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Which characters would you like to see Grant Morrison write?

 
  

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Glenn Close But No Cigar
21:47 / 10.12.06
AG, I think you are being a little bit mean.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
00:45 / 11.12.06
That's odd. Do comics mods have to like Grant Morrison? Anyway, it's not a burning ambition or anything.
 
 
diz
01:24 / 11.12.06
I miss the days when you could identify with his characters, when there wasn't quite so much ironic distance.

What ironic distance are you seeing in his books now? GM is one of the least ironic writers in comics right now. Total gushing post-ironic sincerity.

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.

So, you mean, Seven Soldiers or All-Star Superman?
 
 
mightybroke
01:24 / 12.12.06
I'd love to see Bulleteer, Venus of the 7soldiers and descendant of the New Gods' Neanderthal experiment, Aurakles.

Drawn in the most cheesecake art style, by Adam Hughes.
 
 
Char Aina
02:58 / 12.12.06
i'd like to see him reinvent the whole star trek universe.
he'd have to start with the original series, naturally.
of course i wouldnt mind if he was to do the rest, but it's the frontier-runners of the original enterprise i want to see.

i imagine he would like to use it as a vehicle to question the very nature of reality, but perhaps he could be persuaded to instead create a gritty and realistic 'fascist space-empire' epic. i imagine one that pays lipservice to the same lofty federation ideals, but one that has a more realistic approach to how those principles might be carried out by humans on the edge of the known galaxy, far into deep space.

i'm looking for titus andronicus meets rodenberry, with a dash of richard the third and a healthy helping of naval history references and paranoid encounters with strange races of unimaginable power.
 
 
Benny the Ball
05:03 / 12.12.06
I'd like to see him remake the Fantastic Voyage - like to see him script and direct it with total control. Away from comics that is. In comics, the Atom would be good. Not sure of the new currant series, but always felt that he'd do him justic, and enjoyed the brief glimpse of the character in JLA.
 
 
Benny the Ball
05:04 / 12.12.06
In fact, sorry to post again, the Atom, Firestorm and Psycho Pirate would make an intersting team for Morrison to play around with.
 
 
This Sunday
15:10 / 12.12.06
Bullit. Hnh.
 
 
Cowboy Scientist
17:47 / 12.12.06
As much as I adore Morrison, I'm still inclined to view any non-Gerber HtD as heretical.

Well, yeah, now that you mention it; so do I.

Still: OMAC

 
 
This Sunday
20:36 / 12.12.06
Yup, 'OMAC' is the best bet for the corporate cover version stuff. But, then, he really has done that all on his own, all over the place, with practically everything he's ever done. Those few Kirby issues of the original were a pre-Morrison teaser.
 
 
Cowboy Scientist
00:34 / 13.12.06
And since OMAC takes place on the 70s version of "the future"; and most of the then-crazy-science stuff on OMAC are things that in some way or another exist today; you could have it happen in the present; instead of the Super-Rich, make him battle Bill Gates Analog, or instead of the Build-a-Friend factory, some new Hyper-realistic sex-doll factory... just some ideas off the top of my head. You could even link it to the current OMACs in DC continuity, making the Buddy Blank model the 2.0 version of the previous OMACs; organic, instead of nano-technologic.

"Are you ready for the world that is NOW!"
 
 
Cowboy Scientist
18:05 / 18.12.06
And now Paul Pope knows.
 
  

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