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laughing_tree
I get about as riled as I can get about these things nowadays when other creators choose to artificially raise the stakes in their stories by destroying characters and concepts before they even get a chance to be explored. How can I ever forgive my former Batman editor and pal Peter Tomasi for killing Red Racer, the gay Flash of Earth-36 thereby destroying his relationship with Flashlight, that world’s version of Green Lantern, and killing a newly-created queer character for no defensible reason? - Grant Morrison
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JLA/WildCATs #1 - "Crime Machine"
Dec. 1st, 2022 10:34 pmlaughing_tree
I wanted to do an event like the old Justice League-Justice Society team-up, which felt like when the JSA first met the JLA back in the '60s, and it seemed like parallel worlds. I've got this dream of having all the heads down the side of the page: Superman, Batman, Green Lantern... Down the other side you've got Majestic and the other Wildcats... I've been doing this big, fabulous, free-wheeling, alternative Earth-type story. It also explains how things like Amalgam could work, even though DC are saying they don't want me to say this is the explanation. It doesn't use parallel Earth theory, but is a new thing I've come up with which allows for the existence of different universes. -- Grant Morrison
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cyberghostface
“The first shock came when I was told that the book had been canceled. Eager to embrace influences from Cabaret to the Theater of Cruelty, the Joker was to have been dressed in the conical bra worn by Madonna for her ‘Open Your Heart’ video. Warner Bros. objected to my portrayal on the grounds that it would encourage the widespread belief that Jack Nicholson, the feted actor lined up to play the Joker in an upcoming $40 million Batman movie, was a transvestite.
I wrote a long, impassioned letter to Jenette Kahn, and after some tense negotiations, we managed to keep the Joker in high heels at least, and Arkham Asylum went back on the schedule. I was sure that Nicholson would have loved it even more if he could have played the Clown Prince of Crime in a dress, but in the end, it was Heath Ledger who immortalized the [transvestite] Joker in 2008’s The Dark Knight, vindicating my foresight.” — Grant Morrison
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laughing_tree
The notion that you could get the same thrill of watching Superman take down an authoritarian regime but you put it on another planet so it doesn't seem as crass that Superman could solve all our problems. But you can put him on a planet where he can solve the problems of some ridiculous, symbolic problems of human nature, I liked that. It really worked and gave me an ending to the story that was different but it did what I wanted. It took it out of what Superman has been doing for all these years fighting the same Brainiac and Luthor but leaves it behind to say he's going to take it on a higher metaphorical level. -- Grant Morrison
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laughing_tree
That's the thing, it wasn't so much the Authority characters as it was the Authority concept and what that meant at the end of the 20th century when the powerful people weren't our enemies but were on our side and how poignant and tragic that looks nowadays. But that idea of what if the good guys were on our side, it's more from that and there's not a lot of characters from the Authority, apart from Apollo and the Midnighter, that appear. What I wanted to do was take characters from DC's past who would fit the roles of the Authority: The Engineer becomes Natasha Irons, the niece of Steel, and instead of the magical Doctor, it's the Enchantress, the DC witch, and so on. -- Grant Morrison
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laughing_tree
I think the idea that Superman would react to the death of Lois Lane by becoming a tyrant is ridiculous; my mum and dad died and I didn't become a tyrant. If I can handle it, Superman can handle it. But I think there's a certain degree of, if he's that powerful, couldn't he change things? We're kind of leaning into the idea that he's a really good man and wants to do the best for us but he's not actually human. He doesn't want to break us but he's gotten to the point where he thinks maybe he should break us, maybe we need this. It's slightly scarier than Superman as an authoritarian dad with heat vision eyes, it's more of an alien perspective saying, "I've had enough of you. You've been messing up too long and are really going to hurt yourselves if I don't do something." -- Grant Morrison
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laughing_tree
It started out as one thing, but we integrated it and I spoke with Phillip Kennedy Johnson, who's doing the Superman stuff, and I really like that guy, he's very smart and he has got big ideas for Superman. What I did was kind of retrofit it all in so it absolutely ties in, it's kind of important. If you don't read this, you'll probably die! -- Grant Morrison
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Wonder Woman: Earth One, Volume 3
Apr. 6th, 2021 03:32 amlaughing_tree
It's all been quite successful so I have to imagine my Wonder Woman is eventually going to take place in the same world as Superman. There's always going to be someone smart like Geoff Johns who can make those connections, so I think it will eventually be absorbed. -- Grant Morrison
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laughing_tree
That's a big strand with the relationship that Hal starts to develop with the young Guardians. And they're almost the opposite [of their predecessors]: They're not ancient, they're not authoritarian in that sense but they have very strict ideas of what they think is right and wrong. They have far-seeing abilities to predict what might happen and how things will work out. But, as you said, they're not always necessarily right and they're going to have to learn that. -- Grant Morrison
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laughing_tree
So we loved the kind of disconnection of that: the beatnik idea of how Jordan has no home, he sleeps on friends' couches, he sleeps with women who have these bizarre connections with him. He travels with nothing but his lantern and a rucksack. And he hitchhikes on the road, he's afraid of nothing, he likes a fight, he's just this old-school kind of guy who's trying to survive. He's like a cowboy trying to survive in the 21st century in a lot of ways. -- Grant Morrison
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