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Post by Joe Neglia on Sept 12, 2009 23:19:12 GMT -5
Morridon and Quietly's fays of the future now arc was fantastic and dosn't get the priase it deserves because Marvel still hates what they did. They broke convention and it worked. How do they get rewarded? they are Un-persons I don't really see it like that at all. Yes, Marvel reinstituted some of the stuff that was ditched during the Morrison run, but I honestly don't think it was done as any sort of slight towards Grant. Here's the thing - Grant is one of the most unmainstream writers ever, and he was working on THE flagship Marvel title. The two, by the very nature of the medium, should never have met, yet Grant knocked out some of the most interesting X books in years. But - and this is the thing - Morrison is a very unique writer. There simply isn't anyone else out there like him. Not Ellis, not Moore, not Ennis, no one. I think that when he left, it was pretty much a concensus that there just wasn't anyway to keep in the direction he was going; there just wasn't anyone else wired the same way Grant is/was and there was no real way to continue where he left off. If anyone had even tried, the whole thing would have collapsed into itself, because those that followed would be pale imitators. So in the end, I think they opted to allow things to move back towards what could be considered a more conventional title, so that it would be more easily accessible by other writers. That's my take on it. |
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Post by Kroot bringing Justice on Sept 12, 2009 23:43:11 GMT -5
Morridon and Quietly's fays of the future now arc was fantastic and dosn't get the priase it deserves because Marvel still hates what they did. They broke convention and it worked. How do they get rewarded? they are Un-persons I don't really see it like that at all. Yes, Marvel reinstituted some of the stuff that was ditched during the Morrison run, but I honestly don't think it was done as any sort of slight towards Grant. Here's the thing - Grant is one of the most unmainstream writers ever, and he was working on THE flagship Marvel title. The two, by the very nature of the medium, should never have met, yet Grant knocked out some of the most interesting X books in years. But - and this is the thing - Morrison is a very unique writer. There simply isn't anyone else out there like him. Not Ellis, not Moore, not Ennis, no one. I think that when he left, it was pretty much a concensus that there just wasn't anyway to keep in the direction he was going; there just wasn't anyone else wired the same way Grant is/was and there was no real way to continue where he left off. If anyone had even tried, the whole thing would have collapsed into itself, because those that followed would be pale imitators. So in the end, I think they opted to allow things to move back towards what could be considered a more conventional title, so that it would be more easily accessible by other writers. That's my take on it. Same thing happened with Seven Soldiers basically, aaot of cool stuff was done in the series but no one does crap with em. |
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Sept 13, 2009 14:54:56 GMT -5
speaking of Morrison, his run on The Flash is criminally underrated.
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