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Title: Say You Want a Revolution (The Invisibles, Book 1) by Grant Morrison, Steve Yeowell, Jill Thompson, Dennis Cramer ISBN: 1563892677 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36
Rating: 3
Summary: A more innocent time
Comment: Reading it now, the first 8 issues of the Invisibles seem almost childish. The conspiracy is painfully upfront with little mystery. The Acadia story arc that makes up the bulk of the issues is plodding and really quite dull.
But if you look closely, in the little cracks, you can see a sort of incredible sincerity and a real desire to create something special. Jack Frost is a wonderful character, Buddha as british hooligan.
Grant Morrison was trying to mold all of his greatest influences into one bold series, but it really comes off as a mess. But it's a great mess but a mess nonetheless. Morrison's effort on this was A1 and it's very obviously a great work of love.
This is where it began, and it only gets better to get a little bit worse in the end.
Rating: 5
Summary: Could very possibly change your perception of reality.
Comment: This book is a MUST read for anyone with Deconstructionist or Discordian views. It is a comic book, but don't let others opinions of comics and their content sway you. This is no juvenile super-hero in tights smash-em-up for 23 pages. The Invisibles is about subversion of the status quo, deconstruction of patterned and controlled thought and trying to make sure everyone benefits from the end of the world. This book could hold some very real changes of perception for you. As the young Dane McGowan/Jack Frost is initiated into the Invisibles, so are you, given small tidbits that the reality we're all being held to is only that way because it benefits others for you to see reality in this light. You create your reality, this book can and will show you that. There are large and sinister forces behind a lot of very shady dealings in government, business, entertainment, etc., not just in the U.S., but in the world. Don't take my word for it, start looking around, question aut! ! hority and what you see on TV, you might start to see what I mean. Grant Morrison has an eye that sees past all of this. If you really get into the Invisibles, it will seem like you're being let in on a very big secret. Admittedly, it can be a very cryptic and challenging read at times, but if you're willing to put in some effort, and research this work outside of this collection or the monthly issues, you may just start to find and see "the big secret" I've described. This book could change your life, and may start us all on the road to true physical and spiritual freedom.
Rating: 4
Summary: First Half: 5 stars; Second Half: 3 stars.
Comment: I have to agree with one of the earlier reviewers that this would have been a better book if it had stopped halfway through. In the first half, we are introduced to the eerie world of the Invisibles from the perspective of the young Jack Frost protagonist, with whom we can relate (obnoxious as he might be).
But the second half of the book suffers from jarring time travel sequences, high gross-out content, arcane conversations, and a lack of sympathetic characters. The Marquis de Sade is, I think, *intended* to be such a viewpoint character, but I found him too strange and off-putting to have much sympathy for him. And the Invisibles themselves already seem to know everything.
That said, I have to conclude that it's a very ambitious and engrossing book nonetheless. The high point for me was Jack Frost's initiation to the Barbelo and whatnot, at the end of the 4th chapter. That had me really hooked, despite the fact that things got less interesting as the story went on.
I can definitely recommend this book to people who liked THE ILLUMINATUS! TRILOGY and some of the more paranoid Philip K. Dick novels; that sort of thing.
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Title: Entropy in the UK (The Invisibles, Book 3) by Grant Morrison, Phil Jimenez, Steve Yeowell ISBN: 1563897288 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Apocalipstick (The Invisibles, Book 2) by Grant Morrison, Jill Thompson ISBN: 1563897024 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Bloody Hell in America (The Invisibles, Book 4) by Grant Morrison, Phil Jimenez ISBN: 1563894440 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Counting to None (The Invisibles, Book 5) by Grant Morrison, Phil Jimenez ISBN: 1563894890 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Kissing Mister Quimper (The Invisibles, Book 6) by Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, Brian Bolland ISBN: 1563896001 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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