Morrison is very hit and mis for me. Some of his stuff is very creative and fun to read, and some of it pretensious gibberish. I will have to play this one by ear.
On Sunday, September 30, 2012 3:07:09 PM UTC-4, Shag wrote: > 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]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > sounds interesting anyone else think so? > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Cary Preston <[email protected]<javascript:> > > 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] <javascript:>* >> >> *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]<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> 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. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:>. > 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. 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