I'm more interested now than I was when I first heard about this project. Shag
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 30, 2012, at 2:01 PM, James Peluso <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > 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 > > 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 > "Keep moving Forward" > > -- > 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. -- 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]. 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