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The Invisibles: what is your favourite bit?

 
  

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akira
20:29 / 14.02.02
So, whats your best bit?

[ 15-02-2002: Message edited by: moriarty ]
 
 
moriarty
09:46 / 15.02.02


Sexiest comic book I own, right there.
 
 
akira
18:04 / 15.02.02
lol
 
 
Steve Block
18:58 / 15.02.02
Heh, not seen that before.

My best bit of The Invisibles, it seems to me, was the antiipation, and the promise. Way back in the early days, you got the sense that you just didn't have a clue what the book was going to be about. I miss that.
 
 
Captain Zoom
18:07 / 17.02.02
I thought the best bit was annotating it here.

Well, that and the bit where Fanny gets hirself off in the truck.

Zoom.
 
 
lentil
21:34 / 17.02.02
you know the bit in "Black science 2", when KM and Roger have been zombified by Quimper, and he's taking them down in the elevator, explaining 'the way things are', and then you get that double page splash of an enormous magic mirror blob with Quimper saying "God is in the machine"? I first read that while severely mashed on acid. quite an experience.
 
 
king pawn
14:58 / 19.02.02
Knowing that Morrison is writting one of his mouthy again is a greate feeling. It was the same with The Doom Patrol every mouth this werid little comic would come out and turn everything on it's head.
Favourite bit in the Invisibles?
Gideon Stargrale in Entropy in the U.K

[ 19-02-2002: Message edited by: king pawn ]
 
 
The Natural Way
07:03 / 20.02.02
Knowing that Morrison is writting one of his mouthy again is a greate feeling

What is that sentence, Mummy?
 
 
king pawn
06:10 / 21.02.02
Thank you for pointing out my mistake Fantastic, but don't call me mummy.
 
 
The Natural Way
06:40 / 21.02.02
Sssshhhhh, Mater.
 
 
king pawn
07:57 / 21.02.02
That's better.
 
 
The Natural Way
07:57 / 21.02.02
And the name's 'Runce'. The 'Fantastic' Part refers to YOU!

I love you guys.....
 
 
lentil
14:06 / 27.02.02
I think everyone should have to contribute to a thread saying "what's your favourite bit of the invisibles" at least once per barbelith incarnation. And i bet there have been at least......... fifteen.......... threads on exactly this topic.
 
 
The Planet of Sound
16:00 / 27.02.02
Probably. Mine's the bit when they arrive in 18th C. Paris, and King Mob says 'I always forget how bad the past smells'. And Key 23 stuff, generally.
 
 
Sandfarmer
00:31 / 28.02.02
I dug the whole thing and yeah, I too had a few acid trip sessions with the thing. Pretty mind blowing.
 
 
The Damned Yankee
10:01 / 28.02.02
"Darling, ever feel like you've been had?"

Or words to that effect. Lord Fanny to Quimper, regardless.
 
 
lentil
11:03 / 28.02.02
yeah, that too. one of those "AAAAHH YES YOU MOTHERFUCKERZZZZZZ!" moments. think that was in the same issue as the bit i mentioned earlier
 
 
klint
04:35 / 01.03.02
Right off the top of my head I'm going to say the part in vol. 3 when KM meets up with Mr. Six in an Italian suit and says "It's the new me. The yuppie terrorist."
 
 
Morlock - groupie for hire
10:32 / 01.03.02
Tom O'Bedlam and Jack Frost by the Thames "I am one holy fucking terror" (or words to that effect, haven't got them to hand.) First to spring to mind anyway.
 
 
Laughing
10:53 / 01.03.02
After Tom beats the fuck out of Jack and shows him the blank badge, and Jack wakes up by the river, and he says, "It's okay to cry, right? If I want to. It's okay to cry."

Gets me every time.
 
 
Logos
19:27 / 01.03.02
1. "I'm on the side with butter on it, I am."

2. "A car...""...is waiting"
"That's what I'm going to call my autobiography. 'ta for the title."
 
 
mr insensitive
09:12 / 02.03.02
"I'll drink all your poisons and piss out vintage champagne".
 
 
gridley
09:30 / 02.03.02
I thought the whole bit in the 20s was great. The scat magic was great. And I got chills when Freddie saw his future self (from the opposite angle that we had seen in a much earlier issue)....
 
 
bastl b
09:34 / 02.03.02
some hardly exact quotes:

you won´t kick pigeons ass again

time to wake up and say goodbye

car backfiring

hell, i´ll try anything twice

the perfect fascist state must operate in conditions of eternal warfare

is all love now

i´m ready to play with the grown ups. show me babe

our sentence is up

when you cannot see yourself as the one you truly are then you only see darkness

and they fixed things real good

and out comes the big surprise

you´re nothing. nothing at all

try to remember

can we all come and live, mason?

the brighter the light the darker the shadow

some have different dreams

I´m the tiger in the rain tearing you out of your CAR

james bond is dead

starting to feel
really weird now

a better world for everyone including the enemy

terrible light and cold

and if i write it hard enough and honest enough i think i can make it real
 
 
Lionheart
16:57 / 05.03.02
The last issue of Vul0me 1.

And all of Phillip Bond's work in Volume 3.

And when the Native American guy who's name escapes me does the rain dance.

Plus the cartoon sequence when they blow up the train and realize that they've been head. It's like something out of Looneyaylum Toons.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
21:11 / 05.03.02
mamoowhird ya cunt
 
 
The Natural Way
11:12 / 06.03.02
Yeah, that sequence really resonated w/ me, too.

And Mr. Six upgrading to the Harlequinade in the subways beneath the "city of the moon".

But the funnest bit - the insect orgy and suddenly realising what it really was....
 
 
rizla mission
12:25 / 06.03.02
My favourite bits:

The last few pages of issue 3.2 - Jack presenting the badge to the straight-edge girl, with art from Grant M. and Cameron S. That bit is so cool it hurts.

The whole of issues 1.26 and 3.12 - The Sweeney takes on Yog-Sothoth - YEAH!!
 
 
PatrickMM
03:31 / 12.04.04
Robin's return from the Supercontext. Having read the last six issues in one sitting, by that point, I wasn't exactly picking up on all the details of what was happening, but that moment when she comes back, and then "All now is love," was just overwhelming, the most emotionally affecting moment to me in all comics.
 
 
Lord Morgue
10:10 / 12.04.04
"Do you like to fuck like the dog?"
"I don't fancy yours much."
"I can give you the secret of enlightenment, OR I can tell you how to fly a jet plane."
"You're my last bit of territory, Brody."
"And then he pleasured me with a potato."
"Christ! It's a fucking tantric free-for-all!"
"Why's everybody looking at me? When am I supposed to have found the time to learn how to fly one of these things? You shoot a few people, and suddenly everyone thinks you're James Bond."
And the bit when Mason pisses off the skyscraper while Robin and Gideon play Sex Gestapo. Everyone looked sooo evil...
 
 
Krug
13:41 / 12.04.04
"Try to remember..."

"I am become death, shatterer of worlds."

"Reality can suck my dick darling."

"You're running around shooting people like they're Nothing. You're Fucked up, Gideon. You're not cool, you're not a hero, you're just a Murderer."

"Your heads like mine, like all our heads;
big enough to contain every God and Devil there ever was.
Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole Universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over.
The world turns our key and we play the same tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are."
"You can say what you like.
You can say what you like, my friends. You can shout and call me crazy all you like but it won't change the facts.
We're all receivers. Like cheap radios, they've tuned us in and they're making us play their music and we don't even know it. We think our thoughts are our own, but let me tell you, they're not.
Our thoughts are broadcasts. We're talking about extremely low frequency magnetic fields blanket broadcasts by our masters in the new world order. We're talking about these ELF transmitters programming our minds with carefully modulated waveforms.
You can sneer and snigger all you like but when you wake up at three in the morning, anxious and agitated and wondering where those horrible thoughts are coming from, maybe you won't feel so smart, eh? There are ELF generators everywhere.
They're using our televisions! They're using satellites! They're using the muzak in bars and shopping centers!
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HAD A THOUGHT THAT WASN'T PUT THERE BY THEM?"

The whole scene near the end when King Mob calls his old girlfriend after getting shot.

There's just tonnes of moments in the first four issues alone with Mad Tom and Dane.

One that's been in my head for weeks now.

"I know you Dane McGowan and you know me.

I am not the God of your fathers Dane."
 
 
Aertho
17:13 / 12.04.04
What Edith says to Miles and Gideon in India...
something like:

"What really stands out in this world is goodness and ordinary kindness."
 
 
osymandus
17:18 / 12.04.04
Hmm favoritue scene is KM just destroying that mad Yakuza guy . And the intergigating the other one and saying "dont go all Charlie Chan one me " and Mason pointing out That Charlie Chan was Chinese.

Best quote

"Forget everything you learned , you've ben lied to, there is no war . This is a rescue misson"
 
 
Triplets
20:46 / 12.04.04
King Mob's eyebrows
 
 
quinine92001
20:55 / 12.04.04
imascoolasbrucelee...imascoolasbrucelee

the empire never dies

remember when i said you'd be the first person i'd call when all of this was over?

it is hard to walk in this world

...strange occult group in leeds

...and then you became a killer and started hanging out with the Manson girls

how many fingers am I holding up?

I spent a couple hours in Sir Miles torture chamber and it seemed like months. I would have traded my soul for some crisps.

please tell me that I've been shagging an android.
 
  

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