Grant Morrison

Morrison's take on the X-Men is pretty solid. After playing around with the nanosentinels early on, he goes into more traditional territory and I think it works a lot better. Lots of mutants with the levels of outlandishness you'd expect from Morrison; very nice angsty teens; some really great moments of humour. After an interesting, quirky but self-indulgent begining to his run, it feels like Morrison is getting into a decent (albeit slightly more traditional) stride and is really enjoying it. Quality mutant fair.… (lisätietoja)

This really starts to hit its stride. It's shed its debt to Sandman from the first volume (which I was slightly surprised at). For the most part it's becoming less verbose too (although there are still fairly long passages of Morrisson's (pseudo?) automatic writing schtick). It's pretty scatter-shot, with different characters suddenly taking prominence, but there is a coherent arc.

Generally, there seems to be a certain attention to craft displayed here that Morrisson apparently decided was unnecessary at some point later in his career, and the whole thing - madcap, psychedelic, self-indulgent nonsense that it is - reads surprisingly well.… (lisätietoja)

The Invisibles really seems to be Morrisson's signature book - it has the anarchic bravado of Zenith, the automatic writing nonsense of Doom Patrol, all his obsessions with chaos and the ruling class and the lizard/insect lords pulling the strings (do he and Pat Mills get together and talk about this stuff?), psychedelia, magic, politics. And he pulls it together in a way that he seemed to stop bothering with later on. I took these on as a bit of a chore, and found the first volume a little tedious overall, but I'm really starting to get into it now.

Also really enjoyed the Luter Arkwright pastiche - that was a lot of fun.… (lisätietoja)