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The "Did not find 'The Invisibles' to be a huge headfuck" support group.

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Less searchable M0rd4nt

14:10 / 19.04.04

*Stands up, clears throat*

My name is Mordant Carnival, and I did not find The Invisibles to be a huge headfuck. I mean, I liked it and all, but I'd come across a lot of the underlying ideas and concepts before.

*Shuffles feet*

Um, same with The Matrix, really. Thanks.

*Sits back down*

14:17 / 19.04.04

Haha! I love the *shuffles feet* and the *sits back down* bit.

I think it's cool that you shared this with us Mordant.

14:18 / 19.04.04

My name is Todd, and nothing has ever fucked my head. Nor my mind. Is it okay for me to remain un-headfucked at the age of 28? Or should I seek out a head-fucking experience as soon as possible? Will people look down on me for remaining unfucked in the head? Or is it okay?

14:19 / 19.04.04

*stands up*

Err...well...I really just like it for the story and the pictures. I mean, not that I didn't pick up on the concepts or anything, but primarily, really, I just, err...like it...for the pictures.

*blushes, coughs, sits down glacing around warily*

14:31 / 19.04.04

*stands up, mops fevered brow*

Um.

Not only did it neither fuck my head, nor boggle my mind, but I thought it was inconsistent in terms of quality, and not very emotionally engaging. Also, Ragged Robin is a bit rubbish.

*collapse of stout party*

14:32 / 19.04.04

*Stands up feeling wierd and paranoid like everyones watching*

*looks around a little*

I think it's brilliant and everytime i look at one of the TBP's i've got or the comics, it's like looking into another world and is more or less certain to hand me a thread or two that i can follow that leads to real world magickal happenings. If i read loads of it Kansas is kissed bye bye. Exactly what i got it for.

*Feels even wierder*

*Grins and then doesn't give a fuck*

*Sit's back down*

14:32 / 19.04.04

I liked it. As a comic book. Just like I like Empire Strikes Back as a film, and Illuminatus! as a book. And I liked Matrix (can't remember the suffix, but the second one) as a film. Especially the cars and stuff.

14:34 / 19.04.04

The Invisibles fucked with my head a little bit, but more for its weird-ass narrative structure than for any Big Ideas. My life was unchanged.

Stranger in a Strange Land fucked my head up good when I was 13. I was all, "Whoah, if you were raised in a totally alien culture, you'd be, like, totally alien! But not!" and then I had to lie down.

But I also hear a tiny ferocious snarl deep in my heart whenever one of you guys mocks someone for being crazily enthused about the Invisibles or anything else. It makes me want to bight your lips off. Defender of the innocent, me.

14:35 / 19.04.04

Oy, you, 'Maitreya' or whatever it is you're calling yourself for this group, how dare you come here on false pretences? You didn't not find the Invisibles to be a life-chaging experience! You're a support group tourist! Get out!

14:38 / 19.04.04

Funny you should say that Kit-Kat, i just PM'd Mordant apologising. I completely forgot about the reason why the thread was here and ranted anyway because i wanted to do the *stands up* and *sits down* thing.

Totally obsessed.

14:39 / 19.04.04

*bights Kit-Cat's lips off*

Tryphena Absent

14:40 / 19.04.04

*looks at the floor, continues to sit down, mutters*

The Invisibles tries to cram too much in but I like the bit in the diner and it's a fun read.

*stands up*

Now, come on, how can a group of people who like to dress up and shoot people fuck with your head? I mean after years of ridiculous conspiracy theory on mainstream television you'd have to be pretty darn susceptible to absorb any of that as truly weird.

14:43 / 19.04.04

oh man! The world is spinning around around me, such blasphamy! My eyes are burning from reading such evil.
All of you should be ashamed of yourselves...

*shaking finger in rebuke*

No, its cool if you guys dont feel superior to everyone else becuase you have read the invisibles or 'understand' the matrix, in fact, I find it refreshing. I myself have only realized that my tastes in literature and films dont really give me a one up on others in being smart, and it was one of those humbling moments as I tried to explain what was happening in the last matrix to someone who just couldnt care, infact after all was said and done, I looked dumb. thus, I am reborn, a little better for my experiences.

14:44 / 19.04.04

*stands up, scratches elbow*

Je suis un Chimp, and The Invisibles didn't change my life. I mean, my life was very different when I finished reading it, but I think that had more to do with me being six years older and at university and in love and stuff like that, rather than any particular effect attributable to any particular comic book.

*coughs*

err... Is it biscuit time yet? Or do we have to kick the shit out of the tourist first?

14:44 / 19.04.04

Holy shit, maybe that was the point of those movies?!? What a headfuck!

Less searchable M0rd4nt

14:54 / 19.04.04

But I also hear a tiny ferocious snarl deep in my heart whenever one of you guys mocks someone for being crazily enthused about the Invisibles or anything else.

But I'm not mocking. I'm genuinely starting to suspect that I've got a bit missing somewhere, because everyone else is all "Invisibles! Headfuck!" and I'm not.

And if you try to bite my lips off I'll stick your head in a microwave.

miss wonderstarr

14:54 / 19.04.04

fones u on ma mobile

I bought the first four issues of The Invisibles. Then the art turned shit. Every time I get this feeling that I might have missed something and look at the TPBs in a shop, I decide not to buy one because of the awful artwork.

I had a letter in issue #4 I think.

hangs up n txts ma bf

15:02 / 19.04.04

Aw, that was the collective "you", MC. I lurve you like nobody's business.

15:02 / 19.04.04

*stands up*
*looks nervously at all the expectant faces*
*absentmindedly picks nose*
*catches self picking nose, looks guiltily at finger*
*hides offending finger behind back*
*smiles*
*allows smile to wilt off of face*
*clears throat*
*opens mouth*
*loses train of thought, closes mouth again*
*farts nervously*
*farts again, follows through*
*sits quickly and squelchily down*
*wishes ground would open up*
*dies inside*

15:02 / 19.04.04

(that second "you" is specific.)

16:05 / 19.04.04

I.... I.... I really really wanted Grant Morrison to be the comics messiah. But it turns out he wasn't.

* bursts into tears and has to be comforted by other members of the group, clutching Near Mint copy of Animal Man number 5 to chest *

gotham island fae

16:37 / 19.04.04

::looks around expectantly for the promised kisses before homestate goes "bye-bye"::

"The Invisibles gave me something to spend too much money on during my first trip to NU York. And something to do for four hours at the WTC site during Yule vigil that same trip."

AUM

16:40 / 19.04.04

*stands*

I really liked The Invisibles... and, uh, there may have been some cranium-tickling with, y'know, cigars and stuff...

...but my head did not have sex with that comic.

*sits*

21:59 / 19.04.04

[Coughs]
[Stands]
The idea that the world ends in 2012 is worryingly attractive.
[Mumbles from audience]
It removes from me the responsibility I thought I always had to sort the world out myself.
["It's just a fookin comic"]
I love comics more than any other art form I have come across, and I think that despite its messy drawing (a friend described it as 'your favourite film re-directed by your least favourite directors') I still think it's one of the best comics ever written.
Doom Patrol was great (but later suffered awfully from the Pollack) and Flex Mentallo is perfect (but no-one will ever see it). Morrison is still my favourite writer.
["Sit down ya poof"]
Show me another person who could spawn such a board as this without even liking it very much or being involved...
[Mumbles]
Yea, and though I walk through the valley of baby tapirs I shall fear no Millar, I....
[Looks around. Falls over. Bottles of cheap Origin rose trundle out from under seat.]

07:32 / 20.04.04

*stands up*

Weeeelll, I thought it was quite a good comic, a-a-and I brought it every month when it came out, t-till it finished, interesting, fun, but it was j-ju-just a story. Okay, it was leavened some of Grant's experiences but, like, so what? People are always having weird experiences.

*looks round nervously*

As to the whole December 23, 2012 thing? GM just grabbed it as a fun idea the same way he grabbed a million others. I think he'd be be fuckin' horrifed if he saw a load of people taking it even semi-seriously. That day will come and pass like a million "other ends of the world" in history.

I really hate the idea actually, It's half inched off Terence McKenna or Robert Anton Wilson, one of whom worked out that information will be doubling expoentially by that date. How the fuck in the name of Beelzebub, did that ridiculous idea ever get taken seriously by anyone? What information is supposedly to be doubling? How do we know? How is this measured? Less DMT, more critical thinking, please Terence.

Actually, when faced with people who take the Invisbiles far too seriously, I need anger management.

*gritting teeth*

Take it seriously all you want but just FUCK OFF and stop rotting the board with half arsed psychedelic drivel..

*reddening, pulse racing*

Have I got the right room?

07:39 / 20.04.04

And the Matrix is a fucking dreadful film!

*Throws chair at wall*

08:20 / 20.04.04

* dodges implausibly yet gracefully in slow motion to avoid chair bouncing off wall *

Jack The Bodiless

12:00 / 20.04.04

*stands/staggers up, hoists bottle-wrapped-in-brown-paper into the air*

Invisibles! Shite! Not good'nuff, mus' try harder, ol' Granty-bollocks, me son... deep as PUDDDDLLLLLLEEEE!

*falls down, has to be carried to door and revived with more from bottle*

Shanghai Quasar

13:06 / 20.04.04

I gave up on ever reading this travesty when I discovered that the so-called "Invisibles" weren't actually invisible at all.

13:13 / 20.04.04

The Invisibles may not have been a headfuck, but it introduced me to this board, which certainly is. Oh, and so I can fit in *glances shiftily from side to side*

13:44 / 20.04.04

You dont know how long I've waited for this thread. I felt so alone *sniff*.

I bought the first TPB (despite the crap art ) "say you want a revolution", and was distinctly underwhelmed. And yes, I'm sure i might get more out of it if i read the whole series, but thats a fiscal gamble i'm not willing to take.

I should note, however, that i LOVED Flex Mentallo.

*goes to hug Mordant Carnival, realises MC in on another continent, sits down*

trouser the trouserian

13:49 / 20.04.04

Tentatively raises hand...

err, I didn't think um, Invisibles was as good as um, Zenith, er...

[nervous glance round hall]

... and [gulp] I haven't even got the complete set
[wet lips]

......and um, I've never adopted the names of one of the characters, or dreamt about 'em or met them on the astral plane or owt like that

[looks down at feet]

and ... oh god ...
I'mthinkingofgettingridofthemanyway'cosi'vegottoomuchstuffasitIS!

[froths at mouth, collapses back into seat, panting]

Hey, that felt goood!

15:42 / 20.04.04

Actually, when faced with people who take the Invisbiles far too seriously, I need anger management.

*gritting teeth*

Take it seriously all you want but just FUCK OFF and stop rotting the board with half arsed psychedelic drivel..

no.

Fucking hell, you must love me.

20:19 / 20.04.04

I liked the Invisibles, but I think Zoolander is much better.

21:31 / 20.04.04

ah, but dont you see, half arsed psychadealic drivel is MAGICK and user number 3401 is the most powerful sorceror in his mind EVER!

you dont understand!
you're *just* like mum and dad!
i hate you!
etc.

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