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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Comic Book of the Month: March 2023
This one has been on my tbr for eons, glad to finally have read it. The design of the animal mech suits is really cool, and I loved/ hated the implications of the missing pet posters
This one has been on my tbr for eons, glad to finally have read it. The design of the animal mech suits is really cool, and I loved/ hated the implications of the missing pet posters
Way too short of a read, but mostly cause it has very few words because the main characters are a dog, cat and rabbit. These three animals have been turned military weapons after they have been picked up off the streets. Each chapter (as there are only three) starts with the "Lost Animal" poster for one of the pets.
This is a good book, and I would have given it a 5 if it wasn't for the overly graphic killings. Kind of want to give it a 3 because of it, but the overall story was well done. Actually went back and gave it a 3 because of a plot hole that really isn't explained. It was ok. People rave about this book, and I now feel like I am missing something.
This is a good book, and I would have given it a 5 if it wasn't for the overly graphic killings. Kind of want to give it a 3 because of it, but the overall story was well done. Actually went back and gave it a 3 because of a plot hole that really isn't explained. It was ok. People rave about this book, and I now feel like I am missing something.
Proof that an interesting premise does not a story make. Morrison didn't bother to write this story, just ran with the idea and the gore.
THis book is fuel for my idea that Morrison needs a wider view to really pull his stories off (see: Animal Man, The Invisibles).
THis book is fuel for my idea that Morrison needs a wider view to really pull his stories off (see: Animal Man, The Invisibles).
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Sweet, sad and original.
3 animals get turned into weapons, and they can talk!
Fluffy, cute and full of gore.
3 animals get turned into weapons, and they can talk!
Fluffy, cute and full of gore.
This review* is about kitties. Let's start it off with a gratuitous and only slightly relevant picture:
*now with 100% more lolcats!
Do you remember that cute Disney movie The Incredible Journey, in which a trio of animal friends (a cat and two dogs) is accidentally left behind by their owner and must travel across the wilderness in order to find their way home?
We3 is just like that, except there is a rabbit instead of one of the dogs and instead of experiencing amusing and only slightly harrowing adventures along the way (haha the dog tried to smell a porcupine and hilarity ensured! oh no the cat fell into the river!), they blow up a train, down several military helicopters and brutally maim and kill dozens of soldiers. I should probably also mention that the animals are encased in metallic body armor bristling with advanced weaponry, and are the product of a government experiment to breed super-assassins gone awry. That is probably key information to have going in.
There's this rule in movies that no matter how many people you kill, the dog never gets it, because chances are good that the audience's sympathies lie with the dog, probably because people are so annoying. That's why there's that scene in Independence Day where the dog leaps free of a giant fireball and runs to safety, and the music is all triumphant even though there are presumably thousands of humans being burned alive by said fireball even as the dog's owners bathe his doggy head in kisses ("Oh dog thank goodness you are safe! Where is our neighbor Ms. Davis? Cooked alive by aliens? Oh well.") Likewise, this comic book knows where my sympathies lie: with the cat. Who can shoot blades from his claws with bullet force and decapitate you with a lazy bat of his paw, not to mention chew through a herd of mind-controlled killer rats and poke out the eyes of a baboon-sized mutant bulldog.
So obviously this is a very violent book, but though the drawings are graphic they are also ludicrously over-the-top, so it's kind of funny, though the shot of the guy's fingernail split through by a cat claw missile did nauseate me a tad. But I was also touched: the ending is enough to put a lump in the throat of any pet owner. It's like My Dog Skip, if only there was a scene where Skip bit Frankie Muniz in half with his terrible metallic jaws, and then a ferocious cat beast dropped onto his still-twitching corpse from out of the sky and popped his eyeballs like jelly-filled balloons.
If only.
*now with 100% more lolcats!
Do you remember that cute Disney movie The Incredible Journey, in which a trio of animal friends (a cat and two dogs) is accidentally left behind by their owner and must travel across the wilderness in order to find their way home?
We3 is just like that, except there is a rabbit instead of one of the dogs and instead of experiencing amusing and only slightly harrowing adventures along the way (haha the dog tried to smell a porcupine and hilarity ensured! oh no the cat fell into the river!), they blow up a train, down several military helicopters and brutally maim and kill dozens of soldiers. I should probably also mention that the animals are encased in metallic body armor bristling with advanced weaponry, and are the product of a government experiment to breed super-assassins gone awry. That is probably key information to have going in.
There's this rule in movies that no matter how many people you kill, the dog never gets it, because chances are good that the audience's sympathies lie with the dog, probably because people are so annoying. That's why there's that scene in Independence Day where the dog leaps free of a giant fireball and runs to safety, and the music is all triumphant even though there are presumably thousands of humans being burned alive by said fireball even as the dog's owners bathe his doggy head in kisses ("Oh dog thank goodness you are safe! Where is our neighbor Ms. Davis? Cooked alive by aliens? Oh well.") Likewise, this comic book knows where my sympathies lie: with the cat. Who can shoot blades from his claws with bullet force and decapitate you with a lazy bat of his paw, not to mention chew through a herd of mind-controlled killer rats and poke out the eyes of a baboon-sized mutant bulldog.
So obviously this is a very violent book, but though the drawings are graphic they are also ludicrously over-the-top, so it's kind of funny, though the shot of the guy's fingernail split through by a cat claw missile did nauseate me a tad. But I was also touched: the ending is enough to put a lump in the throat of any pet owner. It's like My Dog Skip, if only there was a scene where Skip bit Frankie Muniz in half with his terrible metallic jaws, and then a ferocious cat beast dropped onto his still-twitching corpse from out of the sky and popped his eyeballs like jelly-filled balloons.
If only.
As an animal lover, this was very hard to read. The images are so graphic and any animal violence I am just not okay with. In a nutshell, this is what goes wrong when the government decides to use animals as weapons of mass destruction, but then also giving them cognitive functions and ways to communicate. I really liked the way that WE1, WE2, and WE3 worked as a team and wanted to protect each other. It was heartwarming to see their emotions and how the puppy just wanted to be home. My heart broke for them and I just wanted to give their dangerous asses hugs.
I don't know how people come up with these ideas.
I don't know how people come up with these ideas.
Había escuchado hasta las piedra hablando de los buen autor que es Morrison, bueno, pues ya veo porqué.
Esta es un novela gráfica desgarradora y conmovedora en dosis apropiadas, la mezcla perfecta entre gore y te hará llorar. Nos narra las historia de tres animales (¡sí, un cómic NO protagonizado por humanos!): un perro, un gato y un conejo modificados geneticamente para ser las perfectas armas asesinas del gobierno, que se dan a la fuga luego de que se ordena que deben ser asesinados. Escrito con sencillez, abunda también de magnificas ilustaciones, con planos secuenciales que recuerdan al cine, con dospaginas de degarradoras escenas de lucha, y con ilustraciones de tipo 3d. Una obra maestra de principio a fin.
Esta es un novela gráfica desgarradora y conmovedora en dosis apropiadas, la mezcla perfecta entre gore y te hará llorar. Nos narra las historia de tres animales (¡sí, un cómic NO protagonizado por humanos!): un perro, un gato y un conejo modificados geneticamente para ser las perfectas armas asesinas del gobierno, que se dan a la fuga luego de que se ordena que deben ser asesinados. Escrito con sencillez, abunda también de magnificas ilustaciones, con planos secuenciales que recuerdan al cine, con dospaginas de degarradoras escenas de lucha, y con ilustraciones de tipo 3d. Una obra maestra de principio a fin.
