The acclaimed writer takes his love for and history with superheroes and turns them into a prose book that's part history, part critique and part personal essay as Grant Morrison explains "Supergods" to CBR News.
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07-18-2011, 02:58 PM #1Mild-Mannered Reporter
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CBR: Grant Morrison Explores "Supergods"
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07-18-2011, 03:44 PM #2... with the High Command
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All I know about this book is that I keep checking my Amazon orders to see if it's shipped yet. Currently sitting at "shipping soon."
Anyone who thinks DC is bringing back the Silver Age doesn't know what the Silver Age is.
There is no such word as "persay," it's per se, two words, from the Latin.
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07-18-2011, 03:45 PM #333408 is the other way
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...though I planned to read Ovid' METAMORPHOSES..
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07-18-2011, 03:56 PM #4... with the High Command
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I read that before Crisis.
Originally Posted by ian33407
Anyone who thinks DC is bringing back the Silver Age doesn't know what the Silver Age is.
There is no such word as "persay," it's per se, two words, from the Latin.
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07-18-2011, 04:06 PM #5Enjoy the silence
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I am now completely convinced that grant truly is Satan him self. I have never seen a writer come up with so many goofy and sometimes down right stupid ideas. Ideas that if any other human writer tried to do they would be laughed out of the room and he still finds a way for get people to not only LOVE these ideas but to pay actual money for them. Satan my friends has a name and that name is Grant Morrison.
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Grant Morrison articulates ideas like no one else in the industry, so even if one ends up tossing the ideas as ridiculous, it's often well worth examining them just to see how they work. Originally Posted by Comicbookfan
Anyone who thinks DC is bringing back the Silver Age doesn't know what the Silver Age is.
There is no such word as "persay," it's per se, two words, from the Latin.
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07-18-2011, 04:23 PM #7Senior Member
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What about his ideas are stupid? And what's wrong with being goofy? Originally Posted by Comicbookfan
Pull List: Action Comics, Green Lantern, GLC, GL: New Guardians, Justice League, The Flash, Batman Inc, Batman, Nightwing, Batman & Robin, Dial H, Animal Man, Frankenstien, Earth-2
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07-18-2011, 04:35 PM #833408 is the other way
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I can understand that. Originally Posted by Lemurion
Some think all moderns stories come either from the Bible, either from the Greek mythologia. It's all about re-actualizing, and I'm convinced Morrison understood better than every others writers in the comics field (whom who are making a living with the medium I mean, not someone like Alan Moore who's looking for artistic freedom -and Jonathan Hickman maybe, see RED WING' previews) the Nietzsche' sentence : "Man is something that must be exceeded".
And he's really applying it since ALL-STAR to SUPERMAN...and see the reboot in ACTION COMICS, this is awesome !! Mister Clean was so clean that he couldn't make mistakes, and had anything to learn anymore..what's left ?
Reality.
He had become an ideal that interested nobody anymore because he was too unreachable, and himself, realized he couldn't fight anymore for the same reasons he used to have (" GROUNDED")..That's a very brave step from DC, and a very humanistic one too. Some could argue Zack Snyder' plan for MAN OF STEEL helped to pave this way, but in fact, this is just a home-coming to the roots of the myth, provided by Philip Wylie and his GLADIATOR...now SUPERMAN has to re-become, to re-learn being perfect and he will take us on the way with him..Really awesome..
In the same way, I posted on some threads a GREEN LANTERNS CORPS 'pitch (what if the Guardians sended the Corps on Earth to warn them, and eventually force them to stop some thermo-nuclear researchs, because it became too dangerous for our own civilization, but for the rest of the Galaxy as well..how will the others super-heroes would react ? Will they fight the Corps ? Or will they try to convince the governments to consider the warning..You see already the drama I'm sure, friends vs friends, etc..) because I was surprized that films like "2001" or "Close encounters of the third kind" were just history, that everything that come from outer-space can be shown as nothing else than a threat, and how mankind (people of the XXIth) suddendly put themselves back in the center of the universe, like..like if we were still at the Middle-Age.. Anyway I posted this pitch just to see, you know, how people feel concerned..
sorry, what were we talking about ?Last edited by ian33407; 07-18-2011 at 04:44 PM.
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07-18-2011, 05:13 PM #9Junior Member
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So basically any time you don't understand something or think something is stupid it's because of Satan. Originally Posted by Comicbookfan
Got it.
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07-18-2011, 05:51 PM #10Were You There?
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Originally Posted by strong guy79
How conveeeeeenient."If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth, on manners
"It's not whether you win or lose, it's whether I win or lose." - Peter David, on life
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07-18-2011, 06:15 PM #11Junior Member
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Aah, Grant Morrison broke the internet in half, again.
I love that picture of Superman in jeans and tight t-shirt with small cape jumping above cars and being shot at. Dynamic, progressive, and at heart!
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07-18-2011, 06:22 PM #12BANNED
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Originally Posted by Comicbookfan
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07-18-2011, 06:35 PM #13Junior Member
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i got my "has been shipped' email this afternoon. i should have it by friday or so. cant wait! Originally Posted by Lemurion
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Well, mine is coming "super saver" so I expect yours will be there first. Originally Posted by KRAKABOOM!
Anyone who thinks DC is bringing back the Silver Age doesn't know what the Silver Age is.
There is no such word as "persay," it's per se, two words, from the Latin.
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07-18-2011, 07:13 PM #15Watcher
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Actually, given the photo of Morrison that accompanies the article, I think he's looking more like Dr. Strange's servant, Wong, than Satan.
(Then he opens his mouth and he's a squeaky Scot. Talk about an image-breaker.)
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