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Product Details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Vertigo (June 1, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1401200133
  • ISBN-13: 978-1401200138
  • Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 0.8 x 10.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsBizarre, strangely moving, and vintage G-Mo
By John A Wright on August 2, 2004
Format: Paperback
So, one day, Grant Morrison decided to pen a creator-owned limited series that incorporated themes, raw ideas, and scenes from all of his previous best work. No, not JLA or New X-Men, but stuff from Animal Man, Doom Patrol, and The Invisibles. Cribbing liberally from himself, he spun out a typically disturbing psychedelic tale of paranoia, conspiracy and pornography.

And does it work? Heck yeah, it does.

The Filth strikes me as a re-imagining of the seminal series The Inivsibles. Bald bad-ass pervert protagonist? Check. Secret society controlling the fate of the world? Check. Bizarro organic cyber-punk psychedelica? Check. Kinky sex out the wazoo? Again, check.

This time, Grant also throws some bones to his old Animal Man fans with some nice post-mod super-hero subplots. It's almost like he's winking at himself -- an early scene with characters stepping out of comic book panels so closely mirrors the stunning post-mod twists of his early DC work that you'll either find yourself laughing (at the blatent rip-off) or groaning (at the blatent rip-off.)

So what makes this worth reading if it's so deriviative? Well, it's Grant, so the writing and plotting is superb, and the art by Chris Weston and Gary Erskine really grabbed my by the proverbial curlies. More importanly to me, however, was the running subplot concerning Slade/Feely's relationship with his cat, Tony. As usual, I'll save you the spoilers, the rest assured that this part of the story grounds the fantasmagoric aspects, and serves as an odd little paen to the power of love in our completely messed-up world. It's the emotional center of the story, and adds some sentimental feeling to Grant's paranoid and scary work.

Plus, I just love kitties myself.

Pick this up, and read it twice... three times if you must. It's really that darned good.
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Hand Evokes
By Ian Vance on June 2, 2004
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In an interview with Disinformation guru Richard Metzger, Grant Morrison claimed he had moved to Los Angeles to [sic] ''change bull{. . .} into money, turn pure thought into pure cash.'' With Hollywood's recent trend of adapting the counterculture concepts Morrison excels at (recent examples including the plethora of debased Dick, the Matrix, etc.), the transitional move - physically and artistically - of this Glasgow native to the City of Angels probably seemed fortuitous at the time. And *The Filth* is, by all appearances, the hard(core) result of L.A.'s influence on this highly-assimilative pen-prophet: a po-mo epic of human frailty, sci-fi surrealism, over-ambition and gutter abandon, a metaphor-medicine for our junk-glutted species. Or so it attempts, at any rate.
It takes roughly ten pages for the story to erupt into utter weirdness. Before that mark we follow the life-pattern of one Greg Feely, a cubicle serf with a peculiar taste in pornography and a co-dependant affection for his cat Tony. One night he finds a naked black woman in his shower; he half-wittingly engages in a day-glo romp session with the vixen and Feely's ''para-personality'' is stripped away to reveal his ''true'' self, Ned Slade, a policeman - or, more technically, a garbageman - for the Hand, an underground organization which cleans up and disposes all aberrations, perversions, and social threats to the Status:Q. Unfortunately Slade is an amnesiac: due to a severe trauma during a previous assignment, he has regressed so severely into his Feely persona that he's now forgotten the details of his existence. . . or so he is told over and over by the mysterious minions of the Hand.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsMorrison does it again
By N. Durham HALL OF FAMEVINE VOICE on August 26, 2004
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Grant Morrison's 13 issue maxi-series, the Filth, is possibly the best piece of material to ever come from the strangely gifted, critically acclaimed writer. The story centers around Greg Feely, a man who wants to do nothing more than look at pornography and care for his ailing cat Tony. However, Greg soon learns that he is actually Ned Slade, a special negotiator for an organization called the Hand which cleans up the unhealthy variations and messes made in the world. Feely's search for his identity brings him across a talking communist chimpanzee named Dmitri who boasts that he killed JFK, an adult film star named Anders Klimakks whose black semen is made into a biological weapon by depraved director Tex Porneau, and brainwashed children which are nothing more than ants. The art by Chris Weston and Gary Erksine brilliantly capture the sheer weirdness of it all; perfectly capturing Morrison's characterizations. Beneath the intense graphic violence and sex, Morrison weaves a tale like a tree, branching out with ideas reminiscent of that of a Philip K. Dick story while challenging the confines of what is a comic book. The Filth is brilliant, shocking, and the best thing to come from DC's Vertigo imprint since Preacher and Morrison's own Animal Man, and is much like Alan Moore's Watchmen was almost twenty years ago: sheer comic brilliance that will be cherished for years to come.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA heartfelt story lies beneath all the Filth
By Will Carper on August 26, 2005
Format: Paperback
Consider yourself warned--this is probably the most vile comic you will ever read. But that's the point. The whole thing acts as a vaccine, inoculating the reader against all the horror in the world.

The Filth tells the story of Greg Feely, a sad middle-aged man whose only friend is his dying cat Tony. One day, Feely is told that he s actually Ned Slade, an elite agent of The Hand, a secret organization that sanitizes the world, ridding it of all the filth humanity remains unaware of. With The Hand, Feely/Slade encounters an intelligent virus named Spartacus Hughes, a synthetic porno actor with super-potent, jet black semen, and a homemade superhero.

Feely/Slade soon learns that all is not as it seems and The Hand may be more sinister than he was first led to believe. What follows is a very touching human story of compassion and redemption that only Grant Morrison could tell. The Filth is not for everybody, but if you can stomach it, you just may find something special hidden among the gratuitous sex, death, and violence.
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1.0 out of 5 starsOver hyped

Not good at all. Terrible story for such a great premise. I'm struggling to understand how this got a 4 star average.

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4.0 out of 5 starsConfusion Remains

A strange romp. Probably needs a few readings to take it all in. I enjoyed it regardless. Not for everyone.

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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great product. Just as described and delivered in the time offered

Published 7 months ago by casey evans
5.0 out of 5 starsSit back, become your favorite para-personality and enjoy the ride

This may be my favorite series by Morrison, and definitely in the top 10 of my all times. Gosh, what does that say about me?

Yes this story is disturbing. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Jaded and Damned
4.0 out of 5 starsSour Milk Sea Consumes All

Like Tim Burton or Frank Zappa, Grant Morrison is one of those creative talents that can bring more idiosyncrasy than genius to a project. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Henry J. Hannon
5.0 out of 5 starsThrilling and disgusting, yet all the better

Not one to write reviews all that often but damn was this an excellent read thru and thru! Nuff said!

Published 9 months ago by Ruben Polanco
5.0 out of 5 starsWorth the purchase!

An excellent read with very excellent artwork!

Published 10 months ago by Ashley Garib
5.0 out of 5 starsPretty Much a Classic

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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

It came as described.

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