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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
A very unique graphic novel, perfectly executed by Morrison and Quitely.
Morrison's writing on this is sublime. The way the animals talk in a simplified coding language gives a lot of depth to what is being said. Sometimes an animal might utter a few letters, and it will evoke a very real sense of morbidity. It's like you can see the animals forming thoughts and feelings in real-time.
And as always, Frank Quitely blows my mind. As he has done in the past by pulling off a completely silent issue of New X-Men, he does it here again by taking charge of the storytelling. Everything from the visceral, forensic detail of the gore, to the completely functional armor designs, to the emotive expressions given to both animal and human, gives this book a very stark, realistic feel. The panel layouts are, as always, very unique and inventive. Quitely really plays around with creative page compositions like drawing a hail of bullets flying away from the reader's POV, or the sequence where an animal destroys a wall into another panel. But the highlight for me was the 6 pages in the first issue meticulously crammed with 108 panels of CCTV footage, creating a true sense of tension and claustrophobia, before cathartically releasing the tension in a 2-page spread of the animal's escape. It's like you can feel the freedom yourself. I could gush about Quitely's genius all day, but good art is hard to describe.
There's not much to say about Jamie Grant, the colorist and inker. He does a great job setting the mood throughout the different settings in the book. Very cold, sanitary whites and grays in the lab, brightful greens and blues outside, and dark blues and grays for the night portions. Exceptionally good work on coloring the blood and gore, truly doing Quitely's pencils justice.
Overall, this is one of the best examples of what comics can achieve. I would recommend this book to people who haven't read a lot of comics to show them what the medium is capable of. It's a book with a clear vision, that executes said vision flawlessly; and so it gets a 5/5 from me.
Morrison's writing on this is sublime. The way the animals talk in a simplified coding language gives a lot of depth to what is being said. Sometimes an animal might utter a few letters, and it will evoke a very real sense of morbidity. It's like you can see the animals forming thoughts and feelings in real-time.
And as always, Frank Quitely blows my mind. As he has done in the past by pulling off a completely silent issue of New X-Men, he does it here again by taking charge of the storytelling. Everything from the visceral, forensic detail of the gore, to the completely functional armor designs, to the emotive expressions given to both animal and human, gives this book a very stark, realistic feel. The panel layouts are, as always, very unique and inventive. Quitely really plays around with creative page compositions like drawing a hail of bullets flying away from the reader's POV, or the sequence where an animal destroys a wall into another panel. But the highlight for me was the 6 pages in the first issue meticulously crammed with 108 panels of CCTV footage, creating a true sense of tension and claustrophobia, before cathartically releasing the tension in a 2-page spread of the animal's escape. It's like you can feel the freedom yourself. I could gush about Quitely's genius all day, but good art is hard to describe.
There's not much to say about Jamie Grant, the colorist and inker. He does a great job setting the mood throughout the different settings in the book. Very cold, sanitary whites and grays in the lab, brightful greens and blues outside, and dark blues and grays for the night portions. Exceptionally good work on coloring the blood and gore, truly doing Quitely's pencils justice.
Overall, this is one of the best examples of what comics can achieve. I would recommend this book to people who haven't read a lot of comics to show them what the medium is capable of. It's a book with a clear vision, that executes said vision flawlessly; and so it gets a 5/5 from me.
We3: Brutal and heartfelt. Proof comics have real power when they don’t play safe. A must read.
How far should scientific advancement go?
In the quest to keep humans from the battlefield, scientists created cyborg animals - programmable, loyal, and ruthless soldiers.
WE3 - a cat, a dog, and a rabbit - are threatened with destruction, and one of the science team members frees them. They search for safety in a longed for 'Home'. Their will for survival leads them on a deadly chase across country.WE3 use every trick in their arsenal to move the story along.
Note: subject matter and graphic images may disturb. But, what else is to be expected, with that subject matter?
In the quest to keep humans from the battlefield, scientists created cyborg animals - programmable, loyal, and ruthless soldiers.
WE3 - a cat, a dog, and a rabbit - are threatened with destruction, and one of the science team members frees them. They search for safety in a longed for 'Home'. Their will for survival leads them on a deadly chase across country.WE3 use every trick in their arsenal to move the story along.
Note: subject matter and graphic images may disturb. But, what else is to be expected, with that subject matter?
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Tear jerker.
Very short. Very intense.
Another reviewer compared it to The Incredible Journey meets Robocop, which was pretty apt.
Very short. Very intense.
Another reviewer compared it to The Incredible Journey meets Robocop, which was pretty apt.
This is the charming tale of death-dealing cybernetically enhanced animals that escape their secret government compound and just want to go home.
Just the emotional bomb I was expecting - and I do mean that in a good way.
This is a fairly typical lost pets story in many ways, but it's the design and layout of the story that makes it stick out from that crowd. There isn't much dialogue or exposition, the images get to speak for themselves and they're very eloquent.
My favorite part was how the animals talked. Very too the point, but not so to the point that it was blunt. There was plenty of things the reader had to infer and I like that in a read.
This is a fairly typical lost pets story in many ways, but it's the design and layout of the story that makes it stick out from that crowd. There isn't much dialogue or exposition, the images get to speak for themselves and they're very eloquent.
My favorite part was how the animals talked. Very too the point, but not so to the point that it was blunt. There was plenty of things the reader had to infer and I like that in a read.
It's one of those books that is really, really good but also awful and terrible and horrifying.
Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely remind me why I love their collaborations with this book. Morrison as a writer is able to write scenes that no other writer could even begin to approach with the same kind of power. Morrison crafts visions and images that unlike anything the reader has ever read in their lifetime and when they're finished, even if they didn't completely understand everything, they will know they've experienced something truly unique. As for Quitely, his art balances Morrissons writing for every frame of We3 is an attempt to play with the form of the comics medium and recreate scenes that could just as easily be drawn out plainly. Showing the angles of bullets approaching a soldier, or showing an X-ray of a truck that carries the programmers and coordinators of the animals Quitely never allows the pages of this book to bore the reader or allow them to become complacent.
This book tells a small story but a powerful one that left me emotionally devastated and restored by the end. We3 are live animals hooked up to more-or-less super suits which allow them enhanced abilities included a garbled speech. After a senator observes the facility and their behavior he orders the program to be shut down and the animals put down. their handler, devastated, frees them, and the animals spend the rest of the book fleeing the military trying to find their way "home."
This book is more or less Iron Man meets Homeward Bound and the reader will not be spared the emotional pain that comes as they watch these animals fight and suffer to get home. Perhaps it's because their animals, but reading this book there wasn't a page where I didn't start to tear up, and so in their suffering there forms a real identification. I cared about 1, 2, & 3, and seeing them find a new life was beautiful.
We3 is a chance to reflect about the role animals play in our society, what kinds of characters they form, and whether or not mankind has a responsibility to empathize with them and protect them against unnecessary suffering. This opportunity isn't some PETA inspired animal rights drivel, it's a real human call to consider another beings suffering, and the reader owes it to themselves to ask the question what are rights are animals afforded and do we turn a blind eye to the suffering of lesser beings simply because it's inconvenient?
This book tells a small story but a powerful one that left me emotionally devastated and restored by the end. We3 are live animals hooked up to more-or-less super suits which allow them enhanced abilities included a garbled speech. After a senator observes the facility and their behavior he orders the program to be shut down and the animals put down. their handler, devastated, frees them, and the animals spend the rest of the book fleeing the military trying to find their way "home."
This book is more or less Iron Man meets Homeward Bound and the reader will not be spared the emotional pain that comes as they watch these animals fight and suffer to get home. Perhaps it's because their animals, but reading this book there wasn't a page where I didn't start to tear up, and so in their suffering there forms a real identification. I cared about 1, 2, & 3, and seeing them find a new life was beautiful.
We3 is a chance to reflect about the role animals play in our society, what kinds of characters they form, and whether or not mankind has a responsibility to empathize with them and protect them against unnecessary suffering. This opportunity isn't some PETA inspired animal rights drivel, it's a real human call to consider another beings suffering, and the reader owes it to themselves to ask the question what are rights are animals afforded and do we turn a blind eye to the suffering of lesser beings simply because it's inconvenient?
Empathy is a word that, upon a moment's reflection really is more than that. Empathy is really just time given to other humans, other organisms. By giving something your time, and your consideration, you begin the task of really empathizing with another being. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely manage quite effectively to pack a real pathos in this book, so much so, by the end, I was actually crying.
This book is about three animals warped and tortured in a secret military program designed to spare human life that goes horribly array when the 3 escape. A dog, a cat, and a rabbit are pursued endlessly by the military just trying to survive, just trying to find their way home.
In many ways, this is yet another "weird" story by Grant Morrison, but it's also a real demonstration of Grant's love and passion for comics. He imparts so much love and cares into this story, and Frank Quitely's art is breathtaking on every page. Books like these are few but they're worth the reader's time because they remind us how easy it is harm to come to innocent creatures, and why comics can be an incredible medium for discussing corruption, vice, and the necessity of Empathy.
This book is about three animals warped and tortured in a secret military program designed to spare human life that goes horribly array when the 3 escape. A dog, a cat, and a rabbit are pursued endlessly by the military just trying to survive, just trying to find their way home.
In many ways, this is yet another "weird" story by Grant Morrison, but it's also a real demonstration of Grant's love and passion for comics. He imparts so much love and cares into this story, and Frank Quitely's art is breathtaking on every page. Books like these are few but they're worth the reader's time because they remind us how easy it is harm to come to innocent creatures, and why comics can be an incredible medium for discussing corruption, vice, and the necessity of Empathy.