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Bleeding Cool's 31 Best Interviews Of 2014
They Are Waiting For People To Come To Them' – Scott Snyder In The Bleeding Cool Interview Fearless Enough To Win An Eisner – Discussing The Wake's Surprising Finale With Scott Snyder(SPOILERS) With Joshua Williamson: What Would Really Happen If A Child Went On A Fantasy Adventure And Came Home? Joshua Williamson Talks Birthright From Image With Grant[...]
Bleeding Cool's 11 Best Comics Of 2014
Annihilator from Legendary Entertainment, written by Grant Morrison, with art by Frazer Irving and letters by Jared K Fletcher A trend this year seems to lie in the surprising results that spring from new combinations of accomplished comics creators in collaboration, often delving into genres or genre-splicing where we haven't seen them working before, and one[...]
When Joe Quesada Didn't Follow Grant Morrison's Marvelman's Script
Today's All-New Miracleman Annual, gives us Grant Morrison's short story from 1986 drawn almost thirty years later by Joe Quesada The comic also reprints the original script, which means we get to see any changed One  a matter of style, as the strip is expanded to a few more pages than it would have received[...]
Deconstructing Morrison Part 3: All-Star Superman
Smith After Joe Colewood and I did a piece discussing the merits of Grant Morrison's Multiversity #1, it dawned on me that I was nowhere near as qualified to critique Grant Morrison's work as I had initially thought As a result, I've decided it's high time I give some works of his that I've not yet[...]
Greg Pak Just Killed Off Regan From All-Star Superman
Do you remember Regan from All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely? Her name was scattered through the book… Lots of people have written about this scene Lots of people. In this week's Batman/Superman, three people are assassinated. One of whom, next issue we will discover is Glory Miau, a pop star originally known as Felicity Regan,[...]
Celebrating Ted Kord, The Blue Beetle Who Was Your Friend
In November's The Multiversity: Pax Americana #1 by Grant Morrison, he had a small supporting role in a sobering Watchmen-inspired tale in an alternate universe, and he was a main character in this month's more humorous Justice League 3000 #12 by J M DeMatteis and Keith Giffen, a time-displaced hero who landed in the future[...]
Go On – Let's Have An Annotated Reading Of Multiversity: The Just
By Sage Ashford This is our first introduction to the heroes of Earth-16, a world where the "original" heroes did their job so well, all that's left for their successors is the life of celebrity. …Or at least, that's how it seems on the surface.  The book has barely started and already the characters are under attack[...]
Tonight, Ask Rian Hughes Everything About Multiversity. He Won't Mind, Honest.
Tonight, Rian Hughes is appearing at Gosh Comics in London, on behalf of the centre for adult learning, City Lit. Hughes is well known for his design and advertising work, his typographical work and for his comics work, three spheres that oddly seldom cross. He drew Grant Morrison's Dare, he designed the Forbidden Planet logo as well[...]
Today, DC Comics Says Batman Is Gay. Discuss.
Multiversity: The Just #1 is out today, by Grant Morrison and Ben Oliver. A couple of years ago, Grant Morrison told Playboy, He's very plutonian in the sense that he's wealthy and also in the sense that he's sexually deviant Gayness is built into Batman I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very,[...]
Because Not Everyone Knows What Steve Yeowell Looks Like…
  Everyone knows what Grant Morrison looks like He cultivates a look… But not everyone knows what Steve Yeowell, his artist on Zenith, Sebastian O and Invisibles looks like. Well, this last Saturday at Gosh! Comics in London, Steve did a signing for the controversial Zenith collections from Rebellion So we, at least, know which side of the[...]
Grant Morrison To Issue His Own Guide To Multiversity
In it, he told me some of the decisions he made, how he decided which worlds would go where, how the designs were arrived to and whether or not the source wall is made of people. Well these ideas, and many many more will be seen in Grant Morrison's own guide to his Multiversity series at[...]
Grant Morrison *Was* Going To Write Spawn Again
One story we ran just before San Diego Comic Con kicked off was that Grant Morrison was going to write the Spawn series, after his brief three-issue run back in the nineties The news was not announced at the show – and nor was it announced at New York Comic Con Instead it was announced[...]
Grant Morrison Draws Jack Kirby's Captain Victory And The Galactic Rangers
Series regular Nathan Fox is joined by Benjamin Marra, Dan McDaid, Jim Mahfood, Michel Fiffe, Nick Dragotta, Tradd Moore, and some guy named Grant Morrison. Writer Joe Casey had this to say about the sixth and final issue: "There is a moment that occurs in the history of any artistic medium that truly defines it[...]
A Weekend In Vegas With Grant Morrison Got Me To Kickstart A Comics Anthology
As Grant Morrison, J.H Williams III, Jonathan Hickman, Frank Quielty, Chris Burnham and a host of others sat down at the stage to talk about art, writing, religion, magic, and other dimensions, we soaked it in The panels were lively, passionate, insightful discussions that bled out onto the floor afterwards In the lounge and at[...]
3 Ways Readers And Creators Can Reap Benefits From DC's Multiverse Map
It's a key to understanding the publisher's storylines, including Grant Morrison's Multiversity series that's out right now. It's a long-overdue tool that demystifies DC and the New 52 for loyal readers, and especially new ones, and one that DC can reap benefits from for years to come if they work it right Here are three reasons[...]
Punching Fear In Multiversity: Society of Superheroes
By Nas Hoosen In my last post here at Bleeding Cool, I pointed out that superhero comic fans spend so much time reading between the lines of Grant Morrison's comics that we sometimes miss the best parts: the jokes Considering how much the new issue of his metaseries, The Multiversity, got me thinking about fear, death[...]
Grant Morrison Comics: What If There's No Secret Message?
By Nas Hoosen I remember an article about Batman #655, Grant Morrison's first issue of what would become his seven-year Batman run, from around the time that issue hit shelves I can't remember who published it anymore but one thing I do recall is its author's obsessive examination of that first issue for layers of hidden[...]
5 Notes On Annihilator For The Curious-Minded
Annihilator #1 comes out today from Legendary Entertainment, written by Grant Morrison (see his previous interview at Bleeding Cool here) and illustrated by Frazer Irving It's a "witchy" tale of a fair amount of complexity and considering its complexity is not something you'll be able to do at a first reading The visuals of this[...]