By Hugh Jarse
Daily Hell Staff
Bald comic god George "Grant" Morrison yesterday launched an astonishing broadside at a member of the so-called "Barberoyalty".
Morrison, 49, who writes the words in those little bubbles in children's picture books such as Batman and Superman, personally visited Barbelith.com to attack veteran poster Haus.
The self-proclaimed "chaos conjuror" was incensed at a perceived slight against his stunning blonde wife Kristan - so much so that in a public display of solidarity he used his spouse's account to log on to the website and deliver his fury-filled missive.
Barbelith was set up as a shrine of worship to Morrison, but in recent years has evolved into a place of discussion of wider topics such as wiping your bottom and lime shower gel.
The storm broke on Tuesday when Haus posted in a thread devoted to Morrison's latest Superman comic, this message: "Just to clarify, when I said that some of my best friends were gay, I wasn't counting Grant Morrison. Not because he is not my best friend - he is - but because he is absolutely, positively not gay. Have you seen his wife? Well I have, and she's real. Not a bloke, not a tranny - Grant doesn't like 'em that much, gentle readers! - just 100% pure prime lady. And if anyone wants to argue, I've got a signed certificate from Grant certifying that he is my best friend and hetero porn pal, and will never, ever, hold me down with his strong arms and do me bad things."
Morrison struck like one of the superheroes in his comics two days later by quoting Barbelith's own rules at them: "'Good sense, politeness and a bit of circumspection before posting will generally see you through.'according to the 'posting etiquette guide' for Barbelith users."
He then stormed: "Haus - would it be too much to ask for a little restraint in future when you feel compelled to take yet another of your sleazy and abusive potshots at my wife ? Thanks, Grant."
Haus called Morrison's defence of his wife "creditable" but insisted he was, in fact, making fun of another comic book scribe, Mark Millar.
Millar, who has his own website full of geeks, has not yet weighed into the scrap.
Haus offered an olive branch by indicating that he would accept an apology from Morrison, but the writer, 63, has yet to respond.
In the immediate aftermath of Morrison's appearance on Barbelith there was a stunned silence, which was broken only by some inane comments from Haus's fellow Barberoyalty member Ganesh, and desperate hanger-on Sax.
Haus, Ganesh and Sax have all previously claimed some kind of "special relationship" with Morrison, 96. Ganesh has previously provoked Morrison's ire by repeatedly threatening to "glass his cats", and only Sax has failed to elicit any kind of angry response from the great and talented writer, suggesting that Ganesh and Haus no longer have the closeness with Morrison that Sax still enjoys - if at all they ever did. |
