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We3
Writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely deliver the emotional journey of WE3 - three house pets weaponized for lethal combat by the government - as they search for "home" and ward off the shadowy agency that created them.
With nervous systems amplified to match their terrifying mechanical exoskeletons, the members of Animal Weapon 3 (WE3) have the firepower of a batt...more
With nervous systems amplified to match their terrifying mechanical exoskeletons, the members of Animal Weapon 3 (WE3) have the firepower of a batt...more
Paperback, 104 pages
Published
July 1st 2005
by Vertigo
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So if you’re like me, friends, you read Pride of Baghdad and immediately were all, “My GOD this is AMAZING! I must find something similar to fill the void that finishing this novel has left in my life!”
But then, you thought about it, and decided you wanted your next book to be a little more The Incredible Journey-ish, with a group of brave animals overcoming difficulties in their quest to get home.
But even that wouldn’t be good enough, and you dream of also finding a book that incorporates theme...more
But then, you thought about it, and decided you wanted your next book to be a little more The Incredible Journey-ish, with a group of brave animals overcoming difficulties in their quest to get home.
But even that wouldn’t be good enough, and you dream of also finding a book that incorporates theme...more
We3 answers the long-asked question "Can a half-dog/half-robot assassin make me cry?"
The answer is yes.
Rescued or stolen from who knows where, a dog, a cat, and a pet rabbit are part of a secret government project and have literally been turned into killing machines. They are exceedingly good at it. What happens when they start to have doubts? What happens when they escape?
Jam-packed with action, ultra-violence, and a hell of a lot of heart, this may be the best pro-animal and anti-WMD book I'...more
The answer is yes.
Rescued or stolen from who knows where, a dog, a cat, and a pet rabbit are part of a secret government project and have literally been turned into killing machines. They are exceedingly good at it. What happens when they start to have doubts? What happens when they escape?
Jam-packed with action, ultra-violence, and a hell of a lot of heart, this may be the best pro-animal and anti-WMD book I'...more
I’ve lost a pet recently, a tawny tabby named Tiger who liked to roll over to have his belly rubbed. As eager he is to play, he hunted with feral ferocity; roaches die with a quick swipe of his paw and he once caught a cobra with nothing but fangs and speed. He disappeared a few days before the wind and rain from Typhoon Sendong came to trash my city; and in the aftermath, his survival was no longer certain. That would be one explanation why my eyes got misty as I was reading the last few pages...more
This book is so many levels of great.
I find that with literally every comic book I read-- especially ones published by big names such as Vertigo-- there is some aspect to the plot, the illustrations, or the characters that I find offensive. In order to continue enjoying comic books, I've had to swallow my moralism and keep on plugging for the sake of sequential art... but luckily enough We3 was a refreshing break from that. The humans were racially diverse, women weren't drawn to be titillating,...more
I find that with literally every comic book I read-- especially ones published by big names such as Vertigo-- there is some aspect to the plot, the illustrations, or the characters that I find offensive. In order to continue enjoying comic books, I've had to swallow my moralism and keep on plugging for the sake of sequential art... but luckily enough We3 was a refreshing break from that. The humans were racially diverse, women weren't drawn to be titillating,...more
Nov 22, 2010
Joel
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
cat lovers
Recommended to Joel by:
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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...more
*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...more
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If the cover of this book can't sell you then I'd rather not hang out with you. You have a dog, a cat and a rabbit looking ultra serious while decked out in some kind of mech suits.
The story was intriguing and jumps into a fairly fresh realm of sci-fi. Why kill people when animals can do it? There is a lot room to discuss humanity's relationship with the animal world.
The dialog given to our animal protagonists is infuriating. The author makes a bold choice to not make them lucid cognizant bein...more
The story was intriguing and jumps into a fairly fresh realm of sci-fi. Why kill people when animals can do it? There is a lot room to discuss humanity's relationship with the animal world.
The dialog given to our animal protagonists is infuriating. The author makes a bold choice to not make them lucid cognizant bein...more
A more violent version of "The Incredible Journey". A dog, a cat, and a rabbit have been weaponized by the government and work as a team of cyborg assassins. When their program gets decommissioned (they are to be destroyed), they escape and go in search of "home".
Morrison and Quitely do some pretty amazing things with the art and panel layouts. The first scene is gorgeous, introducing us to the animals with obstructed shots and silhouette views of their sad, warped bodies. When a target is shred...more
Morrison and Quitely do some pretty amazing things with the art and panel layouts. The first scene is gorgeous, introducing us to the animals with obstructed shots and silhouette views of their sad, warped bodies. When a target is shred...more
the incredible journey
crossed with robocop. man, this is one of my favorite comics, but i've refused to buy or re-read it because it seriously bummed me out so much. it's pretty predictable and way emotionally manipulative, but heck, sometimes you just want to cry over a soppy animal story. with cyborg machine guns.
i usually don't like frank quitely's art much, but he's a lot more palatable when he's drawing animals instead of humans, and his layouts are incredible. (also, for a long time i mi...more
i usually don't like frank quitely's art much, but he's a lot more palatable when he's drawing animals instead of humans, and his layouts are incredible. (also, for a long time i mi...more
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"the cover pretty much says it all, and it is bad arse all the way!"
i have always had a weird soft spot for animals (who doesn't) but especially super powered ones, whether they be teenage mutant ninjas or sword wielding rodentia. the cover really sold me and the whole comic was awesome with premise, story telling, and art, eac complementing each other perfectly. the biggest con i can think of is that this is such a short read! i hope that morrison (or someone) comes back to the drawing board wi...more
i have always had a weird soft spot for animals (who doesn't) but especially super powered ones, whether they be teenage mutant ninjas or sword wielding rodentia. the cover really sold me and the whole comic was awesome with premise, story telling, and art, eac complementing each other perfectly. the biggest con i can think of is that this is such a short read! i hope that morrison (or someone) comes back to the drawing board wi...more
"Emotive and beautiful, a rarity amongst comics"
Don't take this book at title value : whilst there is a strong sexual content in Alan Bennett's wryly observant "Smut", the keyhole on the front cover should suggest to you that what goes on behind locked doors, tasteless it is not; it is also not, as Bennett would have us understand, beyond the ordinary.
In his first story, Bennett takes us back to his Talking Heads best, and if you haven't already read Talking Heads then I suggest you do so, or at...more
Don't take this book at title value : whilst there is a strong sexual content in Alan Bennett's wryly observant "Smut", the keyhole on the front cover should suggest to you that what goes on behind locked doors, tasteless it is not; it is also not, as Bennett would have us understand, beyond the ordinary.
In his first story, Bennett takes us back to his Talking Heads best, and if you haven't already read Talking Heads then I suggest you do so, or at...more
I happened to be in the library a day after this got randomly recommended to me, so on a whim I decided to see if they carried it. Surprisingly they did, which is a coincidence perhaps stranger than the strange timing of my library visit in the first place, at least in relation to the recommendation (I usually only go every couple months or so). So I took it out, going to check it out, but seeing how thin it was I decided to read it right there, and it was worth it.
I have to admit that when I ch...more
I have to admit that when I ch...more
Morrison. Quitely. The best and the best. Enough said.
If I retract one star, it's only out of sheer, deluxe-edition walletschmertz: $25 for what is really just 3 comic books bound together.* When I was a young'un, we called that a Marvel 3-Pack. We paid 50 cents just to peel back the wrapper & find out what the middle comic was!** Now they charge fifty times that? Kids today, they just don't know. I searched high and low for the merely-expensive trade paperback compilation of We3 but it was...more
If I retract one star, it's only out of sheer, deluxe-edition walletschmertz: $25 for what is really just 3 comic books bound together.* When I was a young'un, we called that a Marvel 3-Pack. We paid 50 cents just to peel back the wrapper & find out what the middle comic was!** Now they charge fifty times that? Kids today, they just don't know. I searched high and low for the merely-expensive trade paperback compilation of We3 but it was...more
Synopsis: "WE3 tells the unforgettable story of three innocent pets -- a dog, a cat and a rabbit -- who have been converted into deadly cyborgs by a sinister military weapons program. With nervous systems amplified to match their terrifying mechanical exoskeletons, the members of Animal Weapon 3 have the firepower of a battalion between them. But they are just the programs prototypes and, now that their testing is complete, they're slated to be permanently decommissioned" until they seize their...more
Action-packed. Fast-paced. Suspenseful; Violent. Gritty.
A tale of government experimentation with enhanced soldiers and cybernetics but utilizing animals as the soldiers in order to save human lives. The three expirements of the title are scheduled to be destroyed and the female scientist sets them free. Many action-packed and violent pages later, many humans are dead and a couple of the experiments have found a new life. A fun, fast story.
Recommended for Sweet Tooth, Vol. 1: Out of the Deep Woo...more
A tale of government experimentation with enhanced soldiers and cybernetics but utilizing animals as the soldiers in order to save human lives. The three expirements of the title are scheduled to be destroyed and the female scientist sets them free. Many action-packed and violent pages later, many humans are dead and a couple of the experiments have found a new life. A fun, fast story.
Recommended for Sweet Tooth, Vol. 1: Out of the Deep Woo...more
Well, hello soul-crushing Grant Morrison. We meet again.
We3 is a bit reminiscent of The Plague Dogs. It's also a bit reminiscent of those horribly depressing signs you see now and again posted on telephone poles.
"Have you seen Flopsy?" The sign reads, written in crayon, with a stick figure of an animal attached. "He's friendly and nice and loves people." But then there's no phone number attached. Or there is, but the sign is so vague that any animal could be returned. This comic is like that, o...more
We3 is a bit reminiscent of The Plague Dogs. It's also a bit reminiscent of those horribly depressing signs you see now and again posted on telephone poles.
"Have you seen Flopsy?" The sign reads, written in crayon, with a stick figure of an animal attached. "He's friendly and nice and loves people." But then there's no phone number attached. Or there is, but the sign is so vague that any animal could be returned. This comic is like that, o...more
Dogs are man's best friends but pets in general seem to be constant companions of us humans, whether it be those tail wagging canines or those clever felines who just seem to know things or those fluffy rabbits. But just how much do we respect these animals that have become our loyal sidekicks? What kind of rights do we give to these “lesser” species?
According to “We3”, not much.
The story follows a group of prototype animal weapons: a dog, Bandit, a.k.a. "1"; a cat, Tinker, a.k.a. "2"; and a ra...more
According to “We3”, not much.
The story follows a group of prototype animal weapons: a dog, Bandit, a.k.a. "1"; a cat, Tinker, a.k.a. "2"; and a ra...more
WE3 refers to three genetically and robotically super enhanced animals who were created by the US government in an attempt to replace soldiers on the battlefield. When the research program is closed down and the animals discover that they are do to be 'decommissioned' (read: killed), they escape the facility in which they were created and suddenly a team of scientists are now faced with either capturing or killing a dog, bunny and slightly psychotic cat who are armed up the wazoo with the latest...more
This was a very good graphic novel. The characters were all engaging on an emotional level and the writing was clever and balanced, bringing a sense of tragedy in a story about furry animals without ever veering into schmaltzy storytelling.
One of the most interesting aspects of the novel is how Grant Morrison plays with time and space within the graphic layout. Most scenes are told from an animal's perspective so not only do we get tight human mouths and crotches but time itself is altered. It i...more
One of the most interesting aspects of the novel is how Grant Morrison plays with time and space within the graphic layout. Most scenes are told from an animal's perspective so not only do we get tight human mouths and crotches but time itself is altered. It i...more
Although I own the three issue mini-series and the TPB (to read whenever I do not want to go hunting for the issues) I picked up the Hardcover as well since it contained extra pages not originally included. The pages are not essential to the message nor do they alone warrant buying this version but if you do not already own a version then by all means pick it up.
I see some people are questioning the Washington Post calling this realistic but if you watch History channel you will find that our co...more
I see some people are questioning the Washington Post calling this realistic but if you watch History channel you will find that our co...more
A perfectly good way to spend a lunch hour. Maybe a little more violent than most lunch hours, but, what the hell, you probably didn't need to eat all of that anyway.
I agree that We3 is a well made, disturbing piece of graphic art. And I think, in some ways, what I like about it most is the form. A lot of comics go on endlessly; even most graphic novels are at least a few hundred pages long. We3 tells a story that only spans a few real comics, but doesn't extend itself longer than it has to. I a...more
I agree that We3 is a well made, disturbing piece of graphic art. And I think, in some ways, what I like about it most is the form. A lot of comics go on endlessly; even most graphic novels are at least a few hundred pages long. We3 tells a story that only spans a few real comics, but doesn't extend itself longer than it has to. I a...more
I've read this before and was hoping it would be released as a hardback. And here it is, and amazing deluxe edition a little larger than life and with some cool script/art/creation process stuff in the back. This really is an amazingly done graphic novel. Its pretty breathtaking on all fronts. The art is amazingly detailed while the arrangement and organization add an art house film quality to the whole visual effect of the book. Amazing work by Frank Quitley. The story is probably one of my all...more
I would highly recommend this comic, but first let me give you a little background about myself.
So Tim (my boyfriend) gave me this to read the other day. He is an avid comic reader, Grant Morrison is his favorite comic writer and he said this is maybe his favorite comic ever.
Now I had never really read any comics before Tim and I got together, a few graphic novels, but that's about it. The few I had ever picked up never really inspired me to read more and I certainly never connected with any of...more
So Tim (my boyfriend) gave me this to read the other day. He is an avid comic reader, Grant Morrison is his favorite comic writer and he said this is maybe his favorite comic ever.
Now I had never really read any comics before Tim and I got together, a few graphic novels, but that's about it. The few I had ever picked up never really inspired me to read more and I certainly never connected with any of...more
L'un des fantasmes de l'Homme, l'un de ses rêves les plus fous: pouvoir continuer à se battre tout en faisant le moins de victimes possible — un peu comme des enfants jouant avec des soldats de plomb. Il n'y a qu'à voir tous les efforts déployés pour mener une guerre "propre", les frappes chirurgicales, les drones et bientôt les robots qui envahiront les champs de bataille. C'est le point de départ de cette histoire de Grant Morrison. Il imagine un concept novateur — bien que j'ai déjà entendu p...more
If you’ve ever talked with me about Frank Quitely’s art, you’ll know that I’m not a fan. And I suppose this should be qualified somewhat because in some ways the man does some ridiculously enviable work.
WE3 actually exhibits pretty well where Quitely’s weaknesses and strengths lie. His human figures are lumpy, over-saturated bags whose movement is articulated by some awkward skeletal foundation. And yet his page design is sometimes superlative. His faces are alien renderings, where eyes float ap...more
WE3 actually exhibits pretty well where Quitely’s weaknesses and strengths lie. His human figures are lumpy, over-saturated bags whose movement is articulated by some awkward skeletal foundation. And yet his page design is sometimes superlative. His faces are alien renderings, where eyes float ap...more
When you see a cover that features a cat, a dog, and a rabbit in some kind of weapon filled armor and the quote "Realistic and relevant." - The Washington Post attached to it how can you not read what's inside?
Having read the book I can say that the word "realistic" didn't cross my mind while reading this, but I can say that I was completely blown away! The way this story is told is brilliant! There is barely any dialogue in the whole story and most of the dialogue that is there is in the animal...more
Having read the book I can say that the word "realistic" didn't cross my mind while reading this, but I can say that I was completely blown away! The way this story is told is brilliant! There is barely any dialogue in the whole story and most of the dialogue that is there is in the animal...more
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Grant Morrison is part of that club of twisted geniuses that came from Britain to rule the comic book world in the 1980's, along with Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Warren Ellis and others. We 3 is a hallucinogenic mash-up of The Incredible Journey and The Plague Dogs, but with the sensibility of Watership Down. Three animal strays become pawns is a bio-weaponry experiment that, of course, goes terribly wrong. The animals, a dog, a cat, and a rabbit, equipped with explosives, battle armor, and the abi...more
A dog, a cat, and a rabbit are made into killing machines by a secret government project whose ultimate aim is to replace human soldiers on the battlefield with bioengineered animals. After We3 assassinate the last "tinpot dictator" on the government's hit list, they are scheduled to be decommissioned (put down). The scientist who worked with them sets them free. The animals, who've gained a capacity to communicate on a primitive mechanistic level and a bond and willingness to protect one anothe...more
This is my partner's comic, and I hummed and haahed about reading it for a while because my partner and I have different tastes in literature. But I flicked through it a couple of times, and although at first it confused me, as I got to reading it I realised it's actually very good- and, in some ways, scarily real.
The animals on this cover remind me of Easter eggs. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
The comic is incredibly touching and heart-wrenching. Yes, there are lots of explosions and bl...more
The animals on this cover remind me of Easter eggs. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
The comic is incredibly touching and heart-wrenching. Yes, there are lots of explosions and bl...more
A very quick read (under an hour) but an entertainingly gory romp! The artwork is superb - richly detailed and nicely coloured - while the dialogue is kept to a minimum.
The only thing about this book I wasn't so happy with is that I didn't really develop any particular affection for the three cyborgs. I've always lived in the company of pet cats and dogs and I oppose vivisection, so the idea that animals (especially former pets) could be turned into a kind of war machine is a dreadful concept. Y...more
The only thing about this book I wasn't so happy with is that I didn't really develop any particular affection for the three cyborgs. I've always lived in the company of pet cats and dogs and I oppose vivisection, so the idea that animals (especially former pets) could be turned into a kind of war machine is a dreadful concept. Y...more
We3 is a bit of a sadistic tear-jerker, but it's very good. The basic notion is an Incredible Journey-sorta thing turned on its head, where three bioengineered/weaponized animals, beginning life as domestic pets, stage a bloody escape on the eve of their decommissioning to somehow find home. The violence is significant but artfully done, and the animals and people rich and sympathetic enough to carry their respective parts of the story.
The three (minor) items which detract from the experience w...more
The three (minor) items which detract from the experience w...more
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Scottish comic book author Grant Morrison is known for culture-jamming and the constant reinvention of his work. His often controversial books also rate amongst some of the most popular and critically-acclaimed. He is also active in screenwriting.
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