Corpsepyre
Banned
I just got done with a re-read of one of my favourite comic books of all time, The Invisibles, by Grant Morrison. When I first read it, I was young and couldn't comprehend what was on display as much as I could now. It's a wholehearted recommendation to those looking for some incredibly challenging storytelling.
It's highly philosophical, littered with pop-culture references, time travel, voodoo, sigil magick, gnosticism and a lot more that you should discover for yourself. Just know that it's super abstract in places, endlessly trippy and mindbending, with otherworldly ideas tossed at you throughout. It also has a LOT of heart and characters that you'd come to love.
The Matrix took quite a bit from the series as well, both on a surface level and beyond, minus the super-weird. Morrison contends that The Wachowskis asked him to draw a comic for them back in the day, and that he knows a guy who worked on the film who said that there were Invisibles comics strewn all over. Once you've read it, you'll see a number of similarities. It's just that The Invisibles takes everything several notches further than The Matrix ever did, in terms of both the characters and plot.
Give this a read. The series has four deluxe edition hardcovers, 59 issues in total.
Brief synopsis:
'The series loosely follows the doings of a single cell of The Invisible College, a secret organization battling against physical and psychic oppression using time travel, magic, meditation, and physical violence'.
For most of the series, the team includes leader King Mob; Lord Fanny, a transgender Brazilian shaman; Boy, a former member of the NYPD; Ragged Robin, a telepath with a mysterious past; and Jack Frost, a young hooligan from Liverpool who may be the next Buddha. Their enemies are the Archons of the Outer Church, inter-dimensional alien gods who have already enslaved most of the human race without their knowledge'.
Some covers:
It's highly philosophical, littered with pop-culture references, time travel, voodoo, sigil magick, gnosticism and a lot more that you should discover for yourself. Just know that it's super abstract in places, endlessly trippy and mindbending, with otherworldly ideas tossed at you throughout. It also has a LOT of heart and characters that you'd come to love.
The Matrix took quite a bit from the series as well, both on a surface level and beyond, minus the super-weird. Morrison contends that The Wachowskis asked him to draw a comic for them back in the day, and that he knows a guy who worked on the film who said that there were Invisibles comics strewn all over. Once you've read it, you'll see a number of similarities. It's just that The Invisibles takes everything several notches further than The Matrix ever did, in terms of both the characters and plot.
Give this a read. The series has four deluxe edition hardcovers, 59 issues in total.
Brief synopsis:
'The series loosely follows the doings of a single cell of The Invisible College, a secret organization battling against physical and psychic oppression using time travel, magic, meditation, and physical violence'.
For most of the series, the team includes leader King Mob; Lord Fanny, a transgender Brazilian shaman; Boy, a former member of the NYPD; Ragged Robin, a telepath with a mysterious past; and Jack Frost, a young hooligan from Liverpool who may be the next Buddha. Their enemies are the Archons of the Outer Church, inter-dimensional alien gods who have already enslaved most of the human race without their knowledge'.
Some covers:



