Oh no, Grant Morrison!

[neotoma]

I am so glad the Final Crisis mini is over. It apparently makes no sense whatsoever, so I can pick and choose the bits that are interesting, and ignore the patented Grant Morrison wtf-ery.

You know, the sad thing is that while I think DC Comics (and Marvel, too) is in a rut and could use a good shake-up, being mysterious and mystical and 'only special people can understand my art' is just fucking ANNOYING.

If you want mysterious, mystical, and meta-fictional, Promethea by Alan Moore is the way to go. It's an incredibly well-written, literate story that works on several different levels, and never strike the adolescent pose of 'my art is too *deep* for you Philistines to understand'.

So I'm going back to writing my after-Final-Crisis Flash/JSA story without any guilt and a certain belief that my story will be more coherent than the current comics canon, while fending off plot bunnies where James Jesse comes back in the only available body at the time -- as a twelve year old girl (he'd have a ball with it, and make everyone call him Trixie, but it would be pure ridiculousness...)

Comments

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

I am not surprised to hear it. Grant Morrison, in my experience, is basically a crazy weirdo who thinks he is a genius whereas Alan Moore is the shit.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

My favorite thing with Grant Morisson is his appearance as an antagonist in Doctor 13: Architecture and Morality (http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-13-Architecture-Morality/dp/1401215521/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233200601&sr=8-1) -- which is pure, hilarious crack. I bought sanj a copy for her birthday last year, and should remember to get myself one so that I can make people read it.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to follow final crisis with the scans on scans daily and I don't have a clue what it was supposed to be about. If anything. But I'm entirely sick of special event storyarcs anyway.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

It seems to be an excuse to bring Barry Allen back, to have two *conflicting* death scenes for Batman, and to worship how shiny Superman is while dissing Wonder Woman.

Yeah, I'm going to go play in my own little sandbox for a while. I'll even try to work a Blue Beetle ref into the Flash/JSA story, but I think it's going to be something like: 'the local heroes don't *trust* the League ever since Ted Kord died; he was one of you, and you ignored him when he needed you, and you expect the small guys to trust that you'll have their backs? Are you *joking*?!'

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

The trouble with Morrison is that he has this incredible vision of a great and intricate storyline, but he gets about 1/3 of the way through it and just can't follow it through. He was also working in a "compressed storyline" style, by his own admission, and it rendered the story utterly unreadable.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

He did the same thing on his X-men run, and those are probably the only comics I own that I'm really tempted to just toss in the recycling, instead of passing on to someone. You most certainly can't do a Promethea type story in *four* issues, which was what I think his end arc "Here Comes Tomorrow" was an attempt at. :P

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I have complete trust in your ability to write a more coherent story. I haven't really been able to follow it.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Morrison writes a story that goes ABC and then leaves out B because he can't manage to write it coherent. It bugs the *heck* out of me, and I don't see why people love him so when he *always* skips part of the necessary rising action of a plot to go directly to the climax.

[marag.livejournal.com]

Did you see the Newsarama interview where Morrison explained that he ignored Wonder Woman, well, I couldn't figure out his reasons, exactly, but I'm pretty sure they boiled down to "Icky woman!!!!"?

I think wabbitseason posted the link and I know my blood pressure went up about 10 points.

I'm so glad I haven't been buying Final Crisis. Whew.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Well, he basically said he didn't know how to write her and that she was basically 'not a woman'.

Funny, Kurt Busiek isn't having any trouble writing Wonder Woman over on Trinity (http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/tag/trinity).

[marag.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that's the one. Besides the profanity, all I can say is "What a maroon."

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

And I found a quote from an interview last year: I think of it like dance music, and how they just took pop music to a place where there was nothing left but the bass and the drum and the build-up and release, and I kind of wanted a comic that would throw out all the boring conversations and fights and keep only the stuff I like to read. (http://speedforce.org/2008/08/quote-of-the-day/)

He doesn't seem to realize that dance music *sucks* as music, and thus comics stripped down in the same manner to just a few element will also suck. What an idiot.

[marag.livejournal.com]

Yes, dance music is for dancing, not for listening. And...

::headdesk to infinity:: I really do not like this man. He did some okay JLA stuff, but even that was difficult to understand because he had a tendency to skip that whole tedious explanation thing.