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Grant Morrison to write Alan Moore title. Allegedly.

 
 
DaveBCooper
08:07 / 31.05.05
Well, you may already have seen this, but Grant Morrison is reportedly writing an issue of Tom Strong. No, really, look here, about two-thirds of the way down

Interesting, if true. Mainly because I can imagine Grant would have some fun big-science ideas for this title, but also because it might suggest that the big fight between them wasn't so big after all. Huzzah!
 
 
FinderWolf
14:36 / 31.05.05
I tell ya, that All the Rage is a decent rumor column, there's usually some good stuff in there.

A Morrison-written Tom Strong would be most excellent.
 
 
The Falcon
16:42 / 31.05.05
Hum. I'd not get too excited; my experience of ATR is that there's a deal of 'wouldn't it be cool if...' and hearsay goes on.

Though the 'Whedon possibly didn't write last two issues of AXM' thing seems quite credible to me, if only because they were pretty ass.
 
 
FinderWolf
16:47 / 31.05.05
My guess was Peter Milligan on that story...I thought about Joss but I really liked the last 2 Astonishing issues and thought they were very Joss-fingerprinted.
 
 
Ganesh
20:57 / 31.05.05
While we can never truly know what's going on in George's mind, is there any serious doubt that he's awash with love, respect and a sense of the tremendous honour of collaborating with his long-time hero, mentor and muse?
 
 
doyoufeelloved
21:13 / 31.05.05
I would say the last two issues of X-MEN have felt more like Milligan than the last two issues of AXM have felt like Whedon... let's be honest, with the level of decompression at work in the last two issues of AXM, you only need about three Whedonesque moments total to create the illusion, and that's not a hard task to pull off for a ghostwriter (especially if Whedon at least plotted the issues or provided script notes). Who knows. It's a rumor column.
 
 
Triplets
08:40 / 01.06.05
Ellis writing an issue too. Expect a time-worn Strong to wander through the story up to the tits on Goloka root. Though: Big Science and Big Pulp... two of Ellis' favourites (and mine).

Torn!
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:02 / 01.06.05
Well, it's plain to see that love has totally conquered those crazy kids Alan and George and there's just no stopping them!
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
10:32 / 01.06.05
Grant. Not George. Grant.


That stopped being funny 0.3 picoseconds after it was first posted indeed if it ever was at all.

Anyway, Grant is DC exclusive, and Moore is upping and leaving soon. I smell bullshit.
 
 
Ganesh
11:03 / 01.06.05
Nah, the fact that you no longer find it funny makes it funny - in a puerile kinda way...
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
11:59 / 01.06.05
Oh bum snot poo to you, minge face.

I define purile.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:11 / 01.06.05
We got that.

Isn't ABC, "firewall" arrangement or not, owned by Wildstorm, which is ultimately owned by DC? That is, could Moore not theoretically withdraw his own labour, but continue to make money by, in effect, licensing his ABC characters (written by other people) through Wildstorm? Thus allowing George to write the latest of many stories he was born to write.

More probably, this is just RPS.
 
 
Jack Fear
12:54 / 01.06.05
...could Moore not theoretically withdraw his own labour, but continue to make money by, in effect, licensing his ABC characters (written by other people) through Wildstorm?

I seem to recall reading somewhere that this was exactly the plan. And we've seen it already, what with TERRA OBSCURA and TOM STRONG'S TERRIFIC TALES (in which Uncle Albert's involvement was minimal-to-nominal, if not in fact merely notional) and the GREYSHIRT miniseries, which was all-Veitch all the time. Not sure about TOP TEN, since we've already seen the SMAX miniseries—Albert wasn't involved with that outside of a co-plotter credit, was he? (I don't read either book, myself.)

PROMETHEA and the LEAGUE were exempt from these terms, IIRC, with the Magus of Northampton owning 'em both outright.
 
  
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