Not sure if this breaks rule #3

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the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Pulling anything from The Invisibles is just plain cheating. Anything Grant Morrison wrote, really.

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y

That's why I went with a tamer panel.

delver@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Dude is one asymmetric pair of glasses from Spider Jerusalem

mydoomlessaccount@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Ah. "Scramble the mantras" must be code for big time fucking up peoples' guts, then

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y

I was thinking the same thing

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

big time fucking up peoples' guts

At first I thought this was a sex thing, then I started reading and thought it would be a violence thing. Then I kept reading, and I became enlightened.

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Thank you for this. I saw a picture of Spider Jerusalem on a counter culture flyer over a decade ago and couldn't find the source (I wanted those sweet glasses). When I read Invisibles I assumed I found it and it must've been Mob from some promo or alt art.

It was definitely Spider Jerusalem, I found the glasses, and now I get to read Transmetropolitan.

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y

Enjoy! It's really good.

spittingimage@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Even closer than that to being King Mob from The Invisibles.

Edit: based on what other people have posted, it is King Mob. I'll see myself out.

sir_pronoun@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Maybe it depends on whether Grant Morrison intended this to be funny..?

..or would it depend on whether King Mob thought this was funny? 😱 Fuck, you're giving me Invisibles PTSD Flashbacks

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

In context, it is a straightforward, accurate explanation. Mob is just filling him in on simple facts.

sir_pronoun@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

"simple facts"

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Strange, but simple

Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I mean, getting shot in the throat has a way of doing that.

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

I suppose in a sense our life is a trance, traveling forward through time, and the coordinated nervous rhythms of our vital organs are "mantras" that maintain it.

sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y

"You mean the revolver, sir?"