Review: ‘Purr Evil’ #1 Is Off To A Great Start

Welcome to the table,

You know those movies where there are walls of guns and knives and swords and such? You have to have seen it somewhere across comics, TV shows, or movies where the protagonist has a whole basement or back room or secret chamber that has a wall that is stuffed with various weapons and ammo clips.

How do they get all those weapons in there unseen? How do they mount them on the wall without the wall itself coming down? If they are somehow reinforcing the interior of the wall itself with new studs or some kind of brace how are they doing all this construction on the apartment or house without someone else noticing?

Are they doing the renovation work themselves? If so how do they have time to do all this work AND be a death ninja or contract killer or whatever? I have seen these house flipper shows and I can tell you that a whole TLC team still needs a week to do a mild revamp on a playroom. Something of that scale is taking months, and that’s even if, structurally, the random old apartment building with drippy pipes and vintage wiring can somehow take the modifications necessary for a wall to hold up thousands of pounds worth of firearms.

This book is about a mother who has one of those rooms and the strange happenings that are around her life.

Purr Evil is written by Harvey Award-winning Mirka Andolfo and illustrated by  Laura Braga. The story at its core seems to be about the relationship between a mother with a shadowy past and her daughter who is coming of age and may very well cause the end of all things.

The setup is a tale as old as time, a super famous pop star fakes her death, has a kid, and becomes some kind of assassin to protect her daughter who may or may not be the key to the end of the world thanks to an ancient book emblazoned with the face of a multi-eyed alien cat demon. The daughter, of course, is just your regular kid who grows up to have a cute relationship with the landlord’s son, sneaking out while her astral-projecting father and his death assassin goons break into her apartment to kidnap her for some unknown but clearly reality-ending purpose.

The multi-eyed cats, who were an instant sell for me on this title, only show up in fleeting visions twice in the book but something tells me that they will play a much bigger part as the story progresses along.

Purr Evil starts off strong with some great action beats and the looming feeling that something sinister is on the horizon. I feel like this is going to be one of those slow-burn stories that has a really fulfilling payoff.