Comments on: Grant Morrison is God http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:48:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: halandrew von agrinol henandri http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-3248579 Thu, 14 May 2009 02:14:39 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-3248579 God in real hahahaha that is joke, iam angry iam can be atheis is like that hhhhhaaaaahhaha halo grant morrison say hei haloha From me real corps of the lord of the ring God in real hahahaha that is joke, iam angry iam can be atheis is like that
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halo grant morrison
say hei haloha
From me real corps of the lord of the ring

]]> by: gene phillips http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2263901 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:01:59 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2263901 Caring isn't quite enough. I'm sure there have been any number of respectful creators, mainstream and indy, who "cared" about their projects. What's needed is insight into the expectations of readers, and the skill to satisfy or frustrate those expectations as needed. Caring isn’t quite enough. I’m sure there have been any number of respectful creators, mainstream and indy, who “cared” about their projects.

What’s needed is insight into the expectations of readers, and the skill to satisfy or frustrate those expectations as needed.

]]> by: Eric Reynolds http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2249874 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:14:25 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2249874 "I’d rather read a good Green Lantern story by someone who cares than work my way through a ‘creator-owned’ project that’s been created solely to appeal to lowest-common-denominator movie executives." Well, golly, when you put it that way... “I’d rather read a good Green Lantern story by someone who cares than work my way through a ‘creator-owned’ project that’s been created solely to appeal to lowest-common-denominator movie executives.”

Well, golly, when you put it that way…

]]> by: Tom Vutayan http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2247301 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:42:18 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2247301 Yep. The comic book renaissance (and in the rest of the arts for that matter) has already started! And as for the need for more long, quality runs--I agree. What is needed more now is dedication and the commitment to be in it (a project) for the long haul. Yep. The comic book renaissance (and in the rest of the arts for that matter) has already started! And as for the need for more long, quality runs–I agree. What is needed more now is dedication and the commitment to be in it (a project) for the long haul.

]]> by: jimmy palmiotti http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2245987 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:24:22 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2245987 easy to find. palmio@aol.com easy to find. palmio@aol.com

]]> by: Fred the Frown http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2244520 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:15:26 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2244520 "Only recent really consistently brilliant long term runs are Walking Dead, Preacher, Walt Simonsons’s Thor (barely makes it due to too muchy Sal Buscema), Transmetropolitan, maybe Powers, and of cousre 100 Bullets. " Y, the Last Man. “Only recent really consistently brilliant long term runs are Walking Dead, Preacher, Walt Simonsons’s Thor (barely makes it due to too muchy Sal Buscema), Transmetropolitan, maybe Powers, and of cousre 100 Bullets. ”

Y, the Last Man.

]]> by: Christopher Moonlight @ Moonlight Art Magazine http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2243777 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:17:02 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2243777 "Personally think comics are as good as they’ve ever been in my 30 years of collecting." I'll 2nd that. “Personally think comics are as good as they’ve ever been in my 30 years of collecting.”

I’ll 2nd that.

]]> by: timothycat http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2243676 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:41:13 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2243676 Personally think comics are as good as they've ever been in my 30 years ofcollecting. In particular Matt Fraction's work. Sad part is that I haven't seen anything really brilliant from Morrison since his Doom Patrol and WE. Ellis is simply amazing, his Avatar work is the best in the busineess. Ennis sontinues to produce amazing stuff though still has yet to equal Preacher. What's missing, however, are really great long term team runs. Too much moving around and inpatience for long term character development. The loss of Exterminators is the latest example of a comic that truly deserved more time. The fault lies, of course, with fical fans with zero patience for what's not new, Only recent really consistently brilliant long term runs are Walking Dead, Preacher, Walt Simonsons's Thor (barely makes it due to too muchy Sal Buscema), Transmetropolitan, maybe Powers, and of cousre 100 Bullets. Oops, shouldn't have only blamed fan. Also creators who no longer understand the value of a serious high quality run. Personally think comics are as good as they’ve ever been in my 30 years ofcollecting. In particular Matt Fraction’s work. Sad part is that I haven’t seen anything really brilliant from Morrison since his Doom Patrol and WE. Ellis is simply amazing, his Avatar work is the best in the busineess. Ennis sontinues to produce amazing stuff though still has yet to equal Preacher. What’s missing, however, are really great long term team runs. Too much moving around and inpatience for long term character development. The loss of Exterminators is the latest example of a comic that truly deserved more time. The fault lies, of course, with fical fans with zero patience for what’s not new, Only recent really consistently brilliant long term runs are Walking Dead, Preacher, Walt Simonsons’s Thor (barely makes it due to too muchy Sal Buscema), Transmetropolitan, maybe Powers, and of cousre 100 Bullets. Oops, shouldn’t have only blamed fan. Also creators who no longer understand the value of a serious high quality run.

]]> by: Christopher Moonlight @ Moonlight Art Magazine http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2243397 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:29:37 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2243397 Hey Jimmy, I'll interview you. Where can I contact you? Hey Jimmy, I’ll interview you. Where can I contact you?

]]> by: Robert Scott (Comickaze) http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2240845 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:50:25 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2240845 It 's great to see a well Known creator, one who has significant creator owned and WFH output, with a similar response to mine which came from mostly a commercial viewpoint. It ’s great to see a well Known creator, one who has significant creator owned and WFH output, with a similar response to mine which came from mostly a commercial viewpoint.

]]> by: jimmy palmiotti http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2240185 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:11:52 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2240185 everyone should buy what they like. i support all the creators that branch out. I buy their books, good or bad...and give them a shot. have been doing it [ creator owned] myself for years from event comics on and making a name for myself in mainstream comics helped me continue doing so. and yes, marvel colorists are doing fantastic work...because , i think, the editors understand color better having an artist as e.i.c, and while joe and i were there with marvel knights, we were supporting and pushing coloring in the books like no ones business. marvel also gives colorists a piece of the royalties...which is an incentive and about time. i can go on and on, but the comics journal can call me and interview me ...lol. i got work to do. jimmy everyone should buy what they like.

i support all the creators that branch out. I buy their books, good or bad…and give them a shot.

have been doing it [ creator owned] myself for years from event comics on and making a name for myself in mainstream comics helped me continue doing so.

and yes, marvel colorists are doing fantastic work…because , i think, the editors understand color better having an artist as e.i.c, and while joe and i were there with marvel knights, we were supporting and pushing coloring in the books like no ones business.

marvel also gives colorists a piece of the royalties…which is an incentive and about time.

i can go on and on, but the comics journal can call me and interview me …lol.

i got work to do.

jimmy

]]> by: Tom Vutayan http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2237035 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:55:37 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2237035 If this decade is marked by a failure to imagine (And I'm reminded of when Condi Rice said that 9/11 was the result of a failure in imagination. Yeah, right.), then hopefully the next decade will see us usher in a renaissance in comics--for which this decade is the gearing up for. If this decade is marked by a failure to imagine (And I’m reminded of when Condi Rice said that 9/11 was the result of a failure in imagination. Yeah, right.), then hopefully the next decade will see us usher in a renaissance in comics–for which this decade is the gearing up for.

]]> by: Christopher Moonlight @ Moonlight Art Magazine http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2236857 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:21:30 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2236857 "Come on, now…" See? I told you. “Come on, now…”

See? I told you.

]]> by: Fred the Frown http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2236530 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:03:45 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2236530 Some of Alan Moore's stuff is horrible. It's not a far fetched notion that something Marvel has put out is better than something Alan Moore has written. I like Morrison's response. I don't think Kirkman's message was really necessary, but when I think about the fact that a great talent like Mike Wieringo never felt like he could branch out to creator-owned work for financial reasons, it makes me really sad. We should all support creator-owned work more and make it a viable option for great talents in this industry. Some of Alan Moore’s stuff is horrible. It’s not a far fetched notion that something Marvel has put out is better than something Alan Moore has written.

I like Morrison’s response. I don’t think Kirkman’s message was really necessary, but when I think about the fact that a great talent like Mike Wieringo never felt like he could branch out to creator-owned work for financial reasons, it makes me really sad. We should all support creator-owned work more and make it a viable option for great talents in this industry.

]]> by: Jacob http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2235042 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:02:07 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2235042 Marvel's certainly putting out good books now, but "surpass[ing] Alan Moore?" Come on, now... Marvel’s certainly putting out good books now, but “surpass[ing] Alan Moore?”

Come on, now…

]]> by: Christopher Moonlight @ Moonlight Art Magazine http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2235013 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:53:03 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2235013 It's funny, but I've been thinking that creatively, Marvel has been making great strides, not only in story telling, but art, and coloring, too. I'm not saying, make mine Marvel or anything like that. I'm just calling what I'm seeing. Marvels got the talents. Even when they do put out a bad book (as all the writers, including Grant, do sometimes) it's still at the very least interesting. When they do a great book, it surpasses even Alan Moore. People just don't notice, because we've put the vibe out that Moore's writing can't be touched. We'll never get anywhere with that attitude. I'm excited for the future of comics. It’s funny, but I’ve been thinking that creatively, Marvel has been making great strides, not only in story telling, but art, and coloring, too. I’m not saying, make mine Marvel or anything like that. I’m just calling what I’m seeing. Marvels got the talents. Even when they do put out a bad book (as all the writers, including Grant, do sometimes) it’s still at the very least interesting. When they do a great book, it surpasses even Alan Moore. People just don’t notice, because we’ve put the vibe out that Moore’s writing can’t be touched. We’ll never get anywhere with that attitude. I’m excited for the future of comics.

]]> by: matt b http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2234645 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:00:17 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2234645 Terry's response is funny.... but what Grant said is exactly what I was thinking while watching Kirkman's video creators working on mainstream books is basically advertising their names, so hopefully fans will follow them to their creator owned book Terry’s response is funny….

but what Grant said is exactly what I was thinking while watching Kirkman’s video

creators working on mainstream books is basically advertising their names, so hopefully fans will follow them to their creator owned book

]]> by: jamesmith3 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2234623 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:56:37 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2234623 "...I had this idea of doing something like The Wiz, you know, an all-black version of The New Gods! All Kirby's gods were going to be seen as black characters, and everyone would have been designed in a kind of Sun Ra, George Clinton, Funkadelic sci-fi style. Which didn't really work out as the artists didn't exactly get the references I was going for." I am suddenly quite sad. Not surprised at all, but sad. “…I had this idea of doing something like The Wiz, you know, an all-black version of The New Gods! All Kirby’s gods were going to be seen as black characters, and everyone would have been designed in a kind of Sun Ra, George Clinton, Funkadelic sci-fi style. Which didn’t really work out as the artists didn’t exactly get the references I was going for.”

I am suddenly quite sad. Not surprised at all, but sad.

]]> by: Terry http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2234352 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:21:13 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2234352 "everyone else - me, Warren Ellis, Mark Millar, JMS, Garth Ennis, Matt Fraction, Brian Bendis, Kurt Busiek, etc etc - seems to be hard at work creating new properties, so I’m not entirely sure where the problem lies." That IS the problem, you trailer hitch dingus! You guys are all cheesy writers, stealing all your moves from Frank Miller and Alan Moore and regurgitating ad-nauseum what better writers pioneered in the 60s through 80s. Creatively, this decade is worst than ever for the Big Two. A true failure of imagination. Thank goodness for alternatives to the Big Two in alternative comics. “everyone else - me, Warren Ellis, Mark Millar, JMS, Garth Ennis, Matt Fraction, Brian Bendis, Kurt Busiek, etc etc - seems to be hard at work creating new properties, so I’m not entirely sure where the problem lies.”

That IS the problem, you trailer hitch dingus! You guys are all cheesy writers, stealing all your moves from Frank Miller and Alan Moore and regurgitating ad-nauseum what better writers pioneered in the 60s through 80s.

Creatively, this decade is worst than ever for the Big Two. A true failure of imagination. Thank goodness for alternatives to the Big Two in alternative comics.

]]> by: David Bird http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2233401 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:31:03 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2233401 I have to say, I share his eye rolling response to calls to save the industry. At 45 I am a member of the generation of buyers that took comics into the current Direct Market system and ever since I heard Jeremiads about how it'll destroy everything and hand wringing about where the next generation of readers will come from, but whenever I go to the shop I see people half my age and younger in there buying comics. Girls too, and more of them than ever. Strange, but true: these kids also wail about where the new readers are coming from! You are the new readers! I have to say, I share his eye rolling response to calls to save the industry. At 45 I am a member of the generation of buyers that took comics into the current Direct Market system and ever since I heard Jeremiads about how it’ll destroy everything and hand wringing about where the next generation of readers will come from, but whenever I go to the shop I see people half my age and younger in there buying comics. Girls too, and more of them than ever.

Strange, but true: these kids also wail about where the new readers are coming from! You are the new readers!

]]> by: Mark Engblom http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2233381 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:25:55 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/08/29/grant-morrison-is-god/#comment-2233381 Best smackdown ever. Best smackdown ever.

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