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Ah! I need Grant Morrison help! Help me!

Ronald Thomas Clontle

22:06 / 02.12.01

Okay... I know I have an interview, an essay SOMETHING in which Grant talks at length about the stages of superhero development, ie the Golden age, the Silver age, up til now... I just can't place it. And I need to find it, cos I desperately want to include an excerpt from that for the reading packet I'm putting together, which I need to have completed by tomorrow afternoon... a large chunk of my Grant stuff is in Manhattan at the moment, so if it's in the letter column of Flex Mentallo, or in the Come In Alone Warren Ellis book, or his chapter in the Comic Writings On Scriptwriting book, I can pick it up tomorrow when I get back to my apartment... I just need to know where the hell it is.

Please! Someone tell me where it is...

A

22:48 / 02.12.01

I can't help you too much, but i just re-read the Come In Alone interview and it's not in there.

This probably doesn't help, but there is a bit in Flash #134 (the one with the Golden Age Flash on the cover), which was written by Morrison and Millar, where The 2 Flashes and Nightwing talk about the ages of superheroes, but it isn't really in depth.

Ronald Thomas Clontle

22:51 / 02.12.01

thanks, but it is most definitely either an essay or an interview...

A

01:20 / 03.12.01

you can find a couple of the text pages from Flex Mentallo here

it may or may not be what you're after

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

07:08 / 03.12.01

Flux check your own link in the I miss the Invisibles thread.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

07:11 / 03.12.01

"Yes. After FLEX MENTALLO, I knew I had to do some superheroes. More specifically, I had to see if I could bend the entire superhero industry in a certain direction in order to effect a large scale magical working - a shiny pop direction I blueprinted in the last book of the FLEX MENTALLO series (each of the issues of FLEX was designed to encapsulate one of the 'ages' of superhero comics - the Golden Age of 38 to 50 informed issue 1, the Silver Age of 55 - 75 was issue 2, the Dark Age from 75 - 95 added its ambience to issue 3 and a coming transcendent age is predicted in issue 4). Using the big icons of JLA I figured I could really influence the trend away from dead end realism and towards a hyperfuturist renaissance of the comic book imagination. I'd been working on this since ANIMAL MAN but getting access to the JLA allowed me to bring big concepts and wild ideas back to the mainstream. The success of JLA had a ripple effect of course and I got exactly the comics medium I was looking for, for a little while. Unfortunately a lot of people took the fact that I'd used the Big 7 characters as a cue to go 'retro' and a predictable fin de siecle nostalgia boom erupted in my wake. JLA was never meant to be Silver Agey or backward-looking: I introduced the lunar Watchtower, the telepathic communication between members, the new villains etc. Everything was meant to be futuristic, inspirational, over the top and shining neon blue."

From Pop Will Shit Itself.

Ronald Thomas Clontle

10:25 / 03.12.01

Yeah, the Popimage interview is close, but it's not what I'm remembering...I *KNOW* I have in my possession an interview in which Grant talks about it at length and in historical detail, in a dialogue not a monologue...

can anyone hook me up with anyone else talking about the same thing? It need not be Grant.

Ronald Thomas Clontle

01:25 / 04.12.01

In case anyone was wondering, what I was looking for is in the interview with Grant in Mark Salisbury's Writers On Comics Scriptwriting book...

03:24 / 04.12.01

Flux, did you find it then? If so, you don't happen to have a transcript of it on your computer or access to an OCR scanener do ya? *wink wink nudge nudge*

Matthew Fluxington

19:37 / 05.12.01

I'll see if I can get around to transcribing the bit I was talking about, but I won't transcribe the whole interview, it's about 30-40 pages. I will photocopy the chapter and mail it to you, if you email yr address.