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I'd sorta forgotten about We3 until I dropped into a local shop and saw all three together for €12, ten read them at the cafe over a beer.
I haven't been so moved by a comic since the part in Watchmen where Rorschach confronts the neighbor lady who got him in trouble, but lets her off the hook when he sees himself in her little son.
Then I was depressed because Cthulhu and all the Archons together can't match the horrors we perpetrate on ourselves and any animals unfortunate enough to be between us and any minor goal.
Now, after reading the above posts and remembering the plot, I do think Morrison (ahem) pulled a few rabbits out of his [hat], especially when he lifted the chemical death sentence hanging over the animals' heads. I don't really care that the technology is sometimes indistinguishable from magic, as long as it doesn't violate its own rules. I don't even have to know what the rules are, as long as I'm sure they're followed. But I'll spot him that because it was a great, honest story.
One great lesson I got from it was that the animals, when mentally enhanced, survived by thinking outside of the confines of normal animal behavior (which I guess was the point of Bandit realizing he was not the (Reichian) armor); thus they beat the humans who were clever but, being rigid and soulless, became less than human.
"Home is where you don't have to run anymore" still chokes me up. |
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