My local comic shop is having a moving sale, and since I've been on a huge Grant Morrison kick, I decided to buy his back catalogue. I bought spotty collections of Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Sea Guy and X Men.
I was reading the beginning of his X Men run that started with the 3 issue mini series "2 Is For Execution". Xavier's twin wants to kill all mutants using Junkyard Sentinals,...blah, blah, blah. It's an OK story, but seems a bit of a trifle compared to his other work. I get to a scene in the second issue where you see an aerial view of a city that get's closer and closer interspersed with Mutant school dialogue. The city is on an all mutant island, and the next scene, you see a view from inside of a skyscraper of a fighter jet with a big metallic fist coming right at it. The scene then changes to a side view of the plane slamming into the building. The next page is a full page spread of huge buildings collapsing on shrieking, running crowds. This all took place within 3 pages.
I started having these huge flashes of all of the 9-11 imagery that's saturated into my head. If Grant wrote this after 9-11, than that's pretty fucking insesnitive. If he wrote it before, well that's pretty fucking clairvoyant. I looked at the date on the comic. It said August 2001. This kind of blew my mind. I looked ahead to the next couple issues to check to see if anyone else noticed this (how could they not?). Their were letters pages in the next two issues, but when the letters page was about the August issue, they didn't run one. I had purchased the next 10 issues and their were no more letters pages.
Anybody else pick up on this? This happened to a couple of other artists. The movie Donnie Darko was released on 9-11 and a major theme in the movie was an airplane engine slamming into a house. Jim Woodring also drew a picture of one of his characters being chased by a giant toy airplane driven by a skeleton (an unusually unsubtle image for Jim)
I was reading the beginning of his X Men run that started with the 3 issue mini series "2 Is For Execution". Xavier's twin wants to kill all mutants using Junkyard Sentinals,...blah, blah, blah. It's an OK story, but seems a bit of a trifle compared to his other work. I get to a scene in the second issue where you see an aerial view of a city that get's closer and closer interspersed with Mutant school dialogue. The city is on an all mutant island, and the next scene, you see a view from inside of a skyscraper of a fighter jet with a big metallic fist coming right at it. The scene then changes to a side view of the plane slamming into the building. The next page is a full page spread of huge buildings collapsing on shrieking, running crowds. This all took place within 3 pages.
I started having these huge flashes of all of the 9-11 imagery that's saturated into my head. If Grant wrote this after 9-11, than that's pretty fucking insesnitive. If he wrote it before, well that's pretty fucking clairvoyant. I looked at the date on the comic. It said August 2001. This kind of blew my mind. I looked ahead to the next couple issues to check to see if anyone else noticed this (how could they not?). Their were letters pages in the next two issues, but when the letters page was about the August issue, they didn't run one. I had purchased the next 10 issues and their were no more letters pages.
Anybody else pick up on this? This happened to a couple of other artists. The movie Donnie Darko was released on 9-11 and a major theme in the movie was an airplane engine slamming into a house. Jim Woodring also drew a picture of one of his characters being chased by a giant toy airplane driven by a skeleton (an unusually unsubtle image for Jim)
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Re: Grant Morrison's Psychic Powers
Wed, October 4, 2006 - 3:25 PMpilot episode of The Lone Gunmen (XFiles spinoff, remember it? no one really does) was about a shaow government remote controlling a commercial airliner into the twin towers to blame it on a third world dictator... aired around Feb 2001... I didn't remember it until my friends found a copy of it they accidentally taped, though I had seen it originally on air, I didn't recall any of it until after I watched it again in early 2002... truth is stranger than fiction often times...
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Re: Grant Morrison's Psychic Powers
Thu, October 12, 2006 - 2:06 PMalso check out Grant's "Marvel Boy", the at times unbearably sexy tale of a terrorist from a transdimensional paradise, orphaned and imprisoned by an insatiably power-hungry american industrialist called Doctor Midas (imagine Iron man with cosmic syphilis. the military industrial complex incarnate). it was composed at least a year before 9/11. the climax of issue one features our alien anarchist/zen fascist hero crashing a fighter plane through dr. midas' skyscraper penthouse (very magneto on genosha). we next find young Noh-Varr using impossible technology to herd the populace of Marvel's NYC from neighborhood to neighborhood, just so no one will get hurt as he demolishes huge portions of the cityscape. the devastation spells out a "fuck you" that can only be seen from space. this mini-series is packed to the gills with incendiary slogans like "this is the end of the way that was. cosmic jihad has begun!" i've read that the story was meant to function magickally as an invocation/celebration of the aeon of horus 9the archetypal apocalyptic teenager), dawning as we speak. by its very nature, it's also a curse on the aeon of osiris, with its endlessly repeating funereal routines and calcified hierarchies and power structures. what makes noh-varr's jihad compelling and, ultimately, sympathetic, is a twist on the gnostic dictum (underlying all monotheistic violence) that heaven is elsewhere. but its technology, its wisdom, its infinite living library of ideas and experiences, these things live on in us, every strangeling child the sole survivor of a world that never was. it behooves us to remake this chaotic prison planet in the image of an intimate utopia we can barely remember. there was a "Marvel Boy 2" planned, but the editorial staff found it too "far out", i guess. maybe it's just as well. who knows what cosmic atrocities would ripple from this unborn hypersigil of mass destruction/seduction/liberation? -
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Re: Grant Morrison's Psychic Powers
Thu, October 12, 2006 - 4:08 PMheh heh that's great "O"... reminds me of Morrison's story about creating King Mob after himself and the real world parallel of his nasty infection which hospitalized him while King Mob was having a similar flesh eating bacteria episode... he later stated he decided to treat King Mob better and get him laid more often... Grant's energy seems to have a lot of focus, gotta love it!
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