So I’ve been listening to a lot of comics podcasts lately. Maybe it’s because I’ve been working on a novel set within the comics fan/creator vortex… maybe it’s just because these microphone-slingers are having so much damned fun with the material… whatever the reason, I could use some of what they’re having! For the record, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Grant Morrison’
Acid-Free Flashbacks: Strange Adventures #180 (Sept 1965)
Posted in comics, Series: Acid-Free Flashback, tagged "Indian Treasure", acide free bags and boards, Animal Man, Animal Powers, Buddy Baker, Carmine Infantino, Elephant, Gorila, Grant Morrison, Infantinophant, Palisades Park, podcasters, Sea Lion, The G.I. Joe Club, Tiger, Xemnu the Titan on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Stark Night of the Soul
Posted in comics, tagged Cameron Stewart, Grant Morrison on July 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We’ll begin with overstatement–just so you know it’s me: Grant Morrison’s entire career has been a sustained meditation upon the problem of free will. In the boggiest regions of the oeuvre (i.e. The Filth), the very notion of a “self” is boiled down into a kind of broth salted by otherness. These narratives strain out [...]
