Some of the formal aspects in We3 are very different from Nat Turner one being the full page “bleed” I think it was called. In We3 Grant Morrison seems to be upping the ante with the full page images, making them stretch onto two full pages instead of just one. The images (for example the guy who gets assassinated in chap 1) also have this extreme 3-D effect to them; they look like they are happening outside of the comic book. In the two page “bleed” where the guy in chapter one gets assassinated, the bullets obliterating his body actually look like they are coming from behind the audience into his pierced flesh. Or maybe not behind but it puts us in the eyes of the animal weapons (We3).
How Morrison achieved this effect stretched over two pages is an interesting topic to investigate. It looks like it would take some serious skills in perspective to draw or paint or computerize these massive 3-D images.
Finally, the power of these two page images is immense in the action category. When the reader turns the page and hits one of these panels, there is nothing else to look at besides this one moment. In a one page bleed, the reader has the other page to distract the eyes even if only for a moment. In other words, it takes less effort to focus on the intensity of the two pager because there is literally nothing else to look at.
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It does take some serious skill to draw images from that perspective. Frank Quitely and Jamie Grant have that serious skill (what they don’t have however is a quick turnaround).