![]() "The teddy bear that watched '2001' is the teddy bear that's in 'The Invisibles.'"Īnother fan asked about the power behind "The Invisibles" and the meaning behind the series' last sentence, "Our sentence is up!" "There is no chance the bomb could ever be stopped by anyone, and yet there were the pencil sharpeners lined up for the end of everything," Morrison said.Īdding that as a child his favorite movie was "2001: A Space Odyssey," Morrison said he forced his mother to take him to multiple screenings but would hold out his teddy bear in front of him as a shield for the parts he thought were scary. His father's pictures of one of the nuclear bunkers he broke into, which showed mechanical pencil sharpeners in every room of an emergency fall-out shelter, struck Morrison as especially poignant. Morrison told his listeners that his father would often take him to protests and break-ins and was threatened by the government over his activities. ![]() Because of this, he felt his antagonists and characters in "The Invisibles" couldn't remain the bad guys, leading him to shift them into becoming more three-dimensional characters.Īnother fan asked about Morrison's childhood as the son of a militant anti-nuclear protestor. I went into that series thinking, 'It's good versus evil versus nasty, unpleasant controllers,' but the more I got to the end, the more I couldn't deny I could find all the same fascistic elements in myself.so I had to stretch my boundaries and think, why did they do that?" Morrison said. "The thing that makes 'The Invisibles' strong and real is that I was actually subjecting my own viewpoint to complete corrosive destruction. ![]() The next fan asked about the evolution of the relationships of the characters in "The Invisibles" as they moved from secret society to a much more human and flexible group of friends. "Children are already becoming magicians, they've got technology that allows them to become magicians in ways none of us could have done before," Morrison added.Īs for his December 21 plans, Morrison joked, "I'll be shifting the fuck out of my consciousness." This concept was something he encouraged the audience to run with, to continue to get ideas and magic out there in their own way, like he had by putting it in his comics. "Stuff that was once esoteric knowledge and you had to find out it somewhere in a 's become so ubiquitous we can hardly see it anymore," Morrison said. Morrison dubbed the current age as one where the "world of magic" had taken over. Talking about the possible 2012 consciousness shift led Akira to point out that each generation's perceptions of the world are different from their parents'. "If it doesn't happen, we better do what we said we'd do and make this world into something futuristic," Morrison concluded to loud applause.
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