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Grant Morrison coming back to JLA ?

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07:02 / 29.05.04

One page interview in the last Wizard...
Morrison probably coming back to do a JLA arc.
Good news.
Then a 12 parts definite take on one of the big guns of the DCU.
Good news.

He can't tell more, unless it's Death by Didio...

10:00 / 29.05.04

All I can say is I hope he stays for more that one arc. JLA should be DCs top comic. But its been nothing but crap lately. I can't wait for him to take back the reigns!!!

20:10 / 29.05.04

Here's the exact quote from Wizard (allegedly, that is--I found it on another message board):

GM: I have a ton of new [DCU] projects coming, including a balls-to-wall return visit with some old favorites (can I have a "J"! Can I have an "L"!...), a definitive 12-issue "take" on one of DC's icons and a massive serial which will change the face of the DCU forever.

20:23 / 29.05.04

Cooool. I love these interregnum periods, when Morrison finishes a big, involving monthly project (Doom Patrol, Invisibles, The Filth, etc.) and shoots off all sorts of ostensibly smaller runs (which I often enjoy much more than the ongoing stuff).

20:55 / 29.05.04

I wonder if this time around Grants J.L.A. will save the day on their own. Unless I'm mistaken the greatest heroes ever were helped by fellow heroes, supervillains, and by a logical extension of W.W.III, Robert Kilroy Silk in each story they appeared in under the tenure of G.M.

23:06 / 29.05.04

a massive serial which will change the face of the DCU forever.

Could this finally be his big "Hypertime" story?

23:41 / 29.05.04

I doubt it. Hypertime's dead & gone.

I'm more interested in his 12-issue 'take'. Green Lantern? The Flash? I doubt he'd do Superman, since they're just finishing up that kind of thing with Waid's Birthright.

An insane Morrison-penned 12-issue Wonder Woman series would be a nice break from the norm... I can see it now, WW smashing clouds of phallic female-sterilization-warhead-equipped missiles, wrestling Satan and generally swimming in unadressed homoerotic overtones.

Of course, no one writes GL like our Grant. Maybe he'd make something other than lasers, walls, and green orbs with his weapon powered on imagination...

07:30 / 30.05.04

uh...
i think you guys are reading it funny.
i think his twelve issue take on one of DCs icons is a JLA run. (confusing brackets, innit)

sounds good to me.

i loved that line from batman to GL in one of his previous...

"good thinking."

08:50 / 30.05.04

It's clearly written as three different upcoming events.
An arc on JLA (what does "balls to the wall" mean???)
A definitive "take" (elseworlds?) on a DC icon (gotta be one of the big seven from JLA).
And finally a Huge Crossover...
Could this all tie-in nicely and become Grant's JLA eulogy, his GL imagineering (year one? have they done that for GL yet?) and finally a big GL corps re-invention?

14:41 / 30.05.04

'Balls to wall' means, erm, really grabs you and goes for it full throtle.

I think Grant has talked about wanting to do Green Lantern but don't think D.C.'s icons are the big 7. In Iconic terms then someone like The Phantom Stranger probably tops J'onn J'onnz. I'd like to see him on Plas, I think.

The Natural Way

14:50 / 30.05.04

Well, it comes steam engine time!

Been living at Bobbos's for the last week and been rereading Morrison's JLA stuff, so this is nice. Fantastic news. Mozza's JLA fucking rules. Fluxy may prefer the 80's incarnation (and don't get me wrong, that was pretty cool too), but for me it's cosmic space war, New Gods and super sci-fi all the way.

Remember:

Superman punching through the time barrier

Those weird things carrying Mageddon warheads on trays

Super horses!

"Professor Steven Hawking!"

And that wink........

JLA provides such a cool vehicle for Morrison's crazy, impressionistic shit - who cares if the plots are a bit fucked sometimes?

Me so horny. Spaff on lithers.

17:14 / 30.05.04

>>I wonder if this time around Grants J.L.A. will save the day on their own. Unless I'm mistaken the greatest heroes ever were helped by fellow heroes, supervillains, and by a logical extension of W.W.III, Robert Kilroy Silk in each story they appeared in under the tenure of G.M.

Huh? Are you saying Grant's JLA never actually solved the problems/saved the day on their own? And who's Robert Kilroy Silk? Sure, they had help occassionally, but I never got the sense that they were *always* helped by other people/hereoes.

Anyway, this is great news all around. can't wait for more Grant DCU stuff!!

remember, he did talk about a Captain Marvel Jr. proposal he had floating around in his head a while back - though that's hardly a 'DCU big gun,' I think...

18:17 / 30.05.04

Fantastic news. I've got the big love for Morrison's JLA, much more than I do for a lot of his stuff - he's got a real understanding of how to make these enormous, iconic characters human, without sacrificing the feeling that they're legends.

Man, *that* wink broke me in two when I read it. Very happy about this.

19:19 / 30.05.04

What wink?

Hi, Randy!

20:33 / 30.05.04

Right, apologies if I miss something out but going from memory the League were helped in each tale Grant wrote -

New World Order - Metamorpho and crowds with lighters.
Tomorrow Woman then saved the day,
followed by Zauriel, and before he joined Connor Green Arrow.

Next up we've got Rock of Ages with help from Plas, various future versions of heroes and so on.

Catwoman swung the fight against Prometheus, Daniel Sandman helped fight Starro.

The superhero marine type people helped with The General,
the J.S.A. crossover was next.

In other Morrison tales - Secret Files had The Spectre onboard, Earth 2 has Alexander Luthor, the Wildcats cross over is self explanatory.

And in W.W.III the entire human race joined in, but if you want specific characters there was Black Lightning and Blue Beetle.

Now I loved Grants run but just once the greatest super heroes ever could have gone solo...

21:27 / 30.05.04

Alexander Luthor was pretty useless. I'd call that one winning it solo, since Batman and the Flash essentially figure out what to do and then get everybody the hell out of there. (I love Luthor's line near the end there: "No No... I HAVE SUPER STRENGTH, BRANIAC!!!" Makes me laugh every time.)

Triplets: The 'wink' E. Randy's talking about is the one at the end of DC One-Million. If you haven't read it, I won't spoil it.

A GM Phantom Stranger piece would be fuckin' great. Or even Dr. Occult...

The Natural Way

00:40 / 31.05.04

Sorry, you must seek the wink alone. It is not for the gang of men to lead you to the trough, Triplets.

10:08 / 31.05.04

Well, even if Luthor didn't do much to help he was there, and they did have the inherant laws of the universe to help them to, I'd say that's a pretty good advantage to have. Or have I misremembered. Hey! An excuse to re-read!

15:05 / 31.05.04

This is great. GM run on the JLA was amazing, and I haven´t really enjoyed these years after his run´s end.
I don´t think he´ll be writing GL, since he recently said the rumors were, false. Superman, however, is something he always wanted to do but Captain Marvel JR. was something he´d be doing for sure, last time I checked. But I do´t thing He´s one of the big guns, either.
Again, I´m really happy to have GM on JLA for another round, evenif it´s just one story arc.

20:38 / 31.05.04

You know who qualifies as an iconic character but isn't one of the 'Big 5 and Aquaman and J'onn' but would be great for G.M.

The Atom. That's who. Wouldn't he be great?

22:44 / 31.05.04

At the moment I can't remember where I read it, but didn't GM say in a recent interview that some of his DCU plans involved reintroduction of a bunch of old, second- and third-tier superheroes who he planned to raise to first-tier status? I think this might be the big ongoing serial project he spoke of. And I have an intuition that Grant will be taking over Superman after the Jim Lee/Brian Azerrello run concludes. Whataya Think?

08:34 / 01.06.04

Hmm. From today's Lying in the Gutters:

"I hear that Grant Morrison will be writing "Superman," but it's a case of when. I understand he's made it clear to DC that he'll only write the book if Frank Quitely draws it. That might take some time. Nevertheless, it looks like it's going to happen. In the meantime, Grant Morrison will be writing a JLA spinoff involving the Hyperclan."

Our Lady Has Left the Building

09:44 / 01.06.04

Don't forget:

'SEVEN BRIDES

"Seven Soldiers" is an upcoming Grant-Morrison project for DC, seven mini-series, each telling a story featuring one of DC's second-tier characters. The series are separate yet when read together in any order, will tell a far larger tale. I'm told Zatanna and The Atom are two of the featured characters. Look for that starting in January.'

09:52 / 01.06.04

seven mini-series? sounds like a truckle lot. who else d'you reckon?

zatanna
atom
deadman?
lancelot grayle, cosmic knight?
blackhawk?
phantom stranger?
mento?

lots of latent morrisonisms in those i reckon.

11:06 / 01.06.04

Metamorpho, perhaps?

13:13 / 01.06.04

Aztek?
Red Tornado?

13:54 / 01.06.04

the Hyperclan? Weird. Super-villains that were vanquished by the JLA in Grant's first JLA arc....maybe they get reformed?

ONLY NICE THINGS

14:02 / 01.06.04

I'm not sure they can reform, as such...the Hyperclan were White Martians on a colonising gig. They got their memories back later in the JLA's run and tried to conquer the Earth again, and if I recall correctly ended up in the Phantom Zone. Revisiting them strikes me as a pretty pants idea - once you have done the big reveal (Woah! They be Martians!), there's not a lot to do with the characters...

14:07 / 01.06.04

yeah, but a tale from their early days could be okay. superheroes doing what superheroes do - but for evil and in space. sounds quite good.

14:48 / 01.06.04

also from Lying in the Gutters this week:

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>> SQUEAKING DOWN THE AISLE

Despite an erroneous statement originating from a London retailer, that Grant Morrison would be present at the Bristol convention, Grant was actually flying to Mauritius to get married.

I know Bristol is meant to be the new Venice but it's hardly the most romantic honeymoon spot in the world.

Congratulations Grant and Kristan!

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Wow! Congrats!!!

14:51 / 01.06.04

I believe the Hyperclan are currently dead, at the hands of some omnipotent permanently-on-fire Martian who was living inside J'onn or something. But I haven't followed the post-Waid JLA very carefully.

17:07 / 01.06.04

I suspect that rather than the Hyperclan, they mean the UltraMarines as this has been touted as a spinoff before.

17:13 / 01.06.04

Congrantulations GM!

Spyder Todd 2008

17:28 / 01.06.04

"I don´t think he´ll be writing GL, since he recently said the rumors were, false. "

Just a thought but-
Remeber 18 months ago when Grant kept saying he wasn't bringing Mags back? And then he surprised the shit out of everyone? I'm not saying he is doing GL, but you never can tell...I'm curious what the DC Press Office will send out about all this.

ONLY NICE THINGS

18:39 / 01.06.04

There's a thread in the Conversation for Morrison wedding felicitations, you goldfish memory darlings..

Ultramarines makes a lot more sense - last seen organising a refuge for essentially shit superbeings over the ruins of Montevideo (obliterated in JLA 1 Million, presumably on the grounds that no fucking superhero comes from Uruguay and as such it will not lead to another Zero Hour). Has that actually cropped up in any DC continuity since? Again, I'd probably say that an Ultramarines spin-off would be a bit pointless, as a Hyperclan spin-off or a Tomorrow Woman mini would be a bit pointless, but it worked (sort of) with Hourman, and also (very sort of) with Aztek and Zauriel, and there's a lot more scope in that set-up ... and I think you're right, the Hyperclan were indeed killed by the Martian Manhunter's gigantic flaming self-loathing. Which I think was about where I had given up JLA. Never let a good writer get you interested in a team book...

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