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Grant Morrison's Obscure Work

 
  

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FinderWolf
18:25 / 17.10.03
Mystery Play is indeed great but at the end it's sort of let-down...unsatisfying is a good word for it. I hunted this down in a NYC comic store a few years ago. Beautiful painted art by Jon J. Muth.
 
 
Sexy Legendary
18:55 / 17.10.03
anyone read any of his near myths stuff?

i've got a chapter of the checkmate man (i think that's what it was called, wasn't it?) which he also drew (very neal adams/john byrne art style). written and drawn by teen-morrison and i guess you can tell too, but still better than any works of "art" i was creating at the same age. the bastard.

never found any of the gideon stargrave stuff, though.
 
 
Mister Six, whom all the girls
19:19 / 17.10.03
Doctor Who: 118-119 'Changes,' 127-129 , 'The World Shapers,' and 127 'Culture Shock.' Can't recall anything anything cool about any of them.

Oh and this is all available at

http://www.grant-morrison.com/others.htm

I'd also like to second the Doom Force reccomendation as well as Skrull Kill Krew . The bit with Captain America playing peek-a-boo behind his shield with an infant is priceless.
 
 
FinderWolf
20:20 / 17.10.03
>> There was a really nice Dare TPB put out by Xpresso books in 1991. ISBN 1-85386-211-8 if you want to try hunting for it.

How do you hunt something down from the book code? What is that code, exactly - Libraray of Congress? I'm genuinely curious, as I've done a search for Xpresso books and turned up only a list of a few things, almost all of which are collectors listing that they have the trade in their collection, one page of everything ever published about Dan Dare, and so on. I would really like to find a copy of the DARE paperback, as I loved the series and I only have 3 of the 4 issues tucked away in a comic box somewhere.
 
 
FinderWolf
20:24 / 17.10.03
As for the teen morrison drawing one of his stories, many artists have said Grant's a halfway decent artist and thinks very visually. He sometimes scribbles character design stuff, or has in the past.

Duncan Falconer, I realize now you were just saying you have the link to that guy's site, not that it's your site. And New Adv. of Hitler is on there but no DARE stuff. (Isn't the title "New Adv. of Hitler" based on some 60s underground book called "The New Adventures of Jesus", which I've often heard about but never really learned anything concrete?)

And come to think of it, in Morrison/Millar's FLASH run, Morrison is the one who gave the aging Johnny Quick the pen that the Thunderbolt genie gets put in. This pen was later used by Morrison in his JLA/JSA Crossover - and come to think of it, Morrison created J. J. Thunder, the kid who then gets the pen. Way to establish a plot thread and use it years later, Morrison - I love when writers do that! Nothing goes unused.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
22:04 / 17.10.03
How do you hunt something down from the book code?

Book shops. Give them the ISBN and it makes it easier for them to track the thing down. In theory. I'd imagine someone like Flowers would be able to tell you more - I've only ever had to use it when searches for title or author don't come up with any matches. Just tried it on Amazon.co.uk and got the result I was after.
 
 
The Falcon
14:46 / 18.10.03
'Gothic' scared the shit out of me when I was 14-15. I think it's great.
 
 
pachinko droog
15:51 / 18.10.03
Does anyone know if GM has written anything under a pseudonym? (Including non-comic/prose, etc.) I know he ghost-wrote an issue of The Authority (included in the "Transfer of Power" tpb), but wondered if he'd done this on other titles.

PS: What about "'Nuff Said"? Any good?
 
 
PatrickMM
00:58 / 19.10.03
I was looking on ebay for Zenith, and I came across this (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2197694618&category=3981) listing. Now, this has 2000 AD 43-45, but on Grant's site, all the issues of Zenith seemed to be in the 500's. Does anybody know what the deal with these is, is it some kind of reprint?

And also, was it ever confirmed that Grant ghost-wrote that Authority, and which issue was it? And was it any good?
 
 
Krug
02:10 / 19.10.03
Grant confirmed this in an interview iirc, and his original idea was to have a trinity of gods (Allah, Buddha, Jesus) on the first page being in a lineup waiting to be executed or something.

I'd be the wrong person to ask since I only liked the first four issues of Milllar's run (which were not written by Morrison) out of the entire series.
 
 
Sexy Legendary
13:04 / 19.10.03
"2000ad 43-45" i presume are issues of the American reprint series 2000ad Presents, which as far as i can remember, was published by Qualtiy Comics in the late 80s and early 90s.

the reprinted material was very often cheaply coloured in a vain attempt to make previously black and white strips seem more attractive to an American audience.

a better source of reprint can be found (if you can find 'em now) in the british reprint series Best of 2000ad, which reprinted phase 1 and maybe even phase 2 of zenith in glorious monochrome about ten years ago. can't remember issue #s tho.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
02:14 / 20.10.03
anyone know if some of Grant's 2000ad stuff [mostly the SUMMER OFFENSIVE] have scans available? a hub for british comics, maybe.

I'm really interested in REALLY TRULY.
 
 
Sexy Legendary
11:55 / 20.10.03
not sure if scans are available (i'm a dunce with technology) but will second whoever said really & truly is a brilliant, mdma-addled romp.

my brother, a hardened claremontite, thought it was one of the worst strips ever published in 2000ad. take that as a recommendation and track it down.

someone help our vortexian friend here, please!
 
 
The Falcon
14:56 / 20.10.03
Morrison wrote The Authority #27, which is most notable for Religimon. Other than that, not great.
 
 
sleazenation
15:20 / 20.10.03
not great and further screwed up by late artwork changes that made the violent sequential art unreadable art with little in the way sequence about it.
 
 
mr Squiggle
15:34 / 21.10.03
I have the near myths issues. If youre all interested in seeing how the teenaged (I think?) Morrison drew & no ones scanned them yet Ill do it once I get around to buying a new scanner, if mr Fish or someone wants to host them? Im on dial up so not inclined to seed a torrent (as I believe the with-it people say).
 
 
LDones
19:00 / 21.10.03
I'll host the images if you get them scanned. I've bandwidth to spare these days. PM me if you're interested.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
19:06 / 21.10.03
Some indy-company should reprint his Crisis stuff and R + T etc in complete editions. New Adventures of Hitler and Bible John were great 90's experimental works that came out in a magazine you couldbuy in a newsagents fer christs sake. Them were the days. i suppose they're all tied up in Fleetway legalities though. Ahh well.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
01:59 / 22.10.03
just in case: Grant, if you're reading this [and you most certainly are], don't be pissed off. nobody's trying to rip you off of your copyrights.

we're only damn curious to read your early - and largely unavailable - work and I believe most of us are willing to hand you our wallets the minute those comics' trades are solicited, even 3rd World underemployed sods like meself. I hope those books come out sooner than later, but we all know it's not only up to you.

you look better on a shelf than on a computer screen, anyway.
 
 
Dan Fish - @Fish1k
07:28 / 22.10.03
Agreed Vortex09, as soon as 'New Adventures..' is made available again, I'm taking the scans down. And if I'm asked to in the meantime, they'll come down too.

Mr Jay T and LDones, If you can sort out the hosting between you, I am happy to link from my site. I can do scanning from one of the chapters too (NM3), if that makes it easier?
 
 
GreenMonk
14:03 / 26.03.04
Zenith stuff by Millar? I have all the main Phases except the two interludes from the Specials, but nothing by Millar. And whats this origin story? What Progs are you talking about? Phase IV sure is damn good Invisibles-esque cosmology stuff

Just found a guy willing to sell me the 2000AD stuff containing Really and Truly and all the Dave and Dredd stuff. Now Im only missing Venus Blue Genes from the scifi speecial and few Thrag's Future Shocks that I don't have from the few TimeTweisters reprints I got.

Looks like my main interests now are Crisis stuff, StarBlazers, and a few other really obscure things. I'v egot almost evrything else tracked down....
 
 
Jack Denfeld
21:35 / 26.03.04
Skrull Kill Krew by him and Millar. It's funny and the issues should be easy to find.
 
 
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23:10 / 26.03.04
"Sebastian O" is worth it only because of that scene where the title character's butler hands him a gun on a tray "fresh from the refrigerator", prompting Sebastian to say "Chilled to perfection" before he shoots a guy. It's so stupid it works. I kinda miss Morrison's dandy period. Of course I only started reading him two years ago so I never really was there anyway.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
16:06 / 27.03.04
I thought his Nick Fury thing was the funniest thing he's writ in years. That and the Filth.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
20:30 / 27.03.04
I kinda mis Grant's dada-dandy period [is that a pun or what?], because that was when I first got into his work and realized Comics could have rockstars too.

although now he's some kind of Dandy Liquid Interdimension-Aut, so I'm more than fine with that. guy's aged well.
 
 
Colonel Kadmon
00:12 / 29.03.04
I really liked Bible John - the Shiva death-trip sequence is total Invisibles. Never been reprinted though.
 
 
FinderWolf
14:58 / 31.03.04
from DC's upcoming paperback announcements.

>> SEBASTIAN O TP
* An 80-page trade paperback collecting SEBASTIAN 0 #1-3
* Written by Grant Morrison with art and cover by Steve Yeowell
* Scheduled to arrive in stores in July with a cover price of $9.95 U.S.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
18:04 / 31.03.04
I've got an Action Force Monthly with a rather nice little Storm Shadow solo piece. But try this for obscure - The Fleetway Comic Relief Comic from about 1991 has some Morrison stuff in it, but it's not clear where ( a number of 'hip' creators like Gaiman, Delano and Ennis were all involved also) but I'd wager it's the segment where Griff Rhys Jones opens his head to reveal lots of tiny evil men working away to make him spoil Comic Relief for everyone. I shit you not.
 
 
Dan Fish - @Fish1k
06:20 / 01.04.04
The page numbers are specified on GM's own website - You are correct about the Griff Head thing!
 
  

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