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Thursday, August 05, 2004
A day I shall never forget
I might have a few big posts coming up, but for now I want to share with one of the most extreme things I've done that deals with the funnybooks.
I once read every issue of Grant Morrison's Invisibles in one day.
It was about a few months ago. Once I finally procured every trade paperback in the series I decided to start around 11:00 a.m. with volume one Say You Want a Revolution. I ended my journey around midnight with the final volume The Invisible Kingdom. A lot of ideas went through my head that day and I want to share with you some of the oddest of them.
Near the end of Kissing Mister Quimper I was convinced I had superpowers. Please believe that I'm not lying to you for any type of comic effect (I will share with you that perhaps the lack of any meals during the day might have contributed to my state). My mind was convinced that I had Plastic Man-like stretchy powers and Jean Grey-like mind powers. After I was through with the whole series it wasn't even about comics-induced superpowers. I felt like my brain was trying to escape from my head, as if it had somewhere better to be. I didn't want it to escape, though. I was too busy relishing in the fact that I had just realized everything in the universe there is to realize. This is what I wrote in my Livejournal immediately after I accomplished my goal:
I'm understanding the idea of the past, present and future existing at the same time. I feel like there are multiple versions of me and of you and of all of us and we're all existing on different planes of reality. While we are in jail we can also be free. While we are dead we can also be alive. Existence is realties converging in different minds. Isn't it great?
I returned to (relatively) normal when I woke up the next morning. Still, my mind doesn’t completely discount the epiphanies from that night.
Also, if you have never read Bloody Hell in America while in the bath I heartily recommend it.
P.S. This was not the original plan. The original plan was to rent a room in cheap motel in the San Fernando Valley and just lock myself in reading Morrison’s complete runs on Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Flex Mentallo, The Filth, Sebastian O, Invisibles and St. Switihins’ Day. Come to think of it, I would probably add Seaguy to that list now.
Sounds dangerous? Perhaps, but what is life without a little risk (and/or psychotic obsessive behavior)?
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