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Yup, I did talk a bunch about John a Dreams. I asked him if any of the new Invisibles book would take place post supercontext, and he said that it would be impossible to represent it in a 2-D space. So, I asked him what exactly his conception of the supercontext was, and he said that the basic idea revolves around being taken outside of time. Once outside of time, we're able to perceive humanity as not just a bunch of individuals, rather as a single entity.
It ties into the time worm concept, as seen in the pages Cameron redid for Volume 3. Basically, you stretch back through time, and eventually you stretch back up into your mother, and she stretches back into her mother, and this goes all the way back to the first single cell organism. So, seen from outside of time, any one of us is just a small branch off from this gigantic tree that composes all life on the planet.
I'd gotten the timeworm idea, but I never thought to connect it back to one's mother, and that was the major breakthrough for me. So, in that context, it's quite easy to see how we're each just a small piece of something larger, not an individual. This is where the cells and the hand comes in, we think we're like a cell on a hand that thinks it's a whole body, and entering the supercontext dispels that misconception. This is territory that he explored with The Filth, the whole idea of the human being as bioship, and the Earth as just a larger form of this.
John a Dreams comes into this because he's someone who's been freed from time and the illusion of individuality. He can move through spacetime and experience reality through anyone's perspective, wear any fiction suit. The thing he stressed was that the idea of individuality is a false construction, and to say that the supercontext destroys your individuality is wrong, that individuality was never actually there. There is no me/you, there is only one us. |
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