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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

animal man

grant morrison is the messiah. he won't admit it, but it's clear from his work. hopefully seven soldiers will be similarly revelatory, instead of just 'a good read'. animal man 5, the tale of crafty cayote, blew my mind and made me laugh out loud. you just know that whenever characters in a g.m. (games master?) story go out to the american desert and stand on a mesa, something magical's going to happen.

and then there were three fascinating stories about animals on bbc today - humans and chimps swapped dna even after the species diverged, a hybrid polar/grizzly bear was found (and shot), and monkeys can string 'words' together to distribute more complex messages, like 'loitering leopard' or 'hovering hawk'.

9 comments:

Dandy said...

Grant Morrison??? COMIX!?!? araragh. Everytime I hear the Da Vinci code mentioned I think Garth Ennis must be spitting teeth. Come on, he did the whole 'vatican protecting Jesus bloodline' thing nearly a decade ago now. The result was an inbred family who like to throw poo at each other if i remember rightly.

Grilly said...

i relish telling people about 'preacher' in light of dan "prop me up against a book case" brown. not just the twist, but the fact that he was subverting what was a well established conspiracy theory a decade ago, with hilarious consequences.

my own subversion will be that jesus' bloodline got fused with eastern european vampires. jesus's descendants would walk like gods amongst men.

Grilly said...

when i got into work today, i noticed 'g m' unwittingly scrawled amongst some doodles. wierd eh?

laurence said...

dc have fucked the whole seven soldies thing up. it's been so delayed it's just not funny. and apparently the shock omg whoze gonna DIE?!?! worst ploy ever to make you buy another comic has been ruined by the inevitable cack that was probably infinite crisis. not that i read it, or any of the spin-offs, countdowns, mini-series, one year laters or the one comic a week in real time that joins them up. i mean, i feel sorry for the cunts who buy comic books, they must have to eat their own shit on toast cos they can't even afford -beans-. dc can stick it up their arse. my question was going to be, has dc always been this bad? or is it since aol-time-warner bought them? it's nice to see grant making money but that's MY money!!

WHO WILL DIE? WILL IT BE FRANKENSTEIN?

they thought -that- one through didn't they. previous mini-series.

WHO WILL DIE? WILL IT BE MISTER MIRCALE?

cover of the issue - a tombstone "here lies mister miracle" ..well they killed -him- already. once.

but yes. animal man can lick my balls. i love the coyote issue. how does he get away with stealing characters like that? and i love the cover. you see how on the cover it's animal man, but in the comic it's the coyote? it's all the little details like that.

the problem with animal man was all the crap relating to gene bombs and the original crisis on infinite earth or whatever the fuck it was called. references to that sucked. although flex mentallo had them and that was fucking awesome. seriously. it is quite the comic. but then so is seaguy. -sigh-

and stop fucking talking about dan fucking brown. i mean. even when you mention 'da' you give him power.

next issue: the secret origin of dan brown!

grant morrison explains all. i'd vote for the son of grant and alan. i'm not sure which would be the surrogate mother. or which would have provided the egg. between their magics i'm sure they can work it out.

did i tell you about cthulu tales. not a bad comic. nice tiny anthology. not a great one either.

omg the coyote looked up out of the page -at- the reader!!!! revolution, the dc universe is becoming self-concious and grant morrison has achieved his ultimate goal. shame he gave birth to a capitalist whore.

actually that was barbara forste

not sure why i bothered looking that up. i guess i found it funny.

okay okay okay okay.. enough is enough

Grilly said...
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Grilly said...

i don't understand how/why morrison gets away with pillaging the dc universe under their watch; how can he ask those questions, how can he take the piss that much - like the issue of rolling stone with 'super heroes for africa'.

the whole 'who will die?' thing is surely completely irrelevant now, as we all know death is no barrier to super heroes, they'll either come back to life in a lazarus pit or someone else will take up their identity.

but back to animal man, i love in the intro he says he didn't want to go down the moore/millar route of "yet another grittily realistic exploration of what it is to be a superhuman and/or an urban vigilante with emotional problems" , and instead he comes out with the single best issue i can remember reading. and yet you show it to people and they just don't get it.

i didn't notice the coyote looking straight at you at first, but now i notice that one of his fingers just sneaks out of the panel into the white space in between, like god's paintbrush in the backstory.

but i don't understand the last panel of issue 7. i'm sure i'll find out what it means.

Dandy said...

At 6:36 PM, grilly said…

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Awww come on....

Grilly said...

the post that was removed was something else i could put in the christ/vampire story, which was something else that famously runs in the blood - aids. vampires/aids crossover? maybe. when you get bitten, you become one of them.. but replace vampire powers with slow imminent death. jesus/vampires/aids crossover? no.

you can see why i removed this.

Grilly said...

did preacher have aids vampires in it already?