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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
Loved the sheer weirdness of it, but I'm not sure I get it. Great art.
Few freak fests outstrip reality as brilliantly and depravity as Grant Morrison's hypersexual hyper-violent "The Filth". Dispirited burnout Greg Freely lives in a solitary world. One without family, respect at work, respect from community, and solely relies on companionship from his ill cat Tony.
All of this changes when Greg meets the "The Hand", a secret organization that maintains or create the disorder of the world around us. Think "The Watchmen" filled to the brim with sleeze. The superheroes deal with all the low lifes, slime and perverts of the world. Greg starts to slid into his true reality, and with it every page slams us with the drugs, sex, mayhem of these nasty brutes he's cleaning up.
If you enjoy a particularly deviant kind of humor: needles in eye-balls, ape snipers trying to take out humanity, forced sex changes on elected officials, and giant sperm attacking old women, you are in for a treat. The book is brilliantly over the top, but maintains a "super-hero" reality that is believable and visually stunning. Morrison's quips and one-liners had me laughing like a 5-year old revealing in unbound chaos.
The characterization is sharp. Morrison writes really playful but informative dialogue. The book commands a respect like many great adult graphic novels because the meticulous detail. And you have to respect that Morrison often lets the situations slide into madness. Its power-violence and graphic imagery spread from page to page.
An emotional roller coaster; fun, depraved, and cripplingly funny.
All of this changes when Greg meets the "The Hand", a secret organization that maintains or create the disorder of the world around us. Think "The Watchmen" filled to the brim with sleeze. The superheroes deal with all the low lifes, slime and perverts of the world. Greg starts to slid into his true reality, and with it every page slams us with the drugs, sex, mayhem of these nasty brutes he's cleaning up.
If you enjoy a particularly deviant kind of humor: needles in eye-balls, ape snipers trying to take out humanity, forced sex changes on elected officials, and giant sperm attacking old women, you are in for a treat. The book is brilliantly over the top, but maintains a "super-hero" reality that is believable and visually stunning. Morrison's quips and one-liners had me laughing like a 5-year old revealing in unbound chaos.
The characterization is sharp. Morrison writes really playful but informative dialogue. The book commands a respect like many great adult graphic novels because the meticulous detail. And you have to respect that Morrison often lets the situations slide into madness. Its power-violence and graphic imagery spread from page to page.
An emotional roller coaster; fun, depraved, and cripplingly funny.
challenging
dark
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia
Moderate: Hate crime, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Transphobia
This was published collected around a decade ago but had always been intent on reading it.
A simple description might be something along the lines of -
The Matrix as directed by David Cronenberg via the comic book medium. This is funny, sleazy, creepy, thrilling, bizarre, extreme and only for mature readers. Similar to The Boys with some Watchmen influence. Entertaining and very weird with some great artwork.
A simple description might be something along the lines of -
The Matrix as directed by David Cronenberg via the comic book medium. This is funny, sleazy, creepy, thrilling, bizarre, extreme and only for mature readers. Similar to The Boys with some Watchmen influence. Entertaining and very weird with some great artwork.
dark
tense
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Morrison's best work!
The mixing of reality (Greg Feely) and fiction (Ned Slade) and the challenge issued to increasingly aggressive Puritan sexual mores were both inspired themes. I thought Morrison really explored the character very well, had some good laughs, threw out some interesting ideas, and explored fiction and sexuality in society in a kinetic, surreal, but intriguing way.
Weston, as always, nails the job.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Interesting how twenty years between readings impacts one's enjoyment. I still think this is an ambitious, striking book, and it's definitely worth reading. It might even still be Morrison's best work, but I definitely struggled with it more this time. The "big ideas" don't seem so shocking or cutting edge, and the character bits are spaced out (really, no one except Ned/Greg have any character at all) -- It's all world-building for each outlandish, depraved scenario that Ned/Greg confronts throughout the book, without much character meat to draw me in. And as noted, twenty years later, all the depravity doesn't seem so interesting or striking. But the ambition of Morrison's metafictional exploration is still something to behold even when it isn't drawing me in entirely. And Weston/Erskine - goddamn, they really can draw anything and make it look perfect.
The mixing of reality (Greg Feely) and fiction (Ned Slade) and the challenge issued to increasingly aggressive Puritan sexual mores were both inspired themes. I thought Morrison really explored the character very well, had some good laughs, threw out some interesting ideas, and explored fiction and sexuality in society in a kinetic, surreal, but intriguing way.
Weston, as always, nails the job.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Interesting how twenty years between readings impacts one's enjoyment. I still think this is an ambitious, striking book, and it's definitely worth reading. It might even still be Morrison's best work, but I definitely struggled with it more this time. The "big ideas" don't seem so shocking or cutting edge, and the character bits are spaced out (really, no one except Ned/Greg have any character at all) -- It's all world-building for each outlandish, depraved scenario that Ned/Greg confronts throughout the book, without much character meat to draw me in. And as noted, twenty years later, all the depravity doesn't seem so interesting or striking. But the ambition of Morrison's metafictional exploration is still something to behold even when it isn't drawing me in entirely. And Weston/Erskine - goddamn, they really can draw anything and make it look perfect.
full of the morrison weirdness and perversity i've come to expect, but lacking in the thoughtfulness and meaning that usually makes his writing worth it--up until the very last 2 issues, which, frankly, is a bit too late to salvage for me. morrison the sex pest gets old fast when there are no other redeeming aspects of the story. boo
...and then one day Grant took too many drugs...
Vulgar, incoherent rubbish. However I did relate to the subplot about Greg Feely and his cat Tony. Tony was Greg's best friend for fifteen years until a supposed caretaker failed to give him the medicine he needed. After that, Greg just didn't care any more...
Vulgar, incoherent rubbish. However I did relate to the subplot about Greg Feely and his cat Tony. Tony was Greg's best friend for fifteen years until a supposed caretaker failed to give him the medicine he needed. After that, Greg just didn't care any more...
One of the most bizarre, mind-bending graphs I've ever read. Good, strange, awful, perverse.
all i can do lately is read grant morrison. there are worse things, i guess. enjoying this so far.