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#Grant morrison invisibles series#
The Invisibles is inevitably going to be picked up by anyone who's enamored with Morrison after his recent work, but the average comic book fan unfortunately won't quite know what the series is and might not give it a try - or might give up after being totally unprepared. So for whatever reason - poor sales, too much else going on, exponential weirdness by comparison - The Invisibles never really took off, and it's almost never cited outside of Morrison 101. Elsewhere in the Vertigo marketplace, The Invisibles had to compete with names like Neil Gaiman ( The Sandman), Peter Milligan ( Shade, the Changing Man), and Garth Ennis ( Preacher), not to mention the whole Image Comics boom of the '90s. The Invisibles began in 1994 that same year, Metropolis was falling in the pages of Superman, Jack Kirby died, and Frank Miller's second "Sin City" storyline was just getting warmed up. Whether you believe in the magical underpinnings which Morrison has always claimed for his work - from the infamous Kathmandu abduction scenario to the encounter with the "real" Superman outside a comics convention - the gist is essentially undeniable: The Invisibles hasn't had the impact on comics that its contemporaries have. Morrison has said on several occasions that the entirety of The Invisibles was intended as a hypersigil to "create more Invisibles" and push the culture in a new direction post-2000, but he's admitted almost as frequently that the spell didn't produce the desired results.
#Grant morrison invisibles crack#
If I were to draw up a list of the ten most important trades, I don't think The Invisibles would even crack the top 25. Is The Invisibles a must read? It's a difficult question, but for the most part the answer is "No." It pains me to admit it (for reasons which will be made clear below), but The Invisibles isn't a groundbreaking landmark series that changed comics forever.
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Now that I've reached the end of my seven reviews on a trade-by-trade basis, I'm left with the question - what do I do with all of this? "And so we return and begin again." For those of you just joining us, we've been looking at the seven-trade collection of Grant Morrison's The Invisibles since March.