nemmerle said:
I find Morrisson to be an over-rated and derivitive comic writer who ran through mosto f his good ideas with Doom Patrol and the first series of Invisibles.
Grrrrrrr....
Could it be that Morrison had such a bloody brilliant run in his earlier works [Animal Man/Doom Patrol/Invisibles] that he's reaching the point of creative fatigue that most artists unfortunately arrive to? I don't much care for his later work either, but that shouldn't diminish his earlier achievement.
And who is he derivitive of? I'll give you Alan Moore [though I think its far more fair to say that they're writers in the same vein, with the same unlikey knack for turning their personal intellectual obsessions into compelling stories]. Who else? Jorge Luis Borges? 20th Century Art?
I don't always like what Morrison does, not even back in the day. But he's a master synthesist [which isn't quite the same as being derivative]. I can't overstate how much credit I give him for combining his love of comics, literature, lit. theory, superheroes, avant-garde science, metafictional gamesmanship, pop cultural observation, and various strains of philoshophy/mysticism into readable works. That fact that he had any success at all, in terms of the works themselves or proffessionally, is clear sign he more than just an overrated hack.
Not that that means you should like his stuff
[edit] Oh yeah, and Joss Whedon+X-Men=yay!
