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| L'idea di questo topic è di consigliarci a vicenda serie, o archi narrativi, o miniserie o volumi o graphic novel che meritino i soldi dell'accquisto. Al posto di aprire un topic ogni volta su un volume o un racconto che ci è piaciuto credo che una cosa come questa possa essere di pubblica utilità. In caso contrario i moderatori la chiudano pure. Il mio primo consiglio, oltre ai fumetti scritti da Brubacker per cui ho aperto un topic apposito, è il volume WE3 di Grant Morrison e Frank Quitely. L'idea di partenza, tre animali modificati per divenire macchine da guerra, sembra una delle allegre cialtronate di questo autore, in realtà il racconto è piuttosto duro e con momenti poetici che non sconfinano mai nella banale tenerezza di qualche ritratto animale. Si tratta di una delle opere meglio disegnate da Quitely negli ultimi anni. E' stata anche premiata dal sito Ninth Art: CITAZIONE Best Mini Series: WE 3
WE 3 doesn't initially sound like the sort of story that would find itself critically lauded above all its peers in end-of-website articles. It's a three-issue mini telling the simple story of three animals turned into killing machines by a military program, before escaping. The Incredible Journey meets the Terminator.
When you hear it's by Grant Morrison (probably the most publicly acclaimed writer currently working in the mainstream) and Frank Quitely (probably the most publicly acclaimed artist currently working in the mainstream), its chances rise. Perhaps they can elevate the base subject matter to something higher? In the end, they elevate it to such a height that if you placed someone on top of it, DC comics would have their own personal space program.
Where to start? It's a grand formalist play, with panels fragmenting, exploding, freezing and rotating to best display the detail of the effect of ultra-budgeted military weapons on all too weak flesh. Then there's Morrison's painfully effective simplified dialogue structures and emotions for the animals ("IS GUD DOG?"). And there's its none-too-subtle political point on animal testing (even if you don't agree with it, great art is capable of making you wish you did agree, and WE 3 manages that exquisitely). And perhaps most crucial of all, for a comic that's so brutal and so short, it's impressive the number of people it's made cry at different points.
It has a heart. It has a brain. It has a cat, a dog and a rabbit annihilating masses of US army troopers in quite frankly brutal Frank-Quitely-o-vision.
It's the best, most imaginative, most innovative action comic in the Western medium in the time Ninth Art has been in existence. But what makes it truly great is its realisation that simply being the best, most imaginative, most innovative action comic in the Western medium isn't enough. It's a comic that reaches farther. [Per ulteriori info su questi premi: http://www.ninthart.com/display.php?article=1244] |
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