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Read Kill Your Boyfriend for the first time yesterday, and I was extremely impressed. The first section perfectly portrayed the boredom of going to school, and sort of following the code. I'm in high school now, and I know people who are exactly like Paul (I think that was his name, her boyfriend) in that they only care about what college they get to, and don't really recognize how they're just following the set path, and doing exactly what people want them to do.
That stuff was great, and the latter part was fun too. It wasn't The Invisibles, but it was better than most of the corporate superhero stuff Morrison's done. And, the Philip Bond artwork was great.
That said, the element about the book I couldn't quite figure out was what exactly was Morrison trying to do with the team of bizarro Invisibles. It may be coincidence, but there was a character who looked exactly like John a Dreams, and another one who could have passed for King Mob except for a little bit of hair. Also, at the time, the main character looked just like Fanny, and had even mentioned feeling like a transvestite a couple of pages earlier. Plus, all the rhetoric about creative destruction and such seemed to be right from Invis. And, seeing how it was early in the run, the grenade from the book was one of the major images from The Invisibles at the time.
Has Morrison ever commented on whether those characters were meant to be a direct comment on The Invisibles? According to the back of the book, Invis was at issue 9 at the time, which would mean that the characters weren't as fully developed as they later would be. If it was written today, I would say that they were a comment on fans of Invis, who use the rhetoric from the book, and claim to be revolutionary, but never actually do anything. However, at the time, I don't think the book had really made a major impact yet.
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