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Today's Gwenpool Out-Grant-Morrisons Grant Morrison (SPOILERS)

One upon a time, Bryan Talbot wrote and drew a comic book called Brainstorm, featuring the character of Chester P Hackenbush. The strip would be influential on both Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, with Alan creating his own version of Chester for Swamp Thing and this scene from Talbot…

…being reprised years later in Animal Man by Morrison and Chas Truog.

A scene which ensured Morrison's fame in the USA, continued in Animal Man…

…and something he would revisit in years to come in The Filth with Chris Weston.

Of late, Christopher Hastings and Gurihiru have been having their own games with Gwenpool. Already a character aware of her fictional nature, she's been able to take more advantage of that of late, thanks to meeting her not-quite evil self from the future.

And in today's Gwenpool #21 she takes a classic superhero trope, hanging a character off the edge of a building to elicit a confession from them (as we all know, such forms of torture have a 100% information reliability score)…

…by finding a perp of her own. In this case, classic Fantastic Four villain, Paste Pot Pete…

…and doing the exact same thing.

In a manner of speaking.

It's a long way down to the infinite of the collective read subconscious. And you'll never like what you find there.

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