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Just a couple of thoughts while I'm not quite finished reading it.
I wish there was more GM interview stuff, but then part of me is glad there isn't. The stuff with the artists is cool, but they keep referring to how good Grant's scripts are, so now I want to see them even more.
If nothing else, this book is making me want to go back and read the series again. There's a few things I hadn't noticed first time around, or maybe I did but I've forgotten them. I haven't read the panel-by-panel yet, but maybe I will in concert with the comics themselves.
The commentaries by the authors are interesting, sounding much like what went on here after each new issue came out, and provoking even more nostalgia on my part. Let's hope "The Filth" provides such stellar discourse.
I can see how this book might piss off some people. On the one hand, it's a guidebook of sorts to a series that perhaps shouldn't have one. I always found that any startling revelations I would have about the Invisibles would come when I was alone and reading the issue a fourteenth time, or after a bit of debate here. Having said that, though, the series to me was always about points of view, and seeing it from someone else's in a well put-together volume such as this is a treat.
Patrick, if you're still out there lurking, I'm really enjoying the book. Good work.
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