This is where Invisibles really takes off. We've finished all the prefatory explanatory gubbins and now the gloves are off and we meet the bad guys. And what a ride it is: extraordinary mystical journeys, mind-games of the highest order, horrifying alien bio-technology that make the Borg look cuddly, and even more horrifying ultraporn.Okay, it's not entirely easy to understand, but Morrison is setting up a very interesting synthesis of any number of ideas which neatly sets any number of standard...

Volume 3 of The Invisibles and the last volume before the new first issue and second installment. What a blast!More Jim Crow, a character I seriously adore. The leanings towards Voodoo are something I am particularly fond of in this series, along with the sheer opaque nature of it all. Teasing the reader with switches in time, perspective, and who knows what else - I'm loving it, though I can understand why Grant Morrison is an author that severely polarizes readers in general.The evolution of J...

More mindfuckery abound. This one is definitely my favorite of these first three. The whole sequence from the torture of King Mob til Jack Frost's triumph at his "Last Temptation" was just fun from page to page. Loved every word-bubble of it. Can't wait to see what multi-dimensional chaos-fueled magick shenanigans The Invisibles get themselves into in the U.S. in Volume 4. And I hope Jim Crow sticks around for more fun as well.Honestly, I can't imagine an entry in this mindfuck marathon of a ser...

In the third installment the leader of the Invisibles finds himself battling against a brutal interrogation that wishes to know all the secrets of the Invisibles and their cells scattered all over the world. It's also focused on how Boy and how she joined the Invisibles as well as more on the rebellious, suconciously dream suppressed Jack Frost, the chosen Messiah who is likely the only one who can truly deal with the Archons, advanced beings that basically want to suck the life out of our world...

Volume 3 of The Invisibles mostly centres upon King Mob, who has been captured by the many-named antagonists and is being interrogated. Lord Fanny has also been captured but is not tortured to the same extent. The Invisibles, Vol. 3: Entropy in the U.K. includes an entertaining sequence of fake realities that King Mob uses as shields to withstand psychic interrogation. These have definite Alan Moorcock vibes and the reader is left unsure how much of his genuine backstory leaks into them. Is King...

The three-parter Entropy in UK is sheer brilliance and I would read it any day instead of having to watch Matrix or Inception. How I Became Invisible, the back story of Boy, that follows is tonally distinct and is a great read.Jimenez' entry here for art is a strong plus and this is where perhaps this series catches its proverbial fire.

Shelly and Byron may be the most prominent poets in the Invisibles' orbit up til now, but as the series' first volume concludes, it's Yeats' famous lines that feel most apt: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned.” The themes of fracturing and disintegration I noted in the second volume are foregrounded here as the text itself begins to unravel across multiple la...

So King Mob is tortured, and Morrison (who looks and sounds suspiciously like KM!) had some horrible health issues at the same time. Hence, Grant's belief that he can write reality. No surprise, KM gets a hot girlfriend in v. 4!Jimenez draws three issues focusing on KM and Fanny's time in captivity and the twisted mind games Sir Miles of the conspiracy plays in KM's head, while Ragged Robin recruits Jim Crow to rescue her teammates and Boy tracks down Jack. Tommy Lee Edwards draws a flashback is...

Just brilliant. This does actually feel like a commentary on some of Zenith, particularly the final parts of Phase One. Honestly this is Morrison at his most accessible (well, relatively) because he’s bunging out mad ideas but at the same time bothering to unpack them for you as well. And much as I like Michael Moorcock I think in a world where he gives Gaiman and Moore a free pass but he takes umbrage at Gideon Stargrave says a lot more about him demanding a certain deference than anything else...

Three stars because I appreciate the Lovecraftian/Occult vibes in this volume. I also like it when comics get real freaky and blue titties leaking nanomachines is really fucking freaky. But damnit I am profoundly pissed off that Jack is just an asshole. Even after finding out how his magic works, he's being a homophobic twat to people that have saved his hide multiple times. I'm going to continue but only because this run gets so much praise from people whose tastes I respect, but I'm not feelin...

Now we're cooking with alien dimension gas!

King Mob and Lord Fanny have been kidnapped by Sir Miles and The Conspiracy and are being tortured for information on The Invisibles - will Ragged Robin, Boy and Jim Crow save them in time? Meanwhile, Jack Frost is still coming to terms with his role as saviour of humanity as the next incarnation of the Buddha, and a new member of The Invisibles is introduced who is looking for the Moonchild. I really love Grant Morrison’s writing, I do, but his Invisibles series just isn’t clicking with me in t...

For me this one slid a bit too much into overdoing the epic metaphysical good vs. evil demon battle thing - like the less interesting parts of Alan Moore stuff.

The final bit of the first volume of The Invisibles is where we start to get some answers to all the craziness that's been happening. It's when I finally felt like I had a grasp on the concepts Morrison we're playing with, and where he wanted to go with the story (as much as you can know about anything by Morrison)It's arguably more accessible than the rest of the volume, and I really enjoyed being able to get something out of the story on a surface level reading. Obviously you're still expected...

The Invisibles are scattered and in serious peril. Can they even survive the magic of the trans-dimensional beings that have arrayed against them? King Mob is being tortured and is on the brink of death. But Jack Frost, seeming to be a chosen one, is still missing. He seems to be the key to everything. They will require the whole team to save him, if they're that lucky.Terribly violent and loaded with magic and monsters galore, this installment is the best one yet. Don't read this if you're sque...

Okay, so part of this were really good. The torture drug and the nanobot stuff, but towards the end it was seriously dated with some very 1990s thinking. I'm so glad things progressed and changed from those days. At the time it was the way things were, but now I look back and think- thank the goddesses for progress. At the time this was radical stuff to say all that in a publication.So undeterred and without harsh social criticism (because that was then) I'll finish the tales because the main st...

Sometimes I find Morrison profound and other times I feel like he has been sniffing way too many of his own farts. Whenever I read a volume of The Invisibles, however, I always give Morrison leeway to be as confusing and mind-bending as he wants and he never lets me down.

Hm. On one hand, I'm consistently fascinated by what Morrison is going to pull out in this series. Anything goes, it seems. But this storyline in particular felt a bit drawn out to me. And could the characters be any thinner? Still, I'm enjoying myself far more than not, and there have been some really stellar issues, even here. Boy's origin story, in particular, just worked on every level.

Most of this third volume of The Invisibles is a big, dramatic, action-packed showdown. I guess for many readers that's an exciting prospect, but my tastes tend to lean in the opposite direction, and as a result I found this less interesting than I would've found a slower-paced installment that focused more on character-building and exploring Morrison's weird mythology. That said, as action-packed showdowns go, this is a fairly enjoyable one, with a whole lot of psychedelic craziness going on. T...

So far, this is the most riveting of the volumes in this series. The dangers which seemed so ethereal before (not that that's a bad thing) seem more real. Some mysteries are explained and the overall mission of the Invisibles is clearer and easier to connect with. Thankfully, though, that doesn't mean the everything is suddenly cut and dried and mundane. The book is still full of secrets, intrigue, and that special Grant Morrison weirdness that charms so many of us, and baffles just as many.