Grant Morrison

His run on Animal Man was gold. Arkham Asylum was pretty good, too.

Yep, there's one trade of his Animal Man run - but it doesn't get to the really weird, fucked up stuff. Worth reading though.

Also, Kill Your Boyfriend is superb.

Arkham Asylum is a bit too obtuse for my tastes - a case of nice idea, shame about the pretension.

Arkham is worth it for the artwork. Story is, yeah, like Dan says, too obtuse, but there's some good ideas buried in there.

There are two Animal Man trades, Dan. The third one is just about as perfect as superhero comics get, but the first one contains my favorite Morrison story ever (being, naturally, Coyote Gospel.)

AA didn't do much for me, really, for the same reasons Dan mentioned. His JLA run gave way to The Authority and all those other "widescreen" comics. The art was anywhere from okay to terrible, but the Rock of Ages storyline is just about the most insane a flagship title has gotten.

Kill Your Boyfriend is one of the best graphic novels ever published, easy as that. Bond and Morrison create uncanny magic when they team up. Out of print, but worth tracking down.

Doom Patrol and Flex Mentallo have not, and possibly will never get the TPB treatment (save for the first few stories) but this, along with Animal Man, was what really put Grant on the map. Totally surreal, Vertigo before there was a Vertigo. Grant was taking a great deal of drugs while he was writing this, and the payoff is great.

Haven't read Zenith (it's not the easiest thing to come by) but I've heard this is quite good as well.

Aztek, all ten issues, is one of the most underappreciated series of all time. Get the singles, they shouldn't cost too terribly much.

His run on The Flash with Mark Millar was above average, but nothing to really write home about.

St. Swithins Day is a fun little anarchist story, but I didn't like it as much as Kill Your Boyfriend. Still worth picking up.

Sebastian O is another okay story, but not worth giving yourself an migrane trying to find.

And then there's The Mystery Play, which flat out sucks.

Aside from The New Adventures of Hitler, which is easiest to just read online, that's all I can think of for the moment.

Knowing DC's trade department, the book will have to finish and the trade will come about a year later. I don't think you'll like it, though.

Marvel Boy shouldn't go unread by anybody.

I forgot Marvel Boy! That's it, turning in my gun and badge, I'm off the streets.

I liked his Animal Man run, largely because it was his most accessible work. The rest of it is lost on me. Too trippy.

No, THAT's priceless.

And "Coyote Gospel" from his Animal Run is probably one of the best single issues ever done.

Oh boy...

Yes, I'm sure the "context" will provide a satisfactory explanation as to why you're suddenly praising and taking pride in being compared to a writer which you didn't care for and even thought sucked only a few months ago.

I read Zenith and New Adventures of Hitler when they first came out (benefits of living in the UK - we got to grow up reading Garth Ennis, Alan Moore and Grant Morrison in our kids comics) and both are superb. Zenith is a bit Watchmen-esque (there's only so many askew looks at superheroes I can take) but it's got a pleasantly psychedelic British vibe to it. New Adventures of Hitler is a scathing look at the small-minded fascism that lurks beneath British society, using Hitler as a Walter Mitty style protagonist, searching for the Grail. If you don't like reading comics online, head to ebay and try and find a UK comic called "Crisis". Even if you can't find the issues with Hitler in, you'll get a ton of good stuff from people like Pat Mills, Pete Milligan and Garth Ennis (his early political stuff is fantastic).