Anazi Boys; The Way of the Trickster God
I really love trickster archetypes in characters; they offer such a broad scope in terms of character thanks to their morally ambiguous nature and often chaotic and self-serving choices, and I personally really love seeing the ways authors and creators take them! Anazi Boys also wrapped up the idea of trickster characters with something else I hold dear to my heart as a storyteller; the idea that animals are intrinsically tied to our own nature. Spider is a cunning, obvious choice for a tricky creature that weaves threads of schemes into webs that tangle a menagerie of people together, but I think overall just the idea of including animals representing human emotions and feelings is really tied to us just wanting to see bits and pieces of ourselves in something easily recognized and related to! I found myself connecting to another body of work I've been keeping up with; Gunnerkrigg Court is a long-running webcomic with two important characters being Coyote and Ysengrin, a wo