![]() The mirror monster story was a bit better – at least I could follow what was happening! Told from the perspective of a servant in this rich guy’s castle, a monster comes out of the mirror every night and eats a human offering prepared by the servant. ![]() I don’t know how Jim Crow’s story fitted in to Dane’s leaving the Invisibles – it was visually spectacular to see the insect monsters/N’Orleans icons of vodou magic come to life, but I had no clue what was going on! But some of his work features completely random stories and Apocalipstick is one of those books. Grant Morrison is generally known as the whacky/druggy/psychedelic writer of bizarre comics which isn’t totally fair as a lot of his work is understandable, it’s just that he’s incredibly ambitious and sometimes loses readers who aren’t willing to meet him halfway. The stories include a new character, a vodou witch called Jim Crow, who messes with businessmen who slum via VR headsets in the bodies of gang members (that old chestnut!) a monster from the mirror realm who eats people the Conspiracy offers up the life story of a soldier King Mob thoughtlessly kills and the origins of Lord Fanny, the transvestite shaman (she-man, geddit?) of the Invisibles. The second Invisibles book also has lots of imagination too but it’s a less clear and more fragmented story – not as good as the first volume but still ok. It had tons of imagination and inspiring stuff which clearly influenced the Wachowskis as a lot of that book made it into the first Matrix movie. It followed a troubled kid called Dane as he became a part of a resistance cell called the Invisibles who were waging a secret war against the oppressive powers of the world – awesome! It wasn’t a straightforward read but you could follow it as it was basically told from Dane’s perspective who, like the audience, knew nothing about the Invisibles and was experiencing it all for the first time. I really liked the first Invisibles book.
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