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This weekend, Gunn releasedGuardians of the Galaxy Vol.
3, which features adorable little animals who were experimented on and tortured.
Instead, Gunn was talking about a three-issue series from 2004 calledWe3.
The comic is incredible.
It is also emotional terrorism on the highest level, and its a skeleton key to understandingGotG Vol.
The elevator pitch forWe3can be summed up as Homeward BoundmeetsThe Terminator.
They dont have complex thoughts or a grasp of proper syntax.
And Tinker is something of a little shit, which should track if youre a cat owner.
ST!NK!)
In this way,We3deliberately stops short of fully anthropomorphizing its main characters.
He alsotweetedlast December thatWe3remains one of his favorite comics.
That Gunn would fall so hard forWe3makes sense.
Many of Gunns movies share a taste for violence, too.
3, too, with its body horror and an entire base made out of … flesh.
This combination of heart-wrenching and heart-splattering is foundational to Gunns filmmaking.
Rocket predatesWe3by decades, having debuted in 1976.
His MCU backstory, as detailed inGotG Vol.
3, is much sadder.
He was a cute, innocent baby raccoon who was horribly experimented on by the High Evolutionary.
But he doesnt really need to anymore.GotG Vol.
3isWe3, wrapped up in a spacefaring superhero package.
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