GRANT MORRISON: Alan Moore style – lots of poetic captions and interesting scene transitions. His pitch was accepted, and he went on to write those issues in what he described as: I even saw a way to give the character a fashionably Moore-esque spin that would hopefully make him appeal to DC editorial. GRANT MORRISON: I worked up a four-issue miniseries pitch for Animal Man, an obscure superhero from the sixties. Part 7: Alan Moore Describes the “Persistence of Grant Morrison” and Morrison Shuts Up About Moore (2014-2018)ġ988’s Animal Man was Morrison’s first project for DC Comics (and the US market). Part 6: Alan Moore Says What He Thinks of Grant Morrison and Morrison Issues a Fierce Rebuttal (2012) Part 5: Grant Morrison Says a Lot of Things about Alan Moore (1980’s-2010’s) Part 4: Comics Written by Alan Moore, then by Grant Morrison (1980’s-2010’s) Part 3: Grant Morrison Writes Spoofs About Alan Moore and Says Nice Things (1980’s-2010’s) Part 2: Karen Berger, the Berger Books, and Vertigo (1981-1993) Part 1: Grant Morrison’s First Ten Years of Comics (1978-1987) Indeed the image of the joker dressed in a Hawaiian shirt with a camera around his neck is universally recognisable to any Batman fan.This is Part 3 in a series of posts looking at why Alan Moore doesn’t like Grant Morrison. There is page after page of beautifully rendered panels here, any of which could be considered works of art in their own right. In classic Alan Moore style the flashback sequences juxtapose wonderfully with the central story as they illustrate the Joker’s descent from a going-nowhere everyman to the comic book world’s most popular villain.īrain Bolland’s art is viscerally brutal in its realism, whether it is the violence of the Joker towards Barbara Gordon or the psychedelically insane use of the same incident to break her father. Interspersed throughout the story is a mostly black and white retelling of one of the Joker’s many possible origins.

In a brutal sequence involving Commissioner Jim Gordon’s daughter Barbara, the then current Batgirl, Joker sets out to break the Commissioner’s spirit and subsequently prove that not only is his own madness justified, but logical. The central concept – subsequently borrowed heavily by Christopher Nolan’s 2008 film The Dark Knight – is that nobody is ever more than one bad day away from madness. Here the Joker has, yet again, escaped from Arkham Asylum and this time he’s got something to prove.

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