The Invisibles

A comic by Grant Morrison

Illustrated by Steve Yeowulf, Jill Thompson, Dennis Cramer.

I was originally enticed by The Invisibles.  The cover art lead me to be unconditionally intrigued, a stark white cover highlighted by shadows of characters in a Ralph Bakshi film.  All pulled together with a grenade in an almost tied dyed fashion.   It glowed with the secondary title that would tempt any cyberpunk loving social anarchist… “Say you want a revolution.”   You could say this graphic novel had me at first sight. 

Disapppointment is the keyword in what I felt after finishing this installment in the sage of the Invisibles.  The art was drab and rough as I’m sure was in part due to artisitic direction.  But it didn’t fit overall.  From the beginning the story was slow to start, unclear and blurry in its direction.  It seemed non-lineaer.

At times I felt like I was reading a comic that had been written before with characters reminescient of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series.  And I wish that the characters were the only things about this series that I felt that I had seen before. 

I really have nothing good to say about this comic… if you’re interested in it, I suggest reading Sandman, Transmetropolitan, The Watchmen, or even The Fantastic Four... anything. Really.