![]() ![]() Image: Tillie Walden/First Second On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden (2018) ![]() The inhabitants of Woman World mostly struggle with the usual romance anxieties and occasional disagreements - but I guess figuring out how to repopulate Earth is kind of a big deal, too, or something. The only people who remember the past where men were alive are Grandmas, who regale young girls with stories of things like “That’s what she said” jokes, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, and the concept of Dad jokes. The comic began as a strip on Dhaliwal’s instagram, in which a gradual birth defect wiped out Earth’s entire population of men, and from the ashes came. What Drawn and Quarterly creator Aminder Dhaliwal brings to the table with Woman World, though, is not only a more heartfelt, fearless version of the genre, but one that is not afraid to be devastatingly funny in the process. Sci-fi is a genre wrought with terribly serious topics: Intergalactic wars. Image: Aminder Dhaliwal/Drawn & Quarterly Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal (2018) Unfortunately, the three lovable pets are also escapees from a military facility that has bioengineered them into cyborg killing machines.Īrmed with a heart-tugging sense of empathy often evoked by the sweet robotic chatter between the animals themselves, Morrison’s impressive gift for uncomfortable futurism, and Quitely’s always-inspiring attention to detail across the board, WE3 forces readers to question their part in the day-to-day weaponization that the future may hold. Much like the beloved movie The Incredible Journey, We3 is a story about three roving animals: in this case, a rabbit, a dog, and a cat named (respectively) Bandit, Tinker, and Pirate, all of whom just want to go home. ![]() Some sci-fi is meant to make you think, some sci-fi is meant to make you feel introspective, and then there’s DC Comics’ WE3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, which manages to do both of those things. Image: Frank Quitely/DC Comics WE3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (2004) ![]()
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