Grant Morrison: Final Crisis, Issue by Issue (2008)

Grant Morrison: Final Crisis, Issue by Issue (2008) Feb 1, 2020 15:26:21 GMT -5

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Post by rberman on Feb 1, 2020 15:26:21 GMT -5

Feb 1, 2020 15:13:41 GMT -5 earl said:

That's pretty fun, if true. There is long standing beef between Morrison with Moore and Michael Moorcock. Morrison has also used quite a few ideas out of Philip K. Dick's books too.

Eh...don't mind it myself. His comics are often pretty wacky but their oblique nature does tend to lend to them being fairly re-readable.

Thing is that Morrison's comics are all one big story to an extent. The Invisible's parallels pretty much his whole DC work, they are fighting the 'same fight' in a sense. That's how I read it.

Morrison grabs every comic book idea within reach and throws them into his work. Moore has so many ideas that he gets referenced constantly. For instance, this image (seen above in the Final Crisis #7 review) contains as many alternate Superman as Morrison could get away with, including Supreme (which Moore did not invent but made good) in the bottom left.

Not to mention Captain Atom now looking like Doctor Manhattan! Apollo from Stormwatch is there too. Apparently Moore had already done a "Cross-dimensional Supermen" story in Supreme.

Like Tom King, Morrison has a core story that he wants to tell and retell. Personally, I enjoy looking at the same diamond from different angles. Seeing the connections across different series is fun.