Interview: Grant Morrison on ‘Final Crisis’ and ‘Doctor Who’

Alan Kistler

Alan Kistler is a freelance writer who has contributed to MonitorDuty.com and PopCultureShock.com. He is a freelance video editor who occasionally acts in independent film projects. His blog is located at alantkistler.squarespace.com.

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8 Responses

  1. mike weber says:

    I just read a little marginal note on one of the webcomics i read regularly: "The closer we get to "Final Crisis", the fewer DC comics I buy".I haven't been able to buy any comics for a couple months – the closest shop is twenty-five miles away and the car is busted – but i suspect i'd feel much the same. The more and more that the comics i *do* buy have to be warped to fit a framework story in which i am completely uninterested, the fewer of them i'm likely to buy until it's all over.And i might not pick them back up, later, either.

    • GameCouch says:

      I keep reading comments like this. Here's what I'm curious about: don't DC and Marvel have any interest in growing new readers? Event Fatigue is pushing old timers away, but it's also making comics inscrutable to newbies.

      • mike weber says:

        I often wonder.My favourite comment from inside the industry has to be the "Hitman" issue that tied into "When the Sun Went Out" or whatever that lame DC summer "event" was called – a non-series story with a two-page frame showing the major characters hanging out in Noonan's Sleazy Bar:"Why's it so dark?"Oh, it's just the summer wierdness.""Huh?""You know, seems like wierd things happen every summer these days…"(or words to that effect)

    • Alan Coil says:

      "The more and more that the comics i *do* buy have to be warped to fit a framework story in which i am completely uninterested, the fewer of them i'm likely to buy until it's all over.And i might not pick them back up, later, either."That sounds suspiciously like "You kids get off my lawn!" ;)

      • mike weber says:

        Not really; it's just that some of the comics i buy i'm buying more from habit or from hopes that whatever's happening currently in the regular continuity will get better.If they throw in an issue or more that i don't buy, i may never get up the energy to go back to them once the string is broken.

  2. Lee Houston, Junior says:

    Personally, I would love to be writing FOR comics instead of just about them in posts like this.But most publishers seem to be either "closed shops" in regards to not wanting to read writing submissions or only looking for complete packages, and I'll be the first to admit that I cannot draw worth a darn.So while someone more objective than myself would have to judge whether or not I have what it takes to be a comic book writer, HOW am I ever supposed to get the chance to find out?

  3. David says:

    I wouldn't be suprised if he really did go Dalek hunting. Someone on wikipedia thought he fought a demon when he was sixteen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Grant_Morrison#Demon_Fighter

    • David says:

      Okay, in order to read it, you have to copy the entire link. The link stopped at the :.