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Morrison and Jim Lee on WildCATs

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Dan Fish - @Fish1k

06:53 / 22.07.05

Morrison does seem to be a busy boy recently. The latest thing would appear to be WildCATS, according to this (skip to the end):

Morrison previously wrote the team when they met the JLA in an intercompany crossover.

Ben Danes

10:13 / 22.07.05

Hmmm. If it's the Wildcats 3.0 stuff that Joe Casey did, I could see this being really good. The spelling is for the 'old'-school' WildCATS, the Covert Action Team, which I didn't even like that much when Moore was writing it, so I'm thinking it's a revamp of that, especially with Lee on art.

JLA/WildCATs was really good, but more in spite of the WildCATs than anything else to be honest. It'll boil down to psychadelic pop-art writing vs T & A style panty shots. Morrison has been on-form lately, and hopefully Lee will be inspired and rise to the occasion, so hopefully it'll mesh well.

uncle retrospective

11:38 / 22.07.05

Well I'm loving the Wildstorm U. at the moment. I've just got Moore's run on Wildcats, which is fun, I love Elis's run on Stormwatch, it may be the best straight team book I've read. And Sleeper. Man, I love Sleeper, so the point is I can't wait to see what GM will do.
I just wish someone else was going to draw it.

Keith, like a scientist

11:46 / 22.07.05

i confess i really loved the latest incarnation of WildCats...the corporate events one. I like the writing, I guess...it seemed to be more like a novel...

but...digging through my boxes last week, i dug out the original 4 issue WildC.A.T.s launch...the OG series. What a whip crackingly sci fi yarn. This could have gone in so many good directions. they seemed to cop out as the series progressed, though. i wasn't even reading it when Moore finally came on board...

anyway...here's hoping it's back to the original premise with crazy SF ideas and whatnot.

Keith, like a scientist

11:47 / 22.07.05

which reminds me, did anyone ever read that old series that Lee did...um, Divine Right? it was kind of all right for cheesy swords and sorcery.

Haus of Mystery

12:02 / 22.07.05

LA/WildCATs was really good,

Was it? I seem to remember it beimg shite.

FinderWolf

13:02 / 22.07.05

I was just thinking that - I remember reading JLA/WildCATS in the store going, 'wow, more Grant Morrison JLA - but this is pretty bad, not worth paying for.'

FinderWolf

13:03 / 22.07.05

and let's not forget that Morrison is also slated to write (at least, reportedly) Detective Comics with one of the Kuberts drawing...

FinderWolf

18:24 / 22.07.05

I never really cared about WildCATS, never read any of the various incarnations at all - not even the Moore stuff, which I heard was decent but not amazing superheroing. But I will read this.

This Sunday

20:34 / 22.07.05

My WildCATs awareness comes from guest-appearances and the 'Death of Stormwatch in All But Name' oneshot and and the JLA crossover, so Morrison could've written them entirely wrong and I'd never know. I did like what he wrote, though. That gifting-of-the-guns bit, the villainary (is that a word? Villanesque qualities, perhaps?), the fact it got recognition in regular continuity (yes, I am made happy by such things). Not the best JLA story, not the best Morrison, or even the best Morrison JLA, but worth the cover price.

Benny the Ball

21:37 / 22.07.05

I quite liked both Casey's runs on WildC.A.T.S. and Travis what's his face was a fine artist. But Jim Lee can't draw. This isn't sounding interesting at all.

This Sunday

22:53 / 22.07.05

Jim Lee has often been the loudest critic of his own work, which I think has been to his benefit. While he's hit-and-miss for my taste, he's been willing to experiment enough that I think he's grown far more than pretty much the rest of the Image crowd. Half the time he does something he immediately announces his displeasure with it and an 'I'll do better.'
And what does the last S stand for? Or is it just WildCATs (Covert Action TeamS)?

onorthocrasi

00:40 / 23.07.05

I'd rather have Mr. Morrison doing something with the authority but knowing him this will probably turn out really good regardless.

Dicodisco

06:57 / 23.07.05

Erm, has this been confirmed ?
I mean, I've never read a single bit of info related to it anywhere else other than on this thread.

Ben Danes

09:16 / 23.07.05

Wizard would not lie to us.

krylonuser

06:46 / 26.07.05

As long as they get Travis to work on the shiz I will be happy.

Evil Scientist

07:34 / 26.07.05

GM would fit the Version 3.0 Wildcats like a silky velvety glove of goodness. Think of the fun he'd have with a comic all about making the world a better place through corporate values and brand placing.

It'd be like he'd gone to heaven.

Incidentally, I thought it was a real shame Version 3.0 got cancelled. The Wildstorm universe was turning into a really interesting place.

The Authority: Posthumans ruling the world by force of powers.

Sleeper: Posthuman takeover by "traditional" supervillain means.

Wildcats: Takeover relatively peacefully through use of consumer culture.

Then the (also mourned) Team Achilles: Humans fight back, slowly get subsumed by posthumans.

yawn - thing's buddy

09:09 / 26.07.05

The first five or so issues of Wildcats by Alan Moore are definitely some of the best soapy tit wank space opera comics I have ever read.

recommended.

hope gm revisits this bunch of weirdos. Emp n all that.

Spaniel

11:45 / 26.07.05

And Moore basically invented the Tau (sp?) we all know and love, didn't he?

FinderWolf

13:13 / 26.07.05

They never put the Alan Moore WildCATS run in paperback, did they...?

Haus of Mystery

13:19 / 26.07.05

Yep. Homecoming and Gang war
Some real nice artwork from Charest and Dave Johnson, and some hideous Image fare that nearly kills Moore's scripts. Good stuff though - Moore writing for a completely different audience.

The Falcon

17:10 / 26.07.05

Sp = Wrong. Tao, yeah. Brubaker spent a lot of time decompressing that one scene where Fuji gets completely fucked by him. Rather well, albeit.

Given that Jim Lee is back on deck, I'd imagine it'll revolve around his original team: Spartan, Voodoo, Zealot, Grifter, Void, Maul, Emp and Warblade (y' can't beat a superhero with a noun for a name, I always say,) though I think Void is a deader just now.

The Falcon

17:12 / 26.07.05

Yeah, the real problem with 'Homecoming' is that 'Fire in the Sky' crossover cross-section pish. Other than that, recommendable.

matsya

06:21 / 27.07.05

That gifting-of-the-guns bit, the villainary (is that a word? Villanesque qualities, perhaps?), the fact it got recognition in regular continuity (yes, I am made happy by such things).

Daytripper, can you elaborate? You mean events from JLA/WildCATS got acknowledged in the DCU? When/where?

I bought the crossover cheap on eBay recently and loved the shit out of it. Great pop teamup superhero stuff, especially liked the opening with Kid Flash and all. Time-travel stuff was well-balanced. Thought Void was nicely written, too. Throwaway, sure, but in that i'm-not-actually-going-to-throw-this-away kind of way. The whole thing was a good short, sharp, shock, much more engaging for me than many of the more recent intercompany crossovers.

m.

FinderWolf

14:17 / 27.07.05

maybe they'll reprint JLA/WildCATS by Morrison to promote this new series...

Tamayyurt

14:56 / 27.07.05

Void and Emp are dead... the other's are game though. Too bad Jim Lee is drawing this.

Eloi Tsabaoth

15:01 / 27.07.05

I draw your attention to the wording:

"He has no plans of stopping in '06 as he prepares to pencil the relaunch of WildC.A.T.s, to every fan's delight, with writer Grant Morrison."

Grant Morrison isn't writing the series. He's just going to help Jim Lee prepare to pencil it. You know, take him for jogs, 30 minutes on the medicine ball, art shop browsing etc...

This Sunday

16:54 / 27.07.05

Grifter's guns hang in the JLA trophy room. Sure, it's kinda pointless and a small gesture - by the same writer - being cute, but, still...

matsya

01:06 / 28.07.05

[geek] which issue? [/geek]

m.

Mario

11:35 / 28.07.05

JLA #6.

I remember the scene, because it has Flash re-organizing the Trophy Room.

FinderWolf

17:14 / 01.08.05

Lee talks about it at a new Newsrama interview; it is confirmed and he says Morrison will just go to town with it. Looking forward to this --

oh, and it'll be on a 6-week shipping schedule (as will Lee & Miller's Batman & Robin) so Lee can keep up with the art chores on the book.

doyoufeelloved

17:22 / 01.08.05

Here's the link.

Relevant quote:

To follow, and keep up with the mystery game, Lee wasn’t about to say just when this Wildcats series is set, either – is it a previously unknown mission from the group’s early days? Does it follow Wildcats v3.0 with the team being re-formed? Good question.

“All will be revealed soon. Just know we did not hire a genius on the level of Grant Morrison to just continue with the status quo. I guarantee old time fans and new fans will love what we has in store. What Grant and I have planned will do for the WSU what Hush did for Batman. It's going to be insane. In a good way.”

Krug

06:37 / 02.08.05

Years ago I only read a few James Robinson and Alan Moore Wildcats though they were complete crap. The name Jim Lee just makes me lose interest in any project.

FinderWolf

14:40 / 28.12.05

found it! bump!

Morrison talks about some of his plans for the series in the new Wizard - I'll write some of the content in the next day or so. He sounds psyched for it.

Triplets

14:59 / 28.12.05

To me, the early WSU was all about pyrrhic victories; in other words, that even in victory, something precious or innocent was always lost. And from my own personal point of view, that's always the true outcome of conflict and war. Even in victory, there is great pain and suffering.

%Which is exactly what Morrison aims for in his works, of course... Paging Dr. Grimmon Gritty, Dr. Gritty to the courteousy phone%

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