![]() And it’s not that I didn’t enjoy reading it, but as a skeptic of conspiracy theories, magic, and mysticism - and a boring, not very cool mundane - I had a difficult time really getting into it. But it lasted 10 issues instead of 8 this time. He does an excellent job of embellishing Jimenez’ pencils (see the Tempest limited series they did together for another example), and I’d hope to see the two of them working together as often as possible.ĭespite all of the good things it has going for it, I ended up dropping The Invisibles vol.2 as well. And frankly, Jimenez is one of the few artists working in comics who draws both sexy women and sexy men very well, making it easy to “put up with” even if you don’t care for it.Ĭredit should be given as well to inker John Stokes. I’m in favour of the former), so it doesn’t bother me. But I guess you could say that I have a higher tolerance for pleasure-seeking than wanton destruction ( i.e. The third scene in vol.2 #1 is a sex scene between two of the characters that would undoubtedly get an “R” rating if it were in a movie. The same could be said of the sex, I suppose. I could do without it, because at times it gets gratuitous. It fits that whole “action” focus, I guess. People don’t just got shot they get shot apart. Yes, The Invisibles can get a bit gory at times. And when he draws a head exploding upon being shot point-blank by a high-powered rifle… well, you get the picture. He handles Morrison’s occasional off-the-wall scenes effectively, and his style emphasises the reality in surreality when he renders a glowing, disembodied hand in precise detail, it becomes a little easier to believe that such a thing exists. His highly-realistic style seemed an odd match for the highly-surreal tendencies of Morrison, and I wondered how well a self-described “boring… complete and utter southern California boy… who leads a totally mundane life” would mesh with Morrison, the ultra-hip Scottish god of weirdness. First, because I really like his work but second, because he seemed an unlikely choice. I was intrigued to hear that Phil Jimenez was going to be that regular artist. Finally, they decided to go with a single ongoing artistic team, rather than the different-artist-for-each-story-arc approach of the first series. Another was to focus more attention on the action and linear storytelling, to make it a bit easier for more prosaic minds (such as mine, I admit) to follow. One change was to bring the team to America… make the setting a bit more familiar to the Yankee reading audience. Some time later, the series was cancelled, with a promise that it would be brought back… the clear implication being that they’d be “fixing” the things that had caused readers (such as I?) to drift away, and figured a relaunch of the series would help bring them back. It was well done, but didn’t really capture my attention, so I stopped reading it and eventually sold the books to someone. I picked up the original Invisibles series when it came out in 1994, and read the first two story arcs, “Down and Out in Heaven and Hell” and “Arcadia”. They include: King Mob, a shaved-headed multi-pierced natural-born leader a black woman from Harlem ironically known as Boy Lord Fanny, a Brazilian transvestite who’d put many female models to shame Dane a young British punk purported to be the next Buddha (and whose recruitment into the Invisibles was the entry-point for the first volume of the story) and Ragged Robin, a woman in mime make-up with a mysterious past… in the future. The series is about the “invisible” struggle between the agents of total Control who run the world, and those rag tag, not-really-organised souls fighting to liberate humanity: our heroes. The Invisibles is a prime example of this. My opinion is a bit more reserved: I think he’s a very good but sometimes self-indulgent writer. ![]() There are some who revere Grant Morrison as a god, or at least so it seems. ![]() ![]() Creators: Grant Morrison, Phil Jimenez, John Stokes.
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