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Anyone here think Morrison should ditch the bald look?

02:43 / 27.10.03

I know he's been shaving his head for some time now, but, maybe its time for a change? I thought he looked really cool at the end of "Animal Man" (I know that's not how he looked exactly in real life at that time but it does seem pretty close).

PatrickMM

04:09 / 27.10.03

Haven't read the end of Animal Man yet (Damn you Amazon for being so slow), but I've got to say the bald look really works for him. I think for most people the first shaving of the head would be the biggest hurdle, as you wonder, what if I'm deformed under all this hair? So, having overcome that, I couldn't really argue with keeping it.

That said, if he wants to make serious change to his image, grow some hair back. The shaved head has gone so mainstream, he might be able to be more cutting edge by bringing back the hair.

Murray Hamhandler

04:18 / 27.10.03

Yes!

I think we should start a thread suggesting that Warren Ellis shave off that pesky beard! Maybe two!

Our Lady of The Two Towers

05:05 / 27.10.03

Warren Ellis has two beards? His bearded face hides a secret face with a beard? Is it crying?

sleazenation

06:15 / 27.10.03

yes surely Morrison should start donning a wig and perhaps the false beard he wore when pretending to be Alan Moore - surely he's look better then.

At the risk of pointing out the stark staringly obvious, i'm not altogether sure Morrison has much choice on the hair growing debate.

Jack Fear

12:34 / 27.10.03

Cor!Rect!

Grant's dirty little secret, chillun, is that he shaves his head to hide the fact that his natural hairline is receding.

The buzz of the big black Norelco is The Grant's "Fuck you" to male-pattern baldness. It's like a death-row inmate committing suicide in prison, what they used to call "cheating the hangman."

Let us not forget, ANIMAL MAN was a long number of years ago. Were he to grow his head out now, our man would look less like the the young hottie of "Deus Ex Machina," and more like... erm... Greg Feeley.

Matthew Fluxington

12:43 / 27.10.03

I love how some of us are basing this on how Grant looked in Chas Truog's drawings of him in a comic book.

Since I don't think Grant really has the option to grow all of his hair back, he could always embrace the male-pattern baldness look, wear hats, and go for an Out Of Time/Automatic For The People Michael Stipe look.

Jack Fear

13:19 / 27.10.03

Truog's rendering of Grant was pretty accurate, judging by the photos from the period that he's got up on his website...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:16 / 27.10.03

Fuck! Tom never mentioned he'd met Neil Gaiman! Or is that the character that Andy Serkis plays in '24 hour party people'?

adamswish

16:24 / 27.10.03

no he shouldn't for the simple reason that I would lose the figure I'm modelling my look on

The Falcon

03:03 / 28.10.03

Precisely. Think Kerry (girl's name) King.

Also: it's the utilitarian haircut of the (last) decade.

klint

02:09 / 29.10.03

Couldn't he write a spell to grow his hair back if he wanted to?

H3ct0r L1m4

15:32 / 31.10.03

he doesn't need to. he always has one to make him look young even in his 40s.

doesn't Grant looks like a Patrick Stewart younger brother? that's good, I suppose.

I'm enjoying what I've got left until it all runs out when I'm in my early 30s, when hair will probaly be missing from the back of my head.

then full monty is the way to go. as usual, Da Moz is ahead of his time.

pachinko droog

15:46 / 31.10.03

Keep the bald pate. Add a soul patch. Word.

Dexter Graves

22:02 / 08.04.04

I take Rogaine, so I'm obviously uptight about keeping my hair, but if I thought going bald would make me like King Mob I'd do it in a hearbeat!

Char Aina

03:04 / 09.04.04

i think there's am element of disguise going on as well, y'know. the g-dog is occasionally to be seen with hair aroon the toon, so to speak. who would think that a guy with a receding hairline and a scruffy beard was a famous chaote with millions in the bank? not you.

Krug

17:56 / 09.04.04

http://www.dccomics.com/features/vertigox/yearbook.html

I remember somebody asked him in an interview once if he'd grow his hair back and he said

"It's all over between my hair and me" and I knew he was just balding and decided to just do what I plan to do when I start losing hair.

kid entropy

13:01 / 10.04.04

alright alright alright.let's just fess up collectively...we want and need to fuck morrison,hair or no hair ,wigs,rasta dreads,let's corner him on byres road or something,and gang fuck him out of the supercontext,heh hah.you know full well he'd resist for all of ten ,fifteen seconds,and then we'd be looking at a geniune barbelith hoedown,with dear grant as our balding ,lascivious,silver trousers-wearing whore of babylon....and we'll shave his no doubt ginger pubes to boot.send him home preggers and pleased as punch.agreed?

Our Lady Has Left the Building

14:31 / 10.04.04

Who thinks Kristen should shave off her hair?

Krug

05:22 / 11.04.04

Who thinks Morrison should pose naked?

kid entropy

14:04 / 11.04.04

me of course.who thinks i should be the sassy photographer.photograph 1:greased-up pretzel boy magus...2:baby soother up scribe's arse,tokyo..etc..or a morrison/ morrisey sorrow porno!

Tamayyurt

17:47 / 11.04.04

Grant, naked, with hair...

kid entropy

14:19 / 13.04.04

oo da fuck's he fink he is,orlando fucking bloom??!!(to be sneered out cockney style)

H3ct0r L1m4

14:28 / 13.04.04

never seen the Wackyjack essay, Blerd?

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