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Summary: Morrison has a great talent for endings
Review: Book 6: Kissing Mr. Quimper is a page turner, that's for sure. Grant Morrison has a real talent for ending his major story arcs, and this book, ending Volume two of the series, is no exception.There are a lot of twists and turns and the story benefits greatly from it. A number of loose ends are tied up and really shows another talent of Morrison as a storyteller. The Invisibles, through most of the previous series, seemed to be messy and out of control, but he reigns it all in and begins to form the whole picture for us. The last issue is a real testament to the creativity of Morrison. I admit, the added violence in Volume two was surprising, but in the end it all seems to be part of a much bigger plan. This book has it all and the increased clarity makes the previous stories more enjoyable. There is a real sense of closure in the end. Isn't it exciting to know there are 12 more issues to read?
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Summary: Reality Bleed
Review: Grant Morrison's latest TPB installment of his opus 'The Invisibles' offers the same demented mixture of pop-culture saviness, ultraviolence, multi-layered conspiracy theory, true life magik and general postmodern mayhem that it has from the start. Imagine a mix of McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, Burroughs, PKD and Tarantino all rolled up into a tidy little package and you're still no where near the scope of 'The Invisibles'. All this and more fantasticaly illustrated in glorious 2d. If you want a regular mindf**k then this is just what you need...
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Summary: Mister Quimper and the Lords of Intrusion...
Review: The idea of the entire Invisibles series seems to be Chaos vs. Order. You would think order is better than chaos right? Well, according to this series, Order is the worst possible thing bar none next to the apocalypse. Why? Well, for instance, say you walk into a coffee shop, and when you get up to the counter the person hands you a cup of coffee and says: "that's $1.50" or whatever. Now, you didn't even ask for the coffee yet, and you like it a certain way, right? You want a half-caff latte, Or a black mocha, or just a regular, yes? Well, instead you get this unknown cup of coffee, that costs a certain amount and you dont get to know what's in there and you just drink it. You drink it not because the universe is chaotic, but because the universe is ORDERED. Everything is in the right place, but unfortunately, humanity and all its wonderful variation is not factored into the equation. This is a simplistic way of looking at the complexity of a series like Grant Morrison's Invisibles, but I hope I am on the right track.
The order that Quimper and his masters represent is a totalitarian order where your mind is literally controlled by another. Choice is non-existent. All is lost, and nothing can save you.
The chaos The Invisibles represent is that you have every choice imaginable before you (except sometimes you don't), All appears lost (but probably is not), and you get by with a little help from your friends (always a good thing).
I tried not to give too much away of this series while trying to convey the sense of boundless creativity contained in this volume (and all volumes) of the Invisibles. It is truly a masterwork of graphic storytelling and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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Summary: Mister Quimper and the Lords of Intrusion...
Review: The idea of the entire Invisibles series seems to be Chaos vs. Order. You would think order is better than chaos right? Well, according to this series, Order is the worst possible thing bar none next to the apocalypse. Why? Well, for instance, say you walk into a coffee shop, and when you get up to the counter the person hands you a cup of coffee and says: "that's $1.50" or whatever. Now, you didn't even ask for the coffee yet, and you like it a certain way, right? You want a half-caff latte, Or a black mocha, or just a regular, yes? Well, instead you get this unknown cup of coffee, that costs a certain amount and you dont get to know what's in there and you just drink it. You drink it not because the universe is chaotic, but because the universe is ORDERED. Everything is in the right place, but unfortunately, humanity and all its wonderful variation is not factored into the equation. This is a simplistic way of looking at the complexity of a series like Grant Morrison's Invisibles, but I hope I am on the right track.
The order that Quimper and his masters represent is a totalitarian order where your mind is literally controlled by another. Choice is non-existent. All is lost, and nothing can save you.
The chaos The Invisibles represent is that you have every choice imaginable before you (except sometimes you don't), All appears lost (but probably is not), and you get by with a little help from your friends (always a good thing).
I tried not to give too much away of this series while trying to convey the sense of boundless creativity contained in this volume (and all volumes) of the Invisibles. It is truly a masterwork of graphic storytelling and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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Summary: Better Than Preacher, Better Than Transmet...
Review: This is the near-final and second-best segment of what is possibly the most brilliant, innovative and headache inducing comic book series ever. Grant Morrison's mind is a dark and sticky wonderland, and we should all buy this book and read it and thank him for splitting his head open to give it to us. _The Invisibles_ rivals _From Hell_ as a work which capture magic in words and pictures. While the series finale, _Countdown to the Millennium_ (as yet unreleased) is the best --it's a drug in comic book form--the entire series should be read with reckless joy, and the continuing hope that Grant Morrison will soon abandon Marvel and start writing things that matter again. That being anarchist agitprop, of course.
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Summary: quimper
Review: This isn't just a comic book. If you buy it expecting a simple, mindless read, you're going to be disapointed. If, on the other hand, you buy it with the hope of opening your mind to possibilities you had never before considered, you're in for a hell of a read. When you finish, you'll probably be left with more questions than answers, but then, the Invisibles has never been about answering questions, it's been about encouraging people to start finding their own answers.
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Summary: Good stuff
Review: What can I say? The man delivers. He mixes everything and does it with talent most of the time. Morrisson is good and getting better. He is still far from Moore... but then... everybody is. The Invisibles is one of the best series ever, up there with the Sandman, Cerebus and all the other good stuff!!!
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Summary: quimper
Review: With the Invisibles, Grant Morrisson created an interesting, of-kilter variation of the super-hero comic. From shamanistic transsexuals to James Bond-wannabes, each character is individual, distinct, and interesting. The high point in the second series, Black Science, dealt with the long-running conspiracy theory that HIV was an engineered disease. At the height of this story, team leader Ragged Robin risks her soul to stop the most vile character Morrisson has ever created: the dwarven Mister Quimper. This book represents the prelude to Black Science II, as well as a one-issue epilogue to the second series. Morrisson also commits arguably the greatest crime a writer can inflict upon his audience: he lies to them. Repeatedly. Characters question each other's trustworthiness, only to later prove that everyone really is trustworthy, after all. Worse, the climax to Black Science is undone by contrived time travel plots, the likes of which almost undo the otherwise superb characterization. Ultimately, what kills this book isn't that it was bad (barring the end of Black Science II), but that it should have been much, much better.
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Summary: An Unworthy Sequel
Review: With the Invisibles, Grant Morrisson created an interesting, of-kilter variation of the super-hero comic. From shamanistic transsexuals to James Bond-wannabes, each character is individual, distinct, and interesting. The high point in the second series, Black Science, dealt with the long-running conspiracy theory that HIV was an engineered disease. At the height of this story, team leader Ragged Robin risks her soul to stop the most vile character Morrisson has ever created: the dwarven Mister Quimper. This book represents the prelude to Black Science II, as well as a one-issue epilogue to the second series. Morrisson also commits arguably the greatest crime a writer can inflict upon his audience: he lies to them. Repeatedly. Characters question each other's trustworthiness, only to later prove that everyone really is trustworthy, after all. Worse, the climax to Black Science is undone by contrived time travel plots, the likes of which almost undo the otherwise superb characterization. Ultimately, what kills this book isn't that it was bad (barring the end of Black Science II), but that it should have been much, much better.
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