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Grant Morrison's X-fan interview

17:04 / 18.05.04

New Morrison Interview-Covers a bunch of stuff.

Interview

18:50 / 18.05.04

Unfortunately, he speaks on one of the ugliest, most poorly laid-out sites I have ever seen. Oh, and there's pop-ups on it, too. Great googly moogly. My coding abilities are non-existent, but I sure would be impressed if someone were to cut and paste all that and move it here.

19:25 / 18.05.04

Wow.

There’’s talk of a radio version of Invisibles being done soon though. That’’s a lot more likely to happen

I’d be happy to cut and paste, but it’s quite a chunk. I’m scared a manoeuver like that might break Barbelith somehow.

There's lots of really interesting stuff in there, though.

19:49 / 18.05.04

I think posting of entire articles is frowned upon here, but here at least is a direct link to the article, saving you having to root around for it:
THE NEW AGE OF MORRISON

21:27 / 18.05.04

Yeah, I guess that would indeed be a novel-length post. Much obliged for the link, though.

21:48 / 18.05.04

"Heavy traffic?" "Try again later?"

Bah! Curses.

miss wonderstarr

21:56 / 18.05.04

I’d love to see collections of The New Adventures of Hitler, Bible John, Really & Truly and the Big Dave stories

Cripes, Bible John. I'd forgotten all about that. Great watercolour blocks of scarlet with a pylon in the corner, and psychogeographic serial-killer captions drifting down the page...was it awful or brilliant? I can't tell.

23:49 / 18.05.04

I had a lot of fun with that interview and I'm glad to see it getting external attention

I was about to post a link here myself but someone has beaten me to it.

Unfortunately of late, the site has experienced a lot of problems with heavy traffic, especially in the increase of readers after the move from the Marvel-oriented X-Fan to its current incarnation as the more general ComiX-Fan. Steps are being taken to fix this problem but its a slow process.

Just exercise a little patience and your browser refresh button and you should be able to get past the heavy traffic issue.

00:03 / 19.05.04

Ahh, there we go. Yup, classic Morrison. Love his interviews... Quite interesting, and inspiring for my own mad story ideas...

15:37 / 19.05.04

CXF: Speaking of Mark Millar, have you been keeping up with his recent MillarWorld titles?

GM: I’’ve seen a couple of them. My favorite bits are the dozens of mentions Mark gives himself in every issue, like those comics you used to hand draw as a kid –– Written by me. Drawn by me. Lettered by me. Colored by me. Published by me……Thought up by me etc

Oh, I love Grant Morrison. This is a fucking class interview.

15:43 / 19.05.04

Whereas Morrison just makes sure he appears as a character in every single story he writes.

00:00 / 20.05.04

I for one would applaud the reissuing of Bible John, which was a truly frightening dissection of (a) murder with a sensibility that is as Glaswegian as From Hell's was Londoner. I liked it.

03:58 / 20.05.04

nice one, Mitch.

me loves me regular fix of GrantM on the web; almost makes up for the site not being updated.

it would be just great to see collection of at least NEW ADVENTURES OF HITLER by AiT/Planetlar...

was it me or was this piece the one with some of Morrison's most down-to-earth comments regarding the Comics market?

14:59 / 20.05.04

Who's Molly Bloom (as in 'I'll be screaming like Molly Bloom...')?

15:35 / 20.05.04

she's leopold bloom's wife in Joyce's Ulysses; the final chapter of the book -- also considered an epilogue -- is her stream of consciousness monologue ending with the quite famous phrase "yes i said yes i will yes"

17:35 / 10.02.06

I thought long and hard whether to make a new thread or bump this one, but my post is tangentally related to this one, so why clog up the board?

In the interview linked above (which I read this morning while on a Seaguy nostalgia hunt), Grant sez: The real bummer of course is Flex Mentallo. As every child knows, the unavailability of Flex is a crime almost equal in magnitude to the Jack the Ripper slayings or the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Imagine a comics industry where important and influential works like Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen were kept out of print and languish in obscurity. The influence of Flex Mentallo can be seen all over the place but the series itself remains trapped in limbo like some Golden Age superhero waiting for Geoff Johns to notice him. It really riles me up, Bruce Banner style, the more I think about it…. so I’m going to stop thinking right now.

Guess what I saw in Teen Titans today?

*spoilers ahead

*

I'm not sure who else has read this, but it pretty much undoes John Byrne's retcon on the Doom Patrol. Looking for them to help with the Eeeevil Superboy, Beast Boy goes to see the Doom Patrol (this was odd for me, as I haven't read Byrne's new series, but am currently reading the Morrison series). They hang out, BB says they need to go help witht he fight. In the exchange there's this:

Robotman: Beast Boy?!
BB: You... know me?
RB: Don't think we've had the pleasure

which is setting up that right now, the DP and BB don't know each other. I think they re-did Gar's origin in TT a few years back anyway, so this just re-inforces the point.

There's the fight with Connor/Superboy Prime, which is all well and good, until Speedy uses her blue arrow, which is actually a portable negative zone gate. She traps Superboy Prime in there, but her punches free, and there's a woozy, multicoloured effect signally "dimesional oddness" or whatever. Turn the page...

Holy crap, they've re-instated all the old Doom Patrol History. There's a nice pic with Rebis, Cliff, Jane and Dorothy on Danny the street. There's the black Cliff from the Brain/Mallah issue, there's the brotherhood of Dada... and right behind Beast Boy is a muscled man of mystery in leapard skin briefs, posing on a beach.

*Gleeeeee*

So does this mean that Flex is back in continuity?

18:21 / 10.02.06

Maybe, but the Charles Atlas estate are still jerks.

I saw this too, and thought it was a fun way to undo Byrne's undoing of Morrison's run (Byrne's run pretended that the DP were showing up in the DCU for the first time ever as of last year or so). The Geoff Johns-written Teen Titans issue also seemed to acknowledge all the eras of Doom Patrol in a fun way, although I didn't read it very carefully (skimmed/read it in the store).

18:25 / 10.02.06

They even change the Chief's hair back from Gingoir to grey, and he says "I wish I had some chocolate." Very cool. Makes me want to go to the Byrne forum to see him spitting teeth.

02:07 / 11.02.06

On a rather different note, I was toying with the idea of making a thread compiling ALL of the Grant Morrison interviews we can find.

I'm talking every last one.

There are a TON of threads that are dedicated to a single interview, and I was thinking that one big hotspot of GM interviews would just be really nice to have in a single thread.

Anyone think that this is a good idea?

04:01 / 11.02.06

damn good idea, I may help on that, been wanting to do it for ages. Grant's site may have some linked there, his Wikipedia entry too.

re: Doom Patrol's reretcon: =D

11:02 / 11.02.06

I second that great idea. Grant is such a gob-shite, his interviews are great fun to read. I'm sure I read one (may have been in that odd secret site behind Barbelith, the e-zine) from the late nineties, where he says that kids in the new millenium will be finding authoritarianism/Big Brother funny. I'm sure this interview pre-dates the Big Bro TV show by a couple of years. kinda creepy.

15:00 / 12.02.06

*bump* because this thread has info. on the recent Geoff Johns-written Teen Titans issue with the return & reconciliation of the Morrison DP era, which someone was asking about in the Byrne Doom Patrol thread.