We3

CRYING ALL THE TEARS.

This is just the saddest-happiest thing ever. I already knew the dog lived before I started (I made my boyfriend read it before me because I refuse to read anything in which a dog dies because it is JUST TOO SAD) but that didn't make it any less heartbreaking. Favourite thing about it was the balance of the characters - the humans weren't caricature bad guys, the animals did some pretty scary shit. I just... I loved this. The art is absolutely gorgeous as well, if a little graphic in parts (in particular, the second issue has some panels that made me feel a little nauseous). The cat was pretty excellent, thought it seemed quite true to what I imagine cats to think (I don't like cats much generally). And the poor show more bunny seemed to have everything bad happen to it.

Well worth a look if you like intelligent comics. Is gud comic. show less

A superbly upsetting and yet oddly heartwarming tale of three experimented-on house pets turned killing machines. Infinitely creepy and horrid but somehow deeply touching. You have to have a strong stomach both for visual violence and (perhaps more importantly) brutal pyschological concepts to read this, but if you can handle it, I'd warmly recommend it being worth the journey.

I read this and it made me bawl and then I waited a decade and it made me bawl again. My son is two, and in that sense is waaaay too much like a talking animal for this not to shock and sicken afresh, and reinscribe the vegetarianism I've found again since he was born (and make me so happy he doesn't eat amials but also to worry about how it's gonna be for him when he finds out his grandpa does and the cute kitten downstairs and what's wrong with those fish in the monger's window). In that sense my reaction to this is probably on the soppy saddo side of the spectrum, but I just--they're a cat and a dog and a rabbit who have been made into killing machines with limited language skills due to brainial implants, right, and it's like an show more ultraloyal, ultraviolent Incredible Journey or Milo and Otis, and of course the government sends out a monster made of a bull mastiff to destroy them, and I think of it crunching the rabbit's superhelmet and skull and the rabbit going fix--tt- fi- *k, and how much like Emmett that is when he falls and scrapes his knee and sees it and wails "FIX! FIIIIIIIIIX!" and, ah, we're all just scared animals and it doesn't bear thinking about too much. Just eschew flesh, calm the jitters, and maybe read this again in a decade or so--it's too prettily coloured a comic book for me to want to have it in the house with a toddler, given the way Quitely turns everything that crosses his pen into mangled meat inside, but when he's 12 maybe I'll give him this one and check in with him after. show less

Well, hello soul-crushing [a:Grant Morrison|12732|Grant Morrison|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1311378308p2/12732.jpg]. We meet again.

[b:We3|22358|We3|Grant Morrison|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1336056522s/22358.jpg|23384] is a bit reminiscent of [b:The Plague Dogs|12442|The Plague Dogs|Richard Adams|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320416497s/12442.jpg|826957]. 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 show more returned. This comic is like that, only a million times worse. I wanted to hug 1 so very badly.

Three animals, for some reason stolen from families, have been militarized and given these strange suits of armor. The problem is, beyond the fact the animals have been turned into war machines, they're only prototypes. They're going to be decomissioned. So now we have adorable household pets that are in mecha suits and going to be murdered. Did I mention that they talk? And that the dog just wants to be a "gud dog". Yeah, it's soul-crushing.

Aside from the themes of animal cruelty, the pointlessness of war, and political corruption... aside from the obligatory moment where "Run, rabbit, run" is thrown in... aside from all that... well, it's [a:Grant Morrison|12732|Grant Morrison|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1311378308p2/12732.jpg]. The artwork is stunning, the comic traumatic, and the ending enough to bring tears to one's eyes.

Don't read it in front of others, unless you're in an especially dusty environment so you have an excuse for sniffling. show less

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 is more complicated to explain than it is to see but the effect is fascinating. Using the backdrop of a simple chase story, Morrison, through his use of alternating time perspectives, orbits certain signifiers of meaning (e.g. "home," "gud") and show more calls them into question.

I could go on. There were quite a few ideas packed into this little story both visual and intellectual which stemmed from a fundamental meditation/reinvention of several signifiers (war/peace, animal/human, time, identity, ownership).

I definitely recommend this book, especially if you like your cool factor violence mixed with postmodernism. show less

Maybe the only comic I've ever read that could be described as both "gruesome" and "heartbreaking". (Those cover designs D: ) Morrison and Quitely collapse years of science-run-amok and lost-animal narratives into 3 tight, almost merciless issues. You'll enjoy it but you'll need to hug your pet afterwards.

So... yeah. Let me premise why I picked this up in the first place, shall I? Somehow we got on the topic at work about animal cruelty. I don't remember how, to be completely honest. What I did remember, was that my comic loving co-worker mentioned that Grant Morrison had done a very brutal comic all about that topic. He warned me that it was sad, dark, and violent. Of course, being a curious person, I had to go and find out what he was talking about.

He was right.

This is a story about a secret project that turns common household pets into murderous, rampaging mech-monsters. From the very beginning, I knew that this book was going to hit me hard. If you have difficulty dealing with animal cruelty? Stay away from this book. It's bloody. show more It's violent. It's so, so very sad. I found myself completely wrapped up in the story of these three pets, of We3 and their devastatingly bleak existence. I wanted to stop reading, but I kept reading and hoping that the ending would work out for the best.

Whew. Anyone who says that comics can't be used to tell important stories, is dead wrong. What better way to make a point than to illustrate it in broad, vivid art? show less