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Grant Morrison on Watchmen 2?
King Of The Weird Grant Morrison has announced to Comic Book Resources that he's working on a comic that's kind of like Watchmen 2…in that it takes the Charlton characters Alan Moore based his Watchmen characters on and goes nuts with 'em.
Also, he blatantly SAYS:
"I've just been doing an Earth Four book, which is the Charlton characters but I've decided to write it like "Watchmen." [laughs] So it's written backwards and sideways and filled with all kinds of symbolism and because of that it's taking quite a long time to write."
WOW. I mean–wow. I'm all for taking semi-forgotten characters with basically-strong premises and doing all sorts of wacky, genre-bending things with them, and Grant Morrison is probably the absolute number one comic book writer in the world for doing exactly that. Remember Seven Soldiers? I would viciously murder someone if it meant an ongoing "Frankenstein " or "The Guardian " series. OK, I wouldn't viciously murder. Probably just verbally assault them until they were a quivering pile of tears and regret.
LOVE all this Morrison news of late. LOVE it. He also reveals in the interview that he has a lot of "Hollywood" things going on and a Vertigo book in the works called "Joe The Barbarian". He says: "I’ve wanted to do one of those Narnia-style worlds in a wardrobe-type stories but I didn’t want to do it until I had the energy and time to do it. It’s about a little kid who has diabetes, which makes you hallucinate if you don’t take your medicines. And something happens to him in his home. The Hollywood pitch is “Home Alone” meets “Lord of the Rings.”
Just to be clear: I don't think there should be any kind of sequel, prequel, or anything for "Watchmen", even if Grant Morrison wrote it. Hell, even if Alan Moore wrote it. That story is perfect in and of itself, the characters are not sustainable or really even interesting enough to have an ongoing series about, and it's done done done. That story is over, let it die. And after its basically-disastrous showing at the box office, I think we're safe from any "Watchmen" expansions any time soon, thank god.
Morrison using the Charlton characters will give us something uniquely Morrison-ian, an alternate and no doubt exceedingly dense and weird take that could be more like "Watchmen 1.5" than Watchmen 2. I'm fascinated at the prospect and cannot wait.
King Of The Weird Grant Morrison has announced to Comic Book Resources that he's working on a comic that's kind of like Watchmen 2…in that it takes the Charlton characters Alan Moore based his Watchmen characters on and goes nuts with 'em.
Also, he blatantly SAYS:
"I've just been doing an Earth Four book, which is the Charlton characters but I've decided to write it like "Watchmen." [laughs] So it's written backwards and sideways and filled with all kinds of symbolism and because of that it's taking quite a long time to write."
WOW. I mean–wow. I'm all for taking semi-forgotten characters with basically-strong premises and doing all sorts of wacky, genre-bending things with them, and Grant Morrison is probably the absolute number one comic book writer in the world for doing exactly that. Remember Seven Soldiers? I would viciously murder someone if it meant an ongoing "Frankenstein " or "The Guardian " series. OK, I wouldn't viciously murder. Probably just verbally assault them until they were a quivering pile of tears and regret.
LOVE all this Morrison news of late. LOVE it. He also reveals in the interview that he has a lot of "Hollywood" things going on and a Vertigo book in the works called "Joe The Barbarian". He says: "I’ve wanted to do one of those Narnia-style worlds in a wardrobe-type stories but I didn’t want to do it until I had the energy and time to do it. It’s about a little kid who has diabetes, which makes you hallucinate if you don’t take your medicines. And something happens to him in his home. The Hollywood pitch is “Home Alone” meets “Lord of the Rings.”
Just to be clear: I don't think there should be any kind of sequel, prequel, or anything for "Watchmen", even if Grant Morrison wrote it. Hell, even if Alan Moore wrote it. That story is perfect in and of itself, the characters are not sustainable or really even interesting enough to have an ongoing series about, and it's done done done. That story is over, let it die. And after its basically-disastrous showing at the box office, I think we're safe from any "Watchmen" expansions any time soon, thank god.
Morrison using the Charlton characters will give us something uniquely Morrison-ian, an alternate and no doubt exceedingly dense and weird take that could be more like "Watchmen 1.5" than Watchmen 2. I'm fascinated at the prospect and cannot wait.