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This has been fun. I haven’t been able to watch quite as much as I’d hoped, largely due to some unforeseen situations in the months leading up to September, but I made a decent go of it. Here are the posts:

• The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (the original source material)
• The Invisible Man (film)
• Hollow Man (film)
• The Invisible Agent (film)
• The Invisible Man’s Revenge (film)
• The Invisible Man Returns (film)
• The Invisible Woman (film)

If I were to do it again, I’d also include these:

• The Invisible Man (TV series from 1958, 1975, and 2000)
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (comic book)
• Memoirs of an Invisible Man (film)
• The Invisible Man (animated series)
• The Invisible Man (1984 miniseries)

That last one would have been especially nice to get my hands on, since it’s an actual adaptation of the book. That was the main problem I ran into: most of the retellings I could find were not the original story, but only the character of an invisible man placed in various scenarios. It’s a shame, because there’s so much that could be done with the original tale of Dr. Griffin.

One last homage to my subject, The Invisible Man: a monument in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. The inscription reads: “The first monument to the Invisible man, the hero of Herbert Wells’ novel.” Hero? I’m not so sure that’s quite the word you’re looking for, but it might be a mistranslation. He’s certainly the central figure, but very definitely not a hero.