And so the negative space around Dane McGowan opens its eyes and blinks, and the boy sculpted by his parents' unhappiness (who in turn were sculpted by their parents' unhappiness, and so on, successive generations of unfulfilled lives sculpted by poverty) is sloughed like a dead husk. He makes the darkness visible, forcing it into awareness. And later on in the scene, this is what Tom brutally attacks, assaulting Dane's emotional armour by physically attacking him, by threatening to touch him the way his dad didn't. He forces Dane to stop projecting his pain as a demon Out There and accept the absence as part of himself.
He's the absence of love making Dane so restless and angry. Jack Frost is the bad-father, the empty father, the vacuum frozen up. He makes you feel hate instead of uncertainty and fear.' He's a bit scary, is he? But he looks after you, eh? It's worth being a little scared of him because he makes you feel tough when there's trouble. 'And you still see Jack Frost, do you? He still comes round when you're bad, does he? He must come 'round a lot then. Jack Frost was the threat Dane's Mother terrorised him with when he was naughty, in lieu of having an actual Father around. We meet this spirit just after John and Stu make their way off along the river - a spindly, hunched mass of black icicles Jack Frost appears to Dane and proclaims the death of both men. Dane's 'Fuck off, you' in response suggests a longstanding relationship, but it's not until issue three that Tom o’ Bedlam, his initiator into invisibledom, gets to the heart of it. (For Part I of Amy Poodle's article, click here)ĭane is pierced by the blank badge and killed.Įver since he was a little kid, Dane's been haunted. Features Hauntology and the Invisibles Part II
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