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We3: The Deluxe Edition
by Grant Morrison
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?