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Favorite Invisibles characters?

Matthew Fluxington

22:12 / 12.01.02

Now, in all the discussion of Invisibles I've ever seen, I've never seen anyone ever really talk about the characters in terms of just, y'know, LIKING them.

Who are your favorites?

Me, I tend to enjoy the supporting characters more than the leads (save for Jack Frost...I really enjoy Jack).

I'm pretty fond of Helga, Mr. Six, and Mason Lang, personally.

SMS

22:26 / 12.01.02

I like Edith, personally. She always gave me this feeling of being a step up on the rest of them. I need to go back and read it with her in mind, because I think there's a lot more to be found.

Other than that, I quite liked Sir Miles, and Quimper, because, well, I feel like I can relate to them. That's true, despite the fact that I'm not an evil murderous bastard.

bio k9

22:38 / 12.01.02

In order to for me to pick a favorite they would have to have different personalities...

I'll go with Tom O Bedlam. I thought he was cool as hell. We have a homeless black guy with a long grey beard and tattered clothes that wonders around town carrying a big ass walking stick and every time I see him I think he would be perfect for the part in a movie.

On a side note: the first four issues of Vol. I are my favorites of the entire series. I think it promised more than anyone could have delivered. Maybe if sales had been stronger and the US action tour could have been avoided...

Matthew Fluxington

23:03 / 12.01.02

Oh man! I can't believe I forgot to mention Edith, who is, without question, my favorite thing about the Invisibles. And I'm pretty sure that's probably just because I find her to be a very sexy character...

Having now read the entirety of the three series (thanks to BioK9), I can say that my favorite volume is 3, though my favorite trade paperback is Kissing Mr. Quimper. I enjoy the first volume here and there, but a lot of it I just think is dull, dull, dull. Pretty much everything in Apocalypstick is a snoozer, as far as I'm concerned.

I do think that the single best issue of all was the first issue of volume one...that first storyline was so good, and then he went and followed it up with Arcadia and the Apocalypstick stuff...ugh, no wonder I didn't bother with volumes 2 and 3 til so long after the fact...

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Margin Walker

00:01 / 13.01.02

Jim Crow--because he's a fuckin' bad-ass. Duh!

The Natural Way

14:14 / 13.01.02

Tom: The first member of the old crew to interface with barbelith

And Miles: The last. Poor old sod.

Perfect Tommy

14:22 / 13.01.02

I always liked Ragged Robin, but I could never figure out why I was so drawn to her.

And when Boy sees Barbelith and says "Hi" in a small voice, I just go "Awwwwwwwwww" for some reason.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

19:28 / 13.01.02

What does it mean that Boy meets Barbelith but then gives up on the Invisibles? That she is right when she says the revolution is unnecessary just as King Mob is right when he says it is, or is it just that Morrison wanted to replace her with Helga and get a really cool gf?

The Natural Way

06:28 / 14.01.02

Prolly both. Gideon buggers about battling for the birth of a new universe, Boy, perhaps more sensibly, opts for a cute looking kid.

Jackie Susann

06:54 / 14.01.02

Does Gideon starting up that big corporation remind anyone else of the annoying ex-punk guy the Enid runs into in Ghost World?

Anyway, I would probably say Tom and Helga were my favourites - I kept wishing so much that Tom would come back, and Grant would dangle him there... oh yes here he is... yes... no. No, off he goes again, really dead. Shit.

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:33 / 14.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Dread Pirate Crunchy:
Does Gideon starting up that big corporation remind anyone else of the annoying ex-punk guy the Enid runs into in Ghost World?

Heh. No, but every single wannabe revolutionary who read the Invisibles but who also wants a fat paycheck, and so justifies their cushy corporate job with "hey man, I'm subverting the system from the inside just like King Mob!" - they remind me of the guy from Gjost World...

Favourite characters? Probably Jack, Fanny, Jim and Roger. And Boy. And George Harper... There are a few...

sleazenation

07:41 / 14.01.02

Roger and john a'dreams

Tamayyurt

16:01 / 14.01.02

Fanny, Helga, and that str8 edge, high school girl Jack (this time he's the teacher) shows the blank pin to. She really should have been in the last issue!

yawn - thing's buddy

17:35 / 14.01.02

Mr. Six. by a long shot.

second comes Boy's brutha.

king mob was/is a twerp.

Eloi Tsabaoth

17:45 / 14.01.02

quote:Originally posted by impulsivelad:
that str8 edge, high school girl Jack (this time he's the teacher) shows the blank pin to. She really should have been in the last issue!

She was. That was Reynard.

Cherry Bomb

17:50 / 14.01.02

I used to like Robin the most, but I've cooled on her to the point where I almost don't care about her.

Fanny, though, is without a doubt my favorite. I love her spirit. My favorite Fanny scene is when Jack and Fanny are in the park in NYC, if memory serves talking about impending shit going down. It's a huge deal but Fanny has this huge grin her face. She's just in a happy mood, in spite of the heavy stuff.

I also really love the relationship between Jack and Fanny.

Other favorites would definitely be the Harlequinade. And Mr. Six.

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Regrettable Juvenilia

19:08 / 14.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Cherry Bomb:
I also really love the relationship between Jack and Fanny.

I love the fact that at some point during the series, Jack stops calling Fanny 'he' and starts calling her 'she'. It's a nice touch.

The Jack/Fanny dancing for the Harlequinade sequence is probably still my favourite in the entire Invisibles. Jiminez excels himself...

Matthew Fluxington

19:53 / 14.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Flyboy:

The Jack/Fanny dancing for the Harlequinade sequence is probably still my favourite in the entire Invisibles. Jiminez excels himself...

This is one of my favorite scenes too... Man, I really like Jack Frost. I like the scene with him and Fanny on the bench towards the end of Vol 3, the one in which he explains the bit about El Fayed believing him to be an avatar of Horus... , and then later on, the scene with King Mob planning the final battle, and Jack acting all aloof...

I love Jack's odd sorta zen calm about everything... If I were to BE any Invisibles character, I'd want to be him. But lord knows, I'd just end up being Mason Lang.

Laughing

09:16 / 15.01.02

King Mob (obviously), in full headdress and guns-a-blazin'.

Also, the Blind Chessman.
-"You have not told me your name, sir."
-"No. I have not."

Oh, and the Marquis de Sade. Although he's not strictly an Invisibles' character, he's so much fun!

Matthew Fluxington

16:40 / 15.01.02

About the Blind Chessman:

I was just running through the Bomb site, and noticed that in his entry, it says that there was a great deal of speculation about his identity... well, I'll ruin that for you all now, if you don't already know by now. In the Writers On Comics Scriptwriting book by Mark Salisbury, some of Grant's scripts are reproduced, and one of those pages is the sequence in vol 2 in which Jack Frost is playing chess with the Blind Chessman... and the script refers to that character as Satan.

So, that's that. The Blind Chessman is Satan.

Not Here Still

17:00 / 15.01.02

Originally posted by Flux=Rad

So, that's that. The Blind Chessman is Satan.

But where is his big white beard and Red and White outfit?

Actually, the apple theme which appears at least twice is a big clue for me.

Characters I like?

George, the copper in Division X - cos he's a geezer - and as the bloke playing him eventually reveals, being George is a great laugh.

Jack, obviously. And Tom, too.

And I'm always a sucker for a drag queen*, and Fanny gets all the best lines.

But mainly, it's George.

[*And I'll raise my eyebrow at that before Ganesh does]

Ierne

17:23 / 15.01.02

Favorite Invisibles character...hmmmm...

I have to give it to Lord Fanny, because s/he's a survivor. No matter how awful things get, s/he deals. (and the clothes... *sigh*)

Edith comes a close second – I've a soft spot for decadent women...

Naked Flame

17:27 / 15.01.02

Fanny. She deserved her own title, frankly. And I'll never forgive GM for that vision of her in 2012... 'I just ballooned, darling!' Bastard.

I liked Jack, too, because his magic is 'deep down, where it'll do the most good.' And for the line 'I'm on the side with butter on it, me.' the boy's a genius.

Regrettable Juvenilia

18:04 / 15.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Flame On:
And I'll never forgive GM for that vision of her in 2012... 'I just ballooned, darling!' Bastard.

See, I took this to be another example of the title's continuing auto-critique... It's like "so, you can cope with the idea of a beautiful, always stylish, always sexy
tranny? how about a big fat tranny, you shallow fucks"...

Matthew Fluxington

18:11 / 15.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Flyboy:

It's like "so, you can cope with the idea of a beautiful, always stylish, always sexy
tranny? how about a big fat tranny, you shallow fucks"...

Right on.

I actually thought Fanny looked great all big...

yawn - thing's buddy

18:22 / 15.01.02

oh yeah,

quimper too.

adamswish

13:03 / 16.01.02

I always liked the Harlequinade, especially when they appear to Sir Miles in the form of the "yellow king".

A close second would be Mr Six who just ossed (sic) sauvy, '60's super spy (more than the corporate king mob).

<escaping internal fanboy>Oh if only they had done action figures for the series.</escaping internal fanboy>

I, Libertine

11:22 / 17.01.02

Colonel Friday...to me his dialogue always sounds like he's modeled on General Jack D. Ripper from Dr. Strangelove. Constantly stymied and pissed off.

Sharkgrin

20:10 / 17.01.02

I'll endorse Colonel Friday everyday and twice on Sunday.
His lines resemble the top-of-the-line big-guns/kill-em-all/macho-laden/slightly-insecure crap that I and quite a few other American males were fed as youth.
Plus his descriptions of control in Bloody Hell in America were chilling.
<Tears you out of your car seat and rips you to bits on the bloody highway>

Professor Silly

06:50 / 18.01.02

My three favorites consist of the same characters above in a different combination.

Tom represents the great magician; I like him both as an old bum and a young whiner!

Mr. Six has it goin' on--his carefree attitude when invited to the otherside speaks volumes...isn't he the first to really realize the two sides are one?

Finally, my absolute favorite is Jack, the modern Horus/Harpocrates/Buddha. He make the third volume the best in my eyes.

All hail Discordia!

Ierne

12:50 / 18.01.02

And I'm pretty sure that's probably just because I find her to be a very sexy character...–Flux

On that note, I find it difficult to believe that I didn't mention Jolly Roger in my previous post. I must've been high...

The Natural Way

12:59 / 18.01.02

Mr. Six has it goin' on--his carefree attitude when invited to the otherside speaks volumes...isn't he the first to really realize the two sides are one?

Well, I'm pretty sure most members of the 1920's cell had it sussed long before (esp Tom [w/ his negredo-style, lovecraft magic cult] and Billy)....oh, and John who "saw them for what they really are", etc. and, of course, our Jack.....

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No star here laces

13:02 / 18.01.02

I like Orlando. He just had shitty luck with artists, is all.

Ditto Fanny's granny. Scary lady.

Favourite might be young Robin. Old Robin is very boring just this "girl with big dresses" who fucks the equally tedious King Mob. The sequence with young Robin in the tank writing the book is my absolute favourite bit, it never fails to turn my head inside out trying to think about it.

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