Her feline disdain for just about everything is expressed through the word “Stink”, rendered as “ST!NK” or, when she is really angry, “!SSST!!!NKK!” Compared to the peaceful rabbit and optimistic dog, Tinker appears to be the least bothered by all the killing. Sadly, Pirate’s speech degrades into mere electronic noise after he suffers an injury.Ĭat-lover that I am, I especially enjoyed Tinker’s dialogue. Pirate the rabbit is the most simple-minded of the trio, only speaking in one-word sentences, but that doesn’t stop him from delivering a heart-wrenching reminder to his comrades that they are friends and are all in this together. Bandit the dog is haunted by regret over what he has been made to do, and he struggles to lead his “pack” in a volatile and untenable situation. On the first read, I had trouble understanding their speech, but it all became clear to me upon the second reading. In a combination of graphic images and minimal, broken dialogue, Morrison and Quitely set up the tension between the cat’s no-nonsense and apparently correct assessment of the situation with the dog’s potentially delusional idealism.Įach animal’s cybernetically enhanced speech pattern says volumes about them. As the two animals fade into the horizon while arguing, the panels reveal the human is annihilated from the waist down. When Bandit tries to save a human body to convince himself he is a good dog, Tinker bluntly tells him the man is dead. In the aftermath of the killings, his simple, mournful repetition of “Bad dog” hits home more powerfully than pages of dialogue or narrative captions could ever do. He wants to protect his beloved animal allies in We3 and also help humans, but he is forced into situations where his combat programming takes over and he kills humans. Nowhere is this more strongly portrayed than through Bandit’s canine emotional crises.

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