We live in a version of Big Brother, in which we elect ourselves to be kept under surveillance, volunteering information about ourselves for no important reason, willing slaves to trends and some dangerous viewpoints.
Although both stories feature penned animals that mirror the viciousness of humanity among other things (Orwell’s Animal Farm to Vaughan’s Pride of Baghdad), it is in their seemingly shared bleak perspective of humans and the space they move in that we can draw parallels. One could say that Vaughan is a current-day version of Orwell, seemingly charged with the responsibility of delivering a horrific picture, or several, of what the end of the world would actually look like, now that Orwell’s version of the future has finally caught up to us. The bad news is that it’s probably going to get worse.