Bizarre is an understatement for this. Grant Morrison's imagination has been let loose on these pages, and the result is confusing and fantastical yet oddly interesting and fascinating.

The first few issues are--what I like to call--"headbusters". You are dropped into the world without any hint of an introduction, and it's a damn wild ride right from the beginning. Then the strangeness intensifies, among other things, and you're confused as hell as to what is happening and whether it's happening for real or not.

The intensity of the freakish and grotesque imagery increases as the issue numbers rise, yet somehow I felt heavily invested in the characters, especially that of Tony, the cat. Strangely, the cat is the most important character in the book despite the story being told from another character's POV.

There's a lot to say about The Filth, but all I'll say is that it'll be something you will either love or hate. The first few issues can be severely daunting--I felt intimidated at first. However, give it a chance and it'll grow on you. ( )

I loved the endpapers (instructions on how to take The Filth, written like medicine instructions ("to be consumed optically", "do not store your medicine above 451 degrees Fahrenheit", etc). The comic itself was a fun, quick and pointless read. I appreciated the nod to Gilbert and George in chapter (issue) 9, and the references to Ham the Astrochimp. ( )

I wish I liked this more than I did, because I usually like Grant Morrison's writing. I think I see what it was going for and there were snippets where it made narrative sense, but it just never came together and left me with a feeling that it was in its own ass a bit too much. Likely was not for me, nor did I have the impression that it was written for me to enjoy. I'm cool with that. I wouldn't let it put me off reading anything else by the guy, but I can't help thinking this is what you get when someone gets to the point where no one wants to insult them by suggesting they edit their work for coherency. ( )

After being blown away by Grant Morrison's "Nameless" I was very much looking forward to "The Filth" with great curiosity. however while i was pleased by some of the initial sci-fi elements and questions concerning identity, in the end i was hugely disappointed in it overall.

by about a third of the way through this graphic novel collection it felt like the author was creating a long running joke in which the punchline was, "I can't believe you bought this tedious, nonsensical comic."

if the author's intent was to rub our faces in the idea that life vacillates between the pointless and the putrid he could surely have done it in one issue instead of 13, or less, and saved us all a lot of time and a bit of money besides, not to mention the trees cut down and the inks necessary to create this for the mass market. a facebook post or even a tweet from Twitter would have done the job better.

the art occasionally is interesting, but not consistently so, and not very often either. for the most part it becomes quickly repetitive, with each chapter increasingly feeling like ever more of the same. despite having many friends interested in psychedelic art and sci-fi and/or "mind-bending" stories i can't think of a single person i would recommend this to, unless they specifically asked me: "do you have anything that is sometimes interesting to look at but not worth actually reading -- i just want to kill 15 or 20 minutes flipping through something." and while The Filth would fit that bill, there are actually any number of books on my shelf with far more interesting art that would be a better use of their time. ( )

I saw a review somewhere and loved the art, and was tantalized by reviews saying it will change your life! It didn't; sort of meandering and hard to follow. Still love the art. ( )