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zeekaygee's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
4.5
absolutely bonkers
hakimbriki's review against another edition
5.0
That's the one where Grant Morrison pushes himself to the limit.
"Weird" is too tame an adjective to describe this masterpiece. The incredible notions and ideas that are injected into this book have completely shattered my brain into a billion pieces.
Ned Slade, our main character, likes hardcore porn and his cat. More importantly, he's also a prominent member of "The Hand", an extra-dimensional "super cleansing" law-enforcing brigade that eradicates spiritual, sexual and technological anomalies to keep the earth on its path, what is also referred to as "Status Q". Some of the Slade's adventures are absolutely hilarious, others are gnarly and grisly, but never boring.
A bunch of diverse characters are introduced throughout the book, ranging from a Soviet chimp assassin to a porn Baron who seeks to f*** Los Angeles using the enlarged, black sperm of a Dutch porn star. Yep. Very messed up.
Overall enthralling, The Filth is also a very clever book, with a plot so complex it will make your head explode.
"Weird" is too tame an adjective to describe this masterpiece. The incredible notions and ideas that are injected into this book have completely shattered my brain into a billion pieces.
Ned Slade, our main character, likes hardcore porn and his cat. More importantly, he's also a prominent member of "The Hand", an extra-dimensional "super cleansing" law-enforcing brigade that eradicates spiritual, sexual and technological anomalies to keep the earth on its path, what is also referred to as "Status Q". Some of the Slade's adventures are absolutely hilarious, others are gnarly and grisly, but never boring.
A bunch of diverse characters are introduced throughout the book, ranging from a Soviet chimp assassin to a porn Baron who seeks to f*** Los Angeles using the enlarged, black sperm of a Dutch porn star. Yep. Very messed up.
Overall enthralling, The Filth is also a very clever book, with a plot so complex it will make your head explode.
dantastic's review against another edition
4.0
Who is Greg Feely? Is he a loser whose entire life consists of taking care of his cat and masturbating? Or is he Ned Slade, agent of a secret society called The Hand that safeguards the world against anti-people?
Writing the X-Men must have made Grant Morrison suppress his weird urges because The Fifth is one of the more bizarre comics I've ever read and is in my top three Morrison reads. It's like a cross between Morrison's The Invisibles and Preacher by Garth Ennis, possibly with a bit of Warren Ellis' The Authority thrown in. The Filth started out as a proposal for a Nick Fury comic Grant Morrison wanted to do for Marvel. It's a good thing he didn't because none of this stuff would have been allowed in the Marvel Universe.
I don't even know where to start with this. Agent Nil shows up at Greg Feely's house and tells him he's an agent of The Hand, a secret organization that protects the world. Something happened on Slade's last mission and he doesn't remember his past as Slade at all, only his pathetic life as Greg Feely, a life that isn't his but he can't seem to put behind him as he chases bad guys like Max Thunderstone and Spartacus Hughes.
The level of strangeness in The Filth is off the charts, even for the man who's known for strangeness in The Invisibles and The Doom Patrol. There's a Russian chimp named Dmitri who acquired super intelligence when launched into space and became a KGB assassin, the same assassin who shot JFK. There's Richard Nixon, still alive and suspended in a bubble of fluid. There's a gargantuan severed hand at the bottom ocean clutching a pen whose ink has mutating properties. And those are all the good guys.
Don't get me started on Tex Porneau, the Pornomancer who sends an army of gigantic sperm out to impregnate the women of the world, or The World's Wealthiest Pervert, or the Greg Feely who steps into Ned's life when he's out saving the world. Seriously, there's so many weird concepts flying around in this thing it's unbelievable; dolphins driving cars, city size cruise ships, carnivorous vehicles, you name it.
That's about all I can say. My brain's a bit jammed at the moment. Oh, the art is pretty good. If you like your comics weird, this one is for you.
Writing the X-Men must have made Grant Morrison suppress his weird urges because The Fifth is one of the more bizarre comics I've ever read and is in my top three Morrison reads. It's like a cross between Morrison's The Invisibles and Preacher by Garth Ennis, possibly with a bit of Warren Ellis' The Authority thrown in. The Filth started out as a proposal for a Nick Fury comic Grant Morrison wanted to do for Marvel. It's a good thing he didn't because none of this stuff would have been allowed in the Marvel Universe.
I don't even know where to start with this. Agent Nil shows up at Greg Feely's house and tells him he's an agent of The Hand, a secret organization that protects the world. Something happened on Slade's last mission and he doesn't remember his past as Slade at all, only his pathetic life as Greg Feely, a life that isn't his but he can't seem to put behind him as he chases bad guys like Max Thunderstone and Spartacus Hughes.
The level of strangeness in The Filth is off the charts, even for the man who's known for strangeness in The Invisibles and The Doom Patrol. There's a Russian chimp named Dmitri who acquired super intelligence when launched into space and became a KGB assassin, the same assassin who shot JFK. There's Richard Nixon, still alive and suspended in a bubble of fluid. There's a gargantuan severed hand at the bottom ocean clutching a pen whose ink has mutating properties. And those are all the good guys.
Don't get me started on Tex Porneau, the Pornomancer who sends an army of gigantic sperm out to impregnate the women of the world, or The World's Wealthiest Pervert, or the Greg Feely who steps into Ned's life when he's out saving the world. Seriously, there's so many weird concepts flying around in this thing it's unbelievable; dolphins driving cars, city size cruise ships, carnivorous vehicles, you name it.
That's about all I can say. My brain's a bit jammed at the moment. Oh, the art is pretty good. If you like your comics weird, this one is for you.
vigneswara_prabhu's review against another edition
4.0
There are books that are not meant for younger readers, and then there are books DEFINITELY NOT meant for younger readers. Which, at this point might encompass half of Morrison's body of work.
If you thought his panels in the psychedelic [b:Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth|22374|Batman Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth|Grant Morrison|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388209338l/22374._SY75_.jpg|1807553] was bonkers, you have seen nothing as to what he has been upto in the inprint world of [b:The Invisibles|13227839|The Invisibles|Grant Morrison|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1529755779l/13227839._SY75_.jpg|18419660] and [b:The Filth|22356|The Filth|Grant Morrison|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388305314l/22356._SY75_.jpg|950242].
As befits its title, the Graphic novel is filled to the brim with body horror, the worst versions of western decadence, misanthropy and a general disregard for anything sunshine.
Where the horror in something like an Ito Junji novel, comes from its Lovecraftian eldritch entitles, horrifying but neatly drawn, Grant Morrison induces horror in taking something familiar and bringing it down to the most debasing level.
For someone who has admitted to be partial to the use of psychedelics as a hobby, I'm starting to strongly suspect, he gets most of his ideas from a induced state of hallucination. I can almost imagine him, lying face down in the floor of his apartment, drugged up on who knows what, gazing intently at the dirt stain in the carpet, imagining a whole world in it.
Add to that it provides such a level of meta commentary of the genre, getting up in its own face, and leave you scratching your scalp.
So, if you want to read something mind numbing and 'filth' inducing, such that you feel the need to take a long bath in hot water, and scrub off all the gunk, this is your cup of tea. Ciao.
If you thought his panels in the psychedelic [b:Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth|22374|Batman Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth|Grant Morrison|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388209338l/22374._SY75_.jpg|1807553] was bonkers, you have seen nothing as to what he has been upto in the inprint world of [b:The Invisibles|13227839|The Invisibles|Grant Morrison|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1529755779l/13227839._SY75_.jpg|18419660] and [b:The Filth|22356|The Filth|Grant Morrison|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388305314l/22356._SY75_.jpg|950242].
As befits its title, the Graphic novel is filled to the brim with body horror, the worst versions of western decadence, misanthropy and a general disregard for anything sunshine.
Where the horror in something like an Ito Junji novel, comes from its Lovecraftian eldritch entitles, horrifying but neatly drawn, Grant Morrison induces horror in taking something familiar and bringing it down to the most debasing level.
For someone who has admitted to be partial to the use of psychedelics as a hobby, I'm starting to strongly suspect, he gets most of his ideas from a induced state of hallucination. I can almost imagine him, lying face down in the floor of his apartment, drugged up on who knows what, gazing intently at the dirt stain in the carpet, imagining a whole world in it.
Add to that it provides such a level of meta commentary of the genre, getting up in its own face, and leave you scratching your scalp.
So, if you want to read something mind numbing and 'filth' inducing, such that you feel the need to take a long bath in hot water, and scrub off all the gunk, this is your cup of tea. Ciao.
jhouses's review against another edition
1.0
Grant Morrison es al cómic lo que la psicodelia al cine. La primera vez te sorprende y te descoloca mentalmente, pero en realidad es un coñazo de musica ratorera y colorines intermitentes que no lleva nada detrás. Aquí asistimos a una paja mental de las suyas en que la paupérrima premisa argumental se esconde entre capas de falsa profundidad filosófica y barroquismo visual que no son en realidad mas que arbitrarios juegos de manos para que no se le vea el truco. Una perdida de tiempo.
jekutree's review against another edition
4.0
A book about a man and his cat. Seriously nothing else I swear
9/10
9/10
janedoelish's review against another edition
3.0
It's possible that Grant Morrison's "The Filth" is a masterpiece, brimming with symbolism and communicating deep insights about the human condition and the seedier side of the collective subconscious.
It's also possible that in trying to encode this profound message, Morrison failed to tell an enjoyable story. Or that enjoyment was never the objective to begin with.
I dare say I "get" it, but that doesn't mean I love it all that much.
It's also possible that in trying to encode this profound message, Morrison failed to tell an enjoyable story. Or that enjoyment was never the objective to begin with.
I dare say I "get" it, but that doesn't mean I love it all that much.
space_gaudet's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
djkatatonic's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0