![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Morrison’s comic series The Invisibles, which debuted in 1994 and is now considered by some to be the greatest of all time (and cited as an inspiration for, among zillions of other things, The Matrix), tells the story of a secret society of misfits bound together to fight an evil force in a time- and space-spanning continuum, sometimes stopping in contemporary London. And one of those responsible for the shift, for switching the geeks’ self-image from that of meek, powerless introvert to their present rock-star-of-the-real-world reality, is Grant Morrison. Today’s geeks, on the other hand, are the Iron Man übermenchen of popular culture and heroes of Hollywood blockbusters. To be a geek was to be an outsider, or rather, an insider of an implicitly miniscule community of peers. ![]() Back in the day, we’ll explain, geek referred to one who, finding no communion in the jockish world around him or her, turned inward, to comics, games, coding, the guitar, et al.-infinitely expanding personal pursuits with built-in arcana decipherable only to fellow initiates. Many years from now, we may have to explain to the comic-crazed children of the world that, originally, the term geek had no superheroic connotations at all. ![]()
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