MORRISONCON: Morrison Revisits "The Invisibles" & The Apocalypse - Comic Book Resources:
"The world is being set up for being unable to discern between "an actual apocalypse versus a media apocalypse," Morrison told the rapt crowd, making a point that fed into Morrison's ideas and his work on "The Invisibles," his acclaimed Vertigo series which followed a secret organization fighting a secret alien invasion, ending with the transformation of humanity on December 22, 2012 -- the year and date of the Apocalypse.
...Morrison dubbed the current age as one where the "world of magic" had taken over. "Stuff that was once esoteric knowledge and you had to find out it somewhere in a tome... it's become so ubiquitous we can hardly see it anymore," Morrison said. 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.
"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.
As for his December 21 plans, Morrison joked, "I'll be shifting the fuck out of my consciousness."
"...The thing that makes 'The Invisibles' strong and real is that I was actually subjecting my own viewpoint to complete corrosive destruction. 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. 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."
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