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[pikabot]

I fucking hate Grant Morrison. I wish he would go away and never come back. He has produced some good work (Animal Man, We3) but he's always been hit-or-miss, and everything he's produced for the past five years has been garbage. Pretentious, poorly-plotted, unbelievably stupid garbage. I can't even stand All-Star Superman, and that's the one recent work of his that most people agree is good.

The man seems to be incapable of writing stories. He writes scenes, with no obvious connection between them, arranges them in a random order and expects us to make sense of them. Fuck that, says I, it's the storyteller's job to make it make sense. Even if something's meant to be confusing at first blush, by the time the story is finished the reader should intuitively understand the timeline. That doesn't happen with a Grant Morrison comic.

Plus, his comics of late are just stupid. What made him think it was a good idea to write a comic about Batman running around high on crystal meth? What made him think it was a good idea to play continuity porn with a bunch of Silver Age bullshit that was best left forgotten? What made him think anything that happened in Final Crisis was a good idea? I don't know, I just wish he would stop it. When the man's on he can do great stuff, but he hasn't been on since 2004.

I also wish people would stop treating him like some sort of comics god! He's really, really not. If that title belongs to anyone it's probably Warren Ellis, or possibly Neil Gaiman. Certainly not Grant Fucking Morrison.

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[gabenut.livejournal.com]

What made him think it was a good idea to write a comic about Batman running around high on crystal meth?

Wait...what?!

[pikabot]

On the long list of things I wish I was making up but aren't.

[gabenut.livejournal.com]

You know, when stuff like this happens in comics, I sometimes wonder if they do it on purpose. Just to see how far they can go before we just flip the table and go I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE and stop buying them all together.

Using a mixture of physical and psychological attacks, the Black Glove tests Batman's resolve, forcing him to temporarily adopt the crazed persona of the "Batman of Zur-En-Arrh."

I have to admit, this did make me laugh. I haven't decided yet if it's amused laughter or my mind couldn't fathom the sillyness laughter.

[pikabot]

And by 'physical and psychological attacks' they mean 'they pump him full of crystal meth and unleash him on Gotham'.

[gabenut.livejournal.com]

I knew I'd need to use this icon at some point. D:

AN ARM MADE OF SHARINGANS

[starsandtildes.livejournal.com]

When is Morrison "on"? All I know about him is a friend of mine with mostly bad taste loves The Invisibles to the point of taking her internet handle from it XDDDD so of course my perception of him is colored by that.
and Warren Ellis is the pope of comics except with more Bl

Good day, frightening skin machines.

[pikabot]

We3 and Animal Man and portions of his JLA run. Large portions, but still. I hear tell that his Doom Patrol and most of his New X-Men run are good too, but I haven't read them.


The Invisibles is garbage that Grant Morrison will tell you (true story) was dictated to him by a bunch of aliens who kidnapped him and took him to Kathmandu. It is also a magic spell he is casting on the world to make himself more sexually attractive.

Grant Morrison takes a lot of drugs.

Re: Good day, frightening skin machines.

[power-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Yeah I know Grant Morrison takes a lot of drugs XD

What portions of his JLA run? I'm not much for superhero comics but I'm more of a DC girl when I am, so I'd be interested in reading those.

The only thing I know about The Invisibles is that in the process of the story he injured the main guy, and then he got injured himself, and then when he wrote the guy back to normal he became okay again and he claims it was some kind of magic spell. Is this true, confirm/deny.

[runic-binary.livejournal.com]

*raises hand*

I want to see Batman on Crystal Meth.

[anarchicq.livejournal.com]

There's a reason, a god damned REASON I always call him Grant "DRUGS!" Morrison. (...I also call Alan "MAGIK!" Moore just that, and of course the ever popular Frank "WHORES!" Miller. ...But I like Miller Sin City....)

I'm gonna use my WE3 icon to be ironic.

[lissibith.livejournal.com]

I have nothing to add to that completely deserved dressing down of why Morrison is a blight on the face of comics right now. I am only here to add an extra dose of love for Ellis. And to thank you for reminding me I need to go reread Freakangels.