|
|
|
|
| . |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| THE
INVISIBLES: Book One |
|
SAY
YOU WANT A REVOLUTION |
by Grant Morrison, Steve Yeowell, Jill Thompson,
& Dennis Cramer |
Paperback: 224 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563892677 |
$19.95
|
| Throughout history,
a secret society called the Invisibles works against the forces that seek
to hold back humanity's growth. Their latest recruit, a teenaged lout,
must survive a bizarre, mind altering training course before being whicksed
back in time to wit. |
|
|
|
| If you like
R.A. Wilson, Lovecraft, Moorcock, Crowley, the Beatles, voodoo, chaos magick,
or anything else on Earth, then pick this up. Morrison questions everything
and he does it in style. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| THE
INVISIBLES: Book Two |
 |
Apocalipstick |
Written by Grant Morrison
Art by Jill Thompson, Chris Weston, John Ridgway,
Steve Parkhouse, Paul Johnson, Dennis Cramer,
& Kim Demulder
Cover by Brian Bolland |
Paperback: 208 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563897024 |
$19.95
|
| APOCALIPSTICK
picks up where THE INVISIBLES: SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION trade left off,
reprinting issues #9-16 of the first volume of THE INVISIBLES -- focusing
on the mysterious origin of Lord Fanny, the transvestite shaman. |
|
|
|
| I
didn't find this book to be as mind-blowingly delightful as "Say You Want
a Revolution," but it's still darned good reading -- plenty of madcap ideas
from the mind of Grant Morrison. (If you haven't read "Revolution," you
really should before you read this book, since "Apocalipstick" is the second
collection of the first volume of the comic series.) There are a couple
of standalone stories that do a great job to set up the larger world in
which the main characters operate. They may seem like interludes or digressions,
but they're really the heart and soul of this book. The longer arc that
returns to the main plot -- inasmuch as The Invisibles can be said to have
a main plot -- is good, but I think it suffers in comparison to the 'Arcadia'
arc from "Revolution." It does do a good job of exploring the background
of one of the main characters, though. The book also has a lot of different
artists, and as a result it shifts in tone and style a number of times.
More consistency might have been a benefit, but it does increase the chance
you'll find something you like. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| THE
INVISIBLES: Book Four |
|
BLOODY
HELL IN AMERICA |
| by Grant Morrison, Phil Jimenez, & John Stokes |
Paperback: 104 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563894440 |
$12.95
|
| The US Government
is hiding the vaccine for HIV and the Invisibles are out to liberate the
cure. This edition collects the out-of-print issues 1-4 of Volume 2 of
Grant Morrison's Invisibles.
Throughout history, a secret
society called the Invisibles works against the forces that seek to hold
back humanity's growth. Their latest recruit, a teenaged lout, must survive
a bizarre, mind altering training course before being whicksed back in
time to wit. |
|
|
|
| This collection
is meant as a jumping-on point for new readers, and considering how esoteric,
deep, and complex 'The Invisibles' usually is, this book is a nice change
of pace. The amazing thing is that Morrison slows down the merry-go-round
without derailing it. He *wants* you to get on, but he also wants people
who've been on it for a while to stay-- no mean feat. He pulls is off very
well, somehow. Check this out, then dive in to the rest of this amazing,
brilliant series.
Somewhere along the line
in "Bloody Hell in America," you realize you're in over your head, that
whatever well-worn turns you may have been used to in comic book storytelling
have been turned completely around, and this ride is jumping the tracks.
How writer Grant Morrison
manages to spin the end of time, the crash at Roswell, the Hindu god Ganesh,
Aztec magic, and Quentin Tarantino movies into one story is a secret he'll
probably take to his grave. But it all works, and the threads crackle and
hum so intensely with pop-zeitgeist electricity you'll love getting sucked
into the web. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| THE
INVISIBLES: Book Five |
|
COUNTING
TO NONE |
| by Grant Morrison & selected artists |
Paperback: 224 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563894890 |
$19.95
|
| Follow the apocalyptic
exploits of the Invisibles: the most fashionable group of occultist subversives
this side of the 20th century. This volume includes three stories: Time
Machine Go, Sensitive Criminals, and American Death Camp. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| THE
INVISIBLES: Book Six |
|
Kissing
Mister Quimper |
| by Grant Morrison, Chris Weston & Brian Bolland |
Paperback: 224 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563896001 |
$19.95
|
| This
is the near-final and second-best segment of what is possibly the most
brilliant, innovative and headache inducing comic book series ever. Grant
Morrison's mind is a dark and sticky wonderland, and we should all buy
this book and read it and thank him for splitting his head open to give
it to us. |
|
|
|
| The
Invisibles rivals
From Hell as a work which capture magic in
words and pictures. While the series finale, Countdown to the Millennium
(as
yet unreleased) is the best-- it's a drug in comic book form-- the entire
series should be read with reckless joy, and the continuing hope that Grant
Morrison will soon abandon Marvel and start writing things that matter
again.
That
being anarchist agitprop, of course. |
|
|
|
|
