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Those with greater experience must find it even more disjointed. Unfortunately, this means that I can see the holes in his plots and references. I am lucky enough to have more than a passing familiarity with a few of the mythologies he references. Morrison wasn't blessed with Alan Moore's ability to make a driving plot out of the bizarre, and Morrison's penchant for writing six titles a month certainly doesn't help anything.Īgain, it is a matter of overextension. The only thing that does connect all the disparate elements is the plot, but that isn't saying much. There are little spots now and again which go up to your calf, but the next step always lands on the careless sandbar of Morrison's ego.

Without a greater philosophical cosmology to tie things together, he ends up writing in a hodge-podge which has impressive breadth, but negligable depth. Though he is an avid reader and draws from many eccentric sources, he never seems capable of combining them into something greater than the scattered parts. Morrison never fails to push the boundaries, but this only makes it more and more apparent that he is not a visionary writer. Perhaps this shows that he is wise enough to recognize his own limitations, which is more than I can say for Morrison, especially in 'The Invisibles'. He is a competent writer, and interesting, but rarely pushes the limits. Unfortunately, unless he starts making bookplates in the Blakean style, I don't think this will ever be remedied. I would enjoy Neal Gaiman more if he were a madman.

He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a 'counterculture' spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS.

GRANT MORRISON INVISIBLES SMILE SERIES

Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL.

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