Klaus and the Witch of Winter #1

[laughing_tree]

We want to do one [Christmas special] every year until I die. We wanted to show with the Christmas special that this character can operate in any period... he can come up in World War I, he can come up in the AIDS crisis, he can come up in the Summer of Love... it was to make a point that this character can be used in all sorts of ways by bringing him into the present. -- Grant Morrison

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Royals #11 - "As Though Nothing Could Fall"

[laughing_tree]

There have been some comparisons made by fans to the Celestials — those aren’t without merit, considering there’s a touch of the Von Daniken about the Progenitors — but the Celestials are, now, fairly knowable and fairly known. So I wanted to create something new, something that was more a kind of mid-point between the Celestials and, say, the Kree, a species that was a Type Three, Type Four civilization, but not so advanced as to be hanging out in the cosmic realms. And something that could go anywhere if other writers wanted to use them. [...] I didn’t want them to talk like people talk. The “essentially speaking English” thing works for most of the alien races, because they all serve, in one way or another, as metaphors for what we know. The Progenitors are metaphors for what we don’t or can’t know. (Fun fact — they were originally going to talk entirely in alchemical symbols. That idea proved unworkable very fast, though I’m sure Clayton Cowles, our letterer, would have been over the moon with me about it.) -- Al Ewing

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The Wild Storm: Michael Cray #3

[history79]

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Happy! #1

[history79]

"Basically, it’s about an ex-policeman, a kind of golden boy cop, who has fallen on hard times. He’s lost his wife, he’s lost his career, and now he works as a hit-man for the mob, and does these miserable jobs to get money to pay for medication, booze, and drugs. A hit goes wrong one night around Christmas time, and this character, Nick Sax, is basically badly injured. And when he comes to, he’s the only person in the world who can see a little blue flying horse named Happy. And Happy tells him that he has a special mission for Nick, and that’s kind of where we go from there.

It’s taking the most innocent, charming little cartoon creature and putting him side-by-side with someone who is like the Bad Lieutenant, this absolutely horrendous specimen of humanity. And watching these two characters strike sparks off of each other as they try to save the day and possibly fail."

- Grant Morrison


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NEWS - Disney is officially buying most of 21st Century Fox

[lordultimus]

I'm sure you've already heard of this, but I think it deserves its own thing here.

source: variety.com

( Well I for one, welcome our new mouse overlords! )