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Which characters would you like to see Grant Morrison write?

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Glenn Close But No Cigar

13:01 / 24.11.06

You are a Commissioning Editor, with the power to make GM write any character you like, from the DC, Marvel, Image etc. universes, to TV, film and literary properties. Will you draft him in to write Dr. Strange, or a season of the 'hilarious' Friends spin-off Joey? A "psychologically healthier" Punisher, or a sequel to Au Rebours? You decide!

yawn - thing's buddy

13:45 / 24.11.06

The impossible man

the first comic book 'villain' I ever encountered. His first apearance, in one of the first Lee/Kirby FFs, was reprinted in British Marvel weekly my mum bought for me when I was five. (surprise surprise, it was issue number 23)

It's still one of the best stories I've ever read.
Obviously I'd want this to be drawn by Brendam McCarthy.
If it could be set on planet popup too - that'd be good.

Something about the 'real' Edith; Lee Miller, muse, artist, journalist, photographer, model.

finally:

just a proper glasgow comic; with glasgow itself the character - ya bas.

13:56 / 24.11.06

Just yesterday I wondered why George hasn't written any Spiderman. That would be my choice.

Glenn Close But No Cigar

13:59 / 24.11.06

Me, I'd like me to do a mini-series featuring Dr.Bong!

Bong is fucking nuts, a chaste rock-critic Edgar Allen Poe obsessive turned supervillain whose weapon is a helmet shaped like a bell, which he strikes with his ball-shaped hand to produce 'sonic vibrations'. Hell, no wonder he's such a stoner what with the headaches that must give him. He also has an 'evolvochamber', which he uses to transform one species into another, or accelerate its growth. The link above realtes how he used his teleporation powers (derived from banging his fist on his bell-helmet) to transport his Himalayan castle to Cleveland, in order to be closer to his estranged children.

Wack-job Darwinist weekend Dad? Bring it on, Mr. Morrison!

yawn - thing's buddy

14:02 / 24.11.06

should have said:

lee miller comic to be drawn by Sean Philips (in invisibles book 3 mode) - with covers by Bolland.

glasgow comic to be drawn by quitely.

14:20 / 24.11.06

I'm with Harry: Spider-Man! a situationist Spider-Man. art by DEMO'S Becky Cloonan. can't die without seeing this.

plus: a proper Mad-Science colorful Fantastic Four. art by Mike Allred. far out.

*anything* illustrated by old-school Brian Bolland, preferably dark and surreal.

and: a handfull of Invisibles minis, as hinted at a while ago. I've just reread the whole series again and I'd kill for more on Mister Six and Division X, Sir Miles and Mad Tom's lost years, Edith and the 20's group, John-A-Dreams' origin, Jim Crow's and Jolly Roger's cells adventures, King Mob's Technocult foundation, Reynard etc etc etc. and new characters, why not?

also [off-topic, though]: his early creator-owned stuff - Gideon Stargrave, Captain Clyde - collected by Image or AiT.

16:18 / 24.11.06

Personally, I'd quite like to see what'd happen if you locked the man in a room with a load of crack, porn, dead cats and trades of 'The Filth' with the last ten pages ripped off, and then asked him to write 'Emily the Strange'.

17:18 / 24.11.06

isn't that special?

17:52 / 24.11.06

- A sitcom in the vein of Larry Sanders Show about the backstage of the Vatican today. Every conspiracy theory is lightly played as we watch the thing. The Pope would be a flamboyant-but-not-gay scientologist (or atheist, or a drama-queen wicca, or a religion-tourist, whatever would be funnier to develop situations and dialogues) with serious brother issues (his older brother is like, 133 -- and he's not fully vegetative only because the Pope imagines that he is judged by his brother whenever he steps in the way of his semi-to-fully dead line-of-sight).

- Curb Your Enthusiasm with Bush as leading-man throughout his 8 years in office (so appropriate seeing him rambling improv-style like Larry David, "--What the f... whatthefuck?! You sh...!" "--Shh!!!" "--You shot the cocksucker's face, Dick? Ho-how-how... howdoyou...?")

- A erotic-porn comic by him and Kristen targeted at male audiences, but designed as if it's targeted at female audiences, so the reading would entail in men making the effort in seeing through women's POV.

- All scripts published in a huge-ass book with notes and bits of the creative process on most important works.

18:04 / 24.11.06

Easy. LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES. The only restriction I'd give him is that he can't go back in time to the modern era. ANYTHING else is allowed.

Glenn Close But No Cigar

19:22 / 24.11.06

I'd really, really like to see him write a season of oddball Ozzie kids' show Round The Twist

For non-fans, Round the Twist is basically 'Lost' with no budget and bit-part characters from 'Neighbours'.

Rachel Evil McCall

19:28 / 24.11.06

Jughead.

miss wonderstarr

21:00 / 24.11.06

Jughead was in "Manhattan Guardian".

I'd kind of like him to do Arkham Asylum again now, from scratch ~ from just the plot premise. With a different artist.

21:33 / 24.11.06

CONAN AND RED SONYA

FOR EMO KIDS.

21:41 / 24.11.06

THAT ISN'T SEVEN STAR FRANKENSTEIN! TRUST ME

miss wonderstarr

21:52 / 24.11.06

Maybe, along the lines of the current hair-on-chest playboy Batman, a retro-1970s, Denny O'Neill tribute type Green Lantern and Green Arrow.

An emo Spider-Man sounds just right, drawn by Phillip Bond.

I don't know, I'd kind of like Billy the Cat and Katie again, after their cameos in Zenith.

Hulk? I don't know when I last read an interesting Hulk comic... probably when I was six years old.

I've never read a Batgirl comic I really found remotely convincing, either. Has Morrison ever attempted Batgirl? She's one character who never, ever seems to properly gel for me ~ she never makes sense, never seems to carry any weight. She's neither fun and light, nor persuasively solid. She's always just a second-rate Batman, without even Robin's motivation for crime-fighting, without any drive or proper training: a hobby-crusader, someone even the Boy Wonder doesn't seem to take seriously.

ROM? He always used to seem fun. ROM has come... Evil is on the run!

21:59 / 24.11.06

She's always just a second-rate Batman, without even Robin's motivation for crime-fighting, without any drive or proper training: a hobby-crusader

Well, you'd have to change her origin (or link it closer to Jim Gordon getting shot by the Joker). The Hobby Knight could have a lot of potential as a Year Zero of sorts. A Whip-esque character who really doesn't last that long (in a 12 issue mini-series). Explore what happens when a middle-class person with fantastic athleticism and brains takes on crime-fighting out of boredom or fashion. Or both.

23:06 / 24.11.06

Miss W, have you read Batgirl: Year One? I don’t know if it answers any of the larger problems you might have with the character, but (at the risk of championing Chuck Dixon, he of the dodgy politics) I thought it was perfectly pitched at explaining the origins of a character that isn’t meant to be as serious as the Bat; but instead joyous, brave, more fluid, more vulnerable. It’s definitely a fun and light take on the character, but the motivation, as I recall, seemed to be that the role of Batgirl was an escape from the more limiting identity that society would have otherwise guided her into. Colours were gorgeous too. Just a suggestion.

The Timaximus, The!

23:13 / 24.11.06

Fun! I'd like:

A relaunch of Shade, The Changing Man where MozShade:MilShade::MilShade:ditkoShade. I.e., a all-but-complete reimagining based only on the title. With as much Brendan McCarthy as possible.

Miracle/Marvelman following after Gaiman's run.

A Shining Knight ongoing series.

00:56 / 25.11.06

I'd love to see him write a short series, with enough comic books to fill a trade paperback, and about Jack Frost. Something that happens to him between the dates of issues 2 and 1 of the final Invisibles series, and that is the biggest life-changing experience he has inbetween those dates.

The artist would definitely have to be Ethan Van Sciver.

05:02 / 25.11.06

Frankenstein.

Aaaand i'd like to see him write this new DC Flash. I don't think any other writer out there right now can fix this mess. Grant'll be able to set up new shit and redefine this Flash for the nextgen...

...and didn't he say somewhere that Flash was his favorite superhero? dunno

06:07 / 25.11.06

i just LOVE that the guy who wrote that doctor bong entry you linked too tried to make sense of the character ("presumably the vibrations of his helmet trigger a teleportation device, rather than the vibrations being the cause of the teleportation" - yeah, cos othewise a genetic engineer former rock critic with a bell on his head who fights a talking duck just wouldn't make any sense, yeah?)

06:21 / 25.11.06

"- All scripts published in a huge-ass book with notes and bits of the creative process on most important works."

Yes YES. The script was my favorite part of the Arkham Asylumn anniversary re-issue.

If I can't have that (just rip out my heart now, thanks) I'd love to see him do that Wonderwoman reboot he mentioned he had ideas for in an interview. So far every take on her I've seen feels so devoid of a satisfying grounding mythology and I think Mister Morrison could be the one to rectify that.

Lastly, and I may want this even more than the scripts, would be to see Morrison do videogames again. There was that Predator game he worked on whose PREMISE sounds interesting but apparently had terrible mechanics. Get him an A-level developer that delivers on solid gameplay and knows how to work with creative talent to create something unique (Valve, Irrational Games, maybe even Rockstar come first to mind). I would weep with joy.

07:04 / 25.11.06

Did anyone play the Battlestar Galactica game he developed/designed?

miss wonderstarr

07:29 / 25.11.06

Miss W, have you read Batgirl: Year One?

Don't think so, actually. Thanks for the heads-up. It still doesn't sound like she'd really have convincing reason to do what Batman does, but yes, maybe it shouldn't be played as if she's anything much like Batman.

Could be a new thread ~ how would you reboot the Batgirl.

08:00 / 25.11.06

Absalom Daak, Dalek Killer. Ooooooh yes.

Glenn Close But No Cigar

12:30 / 25.11.06

How about GM taking on Pat Mill's 'Third World War' from the long defunct Crisis? If any group of characters seemed like a proto-Invisibles cell, it was that bunch...

12:37 / 25.11.06

The beyonder, Mister Impossible and Molecule Man, having adventures together with the Hulk.

13:03 / 25.11.06

I'd kind of like him to do Arkham Asylum again now, from scratch ~ from just the plot premise. With a different artist.

he's said in interviews how he wanted AA to be done by Bolland or someone in a similar style, so we could be able to see all the details.

this just hit me: DAZZLER, in an updated context.

whoever said HULK is on the money.

14:28 / 25.11.06

The current Hulk arc has gone south a little bit but it started out fucking awesome.

You know what would be super cool? If Grant, or any other motherfucker in the comics industry, would stop servicing and/or cloning moribund corporate properties and start some new shit. It was happening for about six months back in 1998. Where'd everybody go?

14:43 / 25.11.06

Planet Hulk is awesome, I might add, in a way Grant wouldn't have come up with in a billion years.

15:17 / 25.11.06

'OMAC', 'Frasier', or a reworking of 'Utena'.

For the obvious reason that it'd be entirely entertaining to me.

18:28 / 25.11.06

Benny: The general edotiral/fan review consensus seems to be "Pretty, good voice acting, but really really hard". I'm going to try to track it down.

Qalyn: Yes, that would be good too. It seems as if you need to make your cool concept about established Superheroes (or zombies) to have it published but Grant is popular enough he should be able to get away with an original series.

(Then again, we haven't seen any more of Seaguy even though Grant wanted to do what, two more trades-worth of stuff? Bah)

20:09 / 25.11.06

Working on Vertigo:

More John Constantine (two issues was not enough), and

Tim Hunter (starting from scratch)

DC:

Anarky

Marvel:

has to be Daredevil

21:42 / 25.11.06

I'm gonna second Rom: Space Knight. With art by Quitely.

Here's a guy in space armor using a weapon that banishes things to another dimension to fight a race of aliens that have split between science and magic. It's right up Morrison's alley. And it would be a hoot.

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