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The Invisibles, by Grant Morrison

Started by Cramulus, May 05, 2007, 06:59:23 AM

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Cramulus


Now I'm not someone who reads a lot of comics. But I devoured The Invisibles. Like Illuminatus!, I think its one of those things that all Discordians should read at some point.

The Invisibles are a sect of Discordianesqe hero types who fight the forces which are trying to control and conform reality. But it's more than that. There's a lot of drugs, explosions, philosophical banter, chaos magic, and obscure literary references too. If that's your shtick, I think you'll dig it.

Many people believe that The Invisibles was the inspiration for The Matrix. Morrison says they essentially plagiarized it "plot by plot, detail by detail, image by image." (he's not pissed, just wishes he got credit) But it goes a lot further than the Matrix - those of you who wish the Wachowskis pushed the conceptual envelope a little further will probably find what you were looking for here.

Compare/contrast the scene where Agent Smith interrogates Morpheus with this snippet:

As a side note - there's a plotline towards the beginning which seems a little bit slow. Later in the series, Morrison says he regretted how it turned out - too much crazy jibba jabba and not enough action. I won't tell you which one it is. And I don't think it's that bad. But if you get a little way into this and then are all "The Professor lied - this is boring!" just hang on--

Towards the end of volume 1 (the files I've listed above), it gets really intense. It gives me goosebumps remembering how awesome it is.

Here's a snippet more from the beginning:

anyway, I hope you guys dig it as much as I did. When I'm in a funk, I read the Invisibles to motivate me to get off my ass and go shake shit up. Grant Morrison's a genius.

The Littlest Ubermensch

DLed "The Filth" a little while ago, and I was impressed. I'm definitely going to download these as well. Nice work Prof.
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thankew! I read the first iss a while back and I been looking for the rest ever since

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Lies

Thanks man, I've heard alot about this series, and was even shown a copy once, but I didn't get a chance to read it.
I'm sure I'll be requesting the other volumes soon too ;).

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Lies

page 23 (ZOMGPENILE!) is missing from vol 1 book 3.

What happen??
- So the New World Order does not actually exist?
- Oh it exists, and how!
Ask the slaves whose labour built the White House;
Ask the slaves of today tied down to sweatshops and brothels to escape hunger;
Ask most women, second class citizens, in a pervasive rape culture;
Ask the non-human creatures who inhabit the planet:
whales, bears, frogs, tuna, bees, slaughtered farm animals;
Ask the natives of the Americas and Australia on whose land
you live today, on whose graves your factories, farms and neighbourhoods stand;
ask any of them this, ask them if the New World Order is true;
they'll tell you plainly: the New World Order... is you!

Cramulus

22 or 23?

page 22 is supposed to just be blank white space

Lies

Oh ok, well thats fine I suppose.

Also, not to be a whiner, but I think you scanned some pages offly and looks like half the page is missing, though I'm not sure if theres any text I've missed out on, not that its a huge deal, I think I get whats going on anyway.
Just about to start part 6 now...

Funny, now I know why a few friends of mine were talking about getting white buttons...
- So the New World Order does not actually exist?
- Oh it exists, and how!
Ask the slaves whose labour built the White House;
Ask the slaves of today tied down to sweatshops and brothels to escape hunger;
Ask most women, second class citizens, in a pervasive rape culture;
Ask the non-human creatures who inhabit the planet:
whales, bears, frogs, tuna, bees, slaughtered farm animals;
Ask the natives of the Americas and Australia on whose land
you live today, on whose graves your factories, farms and neighbourhoods stand;
ask any of them this, ask them if the New World Order is true;
they'll tell you plainly: the New World Order... is you!

P3nT4gR4m

Hey Cram, I don't suppose there's any chance you have Alan Moore's Promethea on that hard drive of yours?

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Cramulus

Nope - but if anyone's interested, I do have

*Batman: Hush - in which batman fights superman, among other people.

*Frank Miller's 300 - very short - only like 5 issues I think.

& a few others, but I'm at work right now and don't have access to my harddrivez

Cain

I have all of 300, but its on my laptop.

That One Guy

I'm definitely interested in 300, and I LOVED the Filth. However, I'm having issues with the Invisibles files (I do not rule out the possibility of idiocy on my part with that  :eek:). What format are the issues in? I'm running a run-of-the-mill PC with XP Pro and no fancy-schmancy graphics programs, and the files (after I went to uncompress them) were in a format I didn't recognize.

I definitely want to drink deep of this one (the samples you posted are GREAT) but I can't yet, so ...
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Cramulus

They can be viewed with CDisplay, a small program used to view comic books. You can download a copy here.

Glad you're digging it! That makes it worth it that I almost threw my monitor out a window while trying to upload all this stuff.

That One Guy

Swote! I'll DL that when I get home. Definitely worth it - I spent a good couple hours this weekend pouring over the Filth, and my allergy-addled brain made it VERY entertaining 8) I'm looking forward to the Invisibles, too!
People of the United States! We are Unitarian Jihad! We can strike without warning. Pockets of reasonableness and harmony will appear as if from nowhere! Nice people will run the government again! There will be coffee and cookies in the Gandhi Room after the revolution.

Arguing with a Unitarian Universalist is like mud wrestling a pig. Pretty soon you realize the pig likes it.

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Quote from: Professor Cramulus on May 08, 2007, 08:27:27 PM
They can be viewed with CDisplay, a small program used to view comic books. You can download a copy here.

Glad you're digging it! That makes it worth it that I almost threw my monitor out a window while trying to upload all this stuff.

You're a fucking legend cram! Your hard work is well appreciated. I never read morrison since 2000ad days but it appears he's turned into another Alan Moore. What a find.

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

That One Guy

So, I've gotten about 18 or 19 comics in, and holy CRAP this shit is amazing! I'm loving this stuff - great series, and I might have to actually dig up the paper versions of these as they're well worth having a hard copy of. Truly incredible, very motivating stuff.

Thanks a TON Prof  :mrgreen:
People of the United States! We are Unitarian Jihad! We can strike without warning. Pockets of reasonableness and harmony will appear as if from nowhere! Nice people will run the government again! There will be coffee and cookies in the Gandhi Room after the revolution.

Arguing with a Unitarian Universalist is like mud wrestling a pig. Pretty soon you realize the pig likes it.