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Dear Grant Morrison

 
  

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Jack Denfeld
15:54 / 12.04.05
Dear Grant Morrison,
Hi, my name is Jack and I've decided to post here in your forum. How are you doing? I'm doing fine. I've just signed a great deal with realdolls. They wanted to make a Ruth Maddok doll but she wouldn't sign, so they just used my head on a doll that had women parts! And now I get royalties, just like you get royalties when people order copies of Arkham Asylum!! So, i'ts almost like I'm a real comic book writer too Mr. Morrison!!
I think your comics are really cool. I like to read them, even though I don't read a lot of comics anymore because I no longer work in a comic shop, and the last connection to that shop quit a few months back. I tried to download comics off the internet, but it's real hard, and I guess I'm not great with technology. I hear you have problems with technology too Mr. Morrison! Heck, I even heard that you have a metagroovified field that makes computers blow up and stuff, and that they can't record your voice, cuz you're like the X-Men when they were living in Australia and couldn't be recorded by technology. Gee whiz Mr. Morrison, are you sure you write about superheroes or ARE YOU a superhero?! Hahaha. Just kidding Mr. Morrison.
Well, I have to go cash this check now Mr. Morrison, I'm sure it's not as big as yours (speaking of which, remember when you had Wolverine and Sabretooth compare penis size at the Hellfire club in your X-Men run? I always KNEW Wolverine's was bigger, but you proved it to us fans). SO good bye Mr. Morrison, hopefully I'll talk to you soon!!
Love, Jack Denfeld
 
 
agvvv
17:52 / 12.04.05
Beautiful
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:57 / 12.04.05
Mr Dunsford- or may I call you Jim? Do you mid awfully if I heart you?
 
 
Jack Denfeld
19:31 / 12.04.05
Yes, please do. <3
 
 
iamus
21:56 / 12.04.05
I shall have to second that heartage I'm afraid.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:43 / 12.04.05
I even heard that you have a metagroovified field that makes computers blow up and stuff

ohmygod, I always heard he had that to! Is it really true? Has it been verified?!!!!!!!?
 
 
---
02:26 / 13.04.05
I don't wanna hug Mordant anymore, I wanna hug Jack.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
08:57 / 13.04.05
I will fight you ALL for a place in Penfold's metagroovified field.
 
 
Sax
09:49 / 13.04.05
Who's Grant Morrison?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
09:59 / 13.04.05
You've forgotten all your uncool old friends now that you're famous, haven't you Sax...
 
 
Sax
11:34 / 13.04.05
He never returns my e-mails these days, anyway.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
16:52 / 13.04.05
Jesus God, Mordant, is there anyone left on the planet you don't want to fight?

I know the UFC is looking for new fighters...maybe you shoudl join. They fight in an 8 sided cage. Barefoot!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
17:41 / 13.04.05
NO!!! Well, except maybe Jack.
 
 
buttergun
19:21 / 13.04.05
You should add to that letter:

"Please stop TELLING US you're working on 'Pop Magic' and 'The If,' and just PUBLISH THEM already!!"


By the way....years and years ago, in late '89 or early '90 or so, I remember there being a DC Direct (or whatever it was called) released in the States that had an interview with Grant. I think it was around the time he'd just taken over Doom Patrol. Anyway, it was a one-page deal, and he said something to the effect that he'd never move to the US because the chocolate over here isn't as good as in Europe. Plus the interview had a "spooky" photo of him, if I recall it right he was kind of lurking in the shadows, glaring at the camera...and he had hair! I can't even remember what Grant looked like with hair, these days...
 
 
Haus of Mystery
19:53 / 13.04.05
He looked like this:

 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:57 / 13.04.05
MR. FUNNY! RUN!
 
 
Tryphena Absent
02:17 / 14.04.05
He really can hear our minds.
 
 
agvvv
03:13 / 14.04.05
Mordant.. that made me laugh so bad you cant even imagine.. thanks
 
 
buttergun
18:09 / 22.04.05
This is strange -- I just happened to come across a webiste that has the old photo of Morrison I referred to above. The one from the DC flyer, in late '89 or so. It's the shot of Grant (with the candles sticking out of his head) on the top of this page.
 
 
D Terminator XXXIII
18:31 / 22.04.05
It's not the same photo but it is from the same photo series. My memory can sometimes be unnervingly photographic, that's why I can tell. It's not like I keep Direct Currents #27 around, or have had it framed in my GM altar.
 
 
buttergun
19:05 / 22.04.05
Bambling, thanks for the clarification. Good to hear from someone else who saw that DC flyer. So was it around late '89 when it came out? I know I kept it for a few years, but inevitably lost it after graduating, moving to college, etc. All I remember is he said he prefers European chocolate -- at the time, I remember thinking, "This guy's just a Clive Barker imitation!" Just your typical know-it-all 14 year old.
 
 
D Terminator XXXIII
19:24 / 22.04.05
Yeah, it was around that time - I remember specifically because Direct Currents #27 arrived with my very first mail ordered batch of U.S. comics.

Look, it's on sale.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
09:44 / 23.04.05
Dear Grant Morrison,

( I'm not going to be silly about your name, not like some of the others on here, those peons, frankly, who do not understand you, and your work. They're such losers, don't you find ? Or maybe you don't ?!! Well fuck you, man, if you think they're ok ! )

Work ! Ha ! I should be getting on with some of my own I suppose ( & if it all turns out, I'll be even more famous than you, man, and I won't, what's more, disappointingly get married - what's next Grant, a child ? ) but I'm feeling a tad 'between beers' now, so I thought I'd drop you a line.

How's it going ?!

Like yourself ( at least before you got involved in that whole 'Samson & Delilah' thing, you know the one I mean, I don't think I'd ever do that, they just steal all your powers away, man, and laugh while they're doing it, ) I'm a creative and intelligent individual. The only difference between you and me is to do with tawdry stuff like so-called public approval, or in fact anyone else being supposedly 'interested,' but as I think we both know, John Q Public is a zombie, a zombie who eats chips.

Thinking about it, actually, the fact that I've yet to find an audience for my ideas is probably, no in fact, definitely, a sign that I'm onto something important.

They don't like to hear it though do they, the truth.

You sell, what, Grant, about 30,000 copies a month routinely of what is, on the face of it, basically Man-solicited material. You may think you're being counter-culture subversive, but the first word in in 'Sell-out' is 'Sell.' And the second one is 'Out.'

I think you know what I'm saying.

I'm just basically very angy, Grant, though hoisted in some ways on my own petard - I'm very sorry about that cat and everything ( although let's face it, if the bloody thing was all that all that intelligence-wise it wouldn't have drunk that stuff in the first place, you should get yourself a dog, dude, at least you know where you are with those, ) but still, I've sent you a lot of e-mails recently - why haven't you returned them ?



Your #1 fan,

~A#


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'The restraining order was to do with somebody else.'
 
 
Mistoffelees
14:50 / 23.04.05

This reminds me of that eminem song, with that crazy fan writing letters to him and stuffing his girlfriend in the trunk of his car. And in the end he succeeded and got a reply, so maybe you should do something outrageous for GM to recognize your greatness!
 
 
gridley
20:30 / 26.04.05
And that reminds me of the "How Was Your Date With Eminem?" thread. It's a funny old world, isn't it?
 
 
Jack Denfeld
13:20 / 23.01.06
Dear Mr. Morrison,
I know you're awful busy these days, with your 7 Soldiers, Superman, and top secret DC comics, but we could really use you right now. Everything's getting crazy, people are fighting in the dog-fight threads, Hause hasn't changed his user name for awhile, and I haven't seen Tom post anything in ages (Our Tom, not your good buddy Tom Peyer or Jim Shooter's good buddy Jim Brevoort(?)). I don't remember which Wu-Tang (I originally typed Wu-Yang, which makes me think that next time you do a DJ gig you could do a Yin Yang Wu Tang mash-up) member said the lyric "and return like Jesus when the whole world needs us", but we could really use you right now Mr. Morrison. Thank you for your time.
Your friend,
Jack Denfeld
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
13:32 / 23.01.06
It was RZA.
 
 
Evil Scientist
13:36 / 23.01.06
Dear Warren Ellis,

You'd fight a dog wouldn't you?

ES

...

Oops, wrong thread.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
13:37 / 23.01.06
Warren Ellis is a scientist.
 
 
electric monk
14:09 / 23.01.06
He only talks in facts.
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
14:32 / 23.01.06
And in 29 posts barbelith swoops in as an early contender for the 2006 "protesting too much" award.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
00:45 / 27.01.06
And in 29 posts barbelith swoops in as an early contender for the 2006 "protesting too much" award.
I love Grant Morrison. All joking aside, I'm a huge fan and he is my favorite comic book writer.

Warren Ellis? I like some of his superhero stuff and Transmet stuff, but kinda think it's funny that he's a grumpy smoking scientist.
 
 
Evil Scientist
07:30 / 27.01.06
he's a grumpy smoking scientist.

Yeah, ain't he dreamy.
 
 
The Falcon
08:54 / 27.01.06
...with a ponytail.

Hold fire on those webcams if you can, girls!!
 
 
iamus
16:03 / 10.02.06
I saw GM the other day.

He was in Forbidden Planet, talking to one of the till-jockeys, about himself, in third-person.


It was really rather beautiful.
 
  

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