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Grant Morrison's run on hellblazer

Rev. Jesse

20:20 / 08.11.01

I read that GM had written a run of hellblazer. anyone know the issue numbers on that?

-Jesse

Jack Fear

20:28 / 08.11.01

Just two issues, #25 and #26. Art by David Lloyd. Not terrible, but not his best work either: anticipates some of the themes of The Mystery Play, actually.

uncle retrospective

20:43 / 08.11.01

As Jack says, their ok, worth having but not worth paying lots over.
Very grim, nasty and show that grant listened to sonic youth.

ghadis

07:25 / 09.11.01

Definatly worth having...i agree its not his best work but in my opinion its the second best hellblazer storyline

Sax

07:43 / 09.11.01

The story is actually "appropriated" from an old British TV series or one-off TV movie - anyone remember what that was called?

ghadis

07:58 / 09.11.01

Yea it has that feel to it...Very 'Wicker Man'...Perhaps an old QuaterMass or something?

Sax

08:24 / 09.11.01

Found it! Thank fuck for TV Cream.com, this was threatening to drive me mad all day:

PENDA'S FEN (1974) BBC

A PLAY FOR TODAY that overtook the format. A teenage kid priest's son going
through the old rites of passage schtick in the Malvern Hills invokes an old local
pagan spirit, with all the sexual and political connotations that "aim high"
writer DAVID RUDKIN (cf ARTEMIS '81, CHILDREN PLAYTHING) could bung
in it. Nice stuff, all told. LEO "Rumpole" MCKERN was about, too.

Doesn't say much, and I don't really remember it. It was Bryan Talbot who told me once that Grant's run was "ripped off" (he didn't mean it nastily) from Penda's Fen. It sounds interesting, though. Wouldn't mind seeing it.

[ 09-11-2001: Message edited by: Sax on a Stick ]

rizla mission

13:04 / 09.11.01

quote:Originally posted by uncle retrospective:
show that grant listened to sonic youth.

oohh... how exactly?

H3ct0r L1m4

16:14 / 09.11.01

I thought it was kinda clever of him to use synchronized images to tell the story and mark the rythm. Very 'Alan Moorish'. But what did actually happen to Constantine's friend in the end?

Ripped-off? 'Morrison and the joys of plagiarism...'

22:09 / 11.11.01

there's a review of these issues at popimages grant morrison profile.

here

Mr Ed

07:13 / 13.11.01

The entire run of Hellblazer (up to Sean Jenkins) is worth having.

The Grant Morrison story also ran in Toxic (A UK reprints magazine) for a while, I seem to remember.

Big wasted oppurtunity with the CND protesters and the Vicar, but it does feel a bit rushed. The Icecream van bit reminds me of the KLF for some reason.

ghadis

09:39 / 14.11.01

'also ran in Toxic (A UK reprints magazine) for a while'

That was 'Shockwave'...also had Gaiman/McKeans Black Orchid and Animal man...and Catwoman...Only lastest 4 issues though...

Toxic went for 30ish issues and had a few hidden gems...Marshal Law for one

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