We encounter a freelance agent who is moving in and out of dream to acquire an object for… someone… while being pursued by four… someones… and by the end of the issue, we know nothing about him, his pursuers, his new compatriots, or the mission he’s going on (except that it involves stopping an enormous asteroid from hitting the earth.
And that’s troubling - for math and for literature. It may be the right answer, but the writer here isn’t showing me how he got to it so that I can understand WHY it’s correct.
It almost feels to me like trying to get to the solution of a mathematical equation without showing your work. Take the terrible things that happen in the world and instead of trying to make sense of them - experience them in their sheer horror - through a combination of dream, surrealist fantasy, and the type of graphic narrative only a comic book can provide.īut it doesn’t quite work for the same reason a lot of Morrison’s recent independent work doesn’t: too many steps are being skipped. If Morrison’s name is on a project, it’s an auto-pull for me at the local comic shop. I own the complete Invisibles in three different formats - floppy, trade, and genital-crushing omnibus. I have at least two long boxes full of single issues written by the gent. I’m what you might generously call a Grant Morrison super-fan. Art by Chris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn
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