This three-part mini-series, which will wrap up around the end of January, is one of the most innovative books I seen in some time. I've read the first two issues three or four times each already, and the mysteries and challenges of the storytelling keep yielding new layers upon layers of meaning. The brilliant artwork of Frank Quitely, itself an attempt to reinvent manga storytelling techniques for an American audience, is empathic, expressive, tragic, brutal, spontaneous, simultaneous, and downright strange. Anyone else reading this book?

I do like it.

Quitely's art has been really damned good.

But I miss be missing something because while it is undeniably quite innovative, it hasn't set any bells ringing.

The thing that caught my attention on the last read was the scene where 2, the cat, takes to the trees to conduct the attack on the helicopters. 2 is far from "helpless as a kitten up a tree," as the old song goes. And I also thought "Claw B gon...?" was quite clever -- that the cat has been "declawed" by running out of ammunition and can no longer defend himself. Quitely's itty bitty cubist silhouettes were something I missed on the first couple of readings. Things that confused me at first reveal much more characterization of the animals' personalities than I could have imagined at first.

This one has slipped under my radar. Do any of you know if it will be collected in a trade?

Haven't heard, Jim, but I'd bet a flip-book with the 3-issue Seaguy mini-series isn't far off. Morrison has name recognition and a good shelf life in trades.

I just noticed Jims Avatar. I'm a Mage fan too. Bought the hard cover a few weeks back and was a bit disappointed.

We3- Its beautiful, smart, funny and violent, a nice cocktail to have when precision elsewhere seems to be reduced to parlor games with continuity. The art is dense and the writing is as well paced as a race horse. If you want to look at a story check out Bendis' Avengers stuff. I love Bendis. His, however is a realm of two dimensional Hammet wannabe's mostly. Where the course becomes an affectation of the real and innocence is a forced evil that’s quickly lost.
If you want to feel a story, look no further than this. This is what comics should be; an envelope pushing amalgam of art and narrative working in tandem to describe the penultimate dispute between man and its creations.

WE3 works on the page and beyond.

all in IMHO mode

Please elaborate!

I was very excited when I heard about this. I bought the singles in the eighties and I loved the story and the art had me drawing in that style for a long time. So when this came around it was a no brainer. I gladly parted with my cash.
Then when I got home removed the shrink wrap and started my read my heart slowly sank.
The reproduction was a cut corners job. A lot of pixelation, the blurb on the back had a very noticable spelling error and it felt like some text was lost in a few places. Lastly and this is a personal thing the material in the back could have been scraped in favor of an insightful forward or an essay about the work. Instead its a collection of blurbs about the eigthies mage tour t-shirts and some party invites that feature the characters. (Theres also a page devoted to the Mage action figures??)

We3 is an astounding comic so far.

Run. Rabbit. Run. Rabbit. Run. Run. Run.

Much better than Brute Force.

Okay, just got the trade out of the library. I gotta say this was a great read. While the story is clever, albeit kinda simple on the surface, it does make one think. There is a depth to it and it does emote.

Buy/read it for the Quitely art alone. Incredible storytelling.

It's my second favorite thing I've ever seen Quitely do.

I really enjoyed this when it came out. Very nice art by Quitely.


And the number one favourite is _____________?

(cue "Match Game" music)

Thats a great book, on of the best Morrison.

I loved We3.I also loved Seaguy which apparently didn't sell well.