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In my brain, I've always dovetailed Morrison's fictionsuit ideas with Tezuka's 'actors', how he basically took a set of types and cast them in his various stories. Deliberately, basing the idea on the studio recognizable-actor idea. But Black Jack and his tiny cybernetic assistant have nothing to do with Seven Soldiers, being, clearly, forerunners of Robin/Phoenix split into two bodies.
Actually, yeah, I can see the possibility of influence. Morrison's a cultural and cross-cultural vacuum in a very good sense, and almost everything he's done can be efficiently and lovingly autopsied back to its original influences, usually derived in a sideways fashion (I'm thinking the Jemm and the holograms bit, from JLA).
There's the sort of direct lift, like the bit in Warren Ellis' Ultimate Galactus stuff, where the girls line up and walk in front of a speeding train, as previously seen in 'Suicide Club', which is an entirely different beast. Morrison isn't much for plugging something into a structure, but he borrows in a more ambient fashion almost continually. |
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