Grant Morrison: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer."''|'''GRANT MORRISON''' to [[Animal Man]], ''Animal Man #26''}}

 

 

 

After those critical successes, he wrote ''[[Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth]]'', which became the best selling graphic novel up to that point, and featured selected members of Batman's rogues gallery - as well as the Dark Knight himself - as different aspects of non-comic book, medical insanity, such as Schizophrenia, Mass Hallucinations and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. He then wrote several miniseries in Britain and for [[Vertigo Comics]], and rose to stardom with the relaunch of ''[[Justice League of America]]'', which featured DC's big superheroes together again for the first time in years. Besides being aptly described elsewhere on this website as "made up of back-to-back Crowning Moments of Awesome", Morrison's JLA also served as inspiration for the [[DCAU]]'s ''[[Justice League]]'', usually made of made up of back-to-back Crowning Moments of Awesome itself. At the time he was writing JLA, he was working in Vertigo's ''[[The Invisibles]]'', his most personal world, which he described as information given to him by Aliens during an abduction in Kathmandu.

He also wrote ''[[Joe the Barbarian]]'', which ran 8 issues from March 2010 to March 2011. The story is about a diabetic boy who becomes hypoglycemic, and enters a fantasy world due to hallucinations.

 

 

While other writers are capable of writing stories [[TV Tropes Made of Win Archive]], it is theorized that Morrison himself is made of Win, which has earned the nickname The God of All Comics in certain corners of the Internet.

 

 

Recognizable in real life by his shaved head and his already difficult to follow topics being uttered in a nearly incomprehensible accent. In an anecdote in the first volume of ''[[52]]'', his conversation with the other writers and editor goes like this:

'''[[Mark Waid|Me]], [[Geoff Johns|Geoff]], [[Greg Rucka|Greg]], Steve:''' "Come again?" }}

 

 

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* [[All There in the Manual]] - ''Anarchy for the Masses'' for one thing offers a mighty effort at deciphering ''[[The Invisibles]]''. Most notably insightful are the numerous interviews with Morrison and crew. Otherwise tends to give away tons of more or less required information about his work in interviews, which usually end up unread on obscure corners of the Internet.

** ''Final Crisis Sketchbook,'' essentially a collection of notes and "behind the scenes" comments on the creation of ''[[Final Crisis]],'' contained tidbits of information that never appeared in the actual comic ... like, say, the identities of some of the characters.

** The later chapters of ''Supergods'' also contain a fair amount of [[Word of God]], especially regarding the genesis and intended meaning of [[The Invisibles]] and [[Final Crisis]].

* [[Ancient Conspiracy]] - ''[[The Invisibles]]'' revolves around them.

** As ''[[The Invisibles]]'' are collected without the letter columns from the single issues, one deeply odd fact about Morrison has been mostly lost to memory. After his representation in the comic, Kirk Morrison/Gideon Stargrave/King Mob, spent a few issues slowly dying of a gunshot wound to the stomach, Morrison himself nearly died from a collapsed lung. Morrison draws a straight line between what happened to King Mob and what happened to him, which may explain why King Mob spends most of volume 2 balls deep in Robin...

* [[Author Guest Spot]]

** Considering the fact the original Multiverse is now once again canon, this [[Fridge Brilliance|can actually be very easily done]]. Morrison ''does'' have his limits though: Batman traveling to the planet Zur-En-Arrh and the Rainbow and Batman Creatures are too damn bizarre to have ''actually'' happened. Morrison gets around this by making some of the more outrageous stuff [[All Just a Dream]].

*** Interestingly enough, the evangelicals who wrote [[Left Behind]] believe that the more bizarre elements of prophecy in the Bible are visions/dreams. [[Fridge Brilliance]] on the conceptualization of comics as myth heroes for the 20th/21st century?

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] - [[Seaguy]] is pursued by an evil corporation.

* [[Cosmic Deadline]] - ''[[The Filth]]'', ''[[The Invisibles]]'', ''[[Seven Soldiers]]'', ''[[Final Crisis]]''. It's practically his style.

 

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