sounds interesting anyone else think so? On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/grant-morrison-comic-multiversity-pax-americana-dc-entertainment-frank-quitely-375171 > > Comics Legend Grant Morrison Unveils DC's Multiversity Story > [image: Grant Morrison Comic - P 2012] > > *Grant Morrison* is ready to unleash his *Lord of the Rings*. > > Or *Use Your Illusion* or* Citizen Kane*, depending on the analogy the > iconic comics author is using. > > Morrison — in the midst of curating this weekend's MorrisonCon, perhaps > the first comics-plus convention to revolve around one personality — and DC > Entertainment are finally unveiling the long-rumored and long-in-the-works > Multiversity comic book story. > > *PHOTOS: An Exclusive Look at Grant Morrison's Pax > Americana*<http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/grant-morrison-comic-pax-americana-frank-quitely-375066> > > The story is an eight-issue series comprised of six one-shots and a > two-part story, featuring different titles but working under the rubrick of > Multiversity. Each issue features a 38-page lead story and an eight-page > back-up. They are set for release in late 2013. > > Additionally, each issue will be drawn by a different artist, and while DC > is keeping most names under wraps, it is confirming *Frank Quitely* as > the artist for the fourth book, *Pax Americana*. Morrison worked with > Quitely on landmark runs of *All-Star Superman*, *Uncanny X-Men* and *We3*, > among others and Heat Vision presents an exclusive first-look from the book > here. > > Multiversity presents alternate realities and parallel worlds, something > that DC was on the forefront comics-wise when, in 1961, it had the original > Flash from the 1940s meet his more modern counterpart. > > The success of that story, which appeared in Flash #123, allowed DC to > re-introduce its heroes from comics’ golden age and have them fight > side-by-side with the characters that had been relaunched after > superheroes’ near demise in the 1950s. > > An Earth where the Justice League are bad guys and Lex Luthor is the only > hero? Check. A planet where World War II never ended? Yup. > > “There’s something always appealing about a Russian Superman and a vampire > Batman," Morrison tells Heat Vision. “It’s a different way of looking at > the archetypes that we’re familiar with. And I wanted to a really massive > story that would be my *Lord of the Rings *and it would be the best thing > I’ve ever done. Whether it is, I don’t know. But I’ve certainly spent a > long time on it." > > Morrison has been working on the comic for the past six years and he says > he has never approached writing a comic the way he is writing Multiversity. > Nor has he ever spent so much time on a project. > > “Most comics are done in a improvisational way," he explains. “Deadlines > make it so you don’t have a lot of time to really work it and do a lot of > revisions, so most of what you see is first draft. But for this one, I > wanted to do a proper book about superheroes. So I’ve been writing this > more like a screenplay, where you write drafts and then redraft and redraft > again. And basically polish things down to as much as a sheen as I can > possibly manage." > > Each issue will feature comics about the adventures of the previous > story’s heroes, an idea introduced in that historic issue of Flash. > > “If you’re having a war across multiple parallel realities, one way they > can contact each other is to publish comic books that others can read and > know what’s going on," says Morrison. "So in each parallel reality you’ll > see one of them is reading the comic that you just read the month before > and finding out what happend to the good guys, giving them a chance to > defeat the bad guys in the next one. They are kind of passing on, in a > chain, their own adventures." > > *Pax Americana*, being unveiled at MorrisonCon, features heroes such as > the Blue Beetle, The Question and Captain Atom, part of the group of > characters known as the Charlton heroes, named after the company bought by > DC in 1983. The heroes were supposed to be used by *Alan Moore *and *Dave > Gibbons *in the mid-1980s, but after the company saw Moore’s > controversial plans, it balked and made him create new heroes, which led to > the groundbreaking *Watchmen*. > > The *Pax* story revolves around the assassination of a president and how > the Charleston characters failed him. “We’re taking the characters and > applying it back to *Watchmen* and seeing what we could get. Nobody has > really used those Alan Moore tricks in 25 years so it seemed right to take > that very tight, controlled, self-reflecting storytelling and seeing if we > can do something new with it." > > He adds, “It’s not trying to be *Watchmen*, it’s more of an echo of a > storytelling technique of *Watchmen*. >Despite some reports, Multiversity > is not Morrison’s swan song to superheroes. He is leaving the monthly comic > grind after his *Batman Incorporated* run ends with issue 12 and Action > Comics with issue 17 (not the previously reported 16), and says he will > focus on “finite projects." > > “All I ever said is I’m not doing the monthly comics once I finish up * > Batman* and *Superman*. I’ll never leave superhero stuff because I really > enjoy doing it." > > *Email: [email protected]* > > *Twitter: @Borys_Kit* > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > -- Jim blog <http://jimpeluso.wordpress.com> "Keep moving Forward" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. 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