THOR’S COMIC COLUMN 12/23

Adam makes great points about Morrison risking drinking the corporate kool-aid (and I believe Jeb posted about something similar over in the Comics section of the boards), but in Morrison's defense he's not a sellout...he's out of ideas. At least in relation to superheroes. Batman, Inc. is the exact same concept as the X-Corps from his days on New X-Men. The buildup to a definitive villain that's always one step ahead of the heroes, both Dr. Hurt/Thomas Wayne and Leviathan, is very reminiscent of Sublime as the Beast. And how did Sublime take over Beast? With a virus narcotic, which sounds a lot like Professor Pyg's contagious addiction. 

Hmmm.

Thanks!

I posted this in the comics forum, but I guess it deserves a link here as well: this relatively new comics blogger tears into Morrison for some of his seeming "company man" attitudes in Supergods. (That's just part one, there's two more after that.) I don't fully agree with him, but there's definitely some very good points being made. Like I said in the column, though, the underlying ideas of "Seaguy" seem to contradict those of Batman Inc. and his current DC work. Though the fact that the last issue of Batman, Inc. featured Batman literally trapped in an unnavigable labyrinth may reflect Morrison's feeling trapped by the genre.