog join the battle against sinister forces attacking outlying travelers and loved ones.

They and their humans discover as much as they can about resilient maniacal killers. These maniacs are powerful, fast, and hard to kill!

Creative Team

Rowell Cruz is a self-taught digital illustrator from the Philippines. He specializes in a fusion of Japanese Animé and American Comic Book art styles. He has an ongoing digital webcomic entitled Kali, which is free to read on Tapas and Webtoon.

Originally from Michigan, Cindy Koepp combined a love of pedagogy and ecology into a 14-year career as an elementary science specialist. After teaching four-footers – that's height, not leg count – she pursued a Master's in Adult Learning with a specialization in Performance Improvement. Her published works include science fiction, fantasy, and GameLit novels; a passel of short stories; and a few educator resources. When she isn't reading or writing, Cindy is currently working as a tech writer, hat collector, quilter, crafter, and strange joke teller.