Comments on: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #189

By: Ramon Martinez

Ramon Martinez — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:40:48 +0000

Definitely one of my favourite jobs from Morrison… although the invisibles is THE novel

By: simon

simon — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:56:40 +0000

I’m baffled that anyone could call this bleak little story “joycore,” or indeed joyful at all. For me, it’s precisely the fact that KYB is uncynical that makes it so profoundly unappealing to me. It is the apotheosis of GM’s least appealing trait– his conflation of coolness and worthiness. The book always seemed to skirt a weird and queasy kind of pop-fascism, in which being uncool was essentially the same thing as not deserving to live. Being cool and sexy, by contrast, could justify almost anything.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:59:05 +0000

See, books like this are the reason the swooning over All-Star Superman seems overdone to me. THIS is the one to swoon over.

What, we can only swoon over one at a time? Not to mention the fact that one of the aforementioned series’ is currently being published. Kind of plays a major part in the amount of praise it’s currently receiving.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:59:35 +0000

I’d argue Kill Your Boyfriend was the most perfect comic Morrison’s ever wrote. There’s more ambitious work. There’s more pop work. But KYBF’s black-farce has an obsidian-skin that’s just perfect.

It’s also a great way to get a quick personality reading on someone. A person’s response to it says a lot. Were I still an over-judgemental teenager stil, it’s “If you hate it, we can’t be friends” comic.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:05:45 +0000

I thought this was about the weakest thing Morrison ever wrote. A silly inconsequential bit of fun, maybe, but I was a bit bored by it.

Nice art though

By: The Cosh

The Cosh — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:48:09 +0000

After 188 days, it really is a Reason To Love Comics today. One of my absolute favourites: funny, clever, stupid and beautiful. Almost perfect in fact.

Also possibly responsible for convincing me to make a rather foolish decision: carpe diem and all that, eh?

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:31:06 +0000

It’s not cynical. Trust me. Grant Morrison has never written a cynical comic book in his life.

By: Mullon

Mullon — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:03:20 +0000

I don’t know…it looks a little too cynical and bitter for me.

I wasn’t that big a fan of Heathers either.

By: Chuck T.

Chuck T. — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:10:25 +0000

It’s out of print again? Fie. I have both floppy and spined versions, and used to lend them out guardedly. It’ll be back.

By: Matthew Lazorwitz

Matthew Lazorwitz — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:09:11 +0000

It took me nearly two years to track one of these down, but man was it worth it. I found the original, no-spine version of it, and I just loved it. It’s Morrison at his most biting, and Philip Bond (who I think is one of the most under-rated artists in comics) at some of his best. Just an incredible piece.

By: Stephane Savoie

Stephane Savoie — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:57:31 +0000

I know he won’t make the list, but I thought Aztek to be a highly entertaining and imaginative book. It would be a shame for Zenith to be left off, since it’s Mozz’s start, and he explores many of his early themes here. Everything else seems straightforward.

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:16:53 +0000

To Stealthwise:

Try E-bay or http://www.dougcomicworld.com/

Good luck.

By: stealthwise

stealthwise — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:04:43 +0000

I want this comic! Dammit, I’ve been passively hunting for it for over two years now, along with Marvel Boy. Stupid companies and their letting-everything-go-out-of-printness.

By: Rebis

Rebis — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:36:02 +0000

“Which will be showcased next?!?” Indeed, that’s fun to ponder. Well, based on a previous Reason to Love Comics, I’d say Bill’s got Seaguy on call. We3 and Flex Mentallo are both a must, as are Animal Man and Doom Patrol. (I can’t take any Morrison list seriously if those last two aren’t on it.) That’s five more entries right there …

What might the last one be? The anticipation is part of the fun … !

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:22:54 +0000

I loved this book when it first came out!

I nearly shed a tear when the girl’s dying lover says to her that they never got to do anal sex.

Invisibles. The Filth. Doom Patrol. JLA. New X-men.
Seven Soldiers. Marvel Boy.

Which will be showcased next?!?

Go, Whorrisons, go!
Ya rulez!

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:21:31 +0000

“Iâ€™ve never read this but it does look like the kind of thing that would appeal to the hipster Ghost World loving crowd.”

Which is what comics people mean when they say things like “the true mainstream.” The actual American mainstream wouldn’t touch this with a ten-yard pole.

By: jccalhoun

jccalhoun — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:42:51 +0000

I’ve never read this but it does look like the kind of thing that would appeal to the hipster Ghost World loving crowd. It seems like there is a lot of stuff from Vertigo as well as DC’s Paradox Press and Piranha Press that they should put back in print (if they own rights to it. They might not which could be one reason DC hasn’t reissued it).

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:31:24 +0000

See, books like this are the reason the swooning over All-Star Superman seems overdone to me. THIS is the one to swoon over. So of course it’s out of print and impossible to find, while Morrison’s JLA and Superman stuff has never been out of print from the moment it hit the stands.

If DC had figured out a way to get this book into, say, record stores, it would have outsold Meltzer’s Justice League ten to one. Think what one of those cardboard stand-up book-bin displays could have done with this book just parked by the checkout line of, oh, Virgin or Silver Platters or Sam Goody’s or something. Meanwhile, I am pretty sure this was hardly a blip in comics shops. We SAY we want something New and Different and when it shows up we scream and flee. Sigh.

By: Patrick Joseph

Patrick Joseph — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:12:23 +0000

This is the comic, in it’s original no-spine-having first printing, that got me into Grant Morrison. The snappy, perfect art, the snappy, perfect dialog. It’s gleeful satire, dark but the polar opposite of nihilism. A truly perfect comic which immediately lead me to reading the first dozen issues of the Invisibles back in 1995.

That it is out of print is utterly baffling. It’s not like he wronged the Charles Atlas people with this one.

It would have been a delightful addendum to the Vimanarama collection.