Like the reader, like anyone, he's just living life and experiencing this big story happening around him, sometimes doing what he can but more often going for the ride. The funny thing is, the title character remains a cypher throughout the whole thing. Now you can judge for yourself, see for yourself, what Morrison did with Zenith. For all its cleverness, Watchmen is more a series of brilliant character sketches than complete story. Watchmen, named to Time's list of the hundred best novels of the previous century, certainly deserves its acclaim, but Zenith tells a more complete story. Which to readers in general is nonsense, because Moore has managed to become more or less a household name, and Morrison has not. There's a subset of comic book fans that has followed his rivalry with Alan Moore and even taken Morrison's side in the debate.
It is absolutely essential reading for his fans, and for superhero fans in general.Īnd now that Zenith is once again in print, Morrison's legacy can once again be reconsidered. This fascinating conclusion to Grant Morrison's formative superhero saga finishes laying the groundwork for everything he'd later attempt in the genre, making his point more clear and perhaps even best. He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL.
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