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!
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Re: your favorite characters from Morrison's comics
Sat, October 9, 2004 - 1:40 PMShit, I've forgotten about her even now... Who's Audrey again?
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Re: your favorite characters from Morrison's comics
Sat, October 9, 2004 - 2:29 PMI always had a liking for John-A-Dreams, when King Mob mentioned him he always made him seem cool :)
Mr Six is another favourite of mine, you've got to admire his sideburns.
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Re: your favorite characters from Morrison's comics
Mon, October 11, 2004 - 10:23 AMRobot Archie.
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Mon, October 11, 2004 - 10:17 PMKing Mob, hands down. -
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Mon, October 25, 2004 - 6:17 PMdanny the street.
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Wed, October 27, 2004 - 6:49 PMEdith -- What a life!
Jim Crow
Ragged Robin -- might be her (or my version of her) for Witches' Ball next week. -
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Thu, October 28, 2004 - 10:37 AMthat's a fine idea, Pamela! :)
you mention Edie...i'm fond of her cousin Freddie.
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Wed, November 3, 2004 - 4:59 PMAnd doesn't Freddie become John A' Dreams? or wait, no, he becomes the street guy who schools Dane in London, doesn't he? Is that John A'Dreams? -
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Thu, November 4, 2004 - 1:48 PMno, no, Pamela, Freddie's codename in the Invisibles is Tom O' Bedlam...& you're right that he's Dane's first teacher.
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Sat, November 6, 2004 - 9:37 AMIs John A Dreams also Quimper? Maybe I'm getting confused.
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Sun, November 7, 2004 - 2:45 AMOops! Of course, yes, I realized this after I posted. I sometimes get my Toms and Johns mixed up, kind of like right and left for me. ;>
As for John A Dreams and Quimper -- they seem to be related on the Archon side somehow. When the Invisibles go in with Fanny dressed up like Ragged Robin after Quimper has got inside Robin's head, Jack/Dane ends up talking to someone who is much like a version of John A Dreams. They play chess, Jack pretends to be a dumb kid looking for UFOs, then John? takes him through the liquid mirror and the next we see of Jack is him in bed with a high fever. Fanny is nursing him back to health, and Boy says goodbye.
THAT I do have right, correct?
My costume turned out great, by the way, but no one knew who I was. I think they just thought I was a dominatrix with a clown face! Ha! -
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Sun, November 7, 2004 - 4:14 AMAre you going to post a photo of your costume Pamela? :) -
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Sun, November 7, 2004 - 2:04 PMPamela, the person that Dane plays chess with is called the Blind Chessman. -
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Wed, November 17, 2004 - 3:01 PMThe Blind Chessman reminded me of John A Dreams, and didn't John A Dreams vanish, they don't know where he is, and there have been rumours of him joining the other side? -
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Mon, February 21, 2005 - 1:38 AMI favour the John-a-dreams/Blind chessman theory...
Favouriye character, King Mob
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Wed, November 17, 2004 - 3:09 PMOkay, it took a while but I posted a photo of me in my costume. As always, my first thought is that's not what it looked like in the mirror. : ) Ah, well, it's all in fun, right? -
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Thu, November 18, 2004 - 10:25 AMthat costume's great! :) -
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Fri, November 19, 2004 - 1:26 PMI second that motion, excellent costume! -
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Wed, November 24, 2004 - 12:52 PMreading The Filth now, noticing certain parallels between it & The Invisibles...specifically, Takashi Satoh in the Invisibles & Li Soon in The Filth are both East Asian scientists who derive inspiration in their work from traditional East Asian art forms - Takashi gets the idea for the timesuit from an origami form, Li is inspired by bonsai to engineer the I-Life creatures & the terrarium they inhabit. each scientist is financed by a different billionaire - Mason who pisses over New York, Simon who pisses over Massachussets.
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Sat, January 15, 2005 - 9:49 AMfavourite character ever is Zenith (although Seaguy and Tubby the Tuna run a close new favourite).
Out of the Invisibles it's a toss up between King Mob and Mister Six, although the way Jolly Roger can out-swear Jack means there is always a place in my heart for her. -
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Re: your favorite characters from Morrison's comics
Mon, February 21, 2005 - 12:44 PMIt's hard for me to choose between Ragged Robin and Lord Fanny.
But I need to read more of his work anyways...
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Re: your favorite characters from Morrison's comics
Sat, April 9, 2005 - 6:57 PMZauriel, 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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Mon, April 11, 2005 - 12:55 AMit really is meant to be read chaotic. Reread it in multiple directions. -
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Re: your favorite characters from Morrison's comics
Mon, April 11, 2005 - 5:33 AMtoss up between Noh-Varr in Marvel Boy and Flex Mentallo
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