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Which characters would you like to see Grant Morrison write?

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00:24 / 26.11.06

given the morrisonian turn towards comics dealing with maturity, aging and suchlike, it really might be interesting to give him a decent run at hellblazer. constantine must be getting on a bit by now, so it feels like the right time for both of them. it'd be a nice to have him back on something from 'the bad old days', too, to see if he'd be able to restrain and satisfy his joycore desires whilst staring into the characteristic hellblazer abyss.

that, and i'd like to see him writing an issue that deals with constantine's response to the ban on public smoking in england, because i have absolutely no idea whatsoever what he'd turn out; with ennis and ellis, you know you'd get a rant about politicalcorrectnessgonemaaad, but mr. morrison's an unpredictable wee bastard.

alternatively, get jhonen vasquez to give him the keys to fillerbunny for a week.

02:20 / 28.11.06

Green Fucking Lantern. Any of them. It'd be nice to have ring wielders written by someone who is actually aware of just how powerful the lantern ring is...

03:06 / 28.11.06

Mario was right - the Legion of Super-Heroes. Intergalactic mob of teens with weird powers and retro names - 31st century soap opera shenanigans, rampant hormones, high on adrenalin, color color color, and kids with belief and a mad desire to make the universe a better place (and fame doesn't hurt for a few of them either).
Time Bubble Go!

11:21 / 28.11.06

I'd like to see a lot of this stuff: Spiderman (especially - emo idea sounds good), Green Lantern (in a future shock vein and properly cosmic), Green Arrow (back to the seventies), Hellblazer (a slightly more thorough, plodding Grant would have to be in evidence, mind), Legion of Superheroes (emo space opera on gigantenormous scale).

The idea of revisiting Third World War is pretty interesting. Someone should be writing a popular comic with a strong political conscience, whether that comic should be a revisit of Crisis and whether it should be written by Morrison is another question.

As for my own suggestion. As Rom'll never happen 'cause of the licensing issues, The Silver Surfer obvs.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

13:38 / 28.11.06

What is up with the ROM license?

On topic:

I wouldn't mind seeing Morrison's take on The Dreaming, it could make the characters interesting again (or for the first time, ymmv).

I would also like to see him do something with the entire cast of Civil War once that is over. Some kind of giant super hero love in so when everybody is friends again after a month we have something to look at that makes sense of it all.

"Ohhh, the Red Skull dosed the Avenger's Mansion water supply with MDMA, no wonder they are all friendly again"

Haus of Mystery

14:01 / 28.11.06

Hey! Can we have no emo-superheroes? That would be ginchy!

I'd like to see a properly cosmic, imaginative take on Green Lantern Corps. I'm really feeling all the big cosmic DC weirdies at the moment - The Omega Men in particular - and would like to see the Corps achieving some of their potential. Grant's Kyle Rainer was pretty ace, and I for one was a littlebored when Hal 'right wing' Jordan was reinstated, with poor old Kyle shunted off into crap-character land. (Ion - puhleeeeeze).
I want weird planets and mind-bending cosmic sooper fun.

15:17 / 28.11.06

Did Morrison ever do his Warhol thing? Where he wanted to tape record friends talking about Warhol and then use that as the dialogue?

Even if he didn't do it, I want a copy.

Oh, and "Bizzare Boys" with Milligan.

15:49 / 28.11.06

Marvel never owned the rights to Rom, who belonged to Matel, which I think is no longer doing business, or is owned by someone else. Whoever owns Matel's shiznit now would have to authorize it. Anyway, I don't think a Morrison Rom would be all that--I don't believe he'd be able to resist ironic interjections about how ludicrous the whole thing is.

Anyway, I feel about Grant right now the way I felt about Wolverine ca. 1989, like, dude, take a break already, you're going to use it all up, and I was right about Logan. I miss the days when you could identify with his characters, when there wasn't quite so much ironic distance. So I wouldn't like to see him do any of this stuff.

15:50 / 28.11.06

PS Is the new Omega Men any good? I loved the original series as only a little boy can, and flipping through the new one made me kind of queasy.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:06 / 28.11.06

Hellblazer (a slightly more thorough, plodding Grant would have to be in evidence, mind)

Agreed on both points.

Q, if you didn't think SeaGuy and We3 were absolutely wonderful, you have no soul. I do agree, though, I'd rather he (and everyone else, really) made up some more of their own new stuff.

16:15 / 28.11.06

Oh no question. But that ain't the Q here; I'd like Grant to go back in time and write Transformers for me when I was nine or whatever, just a few fill-ins on the Furman run'd do, and a really creepy Spider-Man (fuck emo) with loadsa bug facts, there's a vague outline of his proposal (he was offered either X or Spidey) in one of his interviews out there somewhere, sounds really... alienating. Would like, but it's just childhood affection, really.

20:44 / 28.11.06

Yes, a creepy, alienated Spiderman would be very good. Especially if Grunt were to pick up my take on Mysterio. It is best!

I don't know if it's just me but when I was kid in the 80s so very many Marvel comics felt really nasty and odd. I'd like to see someone run with that vibe (although I think Morrison kinda already has in 1234).

Qally, I do have some sympathy with your position - I feel a bit like that.

21:18 / 28.11.06

If GM's original run on Doom Patrol didn't happen any more (and if JB says so, I'm inclined believe him) perhaps GM could have another go at that? And get it goddamn right this time?

21:31 / 28.11.06

Google fails me when I try to glean this thing, but I'm sure in one of his Newsarama int'v'ws he mentioned the opening premise was Peter waking up in this parallel world where MJ and May are dead - hum, it's kind-of (very) Animal Man, now that I think of it. I still think G-Moz works best with ensemble casts, and that last Batman was really quite weak, but - you know - he's done, or is doing, all the other major label icons. And I want to see it.

I wish they'd done that Silver Surfer: Year Zero thing too, him and Quitely, if only because Quitely's art looks a lot like Moebius and he did that thing with the Surfer that time.

Also - a massive hell yeah for the Fool's suggestion, the GLC - I've never actually read an issue of Green Lantern apart from that one in the Death of Superman trade but the concept was one I was totally praying (especially after that Phoenix corp sendoff in New X) that he'd take up when he moved to DC, big bang space opera. Corps'd be best because Hal Jordan sucks ass and: ensemble, big-bang, space opera drama. Green Lantern is, I think, the precipice for superhero fandom - people who know a little about comics quite likely will recognise, say, the Flash or Daredevil but not GL(s). It's the jump-off, one of the most appalling vocal fanbases, the most laughable concepts... fascinating, in other words, and I would still like that done, yeah. Meantime, I have those tiny Moore stories with Abin Sur (total love that one) and Mogo, F-sharp bell, to keep me warm.

22:32 / 28.11.06

Seaguy and WE3 are more of what I'd like to see, though Seaguy really creeps me out especially in light of the stuff he's done for DC since. I'm just a little worried that Chubby the Chuna represents everything that's awesome about Grant.

I guess I haven't been that good a fan, I haven't been reading 52 and only bought one issue of Batman. I read the second one in the store and didn't care. I'm buying ASS mostly for Quitely's art. Seven Soldiers was glitzy, frothy fun, and maybe I should read it as a whole again or something, but remember how in the Invisibles there was that whole issue about the tragic henchman? Where did that Grant Morrison go?

22:33 / 28.11.06

I don't believe he'd be able to resist ironic interjections about how ludicrous the whole thing is.

Holy crap, am I turning into John Byrne?

22:45 / 28.11.06

remember how in the Invisibles there was that whole issue about the tragic henchman? Where did that Grant Morrison go?

Did you read the last Bulleteer? I mean, okay they had silly clothes, but basically.

22:58 / 28.11.06

Uh, yeah, I read it, I didn't get any of that. Actually I don't even remember it that well. Maybe I was too busy trying not to let his pandering make me hate my gonads.

01:00 / 29.11.06

Definitely Legion of Super-Heroes. That's what his JLA practically was anyway. He even managed to sneak them in via DC 1 Million.

The man gave us the Legion of Super-Pets back, people. We3 could be their Espionage Squad. Or something.

miss wonderstarr

06:28 / 29.11.06

Along the same lines as Batgirl, actually, I can't remember ever reading a good Supergirl ~ which is astounding, really, that I can like the concept of these characters and "know" them well in the mythos, but never have actually read a decent comic about them since the 1970s (when they seemed decent cause of my age and expectations). Anyway, Morrison could do Supergirl with Streaky and Comet, incorporating some of the Helen Slater "mythos" perhaps.

D Terminator XXXIII

14:05 / 29.11.06

A "psychologically healthier" Punisher (...)?
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I don't know if it's just me but when I was kid in the 80s so very many Marvel comics felt really nasty and odd.

A psychologically healthier Punisher! Who actually punishes naughty genders of all kind! In a way that makes the reader suspect that Mr. Morrison wrote it with an ever present and hard cock. Imagine the best S/M characters he'd write!

Cowboy Scientist

16:39 / 29.11.06

Howard the Duck.
Well, in fact, a whole bunch of Bronze Age Marvel Characters; Ulysses Bloodstone, Warlock, Son of Satan, Power Man & Iron Fist, Killraven, etc.

Cowboy Scientist

16:44 / 29.11.06

Also, the original OMAC. He's basically a guy trying to help humanity cope with the fast changes the world is experiencing. How GM is that?

16:51 / 29.11.06

Just in terms of yer basic story logistics, I'm not sure it's possible to make a character defined by guns and violence psychologically healthier. I mean, what would he do and why would we care?

yawn - thing's buddy

17:03 / 29.11.06

think arnie - T2.

actually don't.

17:31 / 29.11.06

off-topic:

have you guys read Matt [CASANOVA] Fraction's new PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL? preview here. it's right out of CIVIL WAR and it's fun. and it's pretty funny, very lighter compared to Ennis' title. Castle is better there.

Matt said somewhere [or was it Steven Grant in his column?] that the guy sees himself past his family slaughter, picturing his doings as a necessary evil in the social workings of a social environment.

very Right-wing for some, pure Zen for others.

18:32 / 29.11.06

have you guys read Matt [CASANOVA] Fraction's new PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL?

Yeah.

18:33 / 29.11.06

He might see himself as past the death of his family, I, however, am inclined to think of machine-gun toting vigilantes as a little less than stable or healthy.

18:36 / 29.11.06

have you guys read Matt [CASANOVA] Fraction's new PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL?

Yeah, I kinda enjoyed it, but I seem to remember him blowing a man to pieces with a rocket launcher.

23:24 / 29.11.06

I think maybe Chrome was being a teensy bit sarcastic there.

Power Man & Iron Fist is a pretty good idea, actually.

00:30 / 30.11.06

maybe not that much, sir. I do remember an interview in which Morrison said the "Punisher" was the ultimate homo-erotic power fantasy. or something.

He might see himself as past the death of his family, I, however, am inclined to think of machine-gun toting vigilantes as a little less than stable or healthy.

I agree, that's what makes them much more fucke-up.

Rachel Evil McCall

01:17 / 10.12.06

Howard the Duck.

As much as I adore Morrison, I'm still inclined to view any non-Gerber HtD as heretical.

18:33 / 10.12.06

Old skool Shazam, like I kept badgering him about in that ancient nextplanetover net meet chat thing. Tawny the Talking Tiger, Mr. Mind, Dr. Sivana, Black Adam, it would be schweet. I think.

Art by Quitely, of course.

19:30 / 10.12.06

I've been thinking about my complaint occasionally since posting it here. Elsewhere, I had said that I thought GM's current mission was not so much about the wizardly writey stuff but to "give really awesome artists really awesome stuff to draw". However, I'm not convinced that Batman and 52 and the Authority and so on count. I don't have much of my collection with me right now, but I came across Marvel Boy the other day and yeah, I'm missing the spirit of doing new stuff, pushing superhero comics in a new direction, making heroes with motivations maybe a little more useful to us than the formulas devised in the 30s and 40s.

Aw, I dunno what I'm trying to say. I guess I don't understand why I should be interested in Batman any more, and it seems unfair that Grant isn't writing comics just for me any more. Maybe I'm just outgrowing superheroes.

*sniff*

21:26 / 10.12.06

I want to be one of the new Comics mods as well, Mr Q.

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