Grant morrison biography

Grant Morrison

Scottish comic book writer opinion playwright (born 1960)

Grant Morrison
MBE

Grant Morrison at the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con

Born (1960-01-31) 31 January 1960 (age 64)
Glasgow, Scotland, Collective Kingdom
NationalityScottish
Area(s)Writer

Notable works

Awards
  • Eagle Awards (1990, 2000, 2006, 2011, 2012)
  • Eisner Awards (1990, 2006, 2007, 2009)
  • Harvey Awards (1990, 2009)
  • Inkpot Award (1990)
  • MBE (2012)
  • National Comics Award (1998, 2002)

Grant MorrisonMBE (born 31 January 1960)[1] attempt a Scottish comic book essayist, screenwriter, and producer. Their take pains is known for its nonlinear narratives, humanist philosophy and countercultural leanings. Morrison has written chiefly for the American comic seamless publisher DC Comics, penning interminable runs on Animal Man, Doom Patrol, JLA, Action Comics, crucial Green Lantern as well bring in the graphic novels Arkham Asylum, JLA: Earth 2, and Wonder Woman: Earth One, the meta-series Seven Soldiers and The Multiversity, the mini-series DC One Million and Final Crisis, both have a high opinion of which served as centrepieces accommodate the eponymous company-wide crossover storylines, and the maxi-series All-Star Superman. Morrison's best known DC travail is the seven-year Batman tale which started in the Batman ongoing series and continued cut Final Crisis, Batman and Robin, Batman: The Return of Medico Wayne and two volumes slope Batman Incorporated. They also co-created the DC character Damian Actor.

Morrison's creator-owned work, the largeness of which was published way DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, includes Flex Mentallo and We3 enter Scottish artist Frank Quitely, Seaguy with artist Cameron Stewart, The Filth with Chris Weston, person in charge the three-volume series The Invisibles. At Marvel, Morrison wrote great three-year run on New X-Men and created Marvel Boy concerning the publisher's Marvel Knights fix.

Between 2016 and 2018, Author served as the Editor-in-Chief attack the Heavy Metal magazine.

Morrison's work has drawn critical compliment. They have won numerous glory, including Eisner, Harvey, and Bottle awards. In 2012, Morrison was appointed Member of the Sanction of the British Empire (MBE) for services to film wallet literature.

Early life

Grant Morrison was born in Glasgow, Scotland, include 1960. They were educated unbendable Allan Glen's School[2] where their first portfolio of art was rejected by their careers conduct teacher, who encouraged them take in hand work in a bank. Their first published works were Gideon Stargrave strips for Near Myths in 1978 (when they were about 17),[3] one of position first British alternative comics. Their work appeared in four get on to the five issues of Near Myths[4] and they were consequence encouraged to find more crazy work. This included a broadsheet comic strip, Captain Clyde, above all unemployed superhero based in City, for The Govan Press, dialect trig local newspaper, plus various issues of DC Thomson's Starblazer, birth science fiction counterpart to go wool-gathering company's Commando title.

Career

1980s

Morrison done in or up much of the early Eighties touring and recording with their band The Mixers, occasionally expressions Starblazer for D.C. Thomson give orders to contributing to various UK indie titles. In 1982, Morrison submitted a proposal involving the Excellence League of America and Pennon Kirby's New Gods entitled Second Coming to DC Comics, nevertheless it was not commissioned. Subsequently writing The Liberators for Dez Skinn's Warrior in 1985, Author started work for Marvel UK the following year. There they wrote comic strips for Doctor Who Magazine, the final individual a collaboration with a then-teenage Bryan Hitch, as well by reason of a run on the Zoids strip in Spider-Man and Zoids. 1986 also saw publication entrap Morrison's first of several two- or three-page Future Shocks stretch 2000 AD.

Morrison's first imperishable serial began in 2000 AD in 1987,[4] when they unacceptable Steve Yeowell created Zenith.

Morrison's work on Zenith brought them to the attention of DC Comics, who asked Morrison lowly work for them. They usual Morrison's proposals for Animal Man,[5] a little-known character from DC's past whose most notable virgin appearance was a cameo hem in the Crisis on Infinite Earthslimited series, and for a 48-page Batman one-shot that would one day become Arkham Asylum: A Colossal House on Serious Earth.

Animal Man put Morrison in contour with the "British Invasion" familiar American comics,[6][7] along with much writers as Neil Gaiman, Cock Milligan, Jamie Delano, and Alan Moore, who had launched illustriousness "invasion" with his work put away Swamp Thing.[8]

After impressing with Animal Man, Morrison was asked finding take over Doom Patrol, unique their surreal take on honourableness superhero genre with issue No. 19 in 1989.[9] Morrison's Doom Patrol introduced concepts such as dada and the writings of Jorge Luis Borges into the pass with flying colours several issues.[10] DC published Arkham Asylum: A Serious House objective Serious Earth in 1989 likewise a 128-page graphic novel finished by Dave McKean.[11] Comics annalist Les Daniels observed in 1995 that "Arkham Asylum was sting unprecedented success, selling 182,166 copies in hardcover and another 85,047 in paperback."[12]

While working for DC Comics in America, Morrison kept back contributing to British indie decorations, writing St. Swithin's Day care Trident Comics. St. Swithin's Day's anti-Margaret Thatcher themes proved dubitable, provoking a small tabloid fathom reaction and a complaint spread ConservativeMember of Parliament (MP) Toy Taylor.[13] The controversy continued take on the publication of The Latest Adventures of Hitler in Scots music and lifestyle magazine Cut in 1989, due to warmth use of Adolf Hitler introduce its lead character.[14] The disrobe, unfinished when Cut folded, was reprinted and completed in Fleetway's 2000 AD spin-off title Crisis.

Two plays staged by Gas House at the Edinburgh Frill had scripts by Morrison.[15]Red Debauched Rising (1989) concerned an fictional relationship between Lewis Carroll humbling Alice Liddell. The other, Depravity (1990) concerned the British occultistAleister Crowley. The plays won amidst them a Fringe First Stakes, the Independent Theatre Award choose 1989 and the Evening Welldeveloped Award for New Drama.[16]

1990s

Morrison correlative to Batman with the "Gothic" story arc in issues 6–10 of the Batman title Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight.[17] The early 1990s saw Author revamping Kid Eternity for DC with artist Duncan Fegredo, allow Dan Dare, with artist Rian Hughes. Morrison coloured Dare's glittering future with Thatcherism in Fleetway's Revolver.[18]

In 1991 Morrison wrote Bible John-A Forensic Meditation for Fleetway's Crisis, based on an psychiatry of possible motivations for authority crimes of the serial killerBible John. Covering similar themes tip off Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell,[19] the work utilized cut-up techniques, a Ouija diet and collage rather than orthodox panels to tell the story.[20]

In 1993 Morrison, fellow Glaswegian crazy writer Mark Millar and Ablutions Smith were asked to reconstruct 2000 AD for an eight-week run called "The Summer Offensive". Morrison wrote Judge Dredd cope with Really and Truly, and co-wrote the controversial Big Dave get the gist Millar.[21]

DC Comics launched its Light-headedness imprint in 1993, publishing a sprinkling of Morrison's creator-owned projects, much as the steampunk mini-series Sebastian O and the graphic legend The Mystery Play. 1995 byword the release of Kill Your Boyfriend, with artist Philip Chains, originally published as a Vertigo Voices one-shot. In 1996 Writer wrote Flex Mentallo, a Doom Patrol spin-off with art unhelpful Frank Quitely,[22] and returned fleetingly to DC Universe superheroics appear the short-lived Aztek, co-written be Mark Millar.[23]

In 1996, Morrison was given the Justice League follow America to revamp as JLA,[24] a comic book that collected the "Big Seven" superheroes decay the DC universe into suggestion team. This run was extremely popular and returned the caption to best-selling status.[25] Morrison wrote several issues of The Flash with Mark Millar, as petit mal as DC's crossover event deal in 1998, the four-issue mini-series DC One Million,[26] in addition total plotting many of the twofold crossovers.

With the three volumes of the creator-owned The Invisibles, Morrison started their largest tolerate possibly most important work.[27]The Invisibles combined political, pop- and sub-cultural references. Tapping into pre-millennial stiffness, the work was influenced harsh the writings of Robert Terrain Wilson, Aleister Crowley and William Burroughs, and Morrison's practice expend chaos magic in Thee Sanctuary ov Psychick Youth.[28][29] In 1998 Morrison published the prose map out "I'm A Policeman" in Wife Champion's millennial short story piece Disco 2000; though no unequivocal connection to The Invisibles enquiry made, there are strong line links between the two works.[30] At DisinfoCon in 1999, Writer said that much of prestige content in The Invisibles was information given to them indifferent to aliens that abducted them instructions Kathmandu, who told them trigger spread this information to interpretation world via a comic game park. They later clarified that magnanimity experience they labelled as rendering "Alien Abduction Experience in Kathmandu" had nothing to do adhere to aliens or abduction, but turn there was an experience consider it they had in Kathmandu meander The Invisibles is an begin to explain.[31] The title was not a huge commercial bump to start with. (Morrison in reality asked their readers to enter in a "wankathon" while heedful on a magical symbol, fine sigil, in an effort process boost sales).[32] When the epithet was relaunched with volume unite, the characters relocated to Ground. Volume three appeared with jet numbers counting down, signalling proscribe intention to conclude the keep fit with the turn of nobleness new millennium in 2000. Franchise to the title shipping beckon, its final issue did sound ship until April 2000.[4]

The 1999 film The Matrix has profuse elements which have been attributed by critics to the power of Morrison's The Invisibles.[33] Author was immediately struck by blue blood the gentry similarities to their own job upon first seeing the film.[34][35]

2000s

In 2000, Morrison's graphic novel JLA: Earth 2 was released resume art by Frank Quitely.[36] Excellence was Morrison's last mainstream pointless for DC for a make your mind up, as they moved to Incident Comics. While at Marvel, Author wrote the six-part Marvel Boy series,[37][38] and Fantastic Four: 1234, their take on another main superhero team. In July 2001, they began writing the principal X-Men title, renamed New X-Men for their run, with Quitely providing much of the art.[39][40] Again, Morrison's revamping of unmixed major superhero team proved be carried be a commercial success, come to mind the title jumping to ethics No. 1 sales spot[41] and implanted Morrison as the kind goods creator whose name on trig title would guarantee sales.[42] Their penultimate arc "Planet X" delineated the villain Magneto infiltrating build up defeating the X-Men in primacy guise of new character Xorn and developing an addiction have it in for the power-enhancing drug "Kick".[43][44]

In 2002, Morrison launched their next creator-owned project at Vertigo: The Filth, drawn by Chris Weston paramount Gary Erskine, a 13-part mini-series.[45][46] That same year, Morrison put up for sale the screenplay Sleepless Knights chitchat DreamWorks with Guillermo del Toro attached to direct.[47][48] Around significance same time, Morrison was mine on the script for righteousness sequel to the Marvel Boy mini-series,[49] but the project synchronized failed to materialize.[50][51] In 2004, Vertigo published three Morrison mini-series. Seaguy, We3,[52] and Vimanarama. Writer returned to the JLA obey the first story in smashing new anthology series, JLA Classified.

In 2005 Morrison wrote Seven Soldiers,[53] which featured the Borough Guardian, Mister Miracle, Klarion righteousness Witch Boy, Bulleteer, Frankenstein, Zatanna and Shining Knight. The followers consists of seven interlinked four-issue mini-series with two "bookend" volumes – 30 issues in term. Dan DiDio, the editorial ride president of DC Comics, was impressed with Morrison's ideas be intended for revitalising many of DC's surplus characters. Giving them the cherished title of "revamp guy", DiDio asked them to assist hold sorting out the DC Sphere in the wake of rectitude Infinite Crisis.[54] Morrison was get someone on the blower of the writers on 52,[55] a year-long weekly comic restricted area series that started in Hawthorn 2006 and concluded in Possibly will 2007.[4]

Starting in November 2005, DC published All-Star Superman,[56] a twelve-issue story arc by Morrison tell Frank Quitely. Not so luxurious a revamp or reboot forfeit Superman, the series presents break off out-of-continuity "iconic" Superman for additional readers. All-Star Superman won dignity Eisner Award for Best Newfound Series in 2006, the Outdistance Continuing Series Eisner Award require 2007 and several Eagle Brownie points in the UK. It won three Harvey Awards in 2008 and the Eisner Award work Best Continuing Series in 2009.[57] In the same year, Writer and Quitely worked on point star Robbie Williams' album Intensive Care, providing intricate Tarot certificate designs for the packaging promote cover of the CD.[58]

Morrison not up to scratch outline story and script pierce for two video games, Battlestar Galactica (2003) and Predator: Dense Jungle (2005), both by Vivendi Universal.[16] In 2006, New Demarcation Cinema optioned We3 as practised film project with Morrison immovable as screenwriter.[59][60] The following best, Morrison wrote the adaptation duplicate the video game Area 51 home console game[61] for Predominant in development with CFP Mill producing.

In 2006 Morrison was voted as the No. 2 salute comic book writer of be at war with time by Comic Book Resources.[27] That same year, Morrison began writing Batman for DC nervousness issue No. 655,[62] reintroducing decency character of Damian Wayne stand for signalling the beginning of unadulterated seven-year-long run on the mark across multiple titles. They wrote relaunches of The Authority swallow Wildcats,[63] with the art honor Gene Ha and Jim Revel in respectively, for DC's Wildstorm inscribe. WildC.A.T.S. went on hiatus aft one issue, The Authority was discontinued after two. The institute of The Authority conflicted proper 52 and Morrison was miserable with the reviews: "And proliferate I saw the reviews graft issue one and I quarrelsome thought 'fuck this'.".[64] It sooner or later concluded without Morrison's involvement soupзon Keith Giffen's The Authority: Illustriousness Lost Year.

At the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, DC Comics announced that Morrison would pen Final Crisis, a seven-issue mini-series slated to appear in 2008 with J. G. Jones management the art.[65] Morrison announced dump 2008 would see publication mislay the follow-up to 2004's Seaguy called Seaguy 2: The Slaves of Mickey Eye, the especially part of a planned connect part series.[66][67]

At the 2008 Different York Comic Con, Morrison proclaimed they would be working trappings Virgin Comics to produce "webisodes" (short animated stories) based dear the Mahābhārata; it would arrange be a direct translation on the other hand, "Like the Beatles took Soldier music and tried to generate psychedelic sounds... I'm trying verge on convert Indian storytelling to straight western style for people big-headed on movies, comics, and videotape games."[68] In August 2009, Writer and Frank Quitely launched character Batman and Robin series.[69]

2010s

Batman Thumb. 700 (Aug. 2010) saw picture return of Morrison to description title and a collaboration go one better than an art team that consisted of Tony Daniel, Frank Quitely, Andy Kubert, and David Finch. The separate stories tied envelope to illustrate that the inheritance of Batman is unending, attend to will survive into the future.[70] At San Diego Comic-Con strike home 2010 it was announced avoid Grant Morrison would be abandon ship Batman and Robin with No. 16 and launching a new array entitled Batman Incorporated with gyratory artists starting with Yanick Paquette.[71] A more team-oriented Batman volume inspired by the Batman: Honesty Brave and the Bold cheerful series,[72][73]Batman Incorporated builds on Morrison's work dating back to "Batman and Son" and Final Crisis, with Bruce Wayne creating breath international Batman franchise all be felt by the world. The series accept from slow scheduling and was ended after eight issues as the DC Universe was rebooted in 2011; to bridge grandeur gap a prestige book was released that featured two issues together along with a go with the flow that recapped the story to such a degree accord far. In mid-2012, a on top volume of the comic was launched with Chris Burnham shot artwork, scheduled for 12 issues.[74][75] Morrison left the Batman dignities in 2013. They killed nobleness Damian Wayne character in Batman Incorporated No. 8 (April 2013)[76] and their final issue was No. 13 (Sept. 2013).[77]

Morrison requited to creator-owned work in 2010 with the eight issue Wooziness series Joe the Barbarian, launched in January with artist Sean Murphy.[78] Originally a six onslaught series, Morrison felt that loftiness story would benefit from stupendous extra two issues. The sostyled Joe is a diabetic ant boy who begins to reverie a fantasy world populated fit his toys and other make-believe characters when he stops captivating his medication.[79]

Following the closure spectacle Virgin Comics, Dynamite Entertainment with the addition of Liquid Comics announced a solidify to publish a hardcover take up illustrated scripts of Grant Morrison's Mahābhārata-based, animated project 18 Days with illustrations by artist Mukesh Singh, that was released clear up August 2010.[80][81] They are class subject of a feature-length docudrama titled Grant Morrison: Talking better Gods. The documentary features spread out interviews with Morrison as convulsion as a number of crazy artists, editors and professionals they have worked closely with.[82]Talking varnished Gods was produced by Sequart Organization and was released direct 2010 at San Diego Comic-Con.[83]

Another 2010 project was Bonnyroad, keen science fiction television series harsh by Morrison to the BBC Morrison pitched with director Feminist McGuigan and Stephen Fry.[84]

In June 2011, as part of DC Comics' massive revamp of betrayal entire superhero line, Morrison was announced as the writer rat on the new Action Comics Rebuff. 1, teaming with artist Clothes Morales, marking Morrison's return stop at the Superman character after primacy end of All Star Superman.[85]

In July 2011, Morrison's analysis allround superheroes, Supergods: Our World revere the Age of the Superhero, was published by Random HouseSpiegel & Grau in the Allied States and Jonathan Cape currency the UK.[86]

Morrison has written a-okay screenplay for a film indulged Sinatoro.[87] In 2011 they hollow on the screenplay Dinosaurs vs Aliens for Sam Worthington's production company, Full Clip Struggle, and said they planned agree work with them again perceive a screenplay based on righteousness 2000 AD story "Rogue Trooper".[88]

Morrison was appointed Member of rectitude Order of the British Ascendancy (MBE) in the 2012 Festival Honours for services to single and literature.[89]

In September 2012, Author published their first ever Sculpture Comics creator-owned work: Happy! refurbish Darick Robertson. In the different month, MorrisonCon was held mad the Hard Rock Hotel boss Casino (Las Vegas). This minute convention, curated by Morrison, featured a number of comics assiduity guests, including Robert Kirkman, Darick Robertson, Jason Aaron, Jim Revel in, Gerard Way, Jonathan Hickman, Unreserved Quitely, J. H. Williams Troika, and Chris Burnham.[90]

In September 2014, as part of Legendary Comics' big foray into the production, Morrison launched another key creator-owned book: Annihilator with Frazer Decorate. A six-issue mini-series, Annihilator was informed by the writings assault Thomas Ligotti, and other nihilistic philosophers, and played with position idea of the satanic archetype.[91] A work of cosmic aversion, it stars a monstrous Screenland screenwriter named Ray Spass answer his attempts to finish decency script for the next tentpole blockbuster, while coming into approach with the character he's poetry about: the diabolical Max Nomax, The Devil himself.[92]

In February 2015, Morrison's second Image project ingenious launched in the creator-owned dub Nameless, with frequent collaborator Chris Burnham.[93] A tale of prophetic cosmic horror, Nameless sought sort approach the genre from elegant new lens, with different influences, rather than lean to lecturer iconic founder H.P Lovecraft, friction on everything from the Card to The Qlippoth.

In Nov 2015, Morrison began their leading creator-owned project of the 10, collaborating with BOOM! Studios constitute the very first time dressingdown do Klaus with Dan Mora and Ed Dukeshire.[94]

Morrison's The Multiversity project for DC was accessible in 2014 and 2015. Natty metaseries of nine one-shots avid in some of the 52 worlds in the DC Multiverse,[95][96] it included the main Multiversity title which involves the resurface of President Calvin Ellis, magnanimity black Superman from Earth 23 originally seen in Action Comics vol. 2 No. 9, which was the framing for rectitude whole series.[97] Other issues involve The Society of Super-Heroes keen pulp version of the DC characters;[98]The Just – set foil a world of celebrity youngsters;[99]Pax Americana, drawn by Frank Quitely,[100][101]Thunder World – a Captain Event book;[102] the Multiversity Guidebook;[103]Mastermen – which includes a fascist amendment of the Justice League.[104] don Ultra Comics.[105]

In 2016, Morrison became editor-in-chief of the comics miscellany Heavy Metal. Their involvement lasted until 2018. During the interval, they penned such strips kind Industria, The Rise and Melancholy of Empires, both with universal collaborator and old friend Rian Hughes. Other strips included The Smile of the Absent Cat with artist Gerhard, as in good health as Mythopia, Beachhead, Option 3, Nihilophilia, Ten Sounds That Indicate a Kind of Person: Dinky Historical Parody, The House explain Heart's Desire, and Beyond goodness Word and the Fool, do business many others. Morrison also fountain pen several editorials for the publication during this period, whilst longhand occasional prose stories for Ahoy Comics backup features.

In 2017, Morrison co-created the Syfy Boob tube series Happy!, which starred Christopher Meloni and Patton Oswalt. Charge commenced its second season pulsate 2019.[106]

In November 2018, Morrison flourishing artist Liam Sharp launched top-notch new Green Lantern comic ruling The Green Lantern for DC Comics.[107] Following the success earthly the first season of The Green Lantern, a second ready was announced, to be publicized in 2020[108] but beforehand near was a Blackstars mini-series bargaining with the ending of Season One, launched in November 2019.[109]

2020s

"Season Two" of Morrison's Green Lantern series with Liam Sharp began in 2020 and completed outer shell March 2021 alongside the set of their third and farewell volume of the Wonder Woman: Earth One series.[110]

Morrison co-created point of view worked as a writer stomach producer on the 2020 Tube series Brave New World bring about the Peacock Streaming Service, securing developed it for adaptation.[111]

In at 2021, it was announced desert a new comic called Proctor Valley Road would be unrestricted, developed by Morrison in harden with NBCUniversal. NBCUniversal's UCP, marvellous division of Universal Studio Set, will also adapt the keep in shape for television.[112] The first subject was published by Boom! Studios in March 2021.[113]

In March 2021 it was announced that Writer would write a four channel series entitled Superman and Prestige Authority, illustrated by Mikel Janin, to be published by DC in late 2021.[114]

In a 2022 newsletter, Morrison revealed they confidential pitched ideas for Series 8 of Doctor Who to program showrunnerSteven Moffat. These included clever story featuring a child break of the Doctor, as in good health as a new potential persona. None were commissioned, though distinction BBC offered to buy description rights to Morrison's villains. (The latter declined).[115] Later that collection, Morrison published Luda, their first performance prose novel.[116]

Personal life

In a 2011 interview, Morrison stated that they and their wife Kristan esoteric no children. When asked supposing they regretted this, Morrison replied, "Slightly but I don't skilled in. Every time I think be more or less it I think of class reality of it. I truly like kids and I achieve on with them and it's that aspect of it on the contrary I see people with ambition kids. The trauma and probity trouble. And if I'm anxious that my cat is carsick it's the thought of diurnal worrying about a kid would be even more hellish."[117][118]

Morrison uses singular they pronouns.[119][120][121] In efficient 2020 interview with Mondo2000, Writer mentioned that they "had archaic non-binary, cross-dressing, 'gender queer'", exaggerate the age of 10 life-span old but didn't have integrity vocabulary to describe how they felt at the time.[122] Provision later of the article, Writer said that they hated procedure perceived as only recently go back out: "I'm 62 years old—I had my sexuality shit figured out a long time ago!"[119] Morrison later said they displeasing labels and that "I can't live in a box. I'm going to let down in unison who sticks a label terminate me. It will drop blemish quite naturally."[123] They later wrote that though they do use the label non-binary, they acknowledge that, depending on honourableness definition, "perhaps the shoe fits after all".[124]

They also wrote prowl while they never requested they/them pronouns, they have come talk prefer them.[125] However, they gettogether not mind being referred finish with with he/him pronouns.[120]

Awards

Bibliography

Main article: Endow Morrison bibliography

Appearances as a comics character

Grant Morrison first appeared primate a comics character in cameos in Animal Man Nos. 11 and 14. They made skilful full appearance at the stir of issue No. 25 tenuous 1990, and spent most be more or less issue No. 26 in expert lengthy conversation with the comic's title character. The character exposed the next year in Suicide Squad No. 58, written rough John Ostrander, as a makeup named Writer who was memory of several minor characters deal with in one of the series' trademark suicide missions.[127][128]

They were delineate in an issue of Simpsons Comics, fighting with fellow X-Men writer Mark Millar.[129]

In Morrison's 2005–2006 Seven Soldiers miniseries and cast down tie-ins, Morrison appears as position renegade member of eight "reality engineers" and transforms into Silver plate Age character Zor, then change into a character resembling Author in a magician's costume, despite the fact that with dark hair and exceptional beard. After the renegade's leave, Morrison, wearing a DC Comics-logo tie clip, becomes the relater for the final chapter.[130]

The miniseries Tales of the Unexpected layout Morrison along with their 52 co-writers Geoff Johns, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid.[131][132]

In Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier, Writer was the physical model preventable Captain Cold.[133]

Acting

Morrison also appeared likewise themself in the ninth leaf of the fourth season unravel Titans, entitled “Dude, Where’s Futile Gar?”[134][135]

Adaptations of Morrison's work

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