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Morrison Q/A @ SpinnerRack

  
 
H3ct0r L1m4
02:06 / 09.01.02
http://www.spinnerrack.com/features/thirddegree/td020108_gmorrison.php

Q: Name someone you really admire and explain why.

GM: George W. Bush. I think it's because he really stands up for something he believes in and is very handsome when he looks at you with "those eyes."
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
07:46 / 09.01.02
quote:What's the strangest thing a fan has ever said to you?

"Why can't you be Pete Milligan? Pete is so...so different, so sexy..."

Haus, you never mentioned that you'd met Grant Morrison...
 
 
tSuibhne
12:09 / 09.01.02
quote: What would you like to see happen in comics in the next 12 months?

I'd like to see Alan Moore get his kit off for the front cover of the 'Ain Soph' issue of Promethea. Him and J.H. Williams could symbolise the journey of consciousness into the realm of naked apprehension and do a knowing homage to John and Yoko's Two Virgins album cover at the same time. It would look really good. And who here hasn't lain awake wondering what the award-winning creator of Watchmen's tadger looks like?



Um, not a mental picture that I wanted in my head.

Though does line up with the shaving thread.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
12:26 / 09.01.02
whats the point in posting all the questions?

there isn't one.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
14:50 / 09.01.02
quote: Own up to one of your guilty pleasures.

Rape. Nothing nasty...mostly Amish girls and young blind guys, I hasten to add. It's not what people think and is actually just a bit of harmless fun which the victims usually enjoy as much as the perpetrator.


Jesus! That's some DARK comedy there, Grant!
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
15:26 / 09.01.02
The Digital Ink section seems to have been updated recently too, unless I just haven't read it for that long...
 
 
tSuibhne
16:11 / 09.01.02
I was thinking the same thing Flux. Should be interesting to see where NXM goes in the near future, huh?
 
 
Sandfarmer
19:09 / 09.01.02
He's insane. Yet funny. I'll keep him.
 
 
rizla mission
08:03 / 10.01.02
he he he .. that Morrison, he's one helluva funny guy..
 
 
Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?
08:08 / 10.01.02
quote:Originally posted by Flyboy:


Haus, you never mentioned that you'd met Grant Morrison...

Met? Fucker still owes me a fiver. He found a Zenith trade paperback in the Book and Comic Exchange and had to buy it, then stroke it muttering "I was so young and talented back then. And I still had hair. And I wasn't reduced to attempting to appear clever by satirising the magazine questionnaire, perhaps the softest target - outside Amish homes for the blind - known to man."

Then he started crying.

[ 10-01-2002: Message edited by: The Haus of Rain ]
 
 
No star here laces
08:53 / 10.01.02
As opposed to the dazzling wit and non-geekery displayed by Pete Milligan in this interview:

quote:
Q: Like the way in the last stories, you know, in the hotel, where you can open the door and meet
a new person each time -- now that's a good way of changing everything and exploring new
relationships.

PM: Yeah yeah. Um...in the current Shade the Changing Man story, John Constantine makes
an apperance. For a long time, people were saying 'why don't you have a crossover? Shade and
Doom Patrol, or Shade and Sandman, and Shade and Constantine?' They've stopped saying it
now, so as soon as they've stopped, I'm going to do it!

Q: As we say, the unpredictablity of --

PM: Yeah!
 
 
Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?
08:53 / 10.01.02
I want to be in a band called "The Unpredictability of Yeah!"

I'm not assuming for a second that Milligan is very interesting to talk to, very witty or very non-geeky. I think he writes very good comics on occasion. Otherwise, never met him.

It's Morrison who gets the fans who want (or perhaps need) to believe that he is unbelievably cool and great in person, because it will make them feel less geeky if he is in fact a hip, cool, drug-guzzling polymath and chaos magician rather than a middle-aged man with MPB and an encyclopaedic knowledge of Silver Age comics...
 
 
No star here laces
10:10 / 10.01.02
Fans? Where?
We just read comics here, sir, honest.
 
 
Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?
10:27 / 10.01.02
Well, obviously none of *us*. We're cool. I meant those other fans.

Oh, come on...yaknowaddImean. Like the people who buy into the idea that Ellis is some sort of scothch-swilling, cigar-eating sexmonster, renowned wit and, again, polymath. Or that the Z-Man was criminally hamstrung by Rhodes and Watts.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
11:59 / 10.01.02
quote:Originally posted by The Haus of Rain:
Oh, come on...yaknowaddImean. Like the people who buy into the idea that Ellis is some sort of scothch-swilling, cigar-eating sexmonster, renowned wit and, again, polymath.

He isn't... ? Are you trying to ruin all my dreams?
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
12:42 / 10.01.02
-- As opposed to the dazzling wit and non-geekery displayed by Pete Milligan in this interview: --

Do you have a link for that, please?
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
12:44 / 10.01.02
--rather than a middle-aged man with MPB --

Does 'MPB' have to do with balding?
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
12:47 / 10.01.02
-- Like the people who buy into the idea that Ellis is some sort of scothch-swilling, cigar-eating sexmonster, renowned wit and, again, polymath. --

Excuse my ignorance, but what is polymath? And Ellis is nothing like that. Thankfully.
 
 
Ganesh
12:48 / 10.01.02
Male Pattern Baldness.
 
 
The Natural Way
14:01 / 10.01.02
Polymath: Y'know, your irritating mate who can not only draw, but write, build a house and, hey, he's a dab hand at long multiplication, too!
 
 
Lothar Tuppan
14:58 / 10.01.02
quote:Originally posted by The Haus of Rain:

It's Morrison who gets the fans who want (or perhaps need) to believe that he is unbelievably cool and great in person, because it will make them feel less geeky if he is in fact a hip, cool, drug-guzzling polymath and chaos magician rather than a middle-aged man with MPB and an encyclopaedic knowledge of Silver Age comics...

You forgot the fans that believe that if they're cool enough, Morrison will invite them into his life, where he actually IS King Mob. Then they will be inducted into The Invisibles and be free from the responsibility of living their own lives because King Mob and Mason will pay their way through life.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
19:35 / 10.01.02
he's really small.

he's a fuckin hanger on.
 
 
Imaginary Mongoose Solutions
17:00 / 11.01.02
Ellis is like the "cool uncle" I always wanted. He's a great storyteller, a doting father and a real softie.

Grant is a slick guy and a geek all rolled up into one. However you can't blame lots of people thinking he's a mad mod spypunk god since that's the image he sold for so long. He said that he was beoming King Mob, is it anysurprise some folks expect him to be "Nice and smooth"?

Sides, I know he's not KM, I've met KM and it wasn't him.
 
 
Ria
19:20 / 11.01.02
quote:Originally posted by The Haus of Rain:

It's Morrison who gets the fans who want (or perhaps need) to believe that he is unbelievably cool and great in person, because it will make them feel less geeky if he is in fact a hip, cool, drug-guzzling polymath and chaos magician rather than a middle-aged man with MPB and an encyclopaedic knowledge of Silver Age comics...

sounds like binary thinking to me. one but not the other. as opposed to both?
 
 
Ria
19:25 / 11.01.02
quote:Originally posted by Lothar Tuppan:

You forgot the fans that believe that if they're cool enough, Morrison will invite them into his life, where he actually IS King Mob. Then they will be inducted into The Invisibles and be free from the responsibility of living their own lives because King Mob and Mason will pay their way through life.

ouch! I think you just autopsied the hero worship from afar thing there.but y'know, also, crucifying people we don't know represents the other side of that.
 
 
Ellis says:
19:33 / 11.01.02
quote:Originally posted by The Haus of Rain:

Like the people who buy into the idea that Ellis is some sort of scotch-swilling, cigar-eating sexmonster, renowned wit and, again, polymath.


You know me so well...
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
01:52 / 12.01.02
--Male Pattern Baldness.--

Thought so; thanks.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
01:53 / 12.01.02
--Polymath: Y'know, your irritating mate who can not only draw, but write, build a house and, hey, he's a dab hand at long multiplication, too!--

Heh. Thanks.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
01:55 / 12.01.02
-- Ellis is like the "cool uncle" I always wanted. He's a great storyteller, a doting father and a real softie. --

I actually see Steven Grant fitting this role. A cool uncle wouldn't call you names. =)

-- Sides, I know he's not KM, I've met KM and it wasn't him.--

Care to elaborate?
 
 
Mikaël
04:44 / 15.01.02
quote:Originally posted by Vortex09:
-- As opposed to the dazzling wit and non-geekery displayed by Pete Milligan in this interview: --

Do you have a link for that, please? http://coyote.accessnv.com/kadymae/Milligan/
here

An Interview for Scarce
 
 
Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?
06:50 / 16.01.02
quote:Originally posted by Vortex09:
-- Ellis is like the "cool uncle" I always wanted. He's a great storyteller, a doting father and a real softie. --

I actually see Steven Grant fitting this role. A cool uncle wouldn't call you names. =)

-- Sides, I know he's not KM, I've met KM and it wasn't him.--

Care to elaborate?

I think the elaborated version is "geeee-roupie".
 
 
Mikaël
07:20 / 16.01.02


[ 16-01-2002: Message edited by: MiKL ]
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
01:07 / 22.01.02
--http://coyote.accessnv.com/kadymae/Milligan/
here An Interview for Scarce --

Oy, thanks a bunch. Milligan does need an official page.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
01:11 / 22.01.02
--I think the elaborated version is "geeee-roupie".--

Heh, ok!
 
  
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