wolven7 | Jun. 2nd, 2010

Listening to The pAper chAse's "What Should We Do With Your Body? (The Lightning)," while reading Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, book 2 "Apocalipstick," issue 14: "She-Man, Part One: Venus as a Boy," the discordant insanities fold into each other and feed on one another.

Trust me, it works. OH how it works.

EDIT 12.19am: Also, a lot of people asked me why I didn't cover The Invisibles, in my inagural NeedCoffee post, and, as I reread it, I have to admit that I'm at a bit of a loss, myself, but I think that the following is response to comment #11, there, sums up my thinking, pretty well.

"Ronin, gods only know if you're still getting alerts for this, but I was thinking about your comment, now that I'm re-reading The Invisibles, again. My reasoning for not including it was that it does a lot of the same thing Promethea does, but from the other end of the spectrum.

"Moore's idea is to guide you step by step through a very particular and prescribed process of initiation and education. He was immersing you in a psychadelic river of mind and magic, yes, but one with definite rules and actions. Morrison's goal was chaos magic and psychadelia to it's full extent, erasing the self/other illusion, utterly annihilating any vestige of mind/body, us/them, yes/no, this/that dualism. The rules are there, but they are fluid, and they can be bent, changed, erased, with the right bargain.

"Now, though these seem to be different goals, they both go about it in the exact same way: Using the Comic Medium as a Trance-Inducing Immersive Litany to transform the mind of the reader, as she reads, thus both teaching and initiating the subject, at the same time.

"And I didn't want to repeat myself :)"

Now, even though both Promethea and The Invisibles can be described as "hypersigils," I know that some of you will still insist that the points and purposes of each work are vastly different, and that's valid and true. So, instead, go read