Grant Morrisson

Well, it's like somebody else once said; it's how tight the editor is on him. Firm editing makes him good. Loose editing and you're off into acid trip WTF land.

I read Justice League and Invisibles. Justice League was tight editing, so it rocked. Invisibles was his own thing, so sometimes it was cool and sometimes it was a migraine to read.

I don't know if 1 is best or 5 is !

I've liked most of what I've read by him, though I haven't read most of what he's written (none of his JLA, for instance).

Seven Soldiers was hit or miss for me, but when it hit (Frankenstein, Klarion, Bulleteer) it hit hard! And his All-Star Superman is very good, indeed.

I am reading Batman RIP, and enjoying it. Though, to add to fuel to Scott's conspiracy theory fire, I could see some similarities to my own Detective Comics "Lustmord" storyline crossed with Grant's "Death of Batman" arc in Batman. Maye he's been secretly checking us out for years!

I'm still on the fence with Final Crisis, though. It's compelling stuff, but as Brian has stated elsewhere, it feels like a lot of previews strung together. I would love to see this stuff fleshed out a bit more. If this Bendis fellow is the king of decompressed storytelling, then Morrison is the Anti-Bendis. Final Crisis should have been 12 issues!

I don't like his work, it reads abstract to me. Not a fan. at all.

I gave him a two.

Animal Man was brilliant...

JLA Was very cool, but the ending fizzled (IMO)

New X-Men was good, but ultimately undone (not his fault, though)

All Star Supes is fun.

Everything else just kinda soars right over my head. The man is brilliant... I mean he reads articles on quantum physics for fun.

That's probably the best way to read it... a month between issues I think doesn't help when each ish gets weirder & weirder.

I gave him four. There's lots of stuff of his I really like (Zenith, The New Adventures of Hitler, Dan Dare, Big Dave, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, St. Swithin's Day, and All-Star Superman spring to mind), some of it I think is good, such as Arkham Asylum, Justice League, X-Men, and Batman: RIP (just to keep the conspiracy fires burning, his story, with its initials title, questioning of Bruce's parentage, and use of Bat-Mite also has similarities to one of my fanfics O.R.). and then there's some stuff which just leaves me cold (Bible John, Sebastian O, Invisibles). Not sure where Final Crisis fits in there yet, too early to say.

I like him. ;D



I'd go into detail but we'd be here all day.

I love that guy. Five Stars.

OwO

Just to throw in- I don't think it would be at all surprising to anyone to suggest that Grant Morrison clearly adores the Silver Age. I mean, everyone has their own preferred era- from Golden to Modern- but Morrison's always been rooted in Silver Age- though alwaus modernising and updating concepts from that age, for better or worse. Since I have always been a fan of the Silver Age over even the Golden Age and whatnot myself, that's always sat well with me.

But I do think it's also detrimental to him at times, when he fails to distinguish between unnecesary changes, and beneficial ones. Allow me to give an example- right now, in Final Crisis, he is modernising Kirby's New Gods and, to some degree, bringing them back to their roots as unknowable beings of indescribable power, rather than glorified Superman punching bags. I would argue that because the New Gods were such a labour of love for Kirby and he is keeping all the symbolism and metaphor, it works a lot. Morrison has ignored the depictions of (For example) arch nemesis Darkseid that have come SINCE then and restored him to the creator's intent.

However, at X-Men, Morrison did a similar thing to a degree, bringing themes from the old X-Men books to the present... but I'd argue that Lee and Kirby's X-Men was significently weaker than other material such as the Fourth World or, indeed, Lee/Kirby's own other work on FF, Avengers etc. Hence, take the X-Men arch-nemesis Magneto, for whom Morrison ignored the work of other creators (Notably CLaremont) since then and restored him to the creator's intent. The problem is that as originally concieved, Silver Age Magneto was an uninspired and uninteresting lunatic, whereas the character he had become under Claremont was a deep, rich character who had become deeper than most characters in comicdom. So we ended up with "Planet X" which was thankfully retconned rapidly, and featured a bizarre take on Magneto inconsistent with anything seen since the sixties and, frankly, a FAR more dull one.

Just my take on how Morrison applied the same principle to two different franchises and got it very right on one and very wrong on the other.

Grant Morrisson is a crazy Scottish bastard.

But I still love the guy.

-UDC

I don't have any great love for Batman--- which is perhaps why I am enjoying his run on the title so much! Can't wait 'til the conclusion tomorrow!

Final Crisis has been pretty good so far, too, but the delays are frustrating.