I have read and reread these comics 6 or 7 times in the past 10 years and every time I'm surprised by how much it affects me, and inspires me. Do you know? Or does it just feel good to do? It wants to know what you think burning things down solves. It makes you want to burn something down, and then after you do, it doesn't let you off the hook. ![]() It is the kind of book that makes you go crazy in the very best way, so that you believe in magic and in secret underground cities and in the connectedness of all things sort of, but you know, not in a flaky way. It makes you pay more attention to the world, to the weird small things, to ideas and to other people, and most of all to yourself. It makes you want to burn something down, and then after you do, it doesn't le This is one of those books that makes you feel different just by reading it. ![]() This is one of those books that makes you feel different just by reading it. Average comic readers need not apply.more 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. Unfortuna Magic, psychic war, time travel, espionage. ![]() ![]() Magic, psychic war, time travel, espionage. And after a week of doing this, I'm pretty sure it's alright to call a time of death.more Every time I look at this giant monstrosity sitting on my kitchen table, I just shudder and turn away. Top it off with trippy dream sequences and nonsensical sentences that are supposed to sound brooding and introspective, but just leave me feeling like shaking the characters and yelling Just SAY what you mean, goddammit! <-I am not hipĪbsolutely no offense to all the fans of this series, but I'm too old and too square to get it. This has a very rah-rah-anarchy-punk! feel to it that just doesn't interest me at this point in my life. Top it off with trippy dream sequences and nonsensical sentences that are supposed to sound brooding and introspective, but just leave me feeling like shaking the characters and yelling Just SAY what you mean, goddammit! <-I am not hip Absolutely no offense to all the fans of this series, but I'm too old and too square to get it.
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