We see very little of Dane McGowan here than the previous volume, and that's because Fanny the transvestite is the star. If you're close minded when it comes to gender bending or homosexuality, you'd better skip this book, because it gets pretty intense. I think it was ambitious of Grant Morrison, especially back in the 90s, to write about a character like Fanny in an honest and sympathetic light. Her story, apart from the ancient Aztec witchcraft, is not unusual from what I've heard about poor

Man, Grant Morrison is so crazy.I don't know what to say about this one. The Invisibles is too weird for me to recommend it to my friends, because it's hard to say if someone will like it. Anyway: this colletion. The Jim Crow storyline wasn't my favorite. It takes the "crack cocaine in the inner city" conspiracy (not my favorite conspiracy theory) and adds voodoo. The rest of the stories are really good. Fanny's origin is really entertaining. There's also two stand alone issues. They both focus

It's certainly better than volume 1, that's for sure. I can't stand Jack. He's rude, homophobic, annoying and entitled. Surely I hope there's a lot of growth coming for this boy, but the lack of Jack (hah) feels like a breath of fresh air. Yes:- Some character backgrounds, some history of it all. - Lord Fanny is funNo:- I still don't get who they're fighting besides "THE MAN" and I'm not even quite sure why they'd be doing that because tbh the world seems perfectly fine just as.- My God, Jack is...

This series is so twisted and strange. I certainly wouldn't fault anyone for not liking it, but I love it. It has all of the things that I love about things like Hellblazer and the Alan Moore run of Swamp Thing all rolled into one. This volume plays with concepts like time and death, and delves into the question of "hey, don't faceless lackeys that the hero guns down by the dozens have lives and families too?".

The second volume of the Invisibles kicks the series to a new level. The three one shots that expands the world. These were all really great stories and a nice breath of fresh air from Dane's constant moaning and initiation into the Invisibles. Especially the She-man arc was absolutely incredible and really shows off Morrison's insane ability to mix the occult, themes and his own chaos magic into a crazy concoction of meta physical ideas and religious teachings. The introduction to Jim Crow was

When Morrison is good, he's really good.When he's funny, it's funny. When he speaks of truths, you know that they are true.And when he's incomprehensible, he's totally incomprehensible.Like almost all of Morrison's work, this volume spans that entire gamut.

Aaaaaand, we're done. Some things do not age well, and this series is definitely one of them. (As a fairly minor quibble in the grand scheme, how hard was it for Morrison or an editor to use a Portuguese dictionary to look up the word "witch" instead of being completely lazy and just using the Spanish word? Ugh.) Did not finish.

An improvement over the first volume, but there are still issues with characterization. Dane/Jack is still barely more than an outline of a character. And the way Morrison handles Fanny is uncomfortably problematic, more often than not. There is some good storytelling in here, in the one-off stories. Still no idea where this is going, and wondering if Morrison had any idea when he was writing it.

Whoaw.... so much better than the first volume. YES !

The Invisibles, Grant Morrison's brilliant series of magickal underground tales, exposes the naked spirituality of good and evil through gut-wrenching, psychedelic violence. Apocalipstick, the collected issues from midway through volume 1, tracks the career of new kid Jack Frost after he runs away from his wary pals in the Invisibles to come to terms with his power and his adulthood. Along the way we see humans hunted for sport, interdimensional monsters that would make H.P. Lovecraft puke, and

21st century homophobia/heterosexism takes on really weird and subtle forms; Lord Fanny is transgendered, but NOT by choice. She was also forced to be a witch, or die trying. She is a whore, a chicken hawk and does too many drugs. So what is Grant Morrison trying to say? That a queer is not only always a freak, but a stereotypical freak at that? She seems to be treated better by the villain than the so-called chosen one and hero (Dane McGowan- how original!).Morrison takes a lot of liberties wit...

This is definitely a step up from The Invisibles Vol. 1: Say You Want a Revolution (though that wouldn't be hard) and we begin to see the structure of the basic conflict, though it's still at the level of glimpses round the edge rather than a full clear view. So (I think) we know that a horrifying monster, which we see only fragments of - very effectively - is the candidate to become Rex Mundi as part of a rather murky plot to turn the world over to, basically, it seems, the devil.I have only tw...

My Invisibles re-read continues. The second volume moves the focus to Lord Fanny, who I'm pretty sure was the first trans main character I came across as a teenager. The reader learns how she became a witch, while Dane flees the Invisibles and King Mob consults an old friend. Although the plot is very compelling, the most haunting sequences are side interludes following employees of the evil conspiracy. I think each of these is an entire issue, one following a domestic servant and the other a gu...

Lord Fanny's origin story is, I believe, my favorite Invisibles story arc.Re-read Jan. 2012.

I really liked the first Invisibles book. 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. It had tons of imagination and inspiring stuff which clearly

A notch or two up from the first graphic novel in the series. There's a nice time warp back and forth with the TV Franny character focused on a western view of Aztec Mythology. Dane/Jack Frost comes to terms with who he and begins the process of the dealing with the Archon threat to his world. Overall, I found the story line here to be a lot tighter. A security guard bloke and Franny have some of the best scenes in this volume. This is considered one of the classics and was said to have shaken u...

This isn't a major departure from the preceding volume, but it is a clear improvement. Teenage protagonist Dane McGowan is less whiny and annoying (and we see less of him), and there's generally less pulpy cheesiness. The art's also less ugly, though still nothing special, with three exceptions: John Ridgway's wonderfully dark, gothic art in issue #11 (chapter 3), Chris Weston's Swamp Thing-esque horror style in issue #10 (chapter 2), and Paul Johnson's trippy flashback sequence in the middle of...

I quite enjoyed this volume overall. The twisting of time in the tale of Lord Fanny was rather fascinating to me, and eventually began to make sense. It tied in beautifully with the tale of 'what turns someone evil' if you will. I found the attention paid to class issues rather interesting, as I've been reading rather extensively about the Mod movement and how it was essentially built out of class distinctions. The Invisibles, as a whole, is proving to be a quite titillating read. I'd be interes...

Good follow-up to the Vol. 1. Looking forward to the next.

This is the second volume in The Invisibles graphic novel series.Jack Frost abandons The Invisibles in the windmill, which was good for him because they have been tracked there and will almost certainly be killed. Actually, so will Jack, because he has taken off in King Mob's car, which is booby-trapped. How will they get out it? Read on...In other stories, there's the father who betrays his evil master to save his own daughter. And then the daughter betrays him. There's a recurring theme of pow...