New X-Men #114-116 Writer: Grant Morrison Penciller: Frank Quitely Inker: Tim Townsend (114-115), Mark Morales (115-116), Dan Green (116) Colorist: Brian Haberlin (114-115), Hi-Fi (115-116) Publisher: Marvel Comics In 2001, the X-Men were both everywhere and nowhere. Bryan Singer’s X-Men film had been released the previous year and was a commercial and critical success. It showed that superhero films …
Teaming with frequent collaborator Frank Quitely, Morrison delivered a twelve part epic that pays tribute to Superman stories of the silver age, a time it seems more and more that the modern comics industry would rather forget. While other stories before and since tried to update Superman for a modern age, “All Star Superman”, in typical Morrison fashion, is enamored with the wild, weird days of Silver Age comics, and unflinchingly brings the “anything can go” attitude that defined them to modern readers.
The 2014 Image Expo helped partially prove my theory that there is no longer a Big Two in comics, but a Big Three. At the Expo, a plethora of new titles stretching across different genres were announced along with news about popular creators, like Grant Morrison, Ed Brubaker, Jock, and Kyle Higgins working on new …
Zenith Writer: Grant Morrison Art: Stephen Yeowell Publisher: 2000AD Purchase: http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/zenith_phase_1 We all start somewhere, even Grant Morrison. When he was but a wee lad living in Glasgow he published his first comic strip, Gideon Stargrave, for a small publication based out of Scotland called Near Myths. While Near Myths would only last 5 issues, that …
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth Writer: Grant Morrison Artist: Dave McKean Publisher: DC Comics 25 years ago and well before his celebrated seven year run writing various Batman titles, Grant Morrison and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean collaborated on the best-selling and mind bending Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth. The …
JLA #1-#4 Writer: Grant Morrison Penciller: Howard Porter Inker: John Dell Colorist: Pat Barrahy Publisher: DC Comics Even though Howard Porter’s figures take creative license with human anatomy and have horribly dated hairstyles, JLA #1-#4 (“New World Order”) is an important comic arc and a very entertaining superhero story. It was the first comic done in the “widescreen” format …
Happy #1-#4 Writer: Grant Morrison Artist: Darick Robertson Colorist: Richard P Clark Publisher: Image Comics Christmas is a magical time. It’s a time when people come together, put aside their differences and truly, live for the moment. Sure, there are some pessimists who say that the spirit of the holidays has been perverted by the corporate …
My Favourite Marvel Runs: Frank Miller’s Daredevil & Grant Morrison’s New X-Men There’s something going on at the House of Ideas that has me a little…perplexed. Let’s just say, for a guy who has a quarter of his body covered in Marvel comic tattoos it saddens me to have to dropped every Marvel comic from …
Most comics fans have a favorite comics series of all time, as well as favorite writers, artists and story arcs. This week I asked the comics team at Sound On Sight to join me in determining what currently running series or ongoing writers run on a long-running series they are most into at the moment. …
Animal Man Written by Grant Morrison Art by Chas Truog, Tom Grummet, Doug Hazlewood and others Published by DC Comics Some superheroes are a hard sell. Hell, some people have a hard time “buying” a character as straightforward as Green Lantern (people who don’t understand things like bravery, heroism and color coordination). So a character …
Happy Written by Grant Morrison Art by Darick Robertson Colors by Richard P. Clark and Tony Avina Published by Image Comics When faced with the idea of a Grant Morrison-penned Christmas comic, the first images that probably come to mind for those familiar with his work is something involving a quantum-physics powered cyborg Santa Claus …
Action Comics #18 Writer: Grant Morrison Pencillers: Rags Morales & Brad Walker Colorist: Brad Anderson Letterer: Carlos M. Mangual Cover: Anderson & Morales Publisher: DC Comics Grant Morrison’s head is brimming and bursting with ideas, so it’s only fitting that his pages follow suit. A vast swelling of content and a multitude of loose ends …
SPOILERS! (Only if you’ve been living in your own Bat-cave that is…) It was a bold move for writer Grant Morrison to introduce an illegitimate love-child to Bruce Wayne, but then again Grant Morrison is a bold man (is bold the word I’m looking for?). Even bolder still was Grant Morrison’s decision to cap off …
This week saw the release of Uncanny X-Men #1, which focused on Cyclops and his newly formed group of X-Men. The series, spearheaded by Brian Michael Bendis, is another entry in an already varied list of excellent Marvel X-Men books that have sprung from the Now! re-launch. One of the main reason’s the re-launch took …