Having recently won all of GM's Doom Patrol run on eBay (still waiting to get it in the mail) I thought it would be a good idea to also investigate Morrison's prose work. Reading his excerpt of "The If" and the short story "The Braille Encyclopedia" (prob. not his best work) whetted my appetite to see what some of the rest of his prose work is like. Being unable to find "Lovely Biscuits" I decided to just go and order the original sources that the stories that appeared in that collection originally appeared in.
First I ordered "Starry Wisdom", which is a collection of Lovecraft inspired stories. I figured even if the Morrison story sucked, there was still a William S Burroughs story in there. Sadly, this book has not shipped yet so I'm still waiting.
Next I ordered "Disco 2000", which I got in the mail today, to get Morrison's story "I'm a Policeman". Which wasn't as good as the comic version that appeared in the Invisibles series.
Finally I needed to get the story "The Room Where Love Lives". I know this story originally appeared in a collection called "Hottest Blood". However, on eBay someone was auctioning off something called "Verotika" and said that the GM story "The Room Where Love Lives" was included in it. Thinking it was just another anthology that the story had appeared in, I won that.
Well, it came in the mail today, and to my surprise it was not a book, but a comic, which GM had written and Kim Hagen had drawn. This makes me wonder: Are there 2 versions of this particular story, a comic version and a prose-only version?
As for the comic itself, it wasn't that bad (though the OTHER comic that appeared in the book, which was not written by Morrison, kinda was). I liked all the Reichian stuff, I guess.
I really want to read GM's play "Red King Rising", if only because I've had an interest in Lewis Carroll. |
