Just read Grant Morrison's "The Filth"...

Funnily enough I just finished it as well. Actually I read it three times in the space of two days, just trying to make sense of it. After reading The Invisibles I jokingly said to myself "At least I'll never read a more confusing book than that. Now on to The Filth," cause I had heard that it is really unintelligible, even in comparison to The Invisibles, which should be impossible. Still confused about a lot of it. What specifically was Mother Dirt? If Greg was working with Thunderstone against the Hand from the beginning then how come he didn't remember them when the woman on the bus told him not to fuck with the filth, or at any point in the series really, and what was with when he said Max wanted proof in relation to his porn and shit? Why did Secret Original kill himself, and what was the point of that whole storyline? Why, when Greg is arrested, would the police care if he's affiliated with Thunderstone when Thunderstone at this point seems like just a pathetic human-wreck too afraid to even leave his house, let alone do any real damage to The Hand, and if that was why they were actually interrogating Greg why are they then surprised to find he actually is an officer for The Hand?

The book is obviously comparable to The Invisibles, but I also saw it as kind of a mirror image of All-Star Superman. Its structure is very similar, in that it reads a lot like a series of one shots with all these completely insane wacky concepts, with threads interspersed throughout that tie up at the end. It has a similar kind of pop-dynamic feel to it, having the same colorist as All-Star, and Chris Weston's art seems very reminicent of Frank Quitely's but with a bit more of a gritty/filthy tone to it which works with the material moreso than Quitely's art might have.

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