i more or less like all the Invisibles & their assorted allies & find them interesting...&...it was interesting to watch Dane grow from a terrible brat to an authentic human being...but 2 of my favorite characters in the series are Audrey Murray & John-A-Dreams, not only for themselves, but for something they both have in common: each is seldom directly seen in the story, yet each is utterly PIVOTAL & IMPORTANT to key events in it. i consider Morrison's use of Audrey especially inspired, because when first we meet her in the Best Man Fall section, we have no reason to think she'll be any more than a strictly incidental & minor character...so her re-appearance later when i forgot about her was a total surprise!
  • Zauriel, Aztek, That dread lock guy from skrull kill krew, the guy in kill your boyfriend, crazy jane, robyn, fanny, mr 6, Sir Miles, ned feely, the five spooky lords of hell from the kid eternity series, the monkey assassin from the filth, and yeah, all the rest.

    Look, invis makes perfect sense:

    John a dreams and quimper are connected by their outfits and the "first I was a little light" speech uttered by Quimper while being carried into the UFO by Fanny. The speech resonates through the whole series. Young Best Man Fall Lt. Murray hears it in his crib, and says edith says to call him boody, which futher connect Audrey later in the series...

    Basically, when the time machine go's, all the really weird bits are connected. Everyone's weird bits are connected. So when they do the hand of glory ritual, Freddie sees Robyn in the time suit in 1924 and goes crazy. Edith sees (but doesn't really see) King Mob on the stairway (he's both a stoned teenager, locked in his room, and a time shifting 2012 version of himself, walking in on Dane cooking a glove... you know, opening a door while holding a gun? It's his strongest memory from the future.) while she's having her abortion in Harrods and while she's meeting the harlequin (the stairs in the apartment building, and the stairs outside the chapel, where Dane and mad old tom time shift for a bit [these are the same stairs, I'm pretty sure, green lantern refers to in the final JLA arc morrison did. It always comes back to these conversations on the stairway he says to Flash, who's like, yeah. Whatever, go save the universe, man. {And of course, the ones in Varanasi.}])

    Edie tells King Mob to call on Buddha in that moment when the shit hits the fan, which he tells Robyn to do while they're making love on LSD like Peter Fonda. Which she does in that moment, which is also seen by Hiroshi's grandpa, which inspires the machine in the first place in that moment, that KM glimpses when he's flying back to 1997 in the hospital. The Golden Age KM hears it (edith says to call him boody) too, during the 1924 hand of glory ritual, he also sees a future image of his love, Beryl, weeping over an image reminding her of his death. That's also the moment that Miles meets Beryl, and gets sucked into a weird spooky invisibles cell where sutton (Freddie Sutton, Mad Tom) makes his life hell, and he ends up #1 bad guy...

    So everyone's connected. Or maybe I'm reading a bit into it. But it really is all about that speech, what it is? First I was a little light. Try reading it backwards. Or start in the middle (somwhere around volume II, issue 13) and read in both directions. Then you'll get it.

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