Time is once again circular.īefore stealing a car and attempting to burn down the school, which is the act that causes hims to be sent to Harmony House, Dane is exiled from his flat by his harpy of a mother. He says, “It’s sort of like I’ve seen it before, but I haven’t.” Later, as he speeds away from Harmony House in Gideon’s car, they pass the sign welcoming one to the house but it has KING MOB spray painted over it, revealing Gideon to be King Mob. How can Gideon (who looks to be a man in his 20s, early 30s at the most) have been alive in 1924 and yet not aged a day since? Perhaps time is not as linear as we are used to experiencing it.ĭane McGowan, as he runs rampant throughout Liverpool, is constantly confronted by the graffiti KING MOB.
“You never change, do you Gideon? You’re just the same today as you were in 1924,” she says as she mourns her youth angry at the fact that she’s dying. Later, Gideon meets with an elderly woman named Edith in Paris, France. It may take 60 issues for everything said here to be fully explained but once you “return and begin again,” it’s shocking how everything Grant Morrison wants us to know and learn can be reduced to two panels on the first page. So, from the very beginning we get the idea of the circular nature of time as well as the overriding theme of human evolution at work. When our bodies are no longer needed, we will end out our spirits as a swarm of golden beetles, carrying the sun pf pure understanding out of the abyss to our new home among the stars.” Some say that when we leave the planet, we will leave as insects. Kephra, the sacred beetle, goes down into darkness and rises again, bearing the sun in his mandibles. On the first page, we get the Egyptian Elfayed speaking the first words in the series: We get some inklings about the meaning of time and it’s role in human evolution, but it’s only laid down waiting for future development. It is interwoven into the story in ways that it is not quite clear at first. Time Is A Flat Circle: Time is the centerpiece of Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles. The issue ends with Dane in London and Gabriel disappearing, leaving the young man alone and homeless with the forces of law and order after him. After a bit of ultraviolence, Dane is freed and many people are killed, including the Headmaster who has been turned into a beetle before being stepped on.
Just as things are looking bad for Dane, when his teenage rebellion is about to be reduced to adult conformity, Gideon arrives at Harmony House with all guns blazing. Using arcane, scientific means, the Headmaster replacing all emotions of the boys with harmony, and leaving them as voids– fit for molding and manipulating. Harmony House is not the kind of place you want to be sent.Turns out that Harmony House is sucking the personality out of the youthful offenders sent to it. Eventually, it’s revealed (as if you didn’t already realize it) that Gideon is looking for Dane. Dane’s exploits have landed him in a juvenile facility called Harmony House. He steals cars, throws a molotov cocktail into the school library, and assaults a teacher who attempts to prevent him from burning the whole school down.Īs the story progresses, we follow Gideon as he seeks advice from a man in Egypt, an elderly woman in Paris, and the god Ganesh (in the form of John Lennon). The other focus in the story is Dane McGowan, a teenager from Liverpool, with all the rebellion and more that being a teen entails. First, a man named Gideon, faintly Asian in appearance with multiple facial piercings, who seems to be on a quest for a new member for his group a replacement for someone named John-A-Dreams, whom something has happened to, but it isn’t made clear.
But it also fails for the same reasons that pilot episodes fail, the creators just don’t quite have a feel for the characters and ideas yet, and that vagueness is apparent in “Dead Beatles.”
Like a pilot episode for a television series, it exists to establish the world, characters, and themes that the story will be dealing with throughout the run. “Dead Beatles” is very much an introductory issue.
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