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Things I've Just Noticed in The Invisibles

 
 
Captain Zoom
21:46 / 06.11.03
I know there's a lot of invisibles threads, but I couldn't find one that really suited what I wanted.

So in Sensitive Criminals part 3, while KM is wandering through his darkened childhood home, we see a splotch of blood on the wall. While reading this, I was looking at the annotations in "Anarchy for the Masses", the one for this being "Whose blood is this?" I think it's Edith's. If you look at the revisitation of the KM sequence in the final issue, the kitchen where Jack is boiling the Hand of Glory is right next to the stairs where Edith has her miscarriage. This led me to believe that the blood in Sensitive Criminals was Edith's, we just don't see from that perspective. In Sensitive Criminals, KM appears to be moving from place to place, whereas the revelation in Glitterdammerung is that all places and times are one. The splotch of blood was just a little clue.

Well, that's what I think, anyway.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure this was my 5th reading of the series. Does this mean I have to go out and get another one?

Question: In the Invisible Kingdom TPB, were the script and art fixed? Grant said in an interview that he'd like Ashley Wood's bit in the penultimate issue redone, and the dialogue with Edith and KM put back in. Was it?

Zoom.
 
 
Jack Fear
22:52 / 06.11.03
Yes and yes. In fact those pages were re-drawn by the lovely and talented Mr. Cameron Stewart his own bad self.
 
 
Captain Zoom
01:02 / 07.11.03
Ahhh, the xmas wishlist grows and grows and grows....

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Baz Auckland
02:51 / 07.11.03
...the missing pages, plus one cut from the vol.2 1-4 trade can be seen on 1000 fish's site if you don't want to wait the month...
 
 
Baz Auckland
01:51 / 06.12.03
I settled in with a nice blanket, a large whisky, and Dirty Three on the stereo to re-read a pile of Invisibles tonight and within two issues went WOW! I never noticed!

In vol.2, #6, page 6 when KM and Robin are in the Invisible College, the Blind Chessman/Satan is there! Sitting at a chessboard in the background!

...that made my night. Really.
 
 
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08:29 / 06.12.03
I liked the way they managed to slip the tip of a huge phallus underneath the feet of KM and Robin in the same issue.
Never noticed Satan there, though...
 
  
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