Not all of the animals survive, notably a giraffe, who, chanting to the other animals about their deliverance, takes a missile through its neck in a particularly gruesome scene.Īs the lions make their way through the city, the come across a turtle in the Tigris river and it tells them this is not the first time such an event has struck the city, alluding to his own childhood when he lost his family to the first gulf war in a particularly traumatic panel showing the family of turtles drowning in oily river.įurther travel through the city leads them to the palace, where they encounter a lion chained to a wall, dying of starvation and exposure. The bombing of the city destroyed the zoo walls, freeing all of the animals. Serious tension exists between the lions due to their past experiences before the zoo, including a violent rape between the alpha lion and an older lioness. At the beginning of the story they are discussing escape with the other zoo animals. Pride looks at the Iraq war through the lenses of four lions living in the Baghdad zoo. Vaughan is no stranger to politically charged, controversial story lines, bringing LGBT characters into the spotlight, as well as attacking the issues of gay marriage and marijuana, racism, and islamiphobia.
Written in 2006, Pride of Baghdad was written during the height of Vaughan’s two successful series Y the last man and Ex Machina. I need a minute to catch my breath after that one.
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