The Invisibles
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #382: Two Shores
Few things can get into my mind to the point where I forget myself, and all of them are different songs that keep me up at night. Luckily, I don’t have to deal with malevolent psychic presences laying eggs in my subconscious that allow back-door access to all of thoughts, dreams, fears, and memories as… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #381: Something Unseen
This far into a series, you would think we’d have a solid understanding of how the story, world, or characters can go. We know who these people are and what the Invisibles as an organization is like. Or, rather, we have an understanding of what we think these characters and organization are like. For the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #379: And Exiting Elsewhere
Escalation is narratively routine: you start slow before getting to the point where you can meet god or go to space. Sometimes, though, “slow” can involve an immediate escalation to meeting god, so long as your setting allows. If the setting allows you to peer into a collapsing hyper-dimension exacerbated by the nanoparticles of a dreaded… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #378: Deeper Down the Well
Any good team book needs a few issues where you learn more about the people we’re following. While the first volume of The Invisibles focuses primarily on Dane McGowan—our lad is going to be the focal-point for much of the series—for the second volume, we start seeing the foundations of others on the team and a basis… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #377: What Is a Revolution?
We typically think of the ways in which monthly comics changed in the 80s with series like Watchmen, Doom Patrol, Batman: Year One, and a host of others. But the shifting visual narrative perspectives culminated in the 90s with many of the classic series that would come to define Vertigo not only as an imprint, but as a kind… Continue reading
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