One of my favorite non-superhero Morrison books. Issue 12 made me tear up, but the ending felt anticlimatic, although apparently it was because it operated on too many levels above my simple head?
I think it's technically a superhero book (at least by stretching the definition). You have a team of characters with special abilities and code names, two/three of which wear masks, fighting evil forces.
It's the sort of thing I think of as "Capeshit Adjacent".
Stuff that isn't Superheroes, but rubs shoulders with them fairly often. Hellboy, Constantine, The Sandman, Invisibles, etc.
I don’t think it was 2deep4u, rather it vanished up its own ass at the end. That said I enjoyed the bulk of it.
Some of it reminds me of that scene in Tropic Thunder: “I’m a dude pretending to be another dude pretending to be another dude.”
Yes, this is the one.
There are several parallels (bald team leader that wears round sunglasses, goth chic, code names, the Chosen One is the new team member, the leap of faith, the evil Suits that work for the ones that imprisoned humanity, the chair torture sequence of the leader and his rescue by the other members), but Morrison should know how this works. He pulled from a lot of different sources and was accused himself.
The Invisibles shares some of the same odd parallels with Luther Arkwright (round sunglasses, Leap of Faith, interrogation/torture sequence, chosen one is an embodiment of a deity). Something about those elements, though it's likely because they rubbed off on each other working on Near Myths and from reading Moorwiener. One of the characters, John-A-Dreams, sort of looks like Luther, and one of the Archons reminds me of the Disruptor Rooks.
I didn't fully "get it" and it's not one of my favorite things but I keep thinking about it even now 8 years after I read it. Intriguing but it didn't quite click for me outside of certain moments and those REALLY clicked.
I haven't had the chance to read it.
I read it back in my college days.
One thing that always bothered me was the highly inconsistent art. I wish comics were better about this.
One of my favorite non-superhero Morrison books. Issue 12 made me tear up, but the ending felt anticlimatic, although apparently it was because it operated on too many levels above my simple head?
I think it's technically a superhero book (at least by stretching the definition). You have a team of characters with special abilities and code names, two/three of which wear masks, fighting evil forces.
It's the sort of thing I think of as "Capeshit Adjacent".
Stuff that isn't Superheroes, but rubs shoulders with them fairly often. Hellboy, Constantine, The Sandman, Invisibles, etc.
Yeah, same.
I don’t think it was 2deep4u, rather it vanished up its own ass at the end. That said I enjoyed the bulk of it.
Some of it reminds me of that scene in Tropic Thunder: “I’m a dude pretending to be another dude pretending to be another dude.”
>I don’t think it was 2deep4u, rather it vanished up its own ass at the end
You think that because it actually was 2deep4u.
Yes, anon, reading a picture book proves you’re an intellectual. Good work.
>proving my point
You'll never get it with that level of disdain.
Any of you watch Strange Brain Parts?
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I do, his contents are great.
>The Invisibles
Was this the series that Morrison said the Matrix trannies ripped off? Or was that The Filth?
Yes, this is the one.
There are several parallels (bald team leader that wears round sunglasses, goth chic, code names, the Chosen One is the new team member, the leap of faith, the evil Suits that work for the ones that imprisoned humanity, the chair torture sequence of the leader and his rescue by the other members), but Morrison should know how this works. He pulled from a lot of different sources and was accused himself.
The Invisibles shares some of the same odd parallels with Luther Arkwright (round sunglasses, Leap of Faith, interrogation/torture sequence, chosen one is an embodiment of a deity). Something about those elements, though it's likely because they rubbed off on each other working on Near Myths and from reading Moorwiener. One of the characters, John-A-Dreams, sort of looks like Luther, and one of the Archons reminds me of the Disruptor Rooks.
Guy acted like he invented Gnosticism
Too self indulgent like Transmet but the art is fantastic and the covers by Brian Bolland are undeniably iconic
I think it's a lot better than Transmet. More ambitious too.
I don't mean to sound elitist when saying this but you kind of had to be there at the time.
What has Grant Morrison been up to in the last four years? I swear since Heavy Metal collapsed I haven't heard anything from him.
He wrote a novel about Ludacris in 2022.
Pretty good.
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why
I tried to read it back when it was new and I didn't like it. Too up its own ass, too much the good guys acting like buttholes.
I didn't fully "get it" and it's not one of my favorite things but I keep thinking about it even now 8 years after I read it. Intriguing but it didn't quite click for me outside of certain moments and those REALLY clicked.