All-purpose Grant Morrison thread

I really wish I could read Flex Mentallo. What's the hold up on that one, again? Is it to do with being sued by Charles Atlas or something? Because Flex showed up in Doom Patrol, and that's been reprinted.

I tend to agree with the conventional wisdom that Morrison's limited a bit by how good his artist is. It's not hard for a weak artist to turn his stuff into incomprehensible gibberish (cue snarky comments). This is why I think the Frank Quitely snark in this very forum is off-base; the guy is pretty great at conveying action and body language and clear storytelling. Compare to the work of Andy Kubert, an artist a lot of fanboys would consider "better" in the conventional sense, on the early issues of Morrison's Batman run.

Morrison's other big flaw is that he seems to have problems sticking the landing, though that's sometimes editorial's fault. The final issue of Seven Soldiers was apparently cut down by a significant number of pages, and feels it. (Which begs the question, why not cut some of the padding at the beginning, like the King Arthur stuff, to make room for the climax?) Still, Seven Soldiers is pretty brilliant stuff aside from that one flaw; it's what got me into Morrison in the first place. And on a side note, J. H. Williams' ability to ape all seven of the preceding artists of the series and make it feel organic disturbs and arouses me.

Grant Morrison and J.H. Williams III have done some of my favorite comic work of the last couple of years. Between Morrisons run on Batman and the Seven Soldiers books, they have made magic.

Morrison has always been considered a genius in my book, but his superhero stuff tends to be hit and miss with me; Animal Man,JLA, WE3, The Invisibles, Batman and Robin, and All Star Superman are fantastic in my opinion, yet his runs on Final Crisis, Batman and "So magneto now has death camps?" New X-men caused me to drop the titles after several issues (In my opinion, I expected JLA Morrison, but I got Doom patrol Morrison).
All Star Superman, WE3 and Animal man alone earn hima spot as one of my favorite writers.
Also, the guy claims he meet pandimensional beings during a drug trip as an insparation, how can you not love that?

I just started. I bet I will enjoy it till the end. Devin posted something on FB about that beginning (all over again) that made me curious to pick it.

Joe the Barbarian is pretty damn awesome.

Despite being a DC guy and generally disliking the X-Men, I actually don't care that much for his JLA run but love what he did in New X-Men. I've said this before, but I don't think that team has ever had a better run in terms of the quality and scope of the ideas being presented.

I love his little ideas, like the scene in one of the SS: Bulleteer issues where the titular character walks into a restroom at a superhero convention and stumbles onto what looks like a fellow superheroine shooting up in a stall, but it's actually a shrinking serum which she uses to fit into her purse which turns into a miniature aircraft, allowing her to bail the convention. Love that. If it was a Mark Millar comic it would have actually been heroin and the word "cunt" would probably be thrown around.

Dammed wiki I have an urge to see this

And Alan Moore was a mentor to Garth Ennis. Seems like the same kind of bizarre, odd-couple relationship between a detached, intellectual writer and a snot-nosed provocateur.