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18:18 / 05.05.04

>> Triplets - Yes, Vince has eschewed traditional inking for We3 and is having his ultra-tight pencils scanned and cleaned up in Photoshop by a partner. I've seen the results and you'd never know it wasn't inked. Looks great.

Maybe this is why that panel looks slightly less Quitely than we're used to. I don't buy the idea is that it's just cause it's animals. Even the tech looks slightly less detailed or Quitely-ish. But just a tiny bit, I'm not griping.

18:44 / 05.05.04

the pic on a previous Wizard of a guy being shot by a gazillion bullets was genuine Quitely. it was on the SEA GUY thread or something.

22:15 / 05.05.04

He wasn't just shot though, he was shot in half.

22:21 / 05.05.04

Dogs are RUBBISH!

no no no.. you got that wrong

Dogs eat RUBBISH!

when you're not looking

23:13 / 05.05.04

NO! Can you ever imagine the roles of cat and dog being reversed in today's Fuzzy.
I think not.
Cats are evil. Cute, yes, but still evil.
Al the better to... have an ambivalent lead character to beat you with... Mr. Morrison...

23:36 / 05.05.04

I figure Bandit will die first, nobly yet pointlessly. Then Pirate will be revealed as a traitor, die, and leave Tinker to discover the horrible truth behind their existence. Thirsting for vengeance against the cosmos itself, Tinker inherits the mantle of the Spectre when Hal Jordan reclaims his ring.

Monthly series ensues, written by Micah Wright. Wright promises to apply to the character "all the experience and insight I gained in my own years as an omnipotent ghostly cat."

22:32 / 06.05.04

would I be wrong if I said WE3 and SEA GUY to be some kind of Morrison's creator-owned 'comics for kids'?

05:03 / 07.05.04

Only if you forget about that Wizard preview pic could We3 be considered comics for kids. You know, the one with the guy utterly blown to bits? It's lovely, but not terribly kid-friendly, and they are killing machines.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:52 / 07.05.04

How's about "grown up kids"...

11:17 / 07.05.04

The pic you guys are talking about wasn't in the Seaguy thread it was in the previous We3 thread.

23:59 / 07.05.04

I find your lack of picture... disturbing.

01:26 / 08.05.04

Kinda OT, but the hell with it, there's a cat.
This pearoast should make you feel better...

Where did that bullets pic go?

Cowboy Scientist

02:00 / 08.05.04

...training!

15:50 / 17.05.04

WE3 #1

Written by Grant Morrison, art and cover by Frank Quitely.

The Incredible Journey meets The Terminator in We3 -- a heartbreaking animal adventure like no other. The reunion of the team of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, WE3 is their most ambitious collaboration yet their own unique attempt to create a 'Western manga' in a wild adventure that readers of any age can enjoy.

They¹re the ultimate cyborg assassins; armed with missiles, poison gas, state-of-the-art computer technology and unbreakable exo-skeletons. The government has spent millions to fuse the firepower of a battalion with the nervous systems of a dog named Bandit, a cat named Tinker, and a rabbit named Pirate.

As part of a program to replace human soldiers with expendable animals, the U.S. government has transformed three ordinary pets into the ultimate killing machines. But now, those three animals have seized the chance to make a last, desperate run for 'Home.' A run that will turn into a breathless hunt to the death against the might of the entire military/industrial complex. Prepare for adrenaline rushes and flowing tears as the world's deadliest, most misunderstood animals make a spectacular, unforgettable bid for freedom.

40 pages, $2.95, in stores on Aug. 18.

Has anyone been watching that thing with the talking animals? Coogan and that.

Quitely does about 6 covers for DC/Vertigo this month.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

17:32 / 17.05.04

I sense that this book will induce weeping.

17:40 / 17.05.04

This should be amazing - but I have a feeling that Quietly's scanned/digitally inked pencils will look not quite as cool as his inked work. But we'll see....

19:33 / 17.05.04

Did you see his Riot at Xaviers arc?
Fuckin AWESOME

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

21:43 / 17.05.04

This is going to be the most beautiful thing ever created in this world. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely doing the Incredible Journey. With CYBORG ANIMALS. Words cannot express how amazing this book will be. August. Morrison. Quitely. Be there.

22:16 / 17.05.04

Ooh, I dunno. Doesn't look very FQ, but why do we need more of the cool clean stuff when we have Flex and NXM. Let him breathe. That doggy photo looks great. A little like Scienkiewicz without all the noise.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

22:32 / 17.05.04

I imagine that pics like that so it looks more like a photo... softly coloured direct from pencils, right?

Dunno what the rest will look like, but this really sounds quite nice.

23:16 / 17.05.04

I think he might be doing different types of inking. The lab picture looks like it's been inked to give the scene a harder, sciency, uncomfortable feeling.

Remember, Grant said he'd be doing new visual stuff for this comic. Whatever that means but a few pages probably doesn't begin to show off what Frank's been doing.

23:58 / 17.05.04

The comic is just straight pencil, scanned and cleaned up in Photoshop. As I've said before, I've seen the pages and they look great, you really can't tell that it's not inked. And since no inker has ever really been able to do justice to Frank's pencils, this really is the best scenario.

The cover looks like his painted work, with possibly a bit of Photoshop effects work (the reflection of the furniture on the hardwood floor, the blur of the dog's tail). If he managed to pull that off with paint alone I'll be seriously impressed.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

01:45 / 18.05.04

I've seen paintings like that, and where paint is used to achieve all sorts of 3d looking effects (like a painted blob of paint resting on a painting, reflected around or on a mirror or something) and it never fails to annoy me terribly! I can never come close to working out how people do it... still, if you can do it, why not, eh? I mean, you'd be a terrible show off, probably laughing in a mean way at the rest of us behind our backs, but whatever. Bastards.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

18:25 / 18.05.04

I love "that all ages can enjoy" right over the "Mature Readers" tag. Top drawer, Vert!

Anyway. Looks fantastic. And yeah, Quite's doing like a zillion covers. Although, since I just made my way through the solits, his Books Of Magic Cover shows up twice and there's a James Jean image where a supposed Quitely Fables cover ought to be.

But still. That BOM cover looks so sweet. I love his posture work.

20:00 / 25.05.04

Check out the previews:
Looks like the chicken sentinel's are back! Well sort of...actually they are mice

Linkero

20:19 / 25.05.04

Looks AWESOME. And verrrry creepy.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

20:35 / 25.05.04

Noticed: in those pages you never see a whole human face in close up - s'always cropped. Nice effect, I think.

Poor dog. Text speak!

00:01 / 26.05.04

OOh, looks horrible. Poor dog.
I think Grant may have been out-manouevred by 'I am not an animal' a little meta-thematically, tho'.

00:21 / 26.05.04

I like how in the last page, the military general's body obscures some of the letters in "Animal Weapons 3" on the floor, leaving only "We3" visible. Nice touch.

Looking at FQ artwork simultaneously makes me excited and inspired, and completely humbled and insecure.

00:30 / 26.05.04

Wow, talk about your conflicting emotional responses there, eh Cam...? LOL...

Funnily enough I totally get that; art by FQ completely knocks me on my ass, but I don't think it is ever up to its full potential unless accompanied by Morrison dialogue. Hard to imagine any two creators better matched... Tho honestly Seaguy drives a hard bargain (but I digress... hee hee).

Fever-pitch anticipation on this one, x 1000000.

07:36 / 26.05.04

aaaaargh!

this looks fucking amazing. with this and seaguy, comics get cool again, and thanks to all involved.

so we've got a finished three page preview but it'sstill not out til august? that's too long!

11:34 / 26.05.04

'art by FQ completely knocks me on my ass, but I don't think it is ever up to its full potential unless accompanied by Morrison dialogue. Hard to imagine any two creators better matched'

you mean to say you've never read batman: the scottish connection? it's amazing. batman goes to scotland where he comes face-to-face with mel gibson, rob roy, bonnie prince charlie, sean connery, gordon brown, ewan mcgregor, oor wullie, nessie, robert carlyle, yawn, duncan, ganesh, grant morrison, mark millar, mike mcmahon, cam kennedy, irvine welsh, alex trocchi, middenface mcnulty, the mirror master, supergran, donald troosers, some shortbread and my dear old nana.

can't remember the name of the guy who wrote it, but as you can tell from the above synopsis, he's a fucking genius!

16:53 / 26.05.04

It was Alan Grant, wasn't it?

17:47 / 26.05.04

Everytime I flip through thae last issue of The Invisibles, I imagine how amazing it would have been if FQ drew the entire series.

OF course, then I realize the series would still be in progress ...

The Natural Way

23:31 / 26.05.04

Oh, fucking maaaaaaaaaaan! This is going to fuck me up. That fucking missing dog poster! Shit! And I don't normally get sentimental about animals.

Between Seaguy and this I'm a very happy Enjoy Yr Own Marriage.

I remember Morrison mentioning that he never got the top artists....

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