Like he did in the first two issues, Evan Dorkin continues explaining the lore of The Beasts of Burden universe in Beasts of Burden: Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men #3. He uses the Wise-Dog-in-Training, Miranda, as a vehicle for the questions needed answered to the audience. In this issue, she explains how “Drawn magic taps into certain energies. The words are a sort of focus…or a path. Most wise dogs don’t have to say spells out loud. They can internalize them.”
The world-building would be easy to miss, though, because this installment is so damn exciting. Last issue ended with Lundy and the Wise Dogs finding a barnful of flayed sheep carcasses. This one opens with them interrogating a witness: Tommy.
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