Tag: Grant Morrison

By Benjamin J. Villarreal While droves of comic book, movie, television, video game, and toy fans roam the San Diego Comic-Con floor booths and exhibit halls, university professors and students are upstairs tackling the big questions...

It's all happening at SDCC this year, and Megan Byrd has been on hand to document it all for us. Here's some more photos from yesterday, featuring cosplay en masse, the Eisner Awards, and...

Welcome to crunch time. In this final instalment of MAD MENTAL CRAZY! things come to a head, so I highly recommend catching up with Part 1 and Part 2 and meeting me back here...

Last week I began my in-depth look at the history of Zenith and its attached legal dispute. As before I shall add my disclaimer: that this in no way speculates on who is right...

  Once upon a time there was a comic strip named Zenith. The creators created, the publishers published, but not a contract was there to be found. 21 years later, Rebellion are going to the...

The Edinburgh Book Festival, held annually in Scotland's capital city every August, is the biggest public book festival in the world. This year it includes a brand new strand, Stripped, celebrating the world of...

Once more, I’ve dragged myself away from my usual obsessive witterings about Marvelman to write about another, different, long-lost British superhero. Right now, as you’re reading this, the Internet is about to explode/has already...

At last weekend's C2E2 the Rebellion/2000 AD crowd was out and represented by marketing man about town Michael Molcher. Snapping a pic of him and his fellow boothworkers you could not help but notice that they were wearing T-shirs baring the logo of Zenith, which is, after Marvelman, perhaps the greatest "lost" superhero of UK comics. Created by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell, with original character designs by Brendan McCarthy , it first appeared in in 2000 AD #535 in August 1987, and ran for four story arcs, or ‘phases,’ which finished up in 2000 AD #805 in October 1992. It ran in about 80 issues of the comic; the first three phases were collected in five volumes by Titan Books between 1988 and 1990. Phase Four has never been reprinted.

Grant Morrison's run on Action Comics has been met with both high praise and no small measure of bewilderment. But this is a legendary run - you just need to think five dimensionally. When Morrison was...

Spider-Man is hands down one of the most popular characters ever to leap from the pages of Marvel Comics, and is even a strong contender for one of the most popular comic characters produced...

(Spoilers!) Well, we can't say that we didn't know it was coming. From early on in the run, Grant Morrison has said in interviews and at convention appearances that his six year Batman run would end...

The concluding issue of Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's Happy! has finally made its way to the shelves, and has seemingly divided critics right down the middle. It's perhaps no surprise to anyone who...