We3! [Spoilers, I guess]

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OMG, THE ART. I can take or leave what I've seen of Frank Quitely, but he brought the noise on this. Those splash pages are ridiculous.

Other than that, it's just setup, but it's a pretty cool setup. The government guy's character and dialogue was a bit weird, but I love the "animal thoughts turned into speech" angle as opposed to, you know, The Lady & the Tramp school of talking animals.

Any Wednesday with a new Grant Morrison comic has a good chance of being a fine Wednesday.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 August 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Grant's take on 'Incredible Journey' is pretty much only saved by the art in #1 (you know it's a stinker when your comic shop tells you not to pick it up), but has possibilities. Are 3 issues enough to recover, however, when the first one does... nothing?

The first splash page (when the guy gets assassinated) is astonishing though. It took me a couple of looks to work out what was going on.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

My comic shop told me to pick it up instantly with all speed. What kind of thing do your lot recommend to you?

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 27 August 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I went into my shop yesterday - no copies of We3 to be found. Sweet crap.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

What kind of thing do your lot recommend to you?

The sort of thing that ends up cancelled after a couple of issues. c.f. Mary Jane

I'm being a little harsh, what Mike actually said was "You might want to read that before you buy it. I can wait, it won't take you long. There's not a lot to it, is there." The art makes it worth it though, and he'd forgotten I was practically the only person he knew that had made it to the end of The Truth because Kyle Baker was drawing it.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 28 August 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I always found that kind of sad - the negative reaction against 'cartoony' art... it means a lot of really great artists are seen as secondary to Alex 'I got the guy down the hall to dress as Galactus' Ross.

I'm not sure I agree with your comic dealer but it's his business, I guess.

― Vic Fluro, Saturday, 28 August 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with Vic there - the number of conversations I've had with people who can't believe I think Ditko is a vastly, incomparably better comic artist than Todd McFarlane (actual real more than once example), and it seems to come down to the number of lines McFarlane uses, as if that is some kind of sane criteria.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

People are stupid and insensible non-shocker.

Most comics fans don't appreciate art. They appreciate over-rendering.

Gah.

On the We3 tip, I loved it. Of course, I know it's gonna kill me in the end, because it's an animal story and animal stories are always sad, sad, sad.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sad, sad, sad".........One of my friends cried after reading the first issue...I think the poignancy of the last page was too much for him.

― David N (David N.), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I realised what the art during the breakout reminds me of: Windsor McCay.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.newsarama.com/pages/DC/We3.htm

Good Grant interview, I'm looking forward to the next issue.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I was impressed with this, having finally picked it up. It looks fabulous, and the story set-up is intriguing. It does seem slight for a third of a story, but I really like it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 4 September 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I read it and really liked it. It was cute. For some reason, I thought the animals would unplug their heads and ditch the robo-outfits (I was hoping for a "We3 are free, tra la la la"), but it's interesting to see them galivanting off into the woods at the end of the first issue.

I had a hard time with the way that the talk, though, and had to re-read their dialogue over and over again. The fact that they can talk alpha-numerically was weird. "2. Come." instead of "Two. Come."

[Psst, I vaguely resent that the dog is the "boss" instead of the cat. But, then, I'm a cat person...]

I can't wait to see where the story's going to go...

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The dog's not the boss of the cat, or else she'd have gone with them.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, it was that the rabbit or cat called the dog "boss" at one point.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I JUST READ ISSUES #1 AND #2 AND THEY WERE GOOD

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 31 October 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(Also the dog is the leader, it's stated pretty explicitly from what I can tell.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 31 October 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i liked it, it was well constructed and cleverly written, but a scooch too cute, and not weird enough

― anthony, Sunday, 31 October 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

Boo hoo, just got and read #2 this past weekend. This isn't going to be happily ever after, I can tell... I almost don't want to get #3.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked when the dog rescued the guy from the train crash. "Good dog"

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The old, ah-he's-got-no-LEGS! trick, works every time

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

I just read the trade. God, what a tear-inducing comic (in a good way). The rabbit. The good doctor. The We3 bond of each animal looking out for the other. The dog berating his own actions with "Bad dog". Haven't liked any other Quitely until this (his people look gravity-compressed to me), but this is a classic. Favorite Morrison work I've read, as well.

I must go blubber now.

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

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