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With a conscious effort to stray away from superheroes, author Grant Morrison is taking even more chances than usual in the comics world. Even Multiversity, his only DC Comics project at the moment is...

Guest post by T Campbell. Can the soul of Western civilization be found in a pair of red briefs? Was our first great superhero at his strongest, his noblest, his superest, before modern interpretations stripped him of his underwear? Is there a connection? A generation ago, when those red briefs were an inseparable part of Superman’s design, he was the most familiar superhero by a wide margin, leading the field in film adaptations,[1] headlining cartoon shows,[2] and even winning over famous media critics who were fiction writers in their own right. Even now, if you believe superheroes have anything to say to American culture or the human experience, you sort of have to start with him, because he’s the prototype. Umberto Eco called him “the representative of all his similars” [3] and Harlan Ellison described him as one of “only five fictional creations known to every man, woman, and child on the planet.”[4] Born in the early hours of a visual, easily reproduced medium, he was popular enough to codify most of what being a superhero meant. The Oxford English Dictionary even mentions him by name in its definition of “superhero”:

§ A white, straight man named Grant Morrison said something that wasn't stupid. I think. Q: I love that the first issue of “The Multiversity” is full of people of color, from black superheroes...

Wow speaking of comics crafts, coloring is definitely one of the key components of today's comics golden age, yet one of the least understood, and Nathan Fairbairn presents a fascinating process post on how...

Grant Morrison's Multiversity mini-series has proven to be an unexpectedly fun rfrolic thruogh the various realities of DC's multiverses. Well, perhaps unexpected is not the world, since Morrison actually excels at this kind of...

Black Mask Studios started their NYCC with a bang, announcing a slate of exciting new titles that will be hitting the shelves in 2015. The biggest surprise? A brand new series from Grant Morrison featuring the...

By Matthew Jent Annihilator #1 Writer: Grant Morrison Illustrator: Frazer Irving Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher Book & Logo Designer: John J. Hill Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror   “Get this black mass on the floor.” Annihilator begins with a black hole, but the thrust of its...

Although the Miracleman reprints by Marvel have more or less been business as usual and not the apocalypse, news of never-before seen Miracleman stories by Grant Morrison and Peter Milligan is still exciting. Vulture...

Boom! Studios has been teasing some kind of conspiracy book about the usual suspects today...

By Kyle Pinion Grant Morrison's Multiversity has been a long gestating project aimed to spin-off of his Final Crisis event from 2009. The "Scottish Shaman of Comics" has been teasing this event and artistic collaborators...

From Friday evening until Saturday evening, I was in an undisclosed location, part of the Commerce Department's program of keeping random individuals as "designated survivors".  Given the billions of dollars generated by America's pop...