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The Invisibles (Single Issues) #3
The Invisibles #3
Young Dane's initiation into the secret society of the Invisibles continues with a glimpse at past operatives, a dizzying flight through the eyes of a bird and a terrifying near-death experience that teaches him to see the world with new eyes. All in part 2 of "Down and Out in Heaven and Hell"!
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25 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 31, 1994
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About the author
Grant Morrison
1,791 books4,564 followersGrant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning their American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. Since then they have 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. 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, they have 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.
In their secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. They are also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. They divide their time between their homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.
In their secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. They are also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. They divide their time between their homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.
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June 25, 2020
Someone once described to me the experience of reading a comic (non superhero related) by Grant Morrison is like that of having a drugged out experience with a mind altering substance that hinders your ability to perceive time and events in the same way.
And that's what this felt like, if it was also blended with The Matrix. (Yeah, yeah. I know. This came out before either Dark City or The Matrix. It's just that The Matrix is such a popular film that it's easy to forget it was influenced by so many great arts when it itself often feels like the influencer).
But I digress.
There is something both gripping and unappealing about The Invisibles. I understand it is a vehicle designed specifically to express a worldview on the universe; and it's THAT story behind it that is often more interesting than the story itself. The story of Grant Morrison on Kathmandu is vastly more interesting and deserving of its own story. Grant could honestly have made an autobiography and possibly made something for the ages.
Now- I want to at least express doubt within myself. This comic could always get better. In fact, I'm staying with it primarily because I'm confident it will. Each issue is a fragment of events that feels like it's building to more interesting things later. I'm not even saying it's bad. Only that it has failed to live up to the unreasonably high expectations set forth by its fans.
Morrison is a fearless writer who dares readers to open their minds to open possibilities on their world that they don't have to take necessarily seriously, but perhaps they may not have been aware of earlier. Grant is the kind of guy who allows himself to be a bad writer- which in my view, makes him a good one. His work can feel messy; disjointed. But always unique and at the end of it all, empathetic. I can't fault any of it.
And that's what this felt like, if it was also blended with The Matrix. (Yeah, yeah. I know. This came out before either Dark City or The Matrix. It's just that The Matrix is such a popular film that it's easy to forget it was influenced by so many great arts when it itself often feels like the influencer).
But I digress.
There is something both gripping and unappealing about The Invisibles. I understand it is a vehicle designed specifically to express a worldview on the universe; and it's THAT story behind it that is often more interesting than the story itself. The story of Grant Morrison on Kathmandu is vastly more interesting and deserving of its own story. Grant could honestly have made an autobiography and possibly made something for the ages.
Now- I want to at least express doubt within myself. This comic could always get better. In fact, I'm staying with it primarily because I'm confident it will. Each issue is a fragment of events that feels like it's building to more interesting things later. I'm not even saying it's bad. Only that it has failed to live up to the unreasonably high expectations set forth by its fans.
Morrison is a fearless writer who dares readers to open their minds to open possibilities on their world that they don't have to take necessarily seriously, but perhaps they may not have been aware of earlier. Grant is the kind of guy who allows himself to be a bad writer- which in my view, makes him a good one. His work can feel messy; disjointed. But always unique and at the end of it all, empathetic. I can't fault any of it.
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