>>78184052If you want to read The Invisibles, I highly recommend the companion book "Our Sentence Is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's Invisibles"
Yeah, the pacing is deliberately weird because Invisibles is much more cyclical than other comics, so it doesn't tell an A->B story, it's a circle that you have to go around a few times before you can full understand it. The very first line of the series is "So we return and begin again." It's an amazing work, because it's a totally different read depending on who you think of as the main character. I've read it 4 times, the first read I was following Jack, the second read I followed King Mob, the third I followed Robin, and last time I was surprised to see how often
John-A-Dreams shows up.
It's kind of like Back to the Future, in how nothing is wasted. Every single line in the first few minutes of BttF is paid off later, and the Invisibles does that both ways. The beginning is more satisfying after reading the ending, and the final battle between
Gideon and The King of All Tears is shown three times before it chronologically occurs. If it's not clear already, I'm a huge fan of GM and The Invisibles is one of my favorite works of fiction out there, responsible for introducing me to Moorcock, PKD, and the Tao De Ching, along with others.
Also it was cancelled twice so that'll fuck with the pacing for sure.
