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Did The Invisibles Bring You Here?

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Tim Tempest

18:28 / 26.09.05

How many of you came here directly because of The Invisibles?

And if The Invisibles didn't bring you here...what did?

The Invisibles seriously changed me. I read it, and it made no sense at all, but it made sense of everything at the same time.

I came here for the first time after I read the first trade. I didn't get accepted until a couple of days after I finished the final one, and the whole ride was great.

I want to write something like that.

Billuccho!

18:30 / 26.09.05

Nope. I've only read the first Invisibles trade, and I didn't even like it. But it's apparently brilliant so I'll get the second one eventually.

I have no idea what brought me here. Oddly enough, "www.barbelith.com/underground" appeared in my history one day and refused to be deleted. I had no idea what the hell it was or how it got there, but then I clicked around and saw that it was The Awesome.

lekvar

18:44 / 26.09.05

I only just finished the last trade a month ago. I came to Barbelith via a search for the Doom Patrol. (G.M.'s run, none of this Byrne nonsense)

Benny the Ball

18:48 / 26.09.05

I read Invisibles when it forst started, and couldn't get into it at all. I kind of liked it, but eventially just put it to one side and thought I'd read it at a later date. That date came just after I saw Grant Morrison doing a talk in London, I read all the trades in a short space of time, and was just searching generally about and found Barbelith, just kind of stuck around really.

All Acting Regiment

19:07 / 26.09.05

Yeah, I read them. Typed "Barbelith" inot google. Squeed.

But you should look at the annotations on www.barbelith.com/thebomb , because a lot of Morrison stuff is based on other things that are as good if not better (in some ways). That was one of the reasons George Michael (AKA Graham Masters) wrote The Invisibles; to get people into Jerry Cornelius, PK Dick, Burroughs etc.

Aertho

19:29 / 26.09.05

Yes, that is why I am here. But I've moved on since then.

19:41 / 26.09.05

Read it. Decided to see if there was a barbelith.com. Liked what I saw. Obviously it isn't the invisibles what keeps me here, although I still like the comics. I like a lot of things.

A man may like things— lo, a man may even squee like a fangirl at things which a man doth like— and still be a man. A strong man. A MAN WITH HONOR! Dammit. Pass the French Fancies.

All Acting Regiment

19:43 / 26.09.05

Have the whole box, I'm stuffed. UH I MEAN, A MAN MAY HAVE THE WHOLE BOX WHEN ANOTHER MAN'S STOMACH IS oh sod it.

Mourne Kransky

19:51 / 26.09.05

I was one of the lucky people who entered the august halls of the Lith by means of the yearly Barbetrawl, when some people who are adjudged to be eminently suitable and generally fabulous are personally invited to join the board. I still have the free sigil and the Barbestarter pack (just an Invisibles Badge and the catalogue detailing the mental state and sexual perversions of each poster, dating way back to Nexus days).

I was assigned Haus as my Mentor and he was such a sweetie. Took me out for tea and scones at Claridges and gave me a signed photo.

ZF!

20:13 / 26.09.05

First went to Morrison's website, probably after reading some of his Aztek/JLA/X-Men Stuff

looked at his links

so went to:

http://www.jaybabcock.com/barbelith.html

then here:

http://www.barbelith.com/bomb/

then took off the "bomb" bit and voila!

Only read Invisibles after finding this site and wondering how an entire board could have been started by a comic book series.

Z

grant

20:21 / 26.09.05

Well, I was a fan of the Invisibles, and I think I first found Jay Babcock's site by searching for stuff related to that, but then it turned up in a few subsequent searches for unrelated things -- gnostic gospels, Terence McKenna's Timewave Zero, stuff like that -- so I started reading all the links on there, because, y'know, if it had that, it had to have more stuff I'd be interested in.

There to Nexus, then to sitting on Xoc's lap while Ganesh suggestively unwrapped a Cadbury's with hazelnuts and raisins (I can still feel them stuck in my teeth -- no brushing will ever make them feel clean again...) in the back room of an Edinburgh coffee shop. At least, I've always assumed it was Xoc. The mask made it hard to tell.

grant

20:22 / 26.09.05

By the way, all of The Bomb stuff and more is now part of the Barbelith Wiki (linked at the top of this page).

Tim Tempest

20:55 / 26.09.05

I want to hear more about this Barbestarter package. What was the free sigil? And the badges were like...officially made? That's cool. I was thinking about making one.

I find it kind of weird that alot of people here don't even like The Invisibles. I guess it just shows how much the community grown.

Tim Tempest

21:04 / 26.09.05

I have to clarify...I didn't mean grown as in, grown out of The Invisibles...I meant grown as in changed.

Clarification concluded.

■

21:32 / 26.09.05

Yeah. Me. I liked the Invisibles while it was coming out, but it didn't make a huge impression on me. It was only when I got Anarchy for the Masses and read the whole lot in one go that I went "Ahhhhh...."

and ended up here. Most people have got over that, though. It's kind of either a given that you've already got your head round it and loved it or don't give a toss, so there's not a lot of talk about it these days.

PatrickMM

21:33 / 26.09.05

I'd been reading the annotations as I went through the series in trade, and eventually stumbled. After a binge read of Volume 3 in one day, I was thoroughly confused, but incredibly curious to analyze what went on, hence joining up here.

When I first started, I was perplexed as to why very few people actually seemed to be talking about The Invisibles, since that was all I could think about. But, a few years down the line, I'm here more for the general conversation, though if The Invisibles does come up, I still love a good discussion of it.

Tim Tempest

21:36 / 26.09.05

Well, what was your [everyone] favorite part?

Mon Oncle Ignatius

21:44 / 26.09.05

I think I bought the first issue or three of The Invisibles, then kind of gave up on comics buying as I couldn't really afford to do both that and purchase records. (I did buy pretty much all of Sandman and Mystery Theater though - glitch?)

So it wasn't The Invisibles which brought me here, but Stoatie and then Lilly Nowhere. I really don't remember why or how, now, but it was a damned good idea.

I really should get (or borrow) a copy of the trades to read some time.

iamus

21:54 / 26.09.05

Yah. I took the notion to adopt it as my first "grown-up" comic towards the end of the first volume, right about sigil time. Read through to the end, overanalising all the while. Opened me up to a lot of ideas. I'm not prone to gushing about it nowadays or making it out to be more than it actually is, but I do see it as an important work and a major influence.

I was reading The Bomb back when it started, and was a lurker here circa 2001. Fell off the wagon, came back and re-registered. I'll be celebrating my first Barbe-birthday in a week or two now.

Grey Cell

22:02 / 26.09.05

My name is Ghostwheel, and I found Barbelith through The Invisibles.

Like many others, I once googled my way to http://www.barbelith.com/bomb/ in the hopes of learning some more about the series. I don't exactly remember how I ended up in the actual Barbelith community but I found it interesting and varied enough to keep coming back for more on a regular basis, and eventually started posting too (though I still tend to stay out of the more in-depth discussions; online banter & brawl kind of lost its appeal over the years and I'm not sure I want to get back into it).

8===>Q: alyn

22:12 / 26.09.05

I found Barbelith when MC made memepool.

As for the Invisibles, I get so tired of reminding people that the most dangerous work is that which comes closest to saying the opposite of what it's really saying.

Morpheus

01:05 / 27.09.05

It seemed that G.M. invited me to check it out and he said that this would be a place that could honor the ideas of that comic after it ended. A way to live on and recreate the web sigil on a personal level. But that is not what this place is at all.
Water pools, and thin green lizards come here to go unnoticed. A place full of winged machines helpless and moaning over nothing but media blurbs and off-shoot theory heat sinks. This place is almost worthless.

iamus

01:17 / 27.09.05

Thankfully for us all, Morpheus redeems it.

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:18 / 27.09.05

I came here because I lived around the corner from Tom. And knew him. Kinda.

Phex: Dorset Doom

01:24 / 27.09.05

t seemed that G.M. invited me to check it out and he said that this would be a place that could honor the ideas of that comic after it ended

Oh wow! You know Grant 'George' Morrison!?! This totally redeems you in my eyes. Y'know, redeems you from being an occasional troll who posts self important warnings of an impending apocalypse that exists only in your head in a thread about a tragedy where real people have died and who apparently can't spell 'dying' correctly. Twice.

ghadis

01:28 / 27.09.05

I came here blindfolded with a snooker ball strapped in my mouth. Like all good and meaningful relationships. I?ve never looked back and I suggest you all do the same.

ghadis

01:37 / 27.09.05

I have no idea who the fuck is Serge Morrison and I don?t care either. I?ve talked to Invisible people all over and they are quite unhappy about how they are seemingly represented in the geek comic news press. If I was them I would rise up and smother you all like mangy dogs. ? ???

rising and revolving

02:06 / 27.09.05

"Did The Invisibles Bring You Here?"

Yes. Yes they did. In their Invisible Car. We would have taken the Invisible Plane, but Wonder Woman was using it.

Ragged Robin pinched my lighter, too.

Ender

02:29 / 27.09.05

yes oddman. but once here, the philosophies of the group are prevelant if not readily spoken of.

---

03:30 / 27.09.05

Whats The Invisibles? Some book, or comag or something?

Laughing

03:54 / 27.09.05

I came for the Invisibles, but I stayed for the huggles.

ONLY NICE THINGS

05:03 / 27.09.05

Huggles!

The Return Of Rothkoid

05:15 / 27.09.05

■

07:03 / 27.09.05

Come for George's Invisibles, stay for Tom's huggles. That's the philosophy here, ayup.

_Boboss

08:37 / 27.09.05

They're all being hecky-quiet them old schoolers, (y'know the ones I mean: the mouthy ones) 'cause they don't like to admit it, but for all a them the answer's 'yes'.

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