![]() ![]() I think we3 stands as his most emotional work. In fairness to Morrison, this problem tends to come-and-go in his work, with All-Star Superman demonstrating that he’s perfectly capable of writing an emotional script. Sometimes his ideas engage on a more intellectual level than an emotional one. He also sometimes has difficulty forging an emotional connection with the reader. ![]() He’s a fantastic mind for high-concepts, but he tends to gloss over the basic mechanics of plotting a story – that’s the fundamental flaw with Final Crisis, which feels like somebody edited out a chapter somewhere in the middle of it all that connects the dots and provides the requisite plot details. I am a big fan of Morrison, but I’ll concede that the writer does have two fairly significant weaknesses. If people can’t find something emotionally or intellectually engaging in Morrison’s tale of three robot animals trying to get home, then perhaps the writer is just not for them. Sure, the Scottish writer can’t resist a trick or two – “we chose to treat the page not as a flat 2-D surface upon which panels were ‘pasted’ down flat but as a virtual 3-D space in which panels could be ‘hung’ and ‘rotated’ or stacked one on top of the other,” he explains in the notes at the back – but I think that we3 is the Grant Morrison book that you should be able to hand to any reader and make a fan of them. ![]() We3 has been described by Publisher’s Weekly as “Morrison’s most accessible tale ever.” I think this is mostly true. ![]()
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