Alan (T B Grover) Moore VS Grant (T B Sheets) Morrison
Identify marks
Moore is big and hairy, while Morrison lithe and self inflicted bald.
Measuring Up
In my comic shelving system Moore use a paltry 8½" of shelf space while Morrison clocks up a massive 27". (Disregarding 2000 AD, CRISIS, etc)
Cultural Identifiers
Morrison is a Scot, and uses bagpipe noises as expressions of pain in his scripts ( for example 'Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu'), while Moore is from the south of England and prefers more traditional short vowelage ('Aaah'). Moore expresses cultural ambivalance by living in a southern town with North in its name, and collaborating with a Scot living in Australia.
Musicality
Moore has made several audio recordings with spoken word over music recorded by others. Morrison has been in several bands that no one has seen, and record shop computers do not recognise.
Literacy
Moore has written a local history novel, while Morrison has written a couple of plays and short stories.
Magic, or Magik.
In their comics both use terms relating to Magic, or Magik, or something. Unfortunately neither has been asked to write Captain Marvel the worlds greatest Magic, or Magik, based super hero. Yet.
Moore seems to belong the Led Zeplin, Crowleyite school of ritual magic, while Morrison prefers punky poppy do it yourself stuff with semen as a principle component. This rift is best summarized in Zenith, where the Temple ov Psykik (or Psycic or somefing) Youth are used as the fresh young alternative to that Jimmy Page crap. But I know nothing about Magic. Or Magik.
Principal themes
They share stories about oddly dressed people engaging in violent interaction, beneath a mask of (in Moores case) traditional anti violence rhetoric, or (In Morrison's case) post ironic cynicism.
Humour
Moore has written some excellent humour strips- including many for 2000 AD, and the smartest boy in the world capturing aliens thing he writes for the company that works for a company that works for DC, so he doesn't have to know he works for them. Morrison, the tart, will work for anyone. He only ever makes me laugh out loud in his dramatic work. Often.
Newspaper Strips
Both started their careers in local newspapers. Revealingly Morrisons 'Captain Clyde' is clearly a rework of that 'Maxwell the mystery Cat' thing of Alan Moores, which he did for his local paper, and one of the clearest acts of plagiarism heretothreefore unexposed in Comics. But not Comix.
Rhetoric
Moore writes much the best rhetorical stories. His morality is usually clear and easy to repeat. Morrison's 'Invisibles' doesn't explain clearly what the readers are expected to think or do, and the author seems to go to great length to confuse them. As if he's deliberately pretending not to be Alan Moore.
Conclusion
The two are actually housed in one person, with exactly the sort of character multiplicity both have revealing explored in their 'comics' supported by clever special effects, and voice coaches, and mirrors for book signings and speaches to the UN.
This is further proved by reference to issue whatever of 2000AD where in several issues Ace Trucking (The GM imprint never came close to the brilliance of that, particularly the later episodes, except perhaps in Vampirella) the work is credited to Grant Grover, (a clear conflation of GRANT Morrison, and TB GROVER, a name Moore is known to use while ordering goods from the Kay's catalog).
I'm glad to have sorted that out.
Can I ask if any of you to support my current investigation and help me to demonstrate the J K Rowling is also Alan Moore. |
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, just to reassure you.