The Filth is an excellent journey through the creative mind of Grant Morrison, surely one of the most original talents working in mainstream comics today. Which is not to say that The Filth is perfect - like many of Morrison's works, it's long on vision and bizarre thrills, and short on much of anything else, which can sometimes expose it to the pitfalls of any creative work driven by shock value. That said, The Filth seems thematically very similar to Morrison's The Invisibles, which I found to be practically unreadable. Measured against that title, The Filth is entirely more approachable, enjoyable and worthwhile. ( )

Overwhelming, eye irrating dayglo pedofiles, cat lovers, giant sperm, manufactured personalities and well, dirt, filth and garbage. After reading this I'm worn out like a threadbare, stained old man sweater.

"Nobody's special. We occupy our roles in the system until it's time to go and the next one just like us steps right up to do what we did." p.304 ( )

A really strange piece of work, but you can't put it down. It's an exercise in counter-propaganda, an anti-culture manifesto, if you will. ( )

Grant Morrison is a man with a huge but weird imagination. The Filth is a perfect example of this. The stories and scenes range from weird to sick. Weston's art superbly outlines the scenes described by Morrison in the text.

But the story might be just too weird. I kinda liked the individual episodes and adventures of Hand agent Ned Slade, especially the couple first ones. But as the book turned to the second half, and Morrison begins to gather all the elements into a larger context, it all seems to fall apart. For me at least. In this case the whole is not larger than the sum of its parts, rather vice versa. ( )

Morrison getting freaky again. There is some whackiness here reminiscent of Robert Anton Wilson. Secret agencies trying to keep consensual reality intact, porn star superhumans with semen weapons, crazy guys, split personalities, and old bachelor guys that live with cats.

I don't think it is supposed to make sense, some of the time, either.

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