![]() are their saviours and will use them to create a new world, once the existing one's destroyed. his writings suggest he's had experiences akin to the deceptions UFO abductees fall prey to, where they're told that there's a great evil plaguing the world and that the aliens etc. One gets the impression that the author really does piss around with dangerous spiritual forces eg. It's also riddled with drug and magic references and a rather disturbing tone permeates the pages of the book. "The Invisibles" explores many interesting philosophical ideas. ![]() The art is wildly inconsistent - everything from poor to brilliant (same thing happened with Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman"). While the content is often fascinating, the story is much too long and lacks cohesion. The writing is an interesting combination of philosophical intelligence and complete bollocks. It's a massive tome (almost 1,500 pages in length), high-concept and very adult. Grant Morrison's "The Invisibles" isn't your average comic book fare. This is probably the singular most difficult book I've ever reviewed. Rambling aside, The Invisibles is a fun, wacky, imaginative, and ambitious series overall. It mind fucked, it weirded, it fizzled out. And what a war it is! I guess the ending is about as chaotic as I should have expected. That all of reality is a fabrication by controlling evil hands. What's the message of all this again? That we, average human beings, are brain-washed and don't see the psychic war that's happening. I was really skimming at the end, hoping for a firm punctuating end, but there wasn't. ![]() It's fun and crazy while it lasts, until the free association gets carried away and soon there's just a loose plot of "war" pulsing under long form word scramble you're forced to project meaning upon. The Invisibles starts great but stumbles under its own ambition at the end, like Morrison never had a clear and definitive ending in mind. Unfortunately this "philosophizing" ends up detracting from the story and eventually becomes the story itself, metafiction and all that justifying "bollocks." What I really noticed is that The Doom Patrol is focused mind fuck and this is unfocused mind fuck. That everything is everything, and whatever that means we should gobble up that truth and amen. The double-edged sword is that while limitations don't exist here, the story goes off the rails and becomes a sort of rambling psychedelic prayer. This series educated me, the reader, on both sides of the psychic war, mostly The Invisibles, the good guys, and their wacky and diversionary quest for truth, whatever that is. Magic, psychic war, time travel, espionage. 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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