THE INVISIBLES COMIC SERIES

THE INVISIBLES COMIC SERIES

'The series loosely follows the doings of a single cell of The Invisible College, a secret organization battling against physical and psychic oppression using time travel, magic, meditation, and physical violence'.įor most of the series, the team includes leader King Mob Lord Fanny, a transgender Brazilian shaman Boy, a former member of the NYPD Ragged Robin, a telepath with a mysterious past and Jack Frost, a young hooligan from Liverpool who may be the next Buddha. The series has four deluxe edition hardcovers, 59 issues in total. It's just that The Invisibles takes everything several notches further than The Matrix ever did, in terms of both the characters and plot. Once you've read it, you'll see a number of similarities. Morrison contends that The Wachowskis asked him to draw a comic for them back in the day, and that he knows a guy who worked on the film who said that there were Invisibles comics strewn all over. The Matrix took quite a bit from the series as well, both on a surface level and beyond, minus the super-weird. It also has a LOT of heart and characters that you'd come to love.

Just know that it's super abstract in places, endlessly trippy and mindbending, with otherworldly ideas tossed at you throughout. It's highly philosophical, littered with pop-culture references, time travel, voodoo, sigil magick, gnosticism and a lot more that you should discover for yourself. The Invisible Comics virtual collec- Continuing the tradition of samizdat activ- tion has been conceived as the connecting line ity that has characterized youth and alternative between peculiar independent, authorial, alter- culture in Yugoslavia, alternative comics in Ser- native comics production in Serbia in the last bia experienced. It's a wholehearted recommendation to those looking for some incredibly challenging storytelling. When I first read it, I was young and couldn't comprehend what was on display as much as I could now. I just got done with a re-read of one of my favourite comic books of all time, The Invisibles, by Grant Morrison.

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