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We3 #3

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constant reader

12:56 / 30.11.04

13:35 / 30.11.04

Crikey! I heart Frank Quitely. Thanks for starting the thread...this is going to be fantastic.

Stan Lee title for this issue: IF THIS BE MASTIFF...!

14:34 / 30.11.04

The most heartbreaking cover yet. I await.

16:11 / 30.11.04

I fear a lynch mob when I say this but the covers to the first two didn't work for me, great concept but they left me a bit cold.

This on, on the other hand, is touching.

16:22 / 30.11.04

"he likes lettuce and carrots"

And not being shot in the head! He likes that too!

"and Claire"

Damn, that's good.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

16:23 / 30.11.04

I'll be right there on the pallate with you, friend. Conceptually I liked them but when Frank was tricking out such amazing stuff on Bite Club and Books Of Magic, I wanted a bit more. Thanks to the two sets of handwriting on this one, though, I'm totally sold.

Madman in the ruins.

19:14 / 30.11.04

That cover is so heartbreaking.

you just know the inside is going to be some 18+ sick $hit.

Jake, Colossus of Clout

00:51 / 01.12.04

Definitely the best cover so far.

Does anyone see this series ending any way but badly for We3? We know that they're going to die if they don't get their medicine, so it seems like the best-case scenario is that they get to die free, on their own terms, instead of being hunted and shredded by that (really disturbing) mastiff biorg.

I hadn't bought anything but trades for five years, because I don't like the monthly pamphlet format (chock full of jarring ads- didn't they put all the ads in the back of the book for a while? What happened to that?), but I broke my self-imposed boycott for Grant's new stuff yesterday. I picked up JLA: Classified 1, We3 1 & 2 and all three Seaguys. I just couldn't wait any longer. I suffered through interminable waits for The Invisible Kingdom and The Filth, but I just couldn't take it anymore.

Seaguy, incidentally, is the best comic I've read since the Invisibles. I love the innovative art and design of We3, and the whimsy of Classified, but Seaguy was absolute top-notch comics. Kudos to Cameron and Grant. I've found it difficult to become emotionally invested in We3, although I have the utmost respect for the technical aspects of it. I really felt for Seaguy and Chubby, whereas I can't help but feel a little detached from Pirate, Bandit and especially Tinker, as I'm not a cat person at all. I'm not sure why this is, as the execution of the book is nothing but brilliant, and I feel like I should care about them more than I do. Strange, really, as I'm kind of a big softie.

The Natural Way

14:22 / 01.12.04

JLA Clasified?

Whimsy?

I prefer the term "demented".

15:08 / 01.12.04

NOW I understand why the rabbit was named Pirate. The patch. D'oh!

Not much to add here that hasn't already been said. Except the Mastiff will utterly destroy Tinker and Pirate, Bandit will try to protect the original woman doctor and be shredded, as will the woman doctor, as will the threat team. Brutal animal savagery everywhere

Someone once suggested that the man doctor... I wish i knew their names... was behind their subsequent release by generating the decommissioning. I wonder if that's an actual plot worth having. I think it'll end ridiculously ugly... no "ulterior motives", just animals acting like viscious beasts.

16:52 / 01.12.04

Yeah, something bad's gotta happen to the women who let them free. Even though she just did it out of love for them, her actions resulted in the deaths of about 60 soliders...

17:20 / 01.12.04

WE3 were headed for a civilian town at the end of issue 2. I see bad things happening. Animal Weapon 4 battling it out with Bandit and Tinker and Pirate (if he's functional) in the suburban streets... the soldiers and guards were bad enough, but we may have innocent townsfolk involved soon...

I know some people have complained before about the animals not being "individual" enough, but I find I feel more attached to them because they're such archetypal beasts. You can identify them with any dog, cat or bunny you've ever known. Tinker reminds me a lot of one of my cats, with her spiteful independence, and Bandit is just such a dog. Trying to lead his pack and keep it together, trying to be a good dog, trying to help. I don't want them to die, at least not in the way they're probably going to.

I'm torn between joyous anticipation and terrible anxiety... this series is just so gorgeous visually, and the concept is so fresh... but man oh man, I don't think I'm going to like the way this ends...

Jake, Colossus of Clout

17:44 / 01.12.04

It just can't end well.

It's not like Roseanne can spirit them away and take them out of that machinery like Iron Man takes off his suit- It's unclear how much of a body they have left under there. They might just be heads grafted onto those bodies. I think everyone dies in this book, except the military masterminds who orchestrated it in the first place. They'll be fine. And then they'll go make more.

I think this book is going to leave me with a bad taste in my mouth. I just hope it doesn't leave me uncaring. I sort of care about Bandit, because I've always had a dog, but the whole series seems more about the cool art and panel designs that Grant and Quitely came up with, rather than creating an engaging story.

03:03 / 03.12.04

not that you guys have ben wrong before, but I'm seeing so many people expecting a sad ending I'm positive there's a good chance it ends well somehow. even if they don't manage to live without the suits, they can live without the medicine.

I believe Grant will give them at least that. I don't know, I may fall flat on my face, but SEA GUY had too much of a creep ending to itself... 50-50 they all end up well and free, even if their families don't want/recognize them anymore.

WE3 as a concept is already heartbreaking and after #2 I was immediately hugging my cat who has a temper too similar to Tinker's. yeah, it's laughable, but that's the way it is. 'catperson', whatever. not easy being a 'people' person in the cities we live in lately.

and... January 19???

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:27 / 06.12.04

You can identify them with any dog, cat or bunny you've ever known.

Yup. I find this series utterly heartbreaking for that very reason. (Having said that, my dog died recently and it's left me a bit of an emotional wreck anyway, so ymmv).

There's no way, realistically, this can end any other way than sadly and badly. (someone in one of the other threads- apologies, I can't remember who it was- suggested that Bandit will go to look for the family he was taken from- dramatically, that would be perfect. I'm not sure I could deal with that, though.) It's a tragedy right from the start. I'm actually dreading the last issue. I already cried over the second one. But I HAVE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS!!!

Damn you, George.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:25 / 06.12.04

I can't help but feel a little detached from Pirate, Bandit and especially Tinker

You say that, but- and this is something that's only just occurred to me (hence the double post)- inside the comic, in the actual story, they're only called 1,2 and 3. And we're all calling them by their "name" names.

Sorry, that seemed a lot more significant when I started this post. I forget what I was leading up to. But we are.

Jake, Colossus of Clout

23:38 / 06.12.04

I think it's because calling them by their "name" names makes it easier to discuss the comic. I don't have to think "Oh, which one was 2, again?"

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:50 / 06.12.04

Fair point. As I say, I forgot what I was getting at anyway.

01:11 / 07.12.04

I find the numbers easiest to remember, actually. Corresponding issue cover, greatest size.

11:12 / 07.12.04

But clearly Roseanne is working for the Outer Church and the dogs are encased in 4D armour. But then Roseanne lets them escape in a weird semiotic manner where the meaning of words takes precedent of which context they're used in. OMG SAVE/DEATH? Is Roseanne on Key 23? Is she INVISIVISIBLE?

14:58 / 07.12.04

only the extradimensional squids from the supercontext know the truth.

King Mob shows up in the final issue, saves the animals and takes them all out for a pint.

17:04 / 07.12.04

I didn't pick up We3 #2 (for shame!). Does We4 talk?

17:35 / 07.12.04

Not in the pages of issue #2, no.

But then, we only see We4 itself in one panel. Although we see its... handiwork... on previous pages...

Fuckin' hell, just track down issue #2! DO IT NOW!

12:36 / 28.12.04

delayed until 01/26/05, DC just listed it on their list of delayed books. And Grant M. said Frank was on time with the art for this book!

15:04 / 28.12.04

I can't remember who it was- suggested that Bandit will go to look for the family he was taken from- dramatically, that would be perfect

The idea might be horrifying but I've always thought Grant would go this route. It's perfect, God-awful, drama.

13:37 / 06.01.05

only a few more weeks....

13:40 / 06.01.05

you bumped this thread just to say that? shit wolfy i though someone had found a preview or something...

january 19th: jla classified 3 and we3 3 - that saturday is the day i quit quitting drugs.

04:03 / 07.01.05

WE #3 wont actually be out til 26th January, according to recent shipping updates.

I don't have a link handy, but the info's out there. It's definitely confirmed.

But...I suppose, we've waited THIS long. It can only be worth the wait.

Petar

07:36 / 07.01.05

oh, but

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=4315

and

http://dccomics.com/comics/?dat=20050105&s=32#20050105

still say the 19th. sources please?

proper load of old sack if you're right

08:13 / 07.01.05

and here http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/archive/index.php/t-30744.html

it sez the same! why are you trying to keep me from my drugs!?

09:25 / 07.01.05

Sorry, dude, cant help it. No matter what websites says, Diamond ships it, and they have the final word. The shipping update came from THEM, and was published on several websites, including Newsarama (might haveta search for a shipping updates link, from a sidebar story).

So didnt mean to spoil your excitement, just relaying the facts, as someone else did earlier.

It's only one more week.........

There's no place like home........

Petar

09:44 / 07.01.05

Bugger

cheers though pg

22:27 / 07.01.05

Bugger all right.

And I won't be getting it til a week after THAT, being that I live in Australia, and a long way from the nearest comic shop. Argh.

Ahh, it'll all be good though.

Anyone ever had imaginings of WE3 action figures in their heads? Perhaps transformable ones? Hmmm......

Petar

00:24 / 11.01.05

My local Forbidden Planet told me it was end of February.
Somebody please tell me that he was just being a moron.

07:30 / 11.01.05

fucksake stop fucking with my head

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