The Invisibles reread, part 0.5 (Zenith)

A lot of odd things that happened in US mainstream comics in the '90s and late '80s would've been less surprising to people who'd been reading British comics about ten years earlier. The anthology magazines Warrior and 2000 AD produced heaps of wild SF/fantasy stories, some of which later got reprinted or continued in the US (Judge Dredd, Marvelman/Miracleman, V for Vendetta), but most of which never caught on over here due to being too stylistically different or too violent or too British for the time. These comics didn't look at all like what mainstream US publishers were putting out, nor like the glossy stuff that Heavy Metal was importing from Europe in the '80s; the art was mostly black and white, sometimes fantastically detailed and sometimes energetically amateurish, and the stories were a blend of SF and B-movie tropes from the last few decades with the attitude dialed up to 11.
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