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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
This is a graphic story of three animals in a covert goverment operation, that have become killing machines. They also talk, a little. It becomes a story about compassion, war, and how basically humans can't help but fuck everything up. It was also very, very gory. When I look at a gruesome scene I think to myself, is this necessary to get the point across? And here, just maybe, it was. When something looks so horrific, you pay attention. Anyway in other words, there is a cute bunny and all, but it's not for kids. The juxtaposition is obvious and still very powerful.
Frank Quitely is about the best ever. This is worth reading for the art alone. It's spectactular.
Frank Quitely is about the best ever. This is worth reading for the art alone. It's spectactular.
Loveable characters:
Yes
This might sound like damning with faint praise (which is totally not my intention) but this book is exactly the right length. Also significantly more tragic than I was expecting.
I really liked We3 but I wish it was longer. In some sections it felt rushed, partly I imagine because the language used by the main characters was so idiosyncratic. For a one-shot story though it was very good and far more disturbing and graphic than I had anticipated.
Creepily touching story with some brilliant graphics.
This is a beautiful book that is nevertheless hard for me to recommend unless I am really, comfortably sure that you'll enjoy it; it's a book about a weaponized cat, dog, and rabbit, for starters, and to top things off it has each of its creators' intrinsic strangeness: Morrison and his fascination with unorthodox narrative structures and information delivery, Quitely with his tremulous line work that gives everything a sort of gelatinous feel - unless, of course, he's drawing something ghastly, in which case its terror comes through unimpeded. This is a book where the protagonists and antagonists alike commit acts of grotesque violence depicted in spectacular red and pink detail. The difference is that the protagonists don't like the fact that they are violent, and the antagonists have a quiet certainty that yes, what they're doing is wrong, but absolutely necessary.
So with that all in mind, I think that yes, this book is an effective work of art, and I think it's also worth mentioning that it pushes boundaries with the layout of paneling that I've never seen done anywhere else. These experiments never took me out of the story, made me slow down and appreciate the craft of the artists, and made me consider the way time was being related in this two-dimensional medium. Did I enjoy it? I found myself emotionally affected in all the ways I suspect the creators wanted me to be affected and I enjoy that communal aspect of comics. But I will say that the emotional resonance of the book seems a bit straightforward: war is bad, and we'd probably protest a whole lot more if we made animals go fight us or each other than we do under the current status quo. There're some interesting parts to that notion but I'm not sure they're actually explored here. It's a short comic and a lot of the emotional impact comes from the gut-feeling that it's wrong to be seeing these animals in combat. I suspect part of that is the creators wanting to leave it to do the heavy work untangling why we feel the way we do about these issues. Nevertheless the fact is that there are a whole lot of works of art - in comics, in prose, in film - that deal with violence in theaters of war and I'm not certain how effective it is to assume that readers of a book with this premise wouldn't have already done a lot of that thinking.
Effective, sharp and intelligent, masterfully portrayed on the page, but I'd still only recommend with reservations.
So with that all in mind, I think that yes, this book is an effective work of art, and I think it's also worth mentioning that it pushes boundaries with the layout of paneling that I've never seen done anywhere else. These experiments never took me out of the story, made me slow down and appreciate the craft of the artists, and made me consider the way time was being related in this two-dimensional medium. Did I enjoy it? I found myself emotionally affected in all the ways I suspect the creators wanted me to be affected and I enjoy that communal aspect of comics. But I will say that the emotional resonance of the book seems a bit straightforward: war is bad, and we'd probably protest a whole lot more if we made animals go fight us or each other than we do under the current status quo. There're some interesting parts to that notion but I'm not sure they're actually explored here. It's a short comic and a lot of the emotional impact comes from the gut-feeling that it's wrong to be seeing these animals in combat. I suspect part of that is the creators wanting to leave it to do the heavy work untangling why we feel the way we do about these issues. Nevertheless the fact is that there are a whole lot of works of art - in comics, in prose, in film - that deal with violence in theaters of war and I'm not certain how effective it is to assume that readers of a book with this premise wouldn't have already done a lot of that thinking.
Effective, sharp and intelligent, masterfully portrayed on the page, but I'd still only recommend with reservations.
Jeg ved ikke helt. Idéen var fin, og det var tegningerne også, men den rammer ikke lige mig.
I'm not sure why this book is so highly rated, truth be told. The story is old hat and something that could easily be found in a B-movie: man's experiments running wild and quasi-government goons getting killed in an attempt to reign them in.
The story-telling leaves quite a bit to be desired with its lack of character development or even basic character exposition.
What with the main characters being animals, the overall style is to let the visuals tell the story. But unfortunately the art is pretty bad. The mech suits are clunky, the page layouts can be a bit overwhelming (there was a two-page spread that must have had a dozen and a half mini-panels), and the textures of exploding humans look kind of wrong (it's like people are full of red marbles and tomato sauce).
Overall, if you like mechanimals, give it a look. Otherwise, avoid this one.
The story-telling leaves quite a bit to be desired with its lack of character development or even basic character exposition.
What with the main characters being animals, the overall style is to let the visuals tell the story. But unfortunately the art is pretty bad. The mech suits are clunky, the page layouts can be a bit overwhelming (there was a two-page spread that must have had a dozen and a half mini-panels), and the textures of exploding humans look kind of wrong (it's like people are full of red marbles and tomato sauce).
Overall, if you like mechanimals, give it a look. Otherwise, avoid this one.
First off, Bunny, never read this book.
That said, this is beautiful art for a violent, heartbreaking story. This was recommended to me by someone who calls me his Home, and I know he was making a point of how hard we are willing to fight to find Home, even before we know what Home means.
That said, this is beautiful art for a violent, heartbreaking story. This was recommended to me by someone who calls me his Home, and I know he was making a point of how hard we are willing to fight to find Home, even before we know what Home means.