![]() Not just the comic itself - which I have hated - but its pomposity and hollowness and grandeur its overt metatextuality that seeks to overpower the relative meaninglessness of the text itself. There's a section in the backmatter for this book in which Morrison includes his original pitch for The Invisibles that he submitted to DC in the early 90's, and I tell you what: this is a document I could have used a long time now, years even all these long years that I have deeply, deeply hated The Invisibles and everything it stands for. Too many illustrators to list, but it's all solid stuff with great color, if sometimes a bit dated. A lot of stuff doesn't make total sense and that's okay, it's more about the experience, how it makes you feel, and the great diversity of stories and ideas that are expressed here. Reading this series, like all of Morrison's crazy shit, you just have to go with it. That's the tip of the iceberg as far as what happens in this book. We also get a heady look into the madness of Jack Frost, Jim Crow, and get introduced to Mr. To a lesser degree, we learn of Boy's origin as a police officer, her troubled family, and her introduction to government conspiracies and The Invisibles. We learn more of King Mob and his psychic warrior training, travels, identities, and abilities. But if transsexuality or cross dressing make you feel funny, skip this one. ![]() It's quite graphic, yet fascinating and well-written. ![]() This especially details Lord Fanny's origin, a blend of child abuse, ancient Mexican supernaturalism, psychic magic, and complex sexuality. Talk about drugs and psychedelic absurdism.īook Two continues the escalation of the psychic war, and shows how Boy, Lord Fanny, and King Mob all became Invisibles. He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. ![]() In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. ![]()
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