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Grant MorrisonMBE (born 31 January 1960)[1] is a Scottishcomic book writer,screenwriter, and producer. Their work is known for itsnonlinear narratives,humanist philosophy andcountercultural leanings. Morrison has written extensively for the American comic book publisherDC Comics, penning lengthy runs onAnimal Man,Doom Patrol,JLA,Action Comics, andGreen Lantern as well as the graphic novelsArkham Asylum,JLA: Earth 2, andWonder Woman: Earth One, the meta-seriesSeven Soldiers andThe Multiversity, the mini-seriesDC One Million andFinal Crisis, both of which served as centrepieces for the eponymous company-wide crossover storylines, and the maxi-seriesAll-Star Superman. Morrison's best known DC work is the seven-yearBatman storyline which started in theBatman ongoing series and continued throughFinal Crisis,Batman and Robin,Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne and two volumes ofBatman Incorporated. They also co-created the DC characterDamian Wayne.
Morrison's creator-owned work, the bulk of which was published through DC Comics'Vertigo imprint, includesFlex Mentallo andWe3 with Scottish artistFrank Quitely,Seaguy with artistCameron Stewart,The Filth withChris Weston, and the three-volume seriesThe Invisibles. AtMarvel, Morrison wrote a three-year run onNew X-Men and createdMarvel Boy for the publisher'sMarvel Knights imprint.
Between 2016 and 2018, Morrison served as the editor-in-chief of theHeavy Metal magazine.
Morrison's work has drawn critical acclaim. They have won numerous awards, includingEisner,Harvey, andInkpot awards. In 2012, Morrison was appointed Member of theOrder of the British Empire (MBE) for services to film and literature.
Grant Morrison was born inGlasgow,Scotland, in 1960. They were educated atAllan Glen's School[2] where their first portfolio of art was rejected by their careers guidance teacher, who encouraged them to work in a bank. Their first published works wereGideon Stargrave strips forNear Myths in 1978 (when they were about 17),[3] one of the first British alternative comics. Their work appeared in four of the five issues ofNear Myths[4] and they were suitably encouraged to find more comic work. This included a weekly comic strip,Captain Clyde, an unemployed superhero based in Glasgow, forThe Govan Press, a local newspaper, plus various issues ofDC Thomson'sStarblazer, the science fiction counterpart to that company'sCommando title.
Morrison spent much of the early 1980s touring and recording with their band The Mixers, occasionally writingStarblazer for D.C. Thomson and contributing to various UK indie titles. In 1982, Morrison submitted a proposal involving theJustice League of America andJack Kirby'sNew Gods entitledSecond Coming toDC Comics, but it was not commissioned. After writingThe Liberators forDez Skinn'sWarrior in 1985, Morrison started work forMarvel UK the following year. There they wrote comic strips forDoctor Who Magazine, the final one a collaboration with a then-teenageBryan Hitch, as well as a run on theZoids strip inSpider-Man and Zoids. 1986 also saw publication of Morrison's first of several two- or three-pageFuture Shocks for2000 AD.
Morrison's first continuing serial began in2000 AD in 1987,[4] when they andSteve Yeowell createdZenith.
Morrison's work onZenith brought them to the attention of DC Comics, who asked Morrison to work for them. They accepted Morrison's proposals forAnimal Man,[5] a little-known character from DC's past whose most notable recent appearance was acameo in theCrisis on Infinite Earthslimited series, and for a 48-pageBatman one-shot that would eventually becomeArkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.
Animal Man put Morrison in line with the "British Invasion" of American comics,[6][7] along with such writers asNeil Gaiman,Peter Milligan,Jamie Delano, andAlan Moore, who had launched the "invasion" with his work onSwamp Thing.[8]
After impressing withAnimal Man, Morrison was asked to take overDoom Patrol, starting theirsurreal take on the superhero genre with issue No. 19 in 1989.[9] Morrison'sDoom Patrol introduced concepts such asdadaism and the writings ofJorge Luis Borges into the first several issues.[10] DC publishedArkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth in 1989 as a 128-page graphic novel painted byDave McKean.[11] Comics historianLes Daniels observed in 1995 that "Arkham Asylum was an unprecedented success, selling 182,166 copies in hardcover and another 85,047 in paperback."[12]
While working for DC Comics in America, Morrison kept contributing to British indie titles, writingSt. Swithin's Day forTrident Comics.St. Swithin's Day's anti-Margaret Thatcher themes proved controversial, provoking a smalltabloid press reaction and a complaint fromConservativeMember of Parliament (MP)Teddy Taylor.[13] The controversy continued with the publication ofThe New Adventures of Hitler in Scottish music and lifestyle magazineCut in 1989, due to its use ofAdolf Hitler as its lead character.[14] The strip, unfinished whenCut folded, was reprinted and completed inFleetway's2000 AD spin-off titleCrisis.
Two plays staged by Oxygen House at theEdinburgh Fringe had scripts by Morrison.[15]Red King Rising (1989) concerned an imagined relationship betweenLewis Carroll andAlice Liddell. The other,Depravity (1990) concerned the BritishoccultistAleister Crowley. The plays won between them a Fringe First Award, the Independent Theatre Award for 1989 and the Evening Standard Award for New Drama.[16]
Morrison returned to Batman with the "Gothic" story arc in issues 6–10 of the Batman titleBatman: Legends of the Dark Knight.[17] The early 1990s saw Morrison revampingKid Eternity for DC with artistDuncan Fegredo, andDan Dare, with artistRian Hughes. Morrison coloured Dare's bright future withThatcherism in Fleetway'sRevolver.[18]
In 1991 Morrison wroteBible John-A Forensic Meditation for Fleetway'sCrisis, based on an analysis of possible motivations for the crimes of theserial killerBible John. Covering similar themes to Alan Moore andEddie Campbell'sFrom Hell,[19] the work utilised cut-up techniques, aOuija board andcollage rather than conventional panels to tell the story.[20]
In 1993 Morrison, fellow Glaswegian comic writerMark Millar andJohn Smith were asked to reinvigorate2000 AD for an eight-week run called "The Summer Offensive". Morrison wroteJudge Dredd andReally and Truly, and co-wrote the controversialBig Dave with Millar.[21]
DC Comics launched itsVertigo imprint in 1993, publishing several of Morrison's creator-owned projects, such as thesteampunk mini-seriesSebastian O and the graphic novelThe Mystery Play. 1995 saw the release ofKill Your Boyfriend, with artistPhilip Bond, originally published as aVertigo Voices one-shot. In 1996 Morrison wroteFlex Mentallo, aDoom Patrol spin-off with art byFrank Quitely,[22] and returned briefly to DC Universe superheroics with the short-livedAztek, co-written with Mark Millar.[23]
In 1996, Morrison was given theJustice League of America to revamp asJLA,[24] a comic book that gathered the "Big Seven" superheroes of theDC universe into one team. This run was hugely popular and returned the title to best-selling status.[25] Morrison wrote several issues ofThe Flash with Mark Millar, as well as DC's crossover event of 1998, the four-issue mini-seriesDC One Million,[26] in addition to plotting many of the multiple crossovers.
With the three volumes of the creator-ownedThe Invisibles, Morrison started their largest and possibly most important work.[27]The Invisibles combined political, pop- and sub-cultural references. Tapping into pre-millennial tension, the work was influenced by the writings ofRobert Anton Wilson,Aleister Crowley andWilliam Burroughs, and Morrison's practice ofchaos magic inThee Temple ov Psychick Youth.[28][29] In 1998 Morrison published the prose piece "I'm A Policeman" inSarah Champion's millennial short story collectionDisco 2000; though no explicit connection toThe Invisibles is made, there are strong thematic links between the two works.[30] AtDisinfoCon in 1999, Morrison said that much of the content inThe Invisibles was information given to them by aliens that abducted them inKathmandu, who told them to spread this information to the world via a comic book. They later clarified that the experience they labelled as the "Alien Abduction Experience in Kathmandu" had nothing to do with aliens or abduction, but that there was an experience that they had in Kathmandu thatThe Invisibles is an attempt to explain.[31] The title was not a huge commercial hit to start with. (Morrison actually asked their readers to participate in a "wankathon" while concentrating on a magical symbol, orsigil, in an effort to boost sales).[32] When the title was relaunched with volume two, the characters relocated to America. Volume three appeared with issue numbers counting down, signalling an intention to conclude the series with the turn of the newmillennium in 2000. Due to the title shipping late, its final issue did not ship until April 2000.[4]
The 1999 filmThe Matrix has numerous elements which have been attributed by critics to the influence of Morrison'sThe Invisibles.[33] Morrison was immediately struck by the similarities to their own work upon first seeing the film.[34][35]
In 2000, Morrison's graphic novelJLA: Earth 2 was released with art byFrank Quitely.[36] It was Morrison's last mainstream work for DC for a while, as they moved toMarvel Comics. While at Marvel, Morrison wrote the six-partMarvel Boy series,[37][38] andFantastic Four: 1234, their take on another major superhero team. In July 2001, they began writing the mainX-Men title, renamedNew X-Men for their run, with Quitely providing much of the art.[39][40] Again, Morrison's revamping of a major superhero team proved to be a commercial success, with the title jumping to the No. 1 sales spot[41] and established Morrison as the kind of creator whose name on a title would guarantee sales.[42] Their penultimate arc "Planet X" depicted the villainMagneto infiltrating and defeating the X-Men in the guise of new characterXorn and developing an addiction to the power-enhancing drug "Kick".[43][44]
In 2002, Morrison launched their next creator-owned project at Vertigo:The Filth, drawn byChris Weston andGary Erskine, a 13-part mini-series.[45][46] That same year, Morrison sold the screenplaySleepless Knights toDreamWorks withGuillermo del Toro attached to direct.[47][48] Around the same time, Morrison was working on the script for the sequel to theMarvel Boy mini-series,[49] but the project ultimately failed to materialize.[50][51] In 2004, Vertigo published three Morrison mini-series.Seaguy,We3,[52] andVimanarama. Morrison returned to the JLA with the first story in a new anthology series,JLA Classified.
In 2005 Morrison wroteSeven Soldiers,[53] which featuredthe Manhattan Guardian,Mister Miracle,Klarion the Witch Boy,Bulleteer,Frankenstein,Zatanna andShining Knight. The series consists of seven interlinked four-issuemini-series with two "bookend" volumes – 30 issues in all.Dan DiDio, the editorial vice president of DC Comics, was impressed with Morrison's ideas for revitalising many of DC's redundant characters. Giving them the unofficial title of "revamp guy", DiDio asked them to assist in sorting out the DC Universe in the wake of theInfinite Crisis.[54] Morrison was one of the writers on52,[55] a year-long weekly comic book series that started in May 2006 and concluded in May 2007.[4]
Starting in November 2005, DC publishedAll-Star Superman,[56] a twelve-issue story arc by Morrison and Frank Quitely. Not so much a revamp orreboot of Superman, the series presents an out-of-continuity "iconic" Superman for new readers.All-Star Superman won the Eisner Award for Best New Series in 2006, the Best Continuing Series Eisner Award in 2007 and several Eagle Awards in the UK. It won three Harvey Awards in 2008 and the Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series in 2009.[57] In the same year, Morrison and Quitely worked on pop starRobbie Williams' albumIntensive Care, providing intricateTarot card designs for the packaging and cover of the CD.[58]
Morrison provided outline story and script work for two video games,Battlestar Galactica (2003) andPredator: Concrete Jungle (2005), both byVivendi Universal.[16] In 2006,New Line Cinema optionedWe3 as a film project with Morrison attached as screenwriter.[59][60] The following year, Morrison wrote the adaptation of the video gameArea 51 home console game[61] for Paramount in development withCFP Productions producing.
In 2006 Morrison was voted as the No. 2 favourite comic book writer of all time byComic Book Resources.[27] That same year, Morrison began writingBatman for DC withissue No. 655,[62] reintroducing the character ofDamian Wayne and signalling the beginning of a seven-year-long run on the character across multiple titles. They wrote relaunches ofThe Authority andWildcats,[63] with the art ofGene Ha andJim Lee respectively, for DC'sWildstorm imprint.WildC.A.T.S. went on hiatus after one issue,The Authority was discontinued after two. The scheduling ofThe Authority conflicted with52 and Morrison was unhappy with the reviews: "And then I saw the reviews on issue one and I just thought 'fuck this'.".[64] It eventually concluded without Morrison's involvement inKeith Giffen'sThe Authority: The Lost Year.
At the 2007San Diego Comic-Con, DC Comics announced that Morrison would writeFinal Crisis, a seven-issue mini-series slated to appear in 2008 withJ. G. Jones handling the art.[65] Morrison announced that 2008 would see publication of the follow-up to 2004'sSeaguy calledSeaguy 2: The Slaves of Mickey Eye, the second part of a planned three part series.[66][67]
At the 2008New York Comic Con, Morrison announced they would be working withVirgin Comics to produce "webisodes" (short animated stories) based on theMahābhārata; it would not be a direct translation but, "Like the Beatles took Indian music and tried to make psychedelic sounds... I'm trying to convert Indian storytelling to a western style for people raised on movies, comics, and video games."[68] In August 2009, Morrison and Frank Quitely launched theBatman and Robin series.[69]
Batman No. 700 (Aug. 2010) saw the return of Morrison to the title and a collaboration with an art team that consisted ofTony Daniel, Frank Quitely,Andy Kubert, andDavid Finch. The separate stories tied together to illustrate that the legacy of Batman is unending, and will survive into the future.[70] AtSan Diego Comic-Con in 2010 it was announced that Grant Morrison would be leavingBatman and Robin with No. 16 and launching a new series entitledBatman Incorporated with revolving artists starting withYanick Paquette.[71] A more team-oriented Batman book inspired by theBatman: The Brave and the Bold animated series,[72][73]Batman Incorporated builds on Morrison's work dating back to "Batman and Son" andFinal Crisis, with Bruce Wayne creating an international Batman franchise all over the world. The series suffered from slow scheduling and was ended after eight issues while the DC Universe was rebooted in 2011; to bridge the gap a prestige book was released that featured two issues together along with a synopsis that recapped the story so far. In mid-2012, a second volume of the comic was launched withChris Burnham on artwork, scheduled for 12 issues.[74][75] Morrison left the Batman titles in 2013. They killed theDamian Wayne character inBatman Incorporated No. 8 (April 2013)[76] and their final issue was No. 13 (Sept. 2013).[77]
Morrison returned to creator-owned work in 2010 with the eight issue Vertigo seriesJoe the Barbarian, launched in January with artistSean Murphy.[78] Originally a six issue series, Morrison felt that the story would benefit from an extra two issues. The titular Joe is a diabetic young boy who begins to hallucinate a fantasy world populated with his toys and other fantasy characters when he stops taking his medication.[79]
Following the closure of Virgin Comics,Dynamite Entertainment andLiquid Comics announced a partnership to publish a hardcover of illustrated scripts of Grant Morrison's Mahābhārata-based, animated project18 Days with illustrations by artist Mukesh Singh, that was released in August 2010.[80][81] They are the subject of a feature-length documentary titledGrant Morrison: Talking with Gods. The documentary features extensive interviews with Morrison as well as a number of comic artists, editors and professionals they have worked closely with.[82]Talking with Gods was produced bySequart Organization and was released in 2010 at San Diego Comic-Con.[83]
Another 2010 project wasBonnyroad, a science fiction television series pitched by Morrison to theBBC Morrison pitched with directorPaul McGuigan andStephen Fry.[84]
In June 2011, as part of DC Comics' massive revamp of its entire superhero line, Morrison was announced as the writer on the newAction Comics No. 1, teaming with artistRags Morales, marking Morrison's return to the Superman character after the end ofAll Star Superman.[85]
In July 2011, Morrison's analysis of superheroes,Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero, was published byRandom HouseSpiegel & Grau in the United States andJonathan Cape in the UK.[86]
Morrison has written a screenplay for a film entitledSinatoro.[87] In 2011 they worked on the screenplayDinosaurs vs Aliens forSam Worthington's production company, Full Clip Production, and said they planned to work with them again on a screenplay based on the2000 AD story "Rogue Trooper".[88]
Morrison was appointedMember of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to film and literature.[89]
In September 2012, Morrison published their first everImage Comics creator-owned work: Happy! with Darick Robertson. In the same month, MorrisonCon was held at theHard Rock Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas). This small-scale convention, curated by Morrison, featured a number of comics industry guests, includingRobert Kirkman,Darick Robertson,Jason Aaron,Jim Lee,Gerard Way,Jonathan Hickman,Frank Quitely,J. H. Williams III, and Chris Burnham.[90]
In September 2014, as part ofLegendary Comics' big foray into the industry, Morrison launched another key creator-owned book:Annihilator withFrazer Iving. A six-issue mini-series, Annihilator was informed by the writings of Thomas Ligotti, and other nihilistic philosophers, and played with the idea of the satanic archetype.[91] A work of cosmic horror, it stars a monstrous Hollywood screenwriter named Ray Spass in his attempts to finish the script for the next tentpole blockbuster, while coming into contact with the character he's writing about: the diabolical Max Nomax, The Devil himself.[92]
In February 2015, Morrison's secondImage project ever launched in the creator-owned titleNameless, with frequent collaboratorChris Burnham.[93] A tale of apocalyptic cosmic horror, Nameless sought to approach the genre from a new lens, with different influences, rather than lean to its iconic founderH.P Lovecraft, drawing on everything from the Tarot to The Qlippoth.
In November 2015, Morrison began their biggest creator-owned project of the decade, collaborating withBOOM! Studios for the very first time to doKlaus with Dan Mora and Ed Dukeshire.[94]
Morrison'sThe Multiversity project for DC was published in 2014 and 2015. Ametaseries of nine one-shots set in some of the 52 worlds in the DC Multiverse,[95][96] it included the mainMultiversity title which involves the return of President Calvin Ellis, the black Superman from Earth 23 originally seen inAction Comics vol. 2 No. 9, which was the framing for the whole series.[97] Other issues includeThe Society of Super-Heroes a pulp version of the DC characters;[98]The Just – set on a world of celebrity youngsters;[99]Pax Americana, drawn byFrank Quitely,[100][101]Thunder World – aCaptain Marvel book;[102] theMultiversity Guidebook;[103]Mastermen – which includes a fascist version of theJustice League.[104] andUltra Comics.[105]
In 2016, Morrison became editor-in-chief of the comics anthologyHeavy Metal. Their involvement lasted until 2018. During the period, they penned such strips asIndustria,The Rise and Fall of Empires, both with frequent collaborator and old friend Rian Hughes. Other strips includedThe Smile of the Absent Cat with artistGerhard, as well asMythopia,Beachhead,Option 3,Nihilophilia,Ten Sounds That Represent a Kind of Person: A Historical Parody, The House of Heart's Desire, and Beyond the Word and the Fool, with many others. Morrison also penned several editorials for the magazine during this period, whilst writing occasional prose stories forAhoy Comics backup features.
In 2017, Morrison co-created theSyfy TV seriesHappy!, which starredChristopher Meloni andPatton Oswalt. It commenced its second season in 2019.[106]
In November 2018, Morrison and artistLiam Sharp launched a newGreen Lantern comic entitledThe Green Lantern for DC Comics.[107] Following the success of the first season ofThe Green Lantern, a second season was announced, to be published in 2020[108] but beforehand there was a Blackstars mini-series dealing with the ending ofSeason One, launched in November 2019.[109]
"Season Two" of Morrison'sGreen Lantern series withLiam Sharp began in 2020 and completed in March 2021 alongside the release of their third and final volume of theWonder Woman: Earth One series.[110]
Morrison co-created and worked as a writer and producer on the 2020 TV seriesBrave New World for thePeacock Streaming Service, having developed it for adaptation.[111]
In early 2021, it was announced that a new comic calledProctor Valley Road would be released, developed by Morrison in partnership with NBCUniversal. NBCUniversal's UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, will also adapt the series for television.[112] The first issue was published byBoom! Studios in March 2021.[113]
In March 2021 it was announced that Morrison would write a four-issue series entitledSuperman and The Authority, illustrated by Mikel Janin, to be published by DC in late 2021.[114]
In a 2022 newsletter, Morrison revealed they had pitched ideas forSeries 8 ofDoctor Who to seriesshowrunnerSteven Moffat. These included a story featuring a child version ofthe Doctor, as well as a new potential villain. None were commissioned, though the BBC offered to buy the rights to Morrison's villains. (The latter declined).[115] Later that year, Morrison publishedLuda, their debut prose novel.[116]
In May 2025, it was announced that Morrison would be penning the crossover one-shotBatman/Deadpool. The one-shot, illustrated by Dan Mora, would mark the first time Marvel and DC's characters would properly crossover with each other sinceJLA/Avengers. It is set to be published by DC on an undisclosed date that same year. It will be accompanied by another one-shot, published by Marvel, entitledDeadpool/Batman, written byZeb Wells and illustrated byGreg Capullo.[117]
In a 2011 interview, Morrison stated that they and their wife Kristan had no children. When asked if they regretted this, Morrison replied, "Slightly but I don't know. Every time I think of it I think of the reality of it. I really like kids and I get on with them and it's that aspect of it but I see people with actual kids. The trauma and the trouble. And if I'm worried that my cat is sick it's the thought of everyday worrying about a kid would be even more hellish."[118][119]
Morrison is a believer and practitioner ofchaos magic.[120] They have claimed to have beenabducted by aliens in 1994 inKathmandu, having traveled there with the intent of being abducted.[121]
Morrison usessingularthey pronouns.[122][123][124] In a 2020 interview withMondo2000, Morrison mentioned that they "had beennon-binary,cross-dressing, 'gender queer'", from the age of 10 years old but didn't have the vocabulary to describe how they felt at the time.[125] Speaking later of the article, Morrison said that they hated being perceived as only recentlycoming out: "I'm 62 years old—I had my sexuality shit figured out a long time ago!"[122] Morrison later said they rejected labels and that "I can't live in a box. I'm going to let down anyone who sticks a label on me. It will drop off quite naturally."[126] They later wrote that though they do not use the label non-binary, they acknowledge that, depending on the definition, "perhaps the shoe fits after all".[127] They also wrote that while they never requested to be referred to bythey/them pronouns, they have come to prefer them.[128] However, they do not mind being referred to withhe/him pronouns.[123]
Grant Morrison first appeared as a comics character in cameos inAnimal Man Nos. 11 and 14. They made a full appearance at the end of issue No. 25 in 1990, and spent most of issue No. 26 in a lengthy conversation with the comic's title character. The character appeared the next year inSuicide Squad No. 58, written byJohn Ostrander, as a character named Writer who was one of several minor characters killed in one of the series' trademarksuicide missions.[129][130] They were depicted in an issue ofSimpsons Comics, fighting with fellowX-Men writer Mark Millar.[131]
In Morrison's 2005–2006Seven Soldiers miniseries and its tie-ins, Morrison appears as the renegade member of eight "reality engineers" and transforms intoSilver Age character Zor, then back into a character resembling Morrison in a magician's costume, though with dark hair and a beard. After the renegade's defeat, Morrison, wearing a DC Comics-logotie clip, becomes the narrator for the final chapter.[132] The miniseriesTales of the Unexpected features Morrison along with their52 co-writersGeoff Johns,Greg Rucka andMark Waid.[133][134] InDarwyn Cooke'sDC: The New Frontier, Morrison was the physical model for Captain Cold.[135]
Morrison also appeared as themself in the ninth episode of thefourth season ofTitans, titled "Dude, Where’s My Gar?"[136][137]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths | Animated film Based onJLA: Earth 2 |
| 2011 | All-Star Superman | Animated film Based onAll-Star Superman |
| 2014 | Son of Batman | Animated film Based onBatman and Son |
| 2017–2019 | Happy! | Live-action series Based onHappy! |
| 2019–2023 | Doom Patrol | Live-action series Based onDoom Patrol |
| 2024–present | X-Men '97 | Animated series Based in part onNew X-Men |
| 2025 | Superman | Live-action film Partially inspired byAll-Star Superman |
Writer Grant Morrison was about to go where no writer had gone before: into the pages of [their] own comic book.
[Alan Moore's] commercial breakthrough came in 1983, when he took overSaga of the Swamp Thing...his success led directly to American comics' 'British invasion' of writers, notably Neil Gaiman (The Sandman), Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, and Warren Ellis, all of whom have made much of his castoffs.
Grant Morrison stepped up to the plate to pen [Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight's] next five-issue storyline, illustrated by Klaus Janson.
Writer Grant Morrison and artist J. G. Jones introduced a new Marvel Boy in this six-issue Marvel Knights miniseries.
While longtime readers of this magazine have heard Morrison's name on any number of occasions, it's worth noting that the renowned writer was anything but a surefire guarantor of increased sales prior to his run onNew X-Men.
Indeed, after he's put the finishing touches to theDinosaurs vs Aliens script, a prolific Grant is creating a movie adaptation for Sam Worthington's company. CalledRogue Trooper, the project is based on a character from the popular British comic book series2000AD.
The third issue in the series featured visuals by Ben Oliver.
The fourth issue of the series, 'Pax Americana' with art by Frank Quitely, colors by Nathan Fairbairn and letters by Rob Leigh, is probably the most widely anticipated of the series, and certainly the most-hyped.
Readers were introduced to the Earth-5 version of Captain Marvel while also being treated to a reunion of Morrison and [their] frequent collaborator, artist Cameron Stewart.
With this week's release ofThe Multiversity Guidebook, Grant Morrison has supplemented [their] already mind-bending epic story with a map to the DC Multiverse.
In this week's world-hoppingUltra Comics chapter of Grant Morrison'sThe Multiversity, artist Doug Mahnke helped the writer define Earth 33 – the supposed "real" world, yet one that's clearly re-focused through the writer's mind-bending lens.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)So yes and yes again; I'm much happier being described as 'they' but I won't give anyone a hard time for using any other pronoun.
In the author blurb of the American edition of Luna — a UK edition follows next year — Morrison uses the pronoun 'they', a description applied to him after an interview which he now sees as akin to an 'honorary degree.'
I said that if I had been doing now what I was doing back in the 1990s I would be viewed as non-binary or gender queer. Suddenly it was taken up by the fan press and I was awarded the label 'they/them'. I never asked for it. I come from a generation where that just doesn't matter, even being labelled at all is anathema to me.
If 'non-binary' means to reject fixed male and female categories as inadequate to one's personal understanding and instead to identify with a 'colour wheel' of available gender orientations and modes of presentation, then perhaps the shoe fits after all.
As it turns out, I much prefer 'they' to 'he', if I'm being honest!
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| Preceded by | Doom Patrol writer 1989–1993 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | JLA writer 1997–2000 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Mark Waid Brian Augustyn | The Flash writer 1997–1998 (withMark Millar) | Succeeded by Mark Waid Brian Augustyn |
| Preceded by | New X-Men writer 2001–2004 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Batman writer 2006–2009 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Wildcats writer 2006 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | The Authority writer 2006–2007 | Succeeded by Christos Gage |
| Preceded by n/a | Batman and Robin writer 2009–2010 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Batman writer 2010 | Succeeded by Tony Daniel |
| Preceded by Paul Cornell | Action Comics writer 2011–2013 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Green Lantern writer 2019–2021 | Succeeded by |