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JusticeMan You complete me. from Maryland ! Since: Mar, 2011
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#1: Oct 22nd 2011 at 4:37:55 AM

I just have to say that this is the most wonderfully Morrisonian of comics. Great characterization, a great overarching mystery, metafiction out the wazoo, and enough references to make the autistic in you fangasm. I recently just read up to the halfway point(amazing how he can form a solid narrative within seven other narratives, but note how the story is in two halves starting from SS 0 to Guardian 4 and then continuing from there)It’s really just a wonderful piece of work. I think a Crowning Moment was when I got that The Terrible Time Weaver was Zor aka Alan Moore academic rival of Grant Morrison and rouge member of the Seven Unknown men, themselves all various DC Writers who have been act into the stories. The scene where he makes "new suits" for the Newsboy legions was a pretty brilliant way to tie the Sheeda into their story arc, but then I realized that they were all Wathcmen'd. While a pretty good slang term for broken up hero teams, when you realize that the living embodiment of Alan Moore was there final enemy you relies that they were LITERALLY Watchmen’d. I just love that stuff. A bunch of cool stuff with the number Sven., like the number of letters in the word Justice or even all the fairy tale references, hell even the timeline, it just is sooooo good. It really needs more love. Anybody up for a joint reading session/liveblogging?

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Tuomas Since: Mar, 2010
#2: Oct 28th 2011 at 1:44:17 AM

I never thought Zor to be Alan Moore, but you make a good case for that interpretation... If you didn't know it, Zor is actually a pre-existing (though incredibly obscure) DC character. It's also worth noting that in his battle with Zatanna, Zor goes on about his "magnificent beard" (or something like that), beard of course being Moore's trademark (and something Morrison already had made fun of years ago in the "Beard Hunter" issue of Doom Patrol). Based on their appearance, some people have also intepreted Captain All-Beard and Captain No-Beard to be Moore and Morrison, though they're both equally crazy.

There's also a rather direct jab at Moore in Zatanna #1. The whole issue is obviously a parody/homage to Promethea: Zatanna & co's trip through the "spheres of magic" is quite similar to the trip Promethea takes, except that Morrison is less serious and rigid about it all. An in the end of the issue Misty says to Zatanna, "I love the way you write about magic. It’s so like, down-to-earth and non-preachy", which I take as a criticism of how Moore writes about magic compared to how Morrison handles the subject. I guess it's kinda smug for Morrison to include a comment like that, but IMO it's also spot-on.

BTW, in the recent Morrison documentary he actually explains the origin of the feud between him and Moore: back in the 1980s he submitted a script for Miracleman, and the editor accepted it, but Moore nixed the script because (according to Morrison) only he was allowed to write Miracleman. (Though obviously he later on let his protege Neil Gaiman write it.) It'd be interesting to hear Moore's side of that story.

edited 28th Oct '11 1:49:22 AM by Tuomas

JusticeMan You complete me. from Maryland ! Since: Mar, 2011
You complete me.
#3: Oct 28th 2011 at 12:16:55 PM

I see Morrison has a lot of Slaying the Father vibes with Miller and Moore; it really make there works feel better overall. And that Zatnna #1 scene makes so much more sense now that we know Zatanna kicks Zor's ASS in her last issue; and then Grant has him lynched, lol. I love little touches like that.

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biznizz Since: Jan, 2001
#4: Oct 29th 2011 at 12:33:38 AM

Seven Soldiers? I'll return tomorrow, I've got important business on another thread tonight...

Sometimes life just sucks. You have to learn to take the good with the bad. Why should you expect anything different in the mediums?
Canondorf Since: Sep, 2009
#5: Oct 29th 2011 at 2:16:34 AM

Good to know.

Also, I'm pretty sure Morrison has stated that he loves DKR, but I'm not sure.

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