If I'm restating something from before, forgive me (esp. Ken, as this might be what he's getting at), but GM's knack for characterization seems to be his ability to get at charcter details while (or by) painting in these broad archetypal strokes. cf. those moments in JLA when the universe is going to shit and Batman has this one line that embodies his Batmanness (as GM sees it) so perfectly while at the same time not distracting from the grandeur of the moment happening around Batman's one line. Or, hell, that line from Emma Frost near the start of his NXM run - something like "The whole world is watching; we must be nothing less than fabulous." That's her right there.
As for continuity-related boggins, I think some of it (the unintentional stuff) has been publically classified by GM as communication breakdowns between Marvel editors and him, like the bit in "Return to Weapon X" where Sebastian Shaw talks about reading minds.
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Otm
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
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― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 05:05 (eighteen years ago) link
(but make it the first one)
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― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
re: INVISIBLES, I thought the beginning was great, got a little flabby in the middle and shaped up nicely at the end. And Chuck, the whole point of King Mob was to be a wet dream of cool. But it's okay, he gets better at the end.
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd say Doom Patrol or Animal Man are the best starting points, but I might be biased because that's where I started.
― iodine (iodine), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd agree that DOOM PATROL is the best place to start with Morrison. It stats out as a semi-traditional superhero work, but doesn't stay there for very long at all. Morrison's kinda tough to sell to non-superhero readers, as a lot of his best work has been firmly set in that genre/trope/whatever.
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
I read all of INVISIBLES when I was far older than that, mostly for the first time, too. Held up in spite of that.
Sooooo glad to read that! Someday I might gather the courage to go back to it...
― iodine (iodine), Saturday, 10 September 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
But if I was forced to say at least one thing I could do without, that would most probaby be his Spawn mini.
And, yeah, Arkham Asylum hasn't aged well either.
― iodine (iodine), Saturday, 10 September 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave k, Saturday, 10 September 2005 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm reading Doom Patrol now as the trades come out, and loving it.
― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 11 September 2005 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 11 September 2005 05:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 11 September 2005 09:08 (eighteen years ago) link
And I have to re-read Invisibles complete someday.
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ROB'S ON ANOTHER PLANETJessica Callan, Eva Simpson And Caroline Hedley
ROBBIE Williams is expecting a Close Encounter of the Third Kind.
The 31-year-old singer reckons an extra-terrestrial invasion is inevitable, saying: "I've been dreaming every night about UFOs, every night. I can't wait to go to sleep because my dreams have been so brilliant.
"I think they are definitely on their way, seriously. Mark my words. From now until 2012 - watch out, kids."
Haven't we already seen this somewhere?
― iodine (iodine), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
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― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
We killed Chubby by not buying enough of issues of Seaguy to ensure the whole story gets told.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
it quite often veers into prog rock album cover territory, and everyone talks in post-modern slogans
Was this your first time reading a Morrison series, Joe? (Sorry, I just found this amusing.)
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― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Chris F. (nieman...), September 21st, 2005.
Ha ha, that could actually be an unkind summary of his entire career, couldn't it? I've actually read quite a bit of Morrison, and I do prefer his less self-indulgent, more narratively traditional work (Zenith, Invisibles Vol 1, Seaguy), staid old square that I am.
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