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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 21, 2022 16:46:55 GMT -5
I haven't seen a cause of death given as of yet but I just heard that Alan Grant has passed away today after 73 years of fantastic storytelling. I think my favorites of his work will likely always be his run on Batman from the late 80's early 90's but he had a pretty prolific career spanning many genres so I'm sure he's likely touched the lives of a great many readers. I hope his friends and family take solace in knowing the immense joy he's brought to comic fans over the years. |
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Post by james on Jul 21, 2022 17:02:36 GMT -5
I haven't seen a cause of death given as of yet but I just heard that Alan Grant has passed away today after 73 years of fantastic storytelling. I think my favorites of his work will likely always be his run on Batman from the late 80's early 90's but he had a pretty prolific career spanning many genres so I'm sure he's likely touched the lives of a great many readers. I hope his friends and family take solace in knowing the immense joy he's brought to comic fans over the years. I must admit I know the name but really not his work. RIP |
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Post by commond on Jul 21, 2022 17:37:25 GMT -5
Growing up, British comics were as much a part of my life as American comics. I couldn't buy 2000 AD every week, but I had a huge stack of them in my collection. Grant and Wagner were stalwarts of 2000 AD during the 80s. Hell, if not for them, who knows if there would have been a 2000 AD? Thanks for the stories, Alan.
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Post by Jesse on Jul 21, 2022 17:45:51 GMT -5
Wow his Batman was a big part of my adolescence. Sorry to hear. 😥
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Post by arfetto on Jul 21, 2022 17:58:40 GMT -5
By the time I started reading Detective Comics and Batman on the newsstand, Grant had already left the titles (or close to it, I don't know the exact dates), but he was on Shadow of the Bat by that point. The first storyline in Shadow of the Bat, The Last Arkham, I remember reading a tpb collection of it as a young kid in a mall's Waldenbooks while my mother was shopping and it chilled me haha. I had a nightmare about the page where Batman comes across the family "watching" tv and I was also fascinated by these Arkham Asylum Batman rogues who were not on Batman TAS. My first "back issue" collection I ever attempted was the Grant/Breyfogle run when I was in elementary school because I wanted to know more about Grant's Batman work. I didn't have too many comics yet so I would re-read these Batman/Detective/Shadow of comics a lot, especially the Mud Pack storyline. I loved the grotesque horror but also tragedy regarding the villains of a lot of Grant's Batman tales.
Later on I collected all of L.E.G.I.O.N. in back issues and was a big fan of that as well.
His work played a huge role in my early comic reading life.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 21, 2022 18:26:26 GMT -5
Growing up, British comics were as much a part of my life as American comics. I couldn't buy 2000 AD every week, but I had a huge stack of them in my collection. Grant and Wagner were stalwarts of 2000 AD during the 80s. Hell, if not for them, who knows if there would have been a 2000 AD? Thanks for the stories, Alan. I really need to get more into 2000AD are there any good collections of Grant and Wagner's work from there? |
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Post by Calidore on Jul 21, 2022 18:48:05 GMT -5
Aw, damn. Strontium Dog was one of the strips that made me a 2000 AD fan for life, even though Eagle Comics et al were my only access to it at the time. He was much more up and down than his buddy John Wagner, but his highs were very high indeed, and his voice was unique. His run on Batman with Norm Breyfogle certainly deserves to be talked about in the same breath as O'Neil/Adams and Englehart/Rogers.
RIP.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 22, 2022 2:00:31 GMT -5
I know Grant from his work on 2000 AD, particularly Judge Dredd, Ace Trucking Co. and Strontium Dog. I read a lot of 2000 AD as a kid between the ages of 8 and 16, and Grant worked on some of my favourite stories and arcs (often with John Wagner). Sad to hear that he's passed away.
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Post by commond on Jul 22, 2022 6:09:07 GMT -5
Growing up, British comics were as much a part of my life as American comics. I couldn't buy 2000 AD every week, but I had a huge stack of them in my collection. Grant and Wagner were stalwarts of 2000 AD during the 80s. Hell, if not for them, who knows if there would have been a 2000 AD? Thanks for the stories, Alan. I really need to get more into 2000AD are there any good collections of Grant and Wagner's work from there? I'm fairly certain you can get most of their Dredd work in trades. I've never read a 2000 AD collection before as I prefer to read the progs. |
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