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If you're a fan of Grant Morrison's DC One Million, here you go This is Black Adam in the 853rd century It's really wild storytelling." Conner Kent Leads Future State Suicide Squad, 853rd Century Black Adam You can keep up to date with all our flash coverage of DC Future State – and how it began as[...]

With Jodie Whittaker and the rest of the team behind Doctor Who reportedly expected to begin filming Series 13 within the next two months (barring further COVID-related delays), it appears the BBC's long-running sci-fi series has a creative sandbox that writer and playwright Grant Morrison (DC Comics' Batman, Green Lantern, and The Flash; Happy!) wouldn't[...]

The announcement of Earth One: Wonder Woman Vol 3 by Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette has leaked a little early on Amazon And the third volume of this series is to be the last Currently scheduled for March 2021, this is how Amazon describes the book. The epic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling original graphic novel[...]

DC Comics' December solicitations note that Brian Bendis' runs on Superman and Action Comics are ending in December – and this was after statements Brian Bendis made in June saying he would be staying on the Superman titles at DC "for a looooooong time." Grant Morrison's run on Green Lantern was truncated, then, extended, but he[...]

There are attempts to subvert and update the more problematic aspects in the novel to a 21st Century sensibility, and you can detect the fingerprints of Grant Morrison in the more heady aspects of the show The series had been behind a subscription paywall before today, so if you were curious about watching the entire[...]

The Candlemaker was Grant Morrison's final arc, so it'll be interesting to see how much the writers will use his resolution In the comic, the Candlemaker only killed people The TV version is more insidious and manipulative and represents more overtly Dorothy's repressed psyche and a symbol of the show's themes of emotional trauma and[...]

And for his first novel, Rian Hughes is bringing a hell of a scrapbook of quotes from the great and the good. Grant Morrison Calls XX "The Best Genre Book Of The Last 25 Years" 'The best genre book of the last 25 years Brilliant, exciting, absorbing and mind-blowing Whatever Goethe's Faustus was, whatever Melville's Moby[...]

It's even crueler to the characters than Grant Morrison ever had the stomach to be in his run on the comics that the writers are obviously taking their cues from The characters do much more awful things to each other than they ever did in the comics. Everyone gets disappointed In the funniest beat, Rita discovers[...]

NBCUniversal's Peacock officially took flight this week, and with it came David Wiener (Homecoming, The Killing), Grant Morrison (Batman, Justice League), and Brian Taylor's (Happy!) take on Aldous Huxley's popular novel Brave New World Now, the cast and creative team are taking viewers behind the scenes of John the Savage's (Alden Ehrenreich) story In the following[...]

They've also recently launched a podcasting arm, UCP Audio.  The company now adds comics to its growing list of creative formats with UCP Graphic.  According to Variety, the new comics imprint will launch with Proctor Valley Road by Grant Morrison and Alex Child The series about a group of teenage girls suspected in the disappearance[...]

Now they have to figure out how to put Danny back together again. A look at Doom Patrol "Sex Patrol" (Image: DC Universe/HBO Max) Party, Sex and Sex Men Danny was created by Grant Morrison for his 1980s run of the comic, and the show embraces their LGBTQ status even harder than the comics could really afford to[...]

The Candlemaker, one of the last "big bads" in Grant Morrison's run, is the big bad this season. Doom Patrol: The Dysfunctional Superhero Show Showrunner Jeremy Carver seems to be refining the themes he played with back when he was running the US remake of the BBC's Being Human for the SYFY Channel The canvas of Morrison[...]

Although "Umbrella Man" is the most obvious example in recent memory, this idea of undercover agitators is not new to modern discourse. The cover of JLA: Tower of Babel by Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Howard Porter, and Mark Pajarillo. In the 19th century France, Eugène-François Vidocq (also known as the father of modern criminology), turned to nefarious[...]

And Generations III #1-12, which begins in the year 1925 and jumps to 100 years in the future in each story, while featuring characters from future timelines and Jack Kirby's New Gods. Superman by Grant Morrison Omnibus HC Feb 16, 2021 Grant Morrison, one of the greatest storytellers of his generation, weaves the history of Clark Kent's[...]

Famously Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in 1939 and now its a thousand issues later. A special 144-page $10 issue will attempt to highlight the "Detective" in Detective Comics as Batman and his allies will have seven times the space to fill with mysteries to solve, taking them from the seediest corners of Gotham[...]

One upon a time, a long time, ago, Grant Morrison wrote the Zoids comic book strip for British publishing spinoff Marvel UK, based on the wind-up modular toyline Appearing as a back-up strip in the Secret Wars weekly Marvel UK title, it later took the co-lead in the Spider-Man And Zoids weekly comic book The[...]

When it does, David Wiener (Homecoming, The Killing), Grant Morrison (Batman, Justice League), and Brian Taylor's (Happy!) take on Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World will finally be making its way to our screens The story of John the Savage (Alden Ehrenreich) originally started as a series for USA Network, but with Peacock looking for content[...]

Today's The Green Lantern: Season Two by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp see Hal Jordan and co get a little neatnik with the language. As the comic suddenly resembles some of the madder superhero comic books at the time where the writers went a little left-field The Steve Gerbers, the Arnold Drakes, even Stan Lee on[...]

A few weeks ago, Bleeding Cool quoted The Green Lantern artist Liam Sharp as saying that the second twelve-issue season of the comic by Liam and Grant Morrison had been truncated to eight issues. Sadly not 8 this time. — Liam 'Sharpy' Sharp (@LiamRSharp) January 19, 2020 Bleeding Cool suggested that this might be in order that the[...]

But one of the few issues that people remember was New X-Men #121 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely Which saw Jean Grey and Emma Frost team up to go inside the mind of the captured Cassandra Nova to discover what was going on They found a trapped Charles Xavier in there, and learnt the relationship[...]

This Wednesday sees the release of the first issue of The Green Lantern Season 2 by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp This series has been a real high point in DC Comics' lineup over the past couple of years But enjoy it while you can Bleeding Cool reported that Green Lantern would be one of[...]

Clemente, editor at Marvel Spain, presenting editorial 2020 plans, Akira Comics, Madrid, 6-8pm. Marvel & DC Comics Event, Dallas Marriott Downtown, Dallas, Texas until Sunday. And a happy birthday to… Henry Barajas, DOO of Top Cow Grant Morrison, writer of Zoids. Jonathan Baylis, writer of So Buttons. Former 2000AD editor, Jonathan Oliver. Paty Cockrum, Marvel production designer, founder of the Dave & Paty Cockrum[...]

A comics publisher recently undergoing its own restructuring, he sells himself as a photographer done good but is also the son of multi-billionaire David Steward, Chairman and Founder of World Wide Technology, Inc, with vast potential resources and funding opportunities to draw upon. Jason Aaron (Down) Lead writer from Marvel of The Avengers, Aaron has been[...]

From the early days of National Lampoon and Julie Simmons-Lynch to Kevin Eastman's run to the direction Grant Morrison and I took it in, each has brought their own stimulating aesthetic and unique voice to the magazine I'm really excited to see what new places Matt takes it." Medney says that he will look to build on the[...]

It was only the other week that John Constantine was bemoaning comic book continuity over in John Constantine: Hellblazer, written by Si Spurrier, in a way that looked as if he was talking directly to DC Comics publisher Dan DiDio. For Green Lantern: Blackstars #2, Grant Morrison said "It's my cruellest portrayal of Superman that I've[...]

Grant Morrison has had a fractious relationship with Alan Moore, most publically over a magazine column that ran back in the eighties While Morrison has attempted to walk those statements back a number of times since, Moore has never been so inclined to join him in that journey As Morrison said  After all the things I've[...]

The Green Lantern was relaunched with much aplomb a year ago, from Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp, ostensibly as a cosmic police procedural series but it wet rather weird, rather quickly. Currently on a break for the Green Lantern: Blackstars mini-series, The Green Lantern returns with a Season Two for 2020, which will run through the[...]

It's known as 5G, the fifth generation of the DC Comics Timeline. But is this the first time DC Comics tried? Let's go back ten years, before Flashpoint and the New 52, that was what Grant Morrison was teasing. Back in the noughties, we saw the Death of the New Gods, as The Source of the Source[...]

It also reveals that Blackstars #2 will be a "roast" of modern comics, according to writer Grant Morrison, who also said that it will feature the "cruelest portrayal of Superman" that Morrison has ever done. Check out the press release and preview below. Cosmic Vampire Princess Countess Belzebeth is back! The Darkness of the Blackstars Continues! Next Target:[...]

Which means Starblazer #45 'Operation Overkill' from 1981 by Grant Morrison and Argentinian illustrator Enrique Alcatena. And #71 'Jaws of Death' by D Broadbent and Mick McMahon from 1982, at full-size artwork rather than the originally published digest-size But still in black-and-white. With their original cover art by Keith Robson and a new wraparound cover by Neil Roberts. Bonus[...]