Tag Archives: We3
Uncanny Canine
This is BigDog, a robot designed to carry heavy loads over rough terrain. It’s…grotesque. The way it tries to balance itself (at the 0:35 and 1:25 second marks) is truly uncanny—recognizable but repulsively strange at the same time. The buzzing, the stilted gait, and the lack of a head is a little creepy. It’s as if a […] Continue reading
Comment on “Man’s New Best Friend”
This post is the comment posted in response to Rich Borean’s post. Why rats? Good question. The creators could have just as easily used a cuter creature like the hamster, which would have heightened for the reader the emotional impact (i.e. empathy towards the animal and fury at the scientists) that p.25 is meant to evoke. However, […] Continue reading
Psyched about WE3
Matthew Miller makes a fascinating connection between WE3 and Freudian psychology here. Grant Morrison is pretty big into psychology. I had a friend tell me about his use of Jungian psychology or something along those lines in his comics…The three main characters can somewhat be ascribed to the Freudian ideas of the id, ego, and superego. […] Continue reading
The Weapon of the Future in “We3″
On page 24 of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s We3, the reader is introduced to the “weapon of the future”. Right away when I saw this futuristic weapon I thought, this is it? What I see when I look at this technology is simply an… Continue reading
Violence in We3
I love violence. A list of my all-time favorite movies would undoubtedly include such family-friendly classics as Battle Royale, 28 Days Later, and Kill Bill.But the violence in Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s We3 bothers me. It seems unnecessa… Continue reading