Review of The Invisibles: Say You Want a Revolution (Vol. 1) by Grant Morrison

The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution by Grant Morrison

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


The Invisibles: Say You Want a Revolution is the first volume in The Invisibles series of graphic novels. It's about time travelers that can make themselves invisible and go around causing revolutions (like the French revolution) and their insectoid enemies.

It contains real-world magic and mysticism and is extremely violent. This is not for devout Christians or the squeamish!

The part where John Lennon is invoked as a god using traditional ceremonial magic methods was really cool. The advice he gave was that a street thug boy would "have to be put through the mill." This boy is recruited for The Invisibles and given the code name Jack Frost. He gets the tip of his finger cut off, which, considering everything that happens in the graphic novel, isn't really so bad. In then end, he wants to quit the group, but you just know that won't be possible.

Overall, great fun! On to the next volume . . .



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Review of Conan The Adventurer by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp

Conan: Conan the Adventurer by Robert E. Howard

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This is one of the better collection of Conan stories.

The best one is the last story, "The Pool of the Black One." It also includes two stories of Gods residing in desert oasis cities.

These stories are very sexist, so if you bristle at that sort of thing, stay away, but if you can get past that, it's really great stuff, very much like Lovecraft. Of course, it was written in the early 1930's, so that explains the sexism.

These stores are also very violent, fantastic, and horrifying. What makes the stories great is that they could be put into any setting--it doesn't have to be fantasy (though it does have to be supernatural). These stories could have been set in a Lovecraft world just as easily.




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