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Everybody should read The Invisibles by Grant Morrison
Clobbersaurus:
trivia: The Matrix rips off of Invisibles. Wachowskii brothers didn't acknowledge it until TEH INTERNETS nerds raged about it on message boards.
finding out about it is one friendly google search away :)
read this when i was a teen (thanks to older nerdy sis) and it was like some kind of right of passage into adulthood to be able to grasp a handful of the concepts presented there.
still read it from time to time and there's something new every time. <3 morrison
i also recommend Morrison's take on ANIMAL MAN and his run on New X men (in case you've been living under a rock or tank or whatever).
KharBevNor:
Dude, the Matrix ripped off everything. Give me a copy of Neuromancer, Ghost in the Shell, The Shockwave Rider, a couple of PK Dick shorts (especially The Second Variety), UBIK, Simulacra and Simulation, The Invisibles, The Once and Future King, the New Testament and a sharp scalpel and I could William Burroughs together an almost exact copy of the matrix' script.
Of course, its best not to try these things, because then we get too far into the incestuous nature of this type of fiction. No one really wants to reflect that GitS is a rip-off of Neuromancer itself, or that Neuromancer has strong elements of The Shockwave Rider (which was after all the first novel to ever bring up the idea of a computer virus). And I've already pointed out the similiarites between Illuminatus! and the Invisibles, which are much greater than The Invisibles and The Matrix...
Ultimately it just gets nerdy.
Clobbersaurus:
haha true true.
although i do remember the Wachowskii brothers publically acknowledging their use of the Invisibles as a key "inspiration" for the matrix shortly after release, post being hounded by "internets nerd onslaught attack!". probably why it stands out in my head.
MusicScribbles:
So, for the people (me) who would rather hear what you have to say about the comic then what wikipedia does, could someone explain what exactly the comic is about?
jeph:
Every conspiracy theory ever, in a pit, fucking.
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