The Filth

I just finished reading (and re-reading) a rather incredible comic book series (for adults) called The Filth, written by Grant Morrison. It's pretty hard to describe briefly, but here goes: an ordinary guy's life is shattered when he's told he's really a member of a secret agency called The Hand that goes around cleaning up any weird stuff that deviates from the standard way things are or "doesn't belong". Along the way, Morrison fills the comic with one incredible concept after another, including a superintelligent Soviet chimp assassin, a ship the size of a city, a drug-addicted president who meets a horrifyingly bizarre fate, nanotech robots who talk to cancer cells, giant killer sperm, a comic book universe that's used to develop technology for harvesting into the real world, and some of the evilest evil villains you've ever met. Also many other things. Amazing art by Chris Weston. New concepts are thrown out at a dizzying pace that reminded me of a modern, adult version of what Jack Kirby did when he returned to DC in the early 1970s. You have to read it slowly and pay attention.





If you're weird, check it out. Let me know if you want to borrow mine. Reminder: this is for big-minded grown ups. Sex and violence.