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The Invisibles #10-12 (1995)
Written by Grant Morrison
Art: #10 by Chris Weston, #11 by John Ridgway, #12 by Steve Parkhouse
When Morrison set out their plans in the author's note for issue 1, one of the more plausible parts was that the main plot would alternate with some single-issue stories about marginal characters. That can be a good approach in long serialized works, especially in fantasy where you can use it to explore some less-important consequence of the main premise, or see what the premise would look like through the lens of a different subgenre or a different kind of protagonist; it was often used that way to good effect in pre-Vertigo series like Swamp Thing and The Sandman. But, for whatever reason, that ended up barely happening at all in The Invisibles. This run of three standalone issues is pretty much it. So, given that they'll be the only showcases for this kind of storytelling, it's appropriate that they go in three very different directions: trying for extreme horror and social commentary and ending up with something a bit unfortunate; trying for something safer and executing it handsomely; and trying for something completely unexpected and ending up with an unforgettable and humane gut-punch of a story that's a high point of the series and really of this author's career.
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Written by Grant Morrison
Art: #10 by Chris Weston, #11 by John Ridgway, #12 by Steve Parkhouse
When Morrison set out their plans in the author's note for issue 1, one of the more plausible parts was that the main plot would alternate with some single-issue stories about marginal characters. That can be a good approach in long serialized works, especially in fantasy where you can use it to explore some less-important consequence of the main premise, or see what the premise would look like through the lens of a different subgenre or a different kind of protagonist; it was often used that way to good effect in pre-Vertigo series like Swamp Thing and The Sandman. But, for whatever reason, that ended up barely happening at all in The Invisibles. This run of three standalone issues is pretty much it. So, given that they'll be the only showcases for this kind of storytelling, it's appropriate that they go in three very different directions: trying for extreme horror and social commentary and ending up with something a bit unfortunate; trying for something safer and executing it handsomely; and trying for something completely unexpected and ending up with an unforgettable and humane gut-punch of a story that's a high point of the series and really of this author's career.
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