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Did The Invisibles Bring You Here?

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Eloi Tsabaoth

08:47 / 27.09.05

I prefer 'Original Boarda'.

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:01 / 27.09.05

Personally, no. Nick bought me here - we met by chance at a viewing of X-Men one (God, that was a while ago), got chatting in a cafe in Camden Town afterwards, and he told me I should join - and has probably regretted it ever since. I can't recall whether I already knew Tom at that point.

Lysander Stark

09:03 / 27.09.05

I came while researching something arcane about theatreland during Shakespeare's times while a Masters student, having by sheer coincidence read the first tpb of The Invisibles shortly before. When Barbelith popped up on my search results page, I felt a little like Neo being invited to follow the white rabbit...

Mind you, despite lurking, it took me half a decade to actually join.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:07 / 27.09.05

I stumbled in here one night when I was drunk. I'd just got my first computer, and spent the night getting all pissed up on booze and discovering teh interwebnet. I assume a search for GM happened at some point.

Regrettable Juvenilia

09:14 / 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'.

Yes, I'm sure there are many "mouthy old schoolers" too ashamed to admit this, and it is this SHAME and FEAR that stops them from posting in this thread, rather than anything else, such as the fact that this question has is asked on at least an annual basis.

I found this place via The Invisibles. It's a good comic.

_Boboss

09:22 / 27.09.05

for flip's sake, will you PLEASE get over the invisibles?

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:29 / 27.09.05

I know we broke up a long time ago, but sometimes still I think of them when I touch me.

Is that so wrong?

I read the Invisibles at college and enjoyed it - I certainly wasn't _averse_ to the Invisibles, but even by the time I joined (99 or so) the board was no longer that much about them. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if anything it wsa the focus on literary, cultural and gender theory that kept me interested.

Sax

09:58 / 27.09.05

I joined the Nexus sometime in Summer '99, I think - it must have been late summer, probably September, because I think my first post was about the eclipse, which happened August of that year. I was heavily into the Invisibles at the time, I think the third volume was just coming up to the end. I'd spent a long time reading the annotations and dressing Fanny, and then found the discussion board. I really liked the posters Zenith and Broad Arrow Jack - what happened to them?

Quantum

10:02 / 27.09.05

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

Seth. Met at a JtB party where he told me about the Magic forum, I never looked back. I'd read the vinbisles of course but I'm a Moore fan really- all of Morrison's work is fundamentally about loving your cat, or ultradimensional space squids that are really ourselves, man.

Evil Scientist

10:30 / 27.09.05

The Invisibles was one of the three comics I read obsessivly through my university years (the others being Preacher and, later, Transmetropolitan). But reading it these days I find it feels slightly dated. It was a creature of the nineties and the build-up to the Millenium. That doesn't make any less a good read than it was back then though.

I was aware of Barbelith through mentions on the Invisibles letters pages, but lack of regular internet access ensured I never had more than a passing familiarity with the site itself. By the time I was working with a company that supplied regular net access I was mainly posting on a messageboard for fans of the rpg "Aberrant", and occasionally lurking on here in Comics.

Then horror struck in the form of internet filters, so I had to find another messageboard to waste work time on. Barbelith was the one I went for.

ZF!

10:51 / 27.09.05

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

Tango-Mango, you live in Stokies, why not join the library and read them that way? That's how I dood it. Bought the first trade years ago, but only got around to reading the rest of the series late last year/early this year.
Z

Tryphena Absent

10:52 / 27.09.05

all of Morrison's work is fundamentally about loving your cat

And your rabbit and your dog. *sob*

modern maenad

11:37 / 27.09.05

The triumphantly gorgeous Deva is a meatspace pal who got me all intrigued and eventually begging for membership. Has taken a looooong time to work out what you've all been on about. Grant Morrison, erm, that guy from The Doors, Eastenders, Supermarket mogul??? The Invisibles, eh?? At least now have woolly idea, but 'spose should really go read......

Evil Scientist

11:42 / 27.09.05

Stick with it if you do, Modern. The first trade puts some people off but the rest of the series is well worth a read.

Dose

11:47 / 27.09.05

I read the Invisibles (all of it)lost a hundred pounds quit my dead-end security job after nearly four years...
Pursued my musical talents. And, well still going.
Just like Jesus knew he'd be betreyed Morrison Knew that he'd make The Invisibles real.. So print out the Blank Badges...

Nice and Smooth.

Sax

11:53 / 27.09.05

The Invisibles brought me here but I'm hoping that Xoc is taking me home.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

12:04 / 27.09.05

why not join the library and read them that way?

I always forget I'm a member of the library; but Stoatie has 'em in some form too, so maybe I'll borrow them that way. Then I'll need the time to actually read stuff.

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:04 / 27.09.05

I prefer 'Original Boarda'

I prefer Big Barda.

Sekhmet

13:20 / 27.09.05

Add me to the "yes" list. I was researching the Barbelith entity, trying to find out if it had any mythological precedent or if it was something GM invented. Googled "Barbelith." Found the Bomb, thence the board, was thrilled, lurked on and off for a long time, then joined, and had my trial-by-fire in a fight with Gypsy Lantern about Robert Anton Wilson.

I feel like a walking cliche.

Chiropteran

13:21 / 27.09.05

Actually, Barbelith (dot com) brought me to the Invisibles (I had heard of it before, but it was the discussion about it here that sold me).

How did I end up here, anyway...? Oh! Someone sent me a link to the old Urban Magick thread, and I liked it so much I joined up. It took me months to venture out of The Magick into the other forums.

Tim Tempest

13:29 / 27.09.05

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.

Get out of my thread.

Just........go.

Quantum

13:35 / 27.09.05

all of Morrison's work is fundamentally about loving your cat

And your rabbit and your dog. *sob*

Ahem,
-"We got one!"
-"Pray God it's the cat."
because cats are scary and cool. Dogs are stoopidly loyal and Rabbits have novelty poo. The Filth is a multidimensional Freudian Bardo about, erm, Grant and Grant's cat. Nuff said.

The Falcon

14:38 / 27.09.05

Dogs ARE stupid. I don't think he got a bad deal, speaking as a dog person.

Yes, I came because of the comic, about three years ago. But it was all New X-Men when I arrived. None of my irl friends wanted to talk about comics as much as I do.

I am interested in the question 'If not the Invisibles, then what...?', 'cos the former seems obvious to me, but I'm curious about other reasons for going on mbs.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

15:19 / 27.09.05

Nope. I came here after seeing the board reviewed on a late night ITV programme that reviewed websites...marched straight into a well deserved pointy sarcasm stick wielded by Haus, and hung around.

Sorry about the smell.

P. Horus Rhacoid

16:00 / 27.09.05

Sort of. In a fit of youthful exuberence I was hunting around for the grenade image from the cover of the first trade (for use as a desktop background) when I stumbled on the Bomb. Not wanting to look at annotations before I finished the series, I downloaded the image and promptly forgot about it until, some months later, my friend (who introduced me to Invisibles) asked me if I'd been here. "Wait," I said. "There's a message board there?" I lurked for awhile and then finally got over my irrational, pant-wetting terror of posting things online and joined.

+#'s, - names

16:30 / 27.09.05

Did reading Mr. Morrison's Mind-War Epic Bring You To Barbelith?

I guess so. Nexus style!

grant

16:59 / 27.09.05

I prefer Big Barda.

Gentlemen do.

Quantum

17:36 / 27.09.05

I came here after seeing the board reviewed on a late night ITV programme that reviewed websites
Really? I wonder hoe many times Barbelith has appeared in the media? We were in thegrauniad the other day, where else have we been mentioned I wonder?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:33 / 27.09.05

I remember a thread about that programme a couple of years back, or at least seeing it mentioned. Never saw it, though. That could have been fun.

Mourne Kransky

20:17 / 27.09.05

It was presented by Lowri Turner and... oops.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

20:20 / 27.09.05

Ah yes, Lowri... where's that video tape gone, and my digitiser.

Shrug

20:42 / 27.09.05

It was called The Web Review. The barbelith review ain't on it though. The show's site disappeared from the web when the show disappeared from television but the designers albedo kept the bones of it on as a ghost site to hock there wares.
Jog the memory Money?

Link

The Mr E suprise

20:57 / 27.09.05

Why, I've always been here. As have you.

Mourne Kransky

21:52 / 27.09.05

Someone has stolen one of your Rs.

Sax

06:14 / 28.09.05

Okay, who pinched Mr E's Rs?

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