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5.0 out of 5 stars The Grand Introduction, April 1 2003

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This review is from: Invisibles, The: Revolution VOL 01 (Paperback)

First let me start by saying that I might be a little biased in this review. I started reading The Invisibles with the Second Series, so it wasn't until after a few of those issues that I went back to the First Series.

After the totality of violence and conspiracy in the story "Black Science" in the Second Series, I felt a little slowed by the pace of Say You Want a Revolution, with the focus mainly on Jack and his scholarship under Tom O'Bedlam.

The introduction was a needed aspect of the story; however, since we are essentially initiated at the same time that Jack is.

The second story arc "Acardia" was an interesting look at the workings of the The Invisibles as a whole and how each one interacts with the other. I think we could have all done without the perverse nature of the Marquis de Sade, but you slowly come under the realization that Morrison is trying to shock all the taboo out of your system, in order for you to let your barriers down and stop thinking with the mind that "they" developed for you.

Morrison is an incredibly creative and intelligent author who mixes real science and philosophy into an ultimate tale of violence, conspiracy, magic, and sex. This first book may be a little slower than the others, but the entire series quickly picks up speed and you'll soon find yourself unable to read anything else until you finish it.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Let the invisibles disappear, Jan 13 2001

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This review is from: Invisibles, The: Revolution VOL 01 (Paperback)

I made some mistakes in my early review; the main one being that the fifth Beatle was not Peter Finch but Pete Best (Peter Finch was a popular actor in the 1960s and JFK's brother-in-law). However, I still would like to go on the record and say that this is not Grant Morrison's best work. The Invisibles: Say You Want a Revolution is just way too hip for it's own good (I feel the same way about Warren Ellis'Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street). A much better work along the same lines (and also by Grant Morrison) is Doom Patrol: Crawling from the Wreckage. In the Doom Patrol it works for the characters to be strange and weird, that's who they are. However, in the Invisibles, the characters' oddities just seem forced. Stay away from the Invisibles and get the Doom Patrol, because the Doom Patrol is what the Invisibles should have been.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Morrison has written better, Jan 11 2001

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I suppose I was expecting more from this book, than what I actually got. I come from the old "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you" school of thought, and when I first read the reviews for this book, I could not wait to get my own copy. However, I was disappointed. This is not the story I though I was getting. Granted, there are some good moments. The Harmony House for example, where individuality is stripped away leaving a person an open receptacle for the world around him (and any new fad that just happens to wander in). The god of chains is another, and seeing the ghosts of John Lennon and fifth Beatle Peter Finch walk down the Liverpool streets, is a standout. However, these sequences are few and far in-between. The problems come in the second half. Jack Frost, after a long initiation, finally meets the team of Invisibles. My main problem, here, is with is the Invisibles themselves. The characters are idiotic and more resembling the cast of the MTV's Real World than a subversive group of anarchists out to buck the system (and I really, really, really hate MTV's THE REAL WORLD!) Grant Morrison would have done better, if he had left the team of Invisibles a presence lurking in the shadows, than bombarding us with their "quirkiness". Had he left the Invisibles as just another truth for young Jack Frost to unravel in the unfolding brave new world before him--then this would have been a better story. As it is now, the Invisibles: Say You Want a Revolution is just a pale imitation of The Prisoner. Spend your money instead on the JLA, which is Morrison at his finest.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Ee-gad
This title is without a doubt the largest let down I've ever come across in the comics medium. Mr. Morrison has proven himself in other titles (Animal Man, JLA, Marvel Boy) to be... Read more

Published on Jun 6 2004 by G. Morris

3.0 out of 5 stars A more innocent time
Reading it now, the first 8 issues of the Invisibles seem almost childish. The conspiracy is painfully upfront with little mystery. Read more

Published on Mar 9 2003 by Kevin RE Watts