![]() And when he draws a head exploding upon being shot point-blank by a high-powered rifle… well, you get the picture. ![]() He handles Morrison’s occasional off-the-wall scenes effectively, and his style emphasises the reality in surreality when he renders a glowing, disembodied hand in precise detail, it becomes a little easier to believe that such a thing exists. His highly-realistic style seemed an odd match for the highly-surreal tendencies of Morrison, and I wondered how well a self-described “boring… complete and utter southern California boy… who leads a totally mundane life” would mesh with Morrison, the ultra-hip Scottish god of weirdness. First, because I really like his work but second, because he seemed an unlikely choice. I was intrigued to hear that Phil Jimenez was going to be that regular artist. Finally, they decided to go with a single ongoing artistic team, rather than the different-artist-for-each-story-arc approach of the first series. ![]() Another was to focus more attention on the action and linear storytelling, to make it a bit easier for more prosaic minds (such as mine, I admit) to follow. One change was to bring the team to America… make the setting a bit more familiar to the Yankee reading audience. Some time later, the series was cancelled, with a promise that it would be brought back… the clear implication being that they’d be “fixing” the things that had caused readers (such as I?) to drift away, and figured a relaunch of the series would help bring them back. It was well done, but didn’t really capture my attention, so I stopped reading it and eventually sold the books to someone. I picked up the original Invisibles series when it came out in 1994, and read the first two story arcs, “Down and Out in Heaven and Hell” and “Arcadia”. They include: King Mob, a shaved-headed multi-pierced natural-born leader a black woman from Harlem ironically known as Boy Lord Fanny, a Brazilian transvestite who’d put many female models to shame Dane a young British punk purported to be the next Buddha (and whose recruitment into the Invisibles was the entry-point for the first volume of the story) and Ragged Robin, a woman in mime make-up with a mysterious past… in the future. The series is about the “invisible” struggle between the agents of total Control who run the world, and those rag tag, not-really-organised souls fighting to liberate humanity: our heroes. The Invisibles is a prime example of this. My opinion is a bit more reserved: I think he’s a very good but sometimes self-indulgent writer. There are some who revere Grant Morrison as a god, or at least so it seems. Creators: Grant Morrison, Phil Jimenez, John Stokes.
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