![]() I’ll my best to describe the first volume, but it really must be read to be believed. Throw in a bit of the conspiracy theory craze that swept the world in the mid-1990s, along with some pre-turn of the century paranoia, and you have the mixture that produced The Invisibles. The Invisibles appears to be a very personal project of Morrison’s, providing intersections for the pop culture aspects that he is interested in, and the metaphysical/magic-esque sub culture that he has studied and supposedly mastered. He’s been attributed as a practicer of “ chaos magic“, and I have no clue as to what that means. From what I’ve read and heard, Morrison has spent quite a bit of time in the Far East, studying religions, eastern philosophies and doing a lot of drugs (so I’ve heard). We’ve often described Morrison as the “rock star” comic book writer, and that’s very much the case, but underneath the snazzy dresser and the smoothly shaved head, lies a guy into some weird magic type shit. I’m talking Alan Moore level weird shit, but not in the same spooky kind of way. I’m not going to lie to you, he’s into some weird shit. Now for those of you who don’t know enough about the man, Grant Morrison, here’s a quick primer. But at some point, I ended up on a plane with volume 1 and finally gave it a shot. As you can imagine, uninformed biases can be hard to break. It still took a few more years before I approached the title for reading. So as he told me of his experience with The Invisibles, it really resonated with me and I never forgot his words. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to talk to or hear Jimenez speak at a con, you’ll soon realize that he is a very passionate and sincere man when it comes to comics. He told me how much he loved that book and those characters and was thankful to have been a part of such a cool and important project. Jimenez was excited because he was about to pencil some work that he couldn’t tell me about (turns out it was his first issues of New X-Men) and he gushed about his experience previously working on The Invisibles. While getting a sketch from Phil Jimenez at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2001 (or was it 2002?) somehow the conversation meandered to Grant Morrison. Published by Vertigo/DC Comics from 1994 through 2000, The Invisibles was an early Vertigo flagship title, and while I’ve heard of some very dedicated and devout fans of the book, it always seems to have been dismissed as “that book that doesn’t make any sense.” I had often heard The Invisibles described this way, and combined with my uninformed bias against Vertigo, I never touched the series. Do you think you’d be interested in that sort of comic? Well I should hope so, because it exists and it’s called The Invisibles. ![]() Imagine for a moment that I were to sit you down and tell you about a series of comic books lasting 59 issues over the span of 6 years that were all written by Grant Morrison and featured art by Chris Weston, Phil Jimenez, Sean Phillips, Philip Bond, Ivan Reis and Frank Quitely, to name a few.
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