October 14th, 2020

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The Invisibles volume 2 #5-10 (1997)
Written by Grant Morrison
Art by Phil Jimenez & John Stokes, except #6 by Jimenez/Keith Aiken/Michael Lark/Marc Hempel, #9 by Jimenez/Chris Weston [credited as "Space Boy"]/Stokes

After having blown up all the whatnot in the last installment, there's now more space to find other things for the series to be about. The big three at this point seem to be time travel (the psychic kind we've seen before), time travel (a different kind using machines), and getting more in touch with mysterious higher powers. It's all over the place, often alternating between tediousness and frantic complications that don't quite go anywhere, and there are a couple bits I would've been happy to have never seen, but at least there's variety. I do want to know where this is going—and this is the part where even though I've read it before, I remember very little about what happens, which might be a bad sign but does make it more suspenseful.
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