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The Invisibles Omnibus. Grant Morrison (2000)

by Grant Morrison(Favorite Author)

4.43 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1781164029 (ISBN13: 9781781164020)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Titan Publishing Company

review 1: This series. What can you say about it? Impossibly difficult at times? Yes. Amazingly subversive for the time? Yup. An amazing experiment that actually finished the way the writer intended? Most definitely.This series I think sums up some of the best things about the Vertigo imprint during the 90's. While there were stronger works under that banner (sandman, preacher) The Invisibles stands on its own. The story itself, I feel, is completely up to each individual reader. How much you know about the many, many different subjects that are thrown at you during this series can greatly affect your enjoyment of it. Obtuse, violent, sexy and weird are probably the best ways to describe it. This is Grant Morrison being full on Grant Morrison. Read the book, charge the sigil, and jo... morein the invisible army!
review 2: 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 friends who love this series beyond anything they've ever read, and it's certainly facile enough to give the appearance of depth. But there's no centre to it, nothing beyond surface sheen and whatever pop-psychology moment Morrison is grooving to at the moment he writes the next panel. It's Le Carre for the attention-deprived. less

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