Squeaks (from Iowa!)

This poster comes off like a slow-burning drama. It begins with a real heartbreaking punch -- that the bereaved lost their cat within days of moving to Portland, as if they didn't have enough going on in their life after relocating to a new city, and then proceeds to slow the pace down as they allow emotion to build up in the reader.

The details provided serve to show the reader how caring of owners they were, putting the reader in a "how-could-this-happen" mindset.

The slow-burn quality of this poster continues as we are given the final statement "we miss her so much". And, as if that statement wasn't saddening enough, the whole sentence is practically covered up by the "still missing" sticker that lets you know a second effort was put into this poster, because the initial effort of this saddened couple was not enough to bring back their poor, missing cat.

A real, classic never-win story.

Marcos, Part 2

There are clear visual improvements between Marcos, Part 1 and Marcos, Part 2, like relaunching a classic Disney movie in the updated CG style of the Pixar movies. The picture is a more detailed, and (likely) more accurate portrayal of the missing cat.

Much of the playfulness of Marcos, Part 1 has been replaced with more stern, and direct details, as if the director decided to take a more dramatic, and a touch darker, approach to Part 2.

The strangest part of this poster is the repeated details in clashing styles. At first, the bold lettered details are the most prevalent, but upon closer analysis, one notices the penciled-in details and supplementary information provided in a complete contrast of styles, as if to suggest the the same story is being told from 2 separate, though not entirely disimilar points of view.

Opus

Opus comes across like a classic mystery. From the get-go, the bold-lettered LOST provides the entire foundation for what is to come. From there, we are given detail after detail as more is slowly revealed about the missing cat.

While most missing cat posters tend to opt for the traditional method of posting a date in numbers (for example: 04/23/2012), Opus is worded very seriously, leaving the reader with a stern, cliffhanger ending, like having to read the sadness behind the stoic detective's eyes as the film fades to black and the credits begin to roll.