The Invisibles

The Invisibles is a comic book written by Grant Morrison and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. In the comic, "Invisibles" are individuals who battle against physical and psychic oppression using time travel, magic, martial arts, meditation and guns.

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Comic book - Grant Morrison - Vertigo - DC Comics - Time travel - Magic - Martial art - Meditation - Gun

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Morrison says that he distilled 1990s conspiracy culture and just about every fringe notion he could find into the book, whether or not he believed in it, creating a hypersigil with the intention of jumpstarting the culture in a more positive direction. He predicts that the comic book will, in the long run, be as influential as the Sex Pistols, though it is too early to say whether this prediction will prove true. It clearly influenced The Matrix trilogy of films, which is visible from thematic and aesthetic similarities between the two. Many Invisibles fans and Morrison himself believe that the Wachowski brothers essentially plagiarized Morrison's work to create the first Matrix film.

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1990 - Conspiracy - Fringe - Hypersigil - Sex Pistols - The Matrix - Film - Wachowski brothers - Plagiarized

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The comic focuses on one cell of Invisibles. At the beginning of the series, the leader of the cell is King Mob, a character based on author Grant Morrison. The rest of the team consists of Lord Fanny, a Brazilian shaman and transvestite; Boy, a former member of the New York Police Department; Ragged Robin, a telepathic time-traveller, and Jack Frost, a young street punk from Liverpool with various spiritual powers. Their enemies are the archons of the Outer Church, interdimensional alien gods who have already enslaved most of the human race.

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Cell - Author - Brazilian - Shaman - Transvestite - New York Police Department - Telepathic - Liverpool - Alien

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The Invisibles was originally published as three separate comic book series. All of the series have been collected in a set of trade paperbacks:

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• Say You Want a Revolution (vol 1, #1-8)
• Apocalipstick (vol 1, #9-16)
• Entropy in the UK (vol 1, #17-25)
• Bloody Hell in America (vol 2, #1-4)
• Counting to None (vol 2, #5-13)
• Kissing Mr. Quimper (vol 2, #14-22)
• The Invisible Kingdom (vol 3, #12-1 - the series was numbered backwards)

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