Grant Morrison talks feuding with Alan Moore & why he still doesn't like Watchmen

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Hell, all of them even had an oath just like the GLC! Where was the creativity? It was the laziest thing I have seen phoned in and presented as a creative idea in GL history.

And with the same syllables per line as the GLC oath. And this is like almost two decades after the GLC was allowed to make up their own oaths. Insufferably dumb.

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Also, how do you keep Atrocitus around as an anti hero with his own title when in Johns' remake of the GL origin has HIM being the guy who murdered Abin Sur?

It's the rockin' perm. Chicks dig the rockin' perm.

That's like giving Joe Chill his own spin off Bat title. Or the guy who killed uncle Ben a spin off Spidey title.

I legit would read a spinoff mini about Joe Chill and Uncle Ben's Shooter on a misadventure, '70s-style.

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Like a Bonnie and Clyde road trip type of story?

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...I have been trimming down my collections and the first thing to go was any non green Lantern merch. I am at the point where I don't want to see any of that stuff in my comic room. Hell I have given some of that merch away to my son and his friends so it doesn't sully my collection anymore.

Yeah, I bagged up all my Blackest Night figs except the ones that are actually Green Lanterns.

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Well, they gave Sinestro his own book... and in addition to wiping out a whole space sector and trillions of lives, he had Kyke's mom murdered.

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Like a Bonnie and Clyde road trip type of story?

Doesn't even have to be a road trip, they could try robbing families in alleyways or breaking into houses in retirement communities. The characters have such monumental backgrounds that they are literal gold mines of creativity.

Well, they gave Sinestro his own book... and in addition to wiping out a whole space sector and trillions of lives, he had Kyke's mom murdered.

Oh come on, it's not like he put any of them in refrigerators! You are being way too negative.

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I might agree with some of the things Morrison has to say, but I don't think he has ever written anything that comes close to Watchmen, V For Vendetta, Swamp thing or even Gaiman's Sandman.

Um... what?!? Morrison did to Animal Man what Moore did for Swamp Thing in the 80's and early 90's. Then there's his stint on JLA that is arguably one of the best runs in the team's history where... get this... he ACTUALLY made people fans of Plastic Man. He also carried the Vertigo line for years with the Invisibles. I know you likely aren't a fan of his Doom Patrol, but his X-Men turned heads years later and definitely had its fans. Oh yeah... he also managed to make Grayson as Batman work for an extended period.

Final Crisis was a convoluted mess, but his Batman run both before and after Grayson-Bats was introduced was the best the title had been in years.

Morrison is certainly no Geoff Johns, I know that much. He knows it, too, deep down. Geoff has created so many more quality characters and storylines than Grant could dream of. Grant is content just regurgitating obscure shite from the 60s while giving himself pats on the back for how clever he is at doing so.

Johns is guilty of a lot of the same shit Morrison is though. You saying Geoff hasn't used obscure shit from decades' past while patting himself on the back on how clever he is at connecting things together?! Seriously? The biggest difference between Morrison's best and Geoff's? Morrison's best was during a time when the internet either wasn't around or it was still new to everyone, whereas Geoff and his works had the luxury of being promoted across multi-media after the internet started blowing up. Geoff also had help relaunching the JSA from none other than Robinson, a fact most people forget when thinking about Johns' various JSA runs.

What has Johns even created?

Somebody mentioned the skittles brigade already, but he also created the Others in Aquaman, a handful of decent Rogues in the Flash like Murmur and Cicada... aaaand... I actually don't remember Geoff EVER creating something not already attached to another property. Morrison's Invisibles was brilliant and not even attached to tights and spandex, or a mainstream superhero universe.

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Warren Ellis wrote Transmetropolitan.

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Warren Ellis wrote Transmetropolitan.

Why did I think that was Morrison? Must be cause I thought he and Spider sorta favored each other... IDK?! I feel like a dumbass though. Heads been all over the place today, didn't bother fact checking. I could've swore the last Wizard Magazine I had bought back in the day was one talking about Transmetropolitan by Morrison... and it's weird because I like a lot of Warren Ellis' work and SHOULD have known that he was the creator.

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I think it's because King Mob and Spider Jerusalem look alike.