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She says, on page six, "don't fuck with the FILTH" not the hand. on page 9 she says "the hand never lets go". if the hand and the filth are identicial, it's interesting to ntoe that Slade / Feely does "fuck with" his OWN hand on page 8 when he masturbates...

9 lots of attention paid to the HANDS of the clocks in the ofice, in his house, on his wrist. the hands of time never let go, forcing him through his mundane reality.

page 14 -- those quilted orange shoulder pads on his uniform look mighty familiar -- i don't have my copies of invisibles on me, but was a similar uniform employed by soldiers of harmony house or or dulce or other outlets of the outer church?

page 15 -- i'm almost reminded of those kickass animated crest commericals from the late 70s / early 80s -- "fight the cavity creeps" -- when slade uses his toothbrush as a deadly weapon. his doppleganger might indeed be a living germ of some sort.

18 "two eye drops in each eye, they'll protect your eyeballs from compression" -- i'm assuming this means they're going to get smaller. given morrison's skill at complications, that doesn't necessarily mean they're going into the bonsai-verse, but they are shifting to a different density.

17 see how on the last panel, the foreground / background perspective make it look as though slade is tiny in relation to the cat? that gaping mouth on the "cleansing" truck reminds me of something that happened in Aeon Flux -- she released chomping mechanical bacteriaphages into her bloodstream to swallow the explsive-tipped sperm that got pumped into her. i think the notion hear might be some kind of germ-cleaning task force operating on the cosmic level -- or the microscopic level, we'll keep on guessing.

19 did someone already mention how driving through the wall to get to the other dimension is just like buckaroo banzai? and with the talk of the bonasai panet to boot. After all the focus on the HANDS of clocks, this one spins out of control and breaks out of the grip of time and space -- these particular hands have in fact let go.

20 this page is so fucking crazy. note all the hand-operated paraphenalia that makes up the scenery -- giant PENS, a great disco synthesizer KEYBOARD, and of course all the alien PENISES (esp on the bottom of the page) and VAGINAS (upper right). i guess this creature is called LePEN because of something that related to the giant pens all around her. maybe she is writing the outcome of reality? the riot succeeds / riot fails to happen are more than reminiscent of the screens in the outer church of the invisibles that said YES / NO.

in fact, wasn't the outerchurch supposedely an entire universe compressed into a tiny space? all the converts would talk about how they couldn't believe something could be so small and so dense. so wether literally or metaphorically, we seem to be inside the outer church, a micro universe with their own undisclosed agenda.

23 on the as above so below shot, not all the Xsw and Os that surround the turret -- reminding us, again, "it's only a game"

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