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The Invisibles by Grant Morrision - study group and exegisis
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Cat Malogen
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Spotted, many thanks. Didn’t realise he was 2t’s (or 4 t’s). A gross vision of the future. Probably get cancelled for fat shaming these days.
Nice one woops, cheers
Going back to how Morrison looks... i was just watching the Revisiting the Counterculture video with @Matthew talking about his book and the guy introducing things, Jeffrey Mishlove, has a similar sort of look:
But it's also a very common look as well I suppose. Jean Luc Picard comes to mind:
But it's also a very common look as well I suppose. Jean Luc Picard comes to mind:
One thing I did love was Morrision's Seaguy. It had just the right mix of totlaly OTT wackiness that I found absolutely endearing. His run on Doom Patrol is also brilliant. I'm not that up to date with comics though, I'm afraid.
Is this the Jim Crow issue? Funny how much it reminds me now of the plot of Get Out though I guess the idea of black bodies and labour used appropriatively by whties is built into the zombie mythos. And talking of appropriation, all the voodoo stuff is taken from Michael Bertiaux's Vodoun Gnostic Workbook. This is a gargantuan 600 page tome which reads like a schizod telephone directory. It's quite annoying 'cos it has fuck all to do with actual vodou as you experience it at an everyday level in Haiti or the Haitian diaspora. It's a weird insane text and annoying 'cos it's beloved of white occultists 'cos they can get their (rare, expensive, hard to understand) text on and avoid talking to any actual black people.This is from the quite weird issue which is sort of stand alone and outside the main narrative. Quite liked the succinct presentation of malevolence and sheer WTFness:
I think Grant said in an interview somewhere that he was playing around with the scorpion lwa and put himself in hospital?
You seen any of the Hookland stuff? It's a kind of freefloating experiment in open source landscape writing, drawing on folk horror tropes. Pylons fit right in - I recall reading somewhere about "the hum".I'm into pylons. They look like weird beings. There's a really amazing one right at the top of the M62, at its highest point. And I love when you get a nice bunch of flat fields, with lines of pylons visible for miles.
luka
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You could think of the solar system in this way. The closer to solar centre the shorter the year.
Never read any other Grant Morrison, despite really liking comics in general, but maybe will pursue if I get into the invisibles.
My fave comics, by the by:
Almost anything by Chester Brown or Robert Crumb, but especially the Bible adaptations by Brown and 'My trouble with women', 'the religious experience of Phillip k dick' and 'genesis' by Crumb.
Fort thunder / Highwater books crew especially Mat Brinkman.
CFs powr mstrs series.
Simon Hanselmann especially Truth Zone.
Frank Santoro especially Incanto.
Almost all Amar Chitra Katha.
Archies.
And yes, that's the issue, I think? it features the top hatted guy who gets called upon by the grandmother, and he goes sorts out the bad men. It seems to be its own thing for the moment. Unless possibly I'm getting mixed up, not sure.
That's dead interesting how they all use the same source material. The voodoo thing is such a powerful trope. The dead eyed thing.
Gonna post another video shortly in the Arthur jafa thread and there's a voodoo Ness there as well.
Yeah one of my mates who is also into pylons, we swap the bits quite a lot. Although dropped off more recently.
luka
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Check it out @constant escape rocks into shoes, that's your beat.
jenks
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I just got a print copy of vol 1 1-8. It’s a slow burn and like others have said the quality of the artwork is patchy. Enjoyed the old man quoting chunks of Lear, definitely has echoes also of earlier Sinclair, even down to Canary Wharf which I remember Sinclair railing against back in the 90s. I’ll persevere as I think it is good to read out of your comfort zone.