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Studies in Comics

ISSN 2040-3232

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A context for the supercontext: On the function of psychedelics in Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles

Studies in Comics July 1, 2016 Ian Stuart Garlington

Abstract: Grant Morrison is one of the most prolific and well-known superhero comic writers of all time. He wrote his magnum opus, The Invisibles, as a 59-issue comic book series that was published under DC comics’ Vertigo label from 1994 to 2000. At the end of the narrative humanity supposedly enters into a 5th dimensional space called the ‘Supercontext’, which Morrison has at one point...