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Vertigo X interview with that fella - you know, baldie...

19:55 / 26.02.03

Go here. I'm just away to, but thought I'd share.

20:55 / 26.02.03

Nothing that insightful, actually.

Interested in the 'favourite book', though.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

00:44 / 27.02.03

Breaking Open the Head is really fantastic and I'm not surprised Morrison's read it. I am a bit so surprised he thought so highly of it, though.

I'd go on to rant about BoTH, but there's a large thread with more info and people flaming Jay Babcock in either the Magic or the Books which says it all.

And does anyone else think that interviews where people rag on and on about the invisibles are kind of depressing?

01:40 / 27.02.03

yeah, it sorta reminds you that many people have missed 'thePoint' whatever, that actually may be to you. not to say that anyones interpretation is wrong, but to have not even tried to probably is. i am pretty sure the creation morrison wanted to inspire was not inclusive of daft questions about the book itself over and over again.

perhaps this is the curse of stories over sigils as was pointed out in the magick forum earlier.

yawn - thing's buddy

08:08 / 27.02.03

'Living in Scotland is like having a permanent flu'

LOL!

The Natural Way

10:58 / 27.02.03

Well that was shit.

yawn - thing's buddy

12:16 / 27.02.03

Maybe so, but was anyone seriously waiting for this?

13:02 / 27.02.03

Aye - 's just a nice surprise. Not the like the last bloody interview when I was at the end of my tether waiting and waiting for it to go... ahem.

It's not great, no.

13:27 / 27.02.03

This bit from the Dave McKean interview is pretty earthshattering, though -

What’s your most interesting recollection of working with Grant Morrison?
I think it’s got to be the chocolate addiction. Every time there was the chance of stopping for gas [on the signing tour for Arkham Asylum], he’d say, "Chocolate, just get me some chocolate."
"What kind?"
"Just any fuckin’ thing, just get me a big bag of assorted chocolate." And he’s skinny. It’s just not right.

Don't shake me, I'm full of chocolates!

18:37 / 27.02.03

Borrring.

yawn - thing's buddy

07:27 / 28.02.03

I'm really surprised at some of the reactions here.

BTW, I really love the format of the actualy Vertigo X magazine.

And no adverts either.

But then all the content is an advert.

Right. I get it.

And it was only 50p!

Mister Six, whom all the girls

14:45 / 28.02.03

From a longtime Vertigo reader, I wasn't expecting much. I mean, in the past we got a good set of previews (in one case we got Hexy which wasn't reprinted until later), a few interviews from time to time, and all for a buck.

But this one... What a big disappointment. We get a glossy magazine-type cover with cutsey death (who Jill Thomson rams her finger up one more time as a career puppet... my spite really amuses me sometimes and it's hardly ever warranted... therapy should ensue after this post), and a load of single to two page previews squeezed between half interviews... all of which are 'continued at vertigo.com. The constant urges to go to vertigo.com were piss-poor. The entire thing is just a 'go to our website' advert.

The whole reason I picked it up was for the Shade story which was just pitiful, and I love the whole Milligan/Allred thing goin on nowadays. It made me very embarassed to like Shade at all.

And the two page spread of characters 'four more beers' hee hee drinking is fun/silly, hee hee. Seeing Vertigo characters not propoerly written in almost five-ten years is just patheric, with cutesy Death pooring drinks. So now I'm embarassed to read comics AND drink???

I dunno, I want my buck back.

And it hurt my ass when I wiped it as well. What a useless comic.

Oh and what genius of an editor chose random ages for the pics on the last page??? What is the connecting thread of these pictures? Grant when he was twenty (?), Jill Thompson when she was eight, Karen Berger at 35... Um... why not pictures of all the creative staff (minus Berger whose only creativity is in faking a job) at a common age??

And then we're supposed to match them up and go to the site for the answers???

WHAT ARE , SHUT-INS!!??

Give us a break, DC. You're not that cool. It's like trying to get laid with a gal who becomes less cute with every statement about her trip to Japan, love of Cabaret Voltaire and ghost paintings. You start to realize that she is not as cool as she wants you to think she is and also... you're going to be bitterly boxing the clown later on, screwing your forehead afterward thinking, 'why did I pay for her dinner at all?'

Phew... that's out.

15:58 / 28.02.03

"boxing the clown"?

Mister Six, whom all the girls

16:13 / 28.02.03

yeah, you know... 'waxing the weasel,' 'tugging the tow-roap,' 'shaking white hot cocoanuts from the veiny love tree'

16:39 / 28.02.03

Ah. Thanks for the clarification. I've never heard the term before.

Although 'shaking white hot cocoanuts from the veiny love tree' is even more extravagant and picturesque...I shall have to slip that phrase into casual conversation and see how it goes down with the peeps round my way.

I'm rotting the thread, sorry. Please carry on, don't mind me.

Mister Six, whom all the girls

16:43 / 28.02.03

That's a League of Gentlemen ref, not mine. But I love it.

Rottin da thread.

05:20 / 01.03.03

The Originals looks promising. I might give that a shot.

12:49 / 01.03.03

yes the originals looks so far up my alley i'm surprised i can't feel it tickling my colon.

is a shut-in like a lock-in? i don't know, but a lock-in is the barman locking the doors of the pub when licensed hours are over. no-one else can come in, but whoever's already in can keep drinking as long as they like because the pub is now in the legal realm of a private party.

the ennis dillon thing sounds painful 'like all our other comics but with no violence' o brilliant.

the hushed hallowed intro by berger was just funny when she started going on how comics about neurotic angels represent the zenith of mature genre comic storytelling.

but i liked the shade story, allred draws him like he should look. and while i'm there xstatix was great this week, and other comics that have thought me lately are utlimate war which was rubbish. captain america and wolverine didn't even fight. the new superhero dialectic that says you must stand still and talk, not punch each other and talk feels like really missing the point to me. the fighting IS the talking, no? anyway, rotting like a fucker so i'll let you get back to it

13:00 / 01.03.03

oh, and kate boosh don't worry about it any talk of wanking is always happily indulged round these parts.

18:13 / 01.03.03

Glad to see Morrison's a fan of The Streets, who I've been getting into lately. As for the rest of the stuff, it seems to be mostly fluff.

19:17 / 01.03.03

Pedant point: it's actually "hot, white coconuts"; the white-hot variety would probably burn one's urethra.