The Invisibles is a total mind-fuck, Oh, but how an awesome a read it is, all three volumes of it. Definitely deserves a few more rereads … If you asked me what the series was about, I wouldn't even know where to start, but that's more a comment on the book than on me, though in its defense, I'm probably not on the same wave length the book is intended for… Its taken a couple of months to complete this mammoth viscera of quantum mechanics, Freudian antiquations, absurdist philosophy and wry syfy...

I just finished The Invisibles last week and, just to be sure I knew how I felt about it, reread it all in one shot over the past weekend. Still struggling to put my feelings into words, I submit this Youtube video instead. It's only 4 mins long and basically covers the entire 1,500 page series, so check it out and be rewinded to the days of old battles: The Invisibles or "this is how we trip at school"

This is one of those books that makes you feel different just by reading it. 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 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 want to burn something down, and then after you do, it doesn't le...

There is so much going on in this in terms of our modern cultural zeitgeist that it should be required reading in first year college. It's that important of a piece of storytelling.

Month by month this may have seemed like a revolution in comic book storytelling, but collected into one volume it quickly becomes apparent just how slapdash the whole thing is: storylines are picked up from nowhere and abandoned partway through, characters are followed through adventures that bear no relation to the overarching plot simply because Morrison finds them shinier than the central narrative for a while, and the whole thing rapidly begin to resemble an unscripted, unholy mess. I have

"its not you, its me"Sorry Morrison, i really tried to like your book, but couldn't... i'm probably too dumb for your master piece.Perhaps when i'm older and wiser I can try to re-read it, and with the added knowledge of the age I might be able to understand it than... but now, man: I HATED every single page of it!Sorry Morrison, but its over... take your things out of my house. I don't want to see you anymore.

I've read this three times now and every time I come away with something new.I love every second, despite its flaws. Every time I read The Invisibles, I feel energised. I want to read every author and idea that is referenced. I want to go on adventures and have my own meeting with Barbelith. This is the book that truly made me a Grant Morrison fan - even though it wasn't the first of his works that I had read.I know I will read this again, and if you haven't read it yet then I urge you to do so....

The Invisibles Omnibus made me finally get off my lazy ass and join a gym, so I could build my scrawny self up into the Flex Mentallo-esque burly man-god this handsomely bound collected edition was obviously designed to be read by. The book is heavy, the ideas are heavier, and you will never be the same again, once The Invisibles is done reading you.

Terrorism Can Be Fashionable And Fun[Spoilers... sort of.]This is Grant Morrison with the handcuffs off, unshackled from the Superhero chain-gang. Like Alan Moore, Warren Ellis and Neil Gaiman, Morrison never got properly edumacated at a University-whatnot, and like his fellow Brit comic-book super-writers, he possesses an imaginative genius that puts many-a serious novelist to shame. After penning some ground-breaking stories for DC like Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth(...

A psychedelic fueled trip into a world where every conspiracy theory imaginable is a reality...whatever reality seems to be. Grant Morrison guides us from the Mersey river of Liverpool to the demonic capitalist orgies at the edge of time. Every mind-bending turn of the page is filled with philosophy, provocation and psilocybin. Fasten your seatbelts (If you think it will help), you're in for a ride.

This is probably the singular most difficult book I've ever reviewed. Grant Morrison's "The Invisibles" isn't your average comic book fare. It's a massive tome (almost 1,500 pages in length), high-concept and very adult. The writing is an interesting combination of philosophical intelligence and complete bollocks. It doesn't adhere to any one genre. While the content is often fascinating, the story is much too long and lacks cohesion. The art is wildly inconsistent - everything from poor to bril...

DNF 54 pages.I can't do it. This has a very rah-rah-anarchy-punk! feel to it that just doesn't interest me at this point in my life. Or maybe at any 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 hipAbsolutely no offense to all the fans of this series, but I'm too old and too square to get it. Ev...

For the love of Buddha, LSD, orgasms and microchips, read The Invisibles now! The fate of our ultradimensional hypertime continuum depends on it!Seriously, read this mind copulater at once. The omnibus is one hefty, unwieldy SOB, but it's worth it, especially to aspiring comics creators, for the inclusion of Grant's proposal for the series that he pitched to Vertigo as well as original sketches, etc. I also enjoyed the essays from the letters pages of the original comics. A very cool edition of

Loved it but (as stated in the last issue) I'm going to have to read through it from the start a couple more times because I definitely missed some stuff, as is the case with most books written by Grant Morrison.This is a series that is filled with ideas and concepts- which come off as incredibly personal. The entirety of The Invisibles is a vehicle for Grant Morrison to share their beliefs and experiences with the metaphysical. They put so much of themself in the characters to the point that ea...

It's a complete mindfuck. Multiple readings mandatory.

I had a vasectomy back in 2005, and an old friend of mine came by the day my brother drove me home. This cat knew I was a huge Terence McKenna fan-so he dropped the first lot of Grant's books on me. I had never been a comic guy, and wasn't hip to graphic novels either. Needless to say-He blew my mind!!! Both my old friend for being so far out as to let me handle these treasures and Grant for whipping me into a frenzy on all levels. Now, with the whole collection in one book-I'm chewing on it lik...

Read via Hoopla, so only the first 12 issues. It's wonderfully bonkers, more than a little indebted to Alan Moore (though what ambitious comic writer isn't?) and just a touch gruesome. Certain plot lines are more rewarding than others, though I appreciate its flights of fancy even if it doesn't always nail the land. Looking forward to reading the rest!

I have mixed feelings about this book.This is Grant Morrison at his most experimental. If you read Doom Patrol and thought to yourself:"Somebody needs to rewrite this to have a global conspiracy, time travel, magic, demons, and have the main character be the most boring person ever. Then they need to shuffle the pages of the manuscript. Then they need to remove every seventh page."That would probably be The Invisibles.This ventures into territory past weird and absurd and experimental and tip-to...

I am re-reading this epic for the 4th or 5th time which seems fitting with the 12.21.12 date approaching. I'm not going to give a normal review of this book since there are so many out there already that do a better job than I would. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invi...This comic book series left a huge impression on me. I was familiar with Grant's work from Doom Patrol so I knew it would be good. I picked it up issue by issue as it came out on the comic book shelf starting in Sept. of 94. I...

Magic, psychic war, time travel, espionage. But how about that ending. 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. 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. That everything is everything, and whatever that means we should gobble up that truth and amen. Unfortuna...