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Old Grant Morrison Interview

 
 
Dan Fish - @Fish1k
08:48 / 24.04.04
Following on from THIS THREAD on Alan Moore's Big Numbers, thanks to '..mudded in that oozy Bedhead' I have uploaded the aforementioned interview to my website, and entertaining stuff it is too!


Feel free to discuss it here.
 
 
The Falcon
13:18 / 24.04.04
Forgive my idiocy, but what ought I use to open this?
 
 
miss wonderstarr
14:10 / 24.04.04
If you click on it and select "open" it should take you through the process of unzipping with WinZip (if you have it -- if not, you can download it easily) and then it opens as a folder of jpeg scans.

Not as easy as I was expecting, I admit!
 
 
miss wonderstarr
14:17 / 24.04.04
The real ending of Watchmen should simply have been that they all felt stupid and went home...

genius
 
 
miss wonderstarr
14:24 / 24.04.04
And the bit about Rip Hunter in a DCU where Time Travel is forbidden... [I paraphrase this time]

"I'm off to the year 1998!" and he sits there in his living room, going forward in time at the same speed as everyone else like watching an Andy Warhol film.

Funny how much GM had planned out all in advance, and how it sounds so bizarre -- Zenith III the DC Thompson crossover, St Swithins Day about political assassination and British Rail in the style of a Smiths song -- but that it was all absolutely true.
 
 
Dan Fish - @Fish1k
18:30 / 24.04.04
Sorry for making it more difficult - You can unzip it with Winzip, or download Cdisplay and read the zip file without unzipping. (hope that makes sense). There is a link to the Cdisplay website on my page, but google should locate it easily.
 
 
Bed Head
19:54 / 24.04.04
I love this bit more than anything:

I think we should be looking towards the type of stories that worked so well in the old Flash comics where we had totally green covers and a hysterical Flash screaming ‘Everything around me is green - green - GREEN!’ I can relate to that.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
17:41 / 27.04.04
hey, another great found. thanks, Dan. I love the Moz-persona of that age.

and wasn't it the interview that started the now rotten Morrison/Millar partnership?
 
 
Haus of Mystery
18:43 / 27.04.04
Why rotten?
 
 
Bed Head
18:52 / 27.04.04
I think they’re no longer the best of chums. Possibly something Morrison said about the ‘politics’ of the Authority when Millar was writing it. Possibly Morrison being jealous of his young padawan eclipsing him in the money/fame/industry oomph stakes. Possibly Morrison envies the way Millar has retained his thick, luxuriant head of hair. I don’t actually know. I don’t think there’s been any bitchiness in public, more there’s just been a noticeable coolness where once upon a time it was team-ups and crossovers every other week.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
20:37 / 27.04.04
Could be that Millar likes Queen.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
03:29 / 28.04.04
old thread, possibly going back to Morrison coming out about ghost-writing AUTHORITY #28 or something. but it stroke a chord to me when Millar stated that Ellis was his 'favourite writer' in the recent UFF press release. only speculating here, though.

back on topic, nice to see - as usual - lots of current things about Moz popping up on that old interview. also glad to know more of his influences from outside of Comics.
 
 
The Falcon
12:49 / 28.04.04
Mark did say Grant was his #1 writer quite recently.
 
 
FinderWolf
13:06 / 28.04.04
You know, speaking of Millar & Morrison, I've been thinking about starting a comics thread for Morrison & Millar's FLASH run (I think they co-wrote the whole thing, except for the last 3 issues with the Black Flash/Death Flash which Millar wrote himself, as I recall), back in the days when Millar was Morrison's protege.... but I don't remember much of that run myself. I do remember that they introduced the pen which has the now-senile Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt in it -- and this pen was re-introduced in Morrison's JLA issues guest-starring the JSA and introducing J.J. Thunder, new Johnny Thunder. I remember there might have been another story in their FLASH run with The Top as the villain, that actually managed to make The Top seem kind of creepy - or was that a Waid story?

I think Morrison temporarily crippled the Flash too, didnee?
 
 
Krug
16:22 / 28.04.04
This was a great interview.

Thanks Dan.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
16:48 / 28.04.04
The 'Flash' run was good silly fun. DC should whack the whole 12 issues in a cheap trade for laffs. Sonic the Hedgehog 'guest' starred too which cannae be bad.
 
 
grant
18:46 / 28.04.04
What numbers were they?
 
 
quinine92001
21:53 / 28.04.04
Flash 130-138 ( last 3 being mark millar's) also check out Grant's Flash of Two Worlds in Secret Origins 50 + Ghost in the Stone in Secret Origins 46
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
05:28 / 29.04.04
thanks, Falcon, interesting take - though it's from sep. 03.

and yeah, their Flash run is great - though I'd like to see Moz back to it sometimes. on that year he was writing INVISIBLES, JLA and VAMPIRELLA and used in this last one the same system for FLASH [though that needs a confirmation]: they both plotted it together over drinks and took turns in scripting them. sometimes the plot was stronger to one side or the other. the 1st issue, for instance [crippled Flash] is basically Morrison solo, fully written in two days...

yeah, I'm that nerdy.
 
 
The Falcon
17:06 / 29.04.04
I thought they just useta eat a lump of hash together and get on with it.

Great way to behave, anyway.
 
 
kid entropy
21:25 / 29.04.04
negative shut in grant,almost forgot he exisited
 
  
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