Grant Morrison is a fascinating guy, a talented writer, and very very knowledgeable about cape and cowl comics. This is my second time reading his terrific "Supergods" and it really spoke to me, even more than the first time. He's got some wild views, such as his lengthy anecdote about a shamanic...
Morrison's All-Star Superman isn't just one the best Superman comics but one of the best superhero comics of all time so I came to this with some excitement and high expectations. Unfortunately it's a huge disappointment. It has some nice ideas and some clever touches but it's mostly messily draw...
I used to collect Superman comics when I was young and now that the trades of the new 52 are coming out, I've picked up a few titles. Intrigued by the t-shirt and jeans wearing Superman, I bought volume 1. For the most part, I followed it--that is, the 2nd time I read it. Then I got online and re...
I really enjoyed this comic. I'm a fan of Grant Morrison and Superman, so this was a perfect find. I like the questions asked in the comic: where does the "s" come from? When did he get called "Superman?" Where did the uniforms come from? Is he Clark pretending to be Superman or the other way aro...
Resonant, trite, referential, fun, overly complicated and, ultimately, a near perfect Superman story. Loved the Bizarro plot, the love story, all the mundane details. Some parts were so tethered to past continuities that they were hard to understand fully, and the ending was somewhat convoluted t...
3 or 4 stars, I"m not TOTALLY sure. There was a lot of really excellent moments - pretty much everything emma frost ever did, and a lot of logan, and even scott (scott!) and like, the beginning and ending shots of each story tended to be awesome. But there was also a lot i didnt really understand...
I think this book is rather simple for a Grant Morrison story. His presence isn't really felt here, while the artwork is just fantastic. The story is really basic, Joe is left alone in his house one night, and has a low blood sugar induced hallucination. He travels through a fantasy world, whose ...
4.5/4.75. I've always had issues with Grant Morrison writing the character to suit himself rather than writing to best serve the character and story, with his fantastical and idiosyncratic elements always making their way into the story in a jarring manner.That said, Morrison takes his recent Ba...
I finished the 2nd volume of All-Star Superman 2 hours ago, and I'm still stunned. There's so much packed into these 12 issues - so much magic and super-science and HOPE. I was never a Superman fan before this, but Morrison and Quitely make him work. They fold all the Silver Age weirdness - Bizar...
The main story with Talia is an excellent conclusion to Morrison's Batman writing. It was about family in the beginning, and now it's about family in the end. The plot is full of epic events and great action that doesn't let down, all aided by Chris Burnham's very appropriate artwork. [8/10]The f...
It's a masterpiece, but it also doesn't make sense all the way through -- a common problem with Morrison -- and the art is so inconsistent. Reading the Phil Jimenez and Phillip Bond chapters, it makes the fact that other artists even worked on this thing kind of disappointing. Still, it's lightye...