Both delve into what was behind the creation of his signature series and spend a lot of time telling crazy stories about Morrison’s unconventional childhood in the shadow of a nuclear missile base in Scotland and his drug fuelled globetrotting in the nineties. It’s a theme that has continued through his work and is rightly at the centre of two recent retrospectives of his work, Patrick Meaney’s bio-pic entitled ‘Grant Morrison: Talking to Gods‘ and Morrison’s own foray into the world of prose ‘Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero’.īoth are fascinating for a Comics Nexus reader and complement each other when it comes to looking at where Grant Morrison is after over two decades at the heart of mainstream comics. The moral of the story is that out there in the fictional world our imaginary friends exist and through comics we have an unique chance to interact with them that we too often miss out on due to our preoccupation with the ‘real world’. Morrison flashes the light out across the night in the hope that Foxy would respond, but its only when he turns away disappointed that we see a light flash across the horizon in response.
At the end of his first run on an American comic book, we see him walk up the Scottish hills in an attempt to make contact with his long lost childhood imaginary friend Foxy. In Animal Man #26 Grant Morrison made what remains his definitive statement about the nature of the world he and all of us as comic book fans live in. “I don’t want to expose the futility of one of the last great ideas we have”. Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero (UK Edition)
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