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Edith-Bobby

 
 
The Dadaist
01:12 / 30.11.01
Which is the connection between Edith and Bobby Murray in The Invisibles??

I donĀ“t read the entire serie.
 
 
Jack Fear
01:44 / 30.11.01
Um... what have you read?

Do you plan to read the rest of the series at some point?

Do you wish to be surprised when you do?
 
 
Jackie Susann
01:52 / 30.11.01
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Okay, as best I remember... when the Invisibles cell from the '20s get knocked out of time-space and into the hyperdimensional supersolid by the Hand of Glory, they get all fucked up from seeing all things and time as one/at once, and are freaking out in a bad way, so Edith tells them to call on Buddha (later, Gideon offers Robin the same advice - if you're lost outside of time, there's some Buddha who'll help you). They repeat this to each other, or possibly Robin repeats it as she drifts in the hypersolid after the timesuit fucks up, or Gideon repeats it to Robin in one of his entanglements outside time - and anyway, one of the times they are intersecting is the young Bobby Murray's, and his mum (or whoever it was) thinks she hears him say 'Edith says to call him Boody'. Which he and/or she does.

If this isn't clear, I think it's one of those things which is going to remain somewhat ambiguous, insofar as the whole hypersolid/outside-time thing is necessarily ambiguous, although I could ramble longer except I gotta go somewhere.
 
 
The Dadaist
01:53 / 30.11.01
I read the half of the first volume and some issues of volume 2 and 3.
I live in Argentina and is difficult to find the whole serie.
 
 
DaveBCooper
08:53 / 30.11.01
Dread Pirate Crunchy's nailed it there, I'd say - though I might add that I seem to recall that Bobby Murray's teddy bear is called Boody, so yes he did call him Boody.

DBC
 
  
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