The Filth is a comic book limited series, written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Chris Weston and Gary Erskine.

The Filth can be seen partly as a companion piece to The Invisibles in that it touches upon similar themes and concepts such as fractal realities, art affecting life, postmodern blurring of the fourth wall and the world as a single, living organism with humans as the cells that compose it.

Morrison has stated that they had originally intended to make The Filth a thematic sequel to The Invisibles, followed by a third comic book series, The Indestructible Man.

Though he appears to have no friends or family, and no hobbies beyond consuming trashy pornography, he cares deeply for animals such as his pet cat Tony.

Its agents, who range from talking dolphins to a cabaret dominatrix, ride in flying garbage trucks with giant gnashing teeth and wear bizarre outfits designed to deter bystanders by reminding them of suppressed sexual urges.

Slade has been brought out of retirement to stop his former friend Spartacus Hughes, a rogue Hand agent who is now devoted to sowing chaos and perversion across the planet.

In the wastelands of the Crack, where time moves so quickly that anyone without a protective suit will die of old age within minutes, he exposes a Hand inspector as a germophobic serial killer.

In Los Angeles, he stops megalomaniac pornographer Tex Porneau (based upon real life porn director Max Hardcore[9]) from destroying womankind with giant mutant sperm.

While on the run from the police, Feely finds a secret plea for help from another group of escaped I-Life, written in blood on a discarded tampon.

Back in the ordinary world, Feely finds that his doppelganger has allowed Tony to die, and becomes convinced that the Hand is deliberately destroying his civilian life to keep him under control.

With Dmitri's gun, Feely storms a local chemist's shop and discovers a hidden Hand storehouse, containing countless alphabetised parapersonas.

At Slade's apartment, Feely and Spector find the I-Life colony's host has been raped and murdered by Spartacus Hughes, now installed into Max Thunderstone's body and working for the Hand.

Back in his home, perhaps simultaneously or perhaps later, Feely writes a suicide note using a fountain pen, saying the police believe that he killed Tony through neglect and has concocted the Hand as a coping mechanism.