Comments on: Grant Morrison Chastized by Grant Morrison Fans for not recognizing the genius of Grant Morrison

By: Patent Dragon

Patent Dragon — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:13:01 +0000

If you ever seen the man, buy him a drink and tell him it's from me. No hard feelings.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:23:55 +0000

I'm with Apodaca on this one. For my tastes Morrison's work ranges from incomprehensible through to comprehensible but boring through to genius, but seeing him pissed on telly wouldn't change my opinion of him one way or the other.

By: Acidhag

Acidhag — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:40:18 +0000

Ellis = one part Hunter Thompson, reduced to surface elements then watered-down; add ideas already introduced by better Brits; mix with B-movie dialog and action; serve with carefully crafted tuff-guy, alcoholic image.

And apparently people buy it.

By: PÃ³l Rua

PÃ³l Rua — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:24:48 +0000

Whatever Ellis' response, you can be sure it contains the word 'shiteyes'. I think he signs his personal letters with that these days... 'shiteyes' or 'splode'. One of them.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:16:21 +0000

Thing is, I never ACTUALLY criticised Morrisonâ€™s WORK.

And that was exactly why I felt the need to respond. It seemed like you were criticising him just for the sake of criticising him. I thought that was pretty lame.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:13:43 +0000

Alcohol can, unfortunately, make apparently balanced people into idiots, and that I have a problem with, with good reason.

Nah, see I think the "good reason" thing is where I say you're being silly. I mean, what's the good reason for you having a problem with Grant Morrison being drunk on TV? Did he catcall your girlfriend or something?

By: Patent Dragon

Patent Dragon — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:49:25 +0000

Thing is, I never ACTUALLY criticised Morrison's WORK. The only time I mentioned it (We3), I said I enjoyed it. Apodaca's response just SEEMED to come across as the kind of rabid "Church of Morrison" thing which was the focus of my post. So yeah, you might just have misread it - it happens. There are a whole heap of people in my record, comic and DVD collections who drink, and I don't think any less of them because of it. Alcohol can, unfortunately, make apparently balanced people into idiots, and that I have a problem with, with good reason. Just doesn't impress me, no sir. We now return you to your regular scheduled programming.

By: km

km — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:18:25 +0000

My apologies to all concerned. Fools rushing in, and all that...

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:20:34 +0000

Itâ€™s OK. Apodaca just has a congenital inability to not take things seriously.

Just goes to show you don't know me at all. I don't take anything seriously and often get shit for being irreverent.

I was making fun of PD. Laughing at his expense (irreverence). If he was being sarcastic, then I just misread it.

By: Ben Herman

Ben Herman — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:33:17 +0000

Um, wait, it's mid-July, not April 1st. I'm so confused!

By: bryan

bryan — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:25:15 +0000

Hilarious!

By: Lothor

Lothor — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:38:15 +0000

My bad re the quote thing. Sorry.

By: ATOM HOTEP

ATOM HOTEP — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:09:13 +0000

Man, I sure hope at least one person in this comments section is kidding.

By: Prankster

Prankster — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:43:56 +0000

This comment thread is getting almost as confusing as Bizarro Sarcasm.

By: Mullon

Mullon — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:07:32 +0000

Now I'm confused about who is being serious and who is being ironic here.

On the one hand, it did seem like people were picking the new All-Star apart.

On the other hand, its always annoying to see people who cannot admit they screwed up.

The only really bad part about the story as far as I could see was the plot hole they left when they just ignored Lois Lane becoming African American. I'm still wondering how that happened.

By: km

km — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:44:27 +0000

It's OK. Apodaca just has a congenital inability to not take things seriously.

Cute article, Brad.

By: Patent Dragon

Patent Dragon — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:09:30 +0000

Huh...?

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:59:18 +0000

I know, man. Nobody cool EVER drinks alcohol. You're the real hero, Patent Dragon, for refusing to be swayed by things like "quality" and "skill". What really matters is if you're different enough from other people that you can define your personality by that. Contrarians rule! You're so much better than me. Mostly because you haven't read some of the most brilliant comic books ever made. That probably makes you smarter too, knowing less.

By: Nitz the Bloody

Nitz the Bloody — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:56:37 +0000

Very clever article, Mr. Curran. Another good article title would have been " Alternate Universe Where Grant Morrison Is Held Accountable For Storytelling Errors Discovered ".

By: Patent Dragon

Patent Dragon — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:27:32 +0000

Excuse me, but I'd just like to say that I've never bought into the "Grant Morrison is God" crap. I have never once been inspired to pick up a title, or a single issue because his name was on it.

I only bought We3 because I liked the concept. I enjoyed it.

Just for the record.

Oh, and I happened, late one night, to see a piece on some arts programme about him, and he was talking at a con or something and he was pissed out of his head. My what a hero...