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GRANT Morrison and Gene Ha on The Authority

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Regrettable Juvenilia

21:45 / 10.03.07

Oh man, Papers, I don't have it to hand, but from memory did you really not find there to be any kind of icky sexual/racial politics stuff going on in that short story about the Engineer?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

22:43 / 10.03.07

I need to have another look at it tomorrow when I'm at home, but as a latina character, Angie's always been a bit problematic, given what her last name is. I don't remember anything really standing out when I've read it in the past but the story seems to highlight for me how politically incorrect Angie as a person is. I'll read it again tomorrow and fire off some more thoughts, how's that sound?

14:10 / 02.04.07

Apparently Mozzer & Ha are on from issues 1-4, then writer N. Christos Gage will do a 5-issue arc of the new book, with Darick Robertson illustrating. This news straight from Comic Book Resources, which reported that Ha's waiting for the final scripts from Morrison and that...

>> [Darick Robertson] will be doing five issues of "The Authority" with Christos Gage beginning with issue #5.

So Morrison is more of a 'launch the new series and then depart' situation in this case. It'll be interesting to see what happens with the Mozzer-written WILDCATS book as well...

Haus of Mystery

14:48 / 02.04.07

Good. Maybe he should have a wee holiday and recharge his cosmic batteries.

14:53 / 02.04.07

This whole Wildstorm thing was a bit of a wasted opportinuty. The books seem decent enough, but I would have rather seen the next wave of Vertigo stuff (like SEAGUY 2!).

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

15:03 / 02.04.07

So Morrison is more of a 'launch the new series and then depart' situation in this case. It'll be interesting to see what happens with the Mozzer-written WILDCATS book as well...

*snorts awake* Mozzer writing WildCATS? Wasn't that sixty years ago, when I was a young men running blushingly through the fields at top speed, even with my allergies causing swollen eyes and a running, running nose to match my legs? Wasn't that distant prehistory? Wasn't that before the Fall?

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

01:29 / 03.04.07

Unfortunately, I think DC has no interest in seeing the 2nd wave Vertigo stuff... especially Seaguy 2.

I really wish the Wildstorm ReLaunch hadn
t been fumbled, though. I had high hopes for the "you can't even fix my marriage" Authority.

13:14 / 03.04.07

Hopefully we'll get to him demanding they fix his marriage, as that hasn't quite happened yet, right...?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

14:05 / 03.04.07

"Oh my god! You're weird alien people and you're from another dimension and you've totally shattered my world view and you should be concerned about (a) getting home and (b) maybe not invading my planet, but could you first please FIX MY MARRIAGE! I'm lazy, and have grown distant."

Glenn Close But No Cigar

16:38 / 03.04.07

Right now, I'm so bored of waiting that I'd be happy for GM to toss off a Queer Eye for the Straight Guy script, in which Apollo and Midnighter treat that submarine dude to a manicure, a 'directional' haircut, a back, sack 'n' crack waxing and a new Abercrombie and Fitch wardrobe, coupled with some irrepressibly daring advice about spending more time 'down there' pleasing his wife.

Then again, Jack Hawksmoor would probably be much better at the QEFTSG stuff than Apollo & Midnighter. How could the 'King of Cities' be anything but a metrosexual par excellence?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

19:47 / 03.04.07

Too many potential "You have sex with entire cities?" jokes.

It would probably be twenty times as interesting as whatever ends up going on in the actual comics, whenever they end coming out. Actually, the Authority could so easily become a wacky gross-out sex farce, only with more dismembered heads.

...and Millar could write it.

08:44 / 25.07.07

Has anybody heard any news of # 3?

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:50 / 25.07.07

Good news! Morrison has committed to stay on The Authority until November 2009, when writing duties will be handed over to Christos Gage for issue 5. Check the latest Wizard for more!

Janean Patience

17:27 / 24.09.07

According to Gene Ha: "I don't think The Authority #3 by Grant Morrison and Gene Ha is ever coming out. Grant is busy redesigning the DC Universe and I've moved onto new projects. Most importantly, it seems that editor Scott Dunbier has been forced out of Wildstorm. There is no #3 script, there may never be a #3 script."

From over at Newsarama.

17:30 / 24.09.07

Ha!

18:41 / 24.09.07

Real world + quicksave world = delays and inevitable cancellation?

or fake-out?

The Authority just can't catch a break, can it?

Phex: Dorset Doom

19:25 / 24.09.07

If by a break you mean 'artist who doesn't refer to himself in the third person', then Phex says no, no it can't, and seeing as the story is the same for WildC.A.Ts the Wildstorm line can't catch one either (except for having a triumvirate of good books in Gen13, Tranquility and Ex Machina).
Phex would like to ask: Who should take over now that Morrison has gotten bored and wandered off?

19:53 / 24.09.07

Adam Warren. Writing and Art.

Alternately, D'Israeli and Walt Simonson. In any permutation of contribution/collaboration they'd care to execute.

Or just stop and let them be supporting characters in Lobo or Kev stories until everybody forgets who the team were.

Janean Patience

20:00 / 24.09.07

Got bored? Wandered off? Jesus I can't believe how quick the members of this board, Grant's biggest fans, are to misunderstand his work. Is it too hard to believe that, given the chance to work on Image characters with an Image founder, Grant understood the metatextual opportunities these comics presented him with? That he looked at the glory years of the imprint and, from his position as a fifth-dimensional godhead, realised that the Image titles that launched with a hot artist and a big fanfare and never finished, never got further than a big selling first issue full of colourful characters which had no personalities, only costumes and codenames, that promised the stars but never delivered, were not the failures of the company but its very essence? That the comics that exist in potentia only, just a cover and a solicitation, are by many magnitudes greater than any comic that could be merely published? That this state of free-floating anticipation of magnificence to come, coupled with an irrational belief that the issues we already own are fast-appreciating collector's items, is the perfect state for any comics reader and Grant's crowning creation?

Keith, like a scientist

20:00 / 24.09.07

They should just kill both of those titles for good.

Wildcats is never going to be as good as it was when Joe Casey and Sean Phillips were doing it, and Authority is going to hopelessly spiral into "How can I top Warren Ellis' first year?" forever.

And these are two titles that seem to be tailor made for GM, which makes it all the much sadder for comics fans.

03:23 / 26.09.07

Newsamara sez:

>> Gene Ha said in his recent e-mailer, that he doesn't think his and Grant Morrison's collaboration on Wildstorm's premiere super team will continue - ever.

Ha wrote:

"First off, I don't think The Authority #3 by Grant Morrison and Gene Ha is ever coming out. Grant is busy redesigning the DC Universe and I've moved onto new projects. Most importantly, it seems that editor Scott Dunbier has been forced out of Wildstorm. There is no #3 script, there may never be a #3 script."

Sad.

Janean Patience

05:51 / 26.09.07

And totally new information to us.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

05:55 / 26.09.07

In place of actual fresh information and/or comics, we are doomed to repeat the same strained bit of sarcastic commentary on Ha's final transmission ad infinitum. The All-Star Superman descends into a level of lunacy that harkens back to the insane asylum story from Bradbury's Martian Chronicles; the Authority thread falls into a never-ending time-loop.

17:13 / 03.02.08

I picked up the two issues from the backissue bin, figuring that it'd be a long time or likely never, before this made it to TPB. I really liked them, and I think they're fine as a two issue work, full of intrigue, never to be paid off. The second issue in particular is a lot of fun and full of concepts worth thinking about. It's about asking a question, and rather than answering it, the reader is left to come up with their own resolution. I'd still love to see the next issues, but if this is all we get of Grant Morrison's Authority, it was still worth reading.

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