As you can imagine, uninformed biases can be hard to break. It still took a few more years before I approached the title for reading. So as he told me of his experience with The Invisibles, it really resonated with me and I never forgot his words. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to talk to or hear Jimenez speak at a con, you’ll soon realize that he is a very passionate and sincere man when it comes to comics.
He told me how much he loved that book and those characters and was thankful to have been a part of such a cool and important project. Jimenez was excited because he was about to pencil some work that he couldn’t tell me about (turns out it was his first issues of New X-Men) and he gushed about his experience previously working on The Invisibles. While getting a sketch from Phil Jimenez at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2001 (or was it 2002?) somehow the conversation meandered to Grant Morrison. Published by Vertigo/DC Comics from 1994 through 2000, The Invisibles was an early Vertigo flagship title, and while I’ve heard of some very dedicated and devout fans of the book, it always seems to have been dismissed as “that book that doesn’t make any sense.” I had often heard The Invisibles described this way, and combined with my uninformed bias against Vertigo, I never touched the series. Do you think you’d be interested in that sort of comic? Well I should hope so, because it exists and it’s called The Invisibles.
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Imagine for a moment that I were to sit you down and tell you about a series of comic books lasting 59 issues over the span of 6 years that were all written by Grant Morrison and featured art by Chris Weston, Phil Jimenez, Sean Phillips, Philip Bond, Ivan Reis and Frank Quitely, to name a few.
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