The Invisibles, book 3 by Grant Morrison and Phil Jiminez
late 90's
Look at that cover! Incredible, I want it black and white on a T-shirt! Of all the comics I had laying around the past year, that one got comments from people who noticed it, enough that I started leaving it face down.
I read books 1 and 2 in the summer, and enjoyed them. I'd read the first issue when it came out in the 90's, but it didn't grab me then. It's a book that requires more patience than I had at age 19.
It's a grab bag of cool stuff, especially 90's cool stuff: anarchy, conspiracy, deviancy, technology, spirituality, philosophy. This was all the stuff that was exciting about alternative culture at the time that eventually got squeezed out as companies figured out how to market and exploit the culture more effectively. The Invisibles is 90's culture distilled into an intimate epic.
Book three is the second volume of the series. This collection has one artist instead of a rotating cast, and is slightly more coherent. The first two collections have a lot of tangents. It's not quite as WTF as the first two, but it's a more enjoyable read. I found it easier to binge.
Morrison works really hard to communicate these metaphysical ideas he has, and after enough time, it made sense to me. Sample dialogue:
-"If our words are circles, theirs are bubbles."
-"The universe is a hologram created by the overlapping of two meta-universes."
I really like the attitude and the ideas of this series, and wish I'd been reading it all when it was new!
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