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Sentient stories

eeoam

21:26 / 24.07.03

As we know, when larvae that is our universe reaches sentience and finally wakes up, the supercontext will occur.
But in the Invisibles, they supercontext did occur.
Does it follow that the Invisibles itself is in fact sentient and if so, what tools can we use to understand and/or communicate with it (other than just reading it over and over again of course)?

at the scarwash

22:23 / 24.07.03

What would you ask it if you could? What could it tell you that it doesn't already?

bio k9

23:00 / 24.07.03

...what tools can we use to understand and/or communicate with it (other than just reading it over and over again of course)?

Jerking off. Everyone loves a good wank, especially when The Invisibles is involved.

The Falcon

00:43 / 25.07.03

Aye. Helga in vol. 3, as drawn by Phil Bond, is my personal favourite.

Spyder Todd 2008

01:40 / 25.07.03

I myself have always been rather found of Helga to, but I'm found of King Mob, Lord Fanny, Robim, Jolly Roger...
I would say it's sentient, sure. How to communicate better with it, I really don't know...

02:25 / 25.07.03

Disclaimer: These are thoughts of the moment. I will not be held to them in twelve hours. Or maybe even one hour.

The Invisibles is sentient. Sentient things desire discourse. The Invisibles wants other sentient stories.

The Invisibles wants to breed. It wants other sentient beings to think about it and spin stories from it.

We are all sentient (we think, anyway). Does this mean we were once universes, in which the supercontext occurred?

the Fool

02:59 / 25.07.03

Of course the invisibles is sentient, its called the mind of Grant Morrison. I suspect what we see of it is only a pale reflection of what GM saw of it...

The alien abduction.

eeoam

15:35 / 25.07.03

testpattern, the answers it might give don't interest me as much as how to ask the questions in the first place.

How would we have to change the way we think about communication in order to have new and interesting ways to talk to the comic?

at the scarwash

18:38 / 25.07.03

well, in that case, take a cue from KM's invocation of John Lennon in issue 1. Gather ritual objects, dried scorpions, blank badges, automatic pistols, copious amounts of drugs, make dolls of your favorite characters, dress in drag, dance around singing "Nice and smooth" over and over until you fall down. Then toss open a random issue and drop something suitable on the page. The panel it lands on is how Invisbles answers you.

Or something like that

Perfect Tommy

00:09 / 27.07.03

This might be a quibble, but I would suggest that The Invisibles may have been sentient, but now it's dead. We, as higher-dimensional beings, can continue to intersect and examine it at any point in its wormcast, but we can't really expect it to hold a conversation with us anymore.

But I suppose we can still talk about what it wanted, or about currently living stories, hence my 'quibble' disclaimer.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:06 / 27.07.03

You cannot communicate with stories. What you see as the story is what has happened, It only communicated with Grant in the forms that it took, disease, Helga et al, because he was writing it. A story can only be sentient for it's writer. Now, whether slash/fan-fic writers are hackers into the world-space of something is an idea, though i think that would be a parallel reality. Group-fiction, of the 'I write a chapter, then Fred does, then Betty, then...' etc is very interesting.

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