"I'm one holy fucking terror."I went into this expecting a superhero comic and got psychic warfare and psychedelic anarchy instead. Morrison at his most experimental and ambitious."There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always."

When I started to get into comics in college, it was the britwave authors who I found most appealing: Moore, Gaiman, Delano, Ellis, Ennis, Milligan, and Morrison. But when I tried to read Morrison's Magnum Opus, I found none of the careful structuring or intelligent dialogue which I was hoping for. In disappointment, I threw down Morrison's book and it was a long time before I gave him another chance.But when I did, I read WE3 , Morrison's cleanest and least pretentious story. I still have tr...

This graphic novel is a spicy gumbo of astounding influences. Listing just a few: Illuminatus!, brain machines, psychedelics, chaos magick, conspiracy theory, mind control, The Prisoner, Michael Moorcock's The Cornelius Chronicles, material gnosticism, Dada, Situationism, violence/ ahimsa, time travel, secret societies... Author Grant Morrison never disappoints and serves as a reminder that much of the most advanced fiction of our times is turning up in comic books. Like Robert Anton Wilson befo...

Should be called, "Ohhhh my! Aren't we alternative!?!"

Grant Morrison has said that he wrote The Invisibles as part of a magic ritual, and also that aliens told him part of the plot. Really. The Invisibles ends up being pretty much exactly what you'd expect, given that background. Let me also add that there's a great deal of ultra-paranoid conspiracy theory culture as well as the expected psychedelic gods and astral time travel and such. As for the plot... Well, there's an ill-defined secret conspiracy to rob humanity of free will and The Invisibles...

I realized today that I've never actually reviewed this book. I thought about reviewing it. Then I realized that I hate this book so much I can't even write about it.So: I hate this book. I hate, hate, hate this book.I hate it.

Morrison's a fucking spaz. Is it too boneheaded to ask for a bit more action? He always has to have his characters--none of which I particularly care about--ramble on with long speeches that rope in historical perspective and introductory philosophy and grand-yet-hollow ideas for no real reason.I often like where The Invisibles goes once it gets going. There are parts that are perfectly odd, and when Morrison can streamline a scene--usually with action instead of piles and piles of information--...

This is the best comic book series ever written. Best. Ever. Every single good idea in the Matrix trilogy was "borrowed" from The Invisibles. The Wachowskis are responsible for the bad ideas.

This was a lot of fun. It reminded me of early Hellblazer except it doesn't take itself quite as seriously. If you don't know much about Grant Morrison, I would suggest doing a bit of homework before diving into this, as it deals with (and is a product of) some occult concepts important to Morrison. Knowing about this beforehand really helped me enjoy and understand it a bit more than I would have otherwise. I suggest checking out his disinfo.con lecture (which is what made me want to read this

Lots of conspiracy theories thrown together for the hell of it.and none of it making a damn bit of sense.I found it all wildly inconsistent,boring and nothing in it at all made me want to read on except my own will power.I am amazed this desperately hard to read tat gets such good reviews yes its very different ,but it's not very good at all.

This is the first volume of what many consider to be a classic series. The first half focuses on a young Jack Frost, a problem teenager, who is initiated into the Invisibles and thus gives the reader a look into this fantastic world. Jack goes to a boarding school that turns out to be a lot more and picks up a homeless mentor who teaches him about other worlds and the possibility of visiting them. The second part is about the Invisibles using a time travel ritual to visit and hire the Marquis de...

It's funny, but everything I liked and didn't like about the Doom Patrol book I read is everything I don't like and like about this book. Whereas I reveled in the "dada" aspect of the Doom Patrol, and was disappointed when all the nonsense began to have a pat logic to it, this book's nonsense struck me as too much free posturing, and I wanted desperately for some semblance of plot to exist to grab my attention on. There is something to be said about Aristotle's old bit about a story needing a be...

Picked this one up at the LCS because of all the discussion surrounding the Omnibus release. I figured it was time to sample it. I don't think I like it. I really struggled at first because Dane is so unlikable -- I just don't identify with that kind of rebellion. (I can see where he would speak to a lot of kids, though, especially back in the 90's.) Then I liked it with Mad Tom playing the Merlin/Wart, Way of the Peaceful Warrior Socrates, etc character for Dane. And then Arcadia felt pretentio...

What hath God Grant Morrison wrought?Have you ever had those dreams where you start out doing something, get sidetracked as different events build on one another? You still desperately want to get back to point A, but try as you might, you find yourself lost in a nightmare with no reference point – mentally ragged and irritable.If you have these types of dreams, you can appreciate this volume. Or not.Dane McGowan, is a young punk from Liverpool who loves anarchy and rebellion. And being from Liv...

I know, I know, I’m late to the party on this one! The first volume of The Invisibles came out 20 years ago and I’m just now getting around to reading it – all I can say is: Batman. But anyway, I’m here now and glad to have finally read such a talked-about book and discovering that it’s really good! The first Invisibles book introduces us to our hero Dane McGowan, an angry working class teenager from Liverpool who spends his evenings vandalising property while his single mother entertains her la...

Yeah, okay. As fellow reviewer William Thomas points out, the book suffers because of the art. Steve Yeowell & Jill Thompson, respectively illustrating the first and second arcs, don't exactly make the book stand out. I liked Yeowell's output better than Thompson's, though.Story-wise, I'm aware [1] of the phenomenon that "The Invisibles" has become, [2] that it probably picks up in pace and what-not in subsequent volumes, and that [3] what I'm reading will most likely make more sense later - if

Grant Morrison wants desperately to be Alan Moore, only hipper. The only problem is he doesn't have one tenth the talent or intelligence Moore has. So he writes boring, sophomoric drivel meant to show off his encyclopedic knowledge of counter-cultural esoterica but which in fact only demonstrates that he either didn't really pay attention to any of his source material, or he was just too thick to 'get it.' The art is ugly and the writing is crap. Sprawling in its scope yet conceptually shallow.

The first two thirds of this were arresting, but then it quickly irked me once time travel and the Marqui de Sade were involved.A teenage trouble-making thug is sent to a reform school where parts of their brains and their testicles are removed, but he's saved by an Invisible and inducted into their cell after a long education on the streets with Tom Bedlam. See, there's a war on between the beings who want to rule the earth, the Invisibles, and the earth itself who wants humanity to move onto t...

1 1/2 StarsI imagine Morrison sitting in a candlelit room flourishing a quill as he wrote this pretentious babble. Dude, get over yourself.In the end I gave up, I just couldn't. That's right, I was so bored that I couldn't even bring myself to read the final 3 pages. It seemed to me that Morrison was just throwing everything he could at it and calling it philosophy. To me a good gage of the quality of a comic is in the picture to word ratio. If you aren't relying on the artwork to move the story...

That made only the slightest bit of sense.