Out of the mouth of Morrison: Batman = Gayness

[trashcanman]

Wow, now here's a goddamn interview! Grant Morrison is one of the most revered and highbrow mainstream comic writers out there and is knownn for writing one of Superman's most legendary and definitive stories (All-Star Superman) and one of the best Batman graphic novels of all time (Arkham Asylum). Reading his script for Arkham Asylum, you see how fucking insane this guy is (for example, he originally envisioned Joker's mouth to be drawn as "vagina dentata") and how brilliant he is at the same time, working on several levels and tiny details that very few readers will spot or comprehend.

His standing with me has plummeted over the last decade due to the way he has handled The Dark Knight, pretty much making all of his stories unnecessarily convoluted messes full of confusing insanity with too little of what the character has always been about present. While under Morrison's pen Bats has died (but not really) twice, found out his father is alive (not really, but possibly) and a villain (but not really, but maybe really), become "Batman of Zue-en-Arrh" after having his mind wiped or something, had Dick Grayson take over the identity with Bruce Wayne's dickish son Damien as Robin when he died (but didn't really), formed Batman Inc. so that every continent has their own Batman, traveled through time and became a pirate among other ridiculous things, and a bunch of other shit I stopped following years ago. So when fans say Morrison ruined Batman, there is a lot of ammunition to back up their claims. Yet, still the insanity continues. Fuck you, DC.

Back to the point. The guy weighed in on The Big Three recently and among his observations are that Wonder Woman needs more bondage and lesbianism, Superman should be battling Congress while walking his dog through an asteroid belt, and, of course that Batman is just "a rich man who beats up poor people" and is "very, very gay". Not that I disagree with everything he has said, but I really do wonder what he's trying to accomplish here. I'd guess he's sick of writing Bats and is hoping DC reassigns him after readers start to wonder if the guy who has been putting words in Batman's mouth for the last decade is the right guy for the job given his point of view. My opinion: let him write Wonder Woman! Full interview below.


www.craveonline.com/comics/articles/187545-grant-morrison-batman-is-very-very-gay

[The Curmudgeon]

While under Morrison's pen Bats has died (but not really) twice, found out his father is alive (not really, but possibly) and a villain (but not really, but maybe really), become "Batman of Zue-en-Arrh" after having his mind wiped or something, had Dick Grayson take over the identity with Bruce Wayne's dickish son Damien as Robin when he died (but didn't really), formed Batman Inc. so that every continent has their own Batman, traveled through time and became a pirate



Seriously, what the fuck. And I often ask myself why I don't read a lot of DC Comics. Jesus.

Interesting insight into some of the characters, although that shit about Superman walking his dog in space and his relatives from millions of years away visiting sounds like the kind of crazy shit they did with the character in the 50's. No way would people want to read that now.

I have no idea why Batman has to be gay. Because he dresses up? Aren't all super heroes gay, then?

This guy may have created greatness in the past, but there's nothing there I'd like to see. Except sexy Wonder Woman comics. I'd, uh, sneak a peek at them.

[trashcanman]

Yeah, bringing bondage back to WW with a pronounced lesbian subtext would ruffle some serious feathers, but possibly bring the character back into the limelight as well. Still a better idea than stealing Black Canary's getup was. I wish he's gone into more detail on what makes Batman so gay (other than often turning down the likes of Catwoman and Talia al Ghul). Sure, it's an old Golden/Silver Age joke from how friggin' bizarre DC comics were back then, but in the here and now Bruce Wayne as a character can't really be described that way. The way things are, if you want true badass badassness anymore, you kind of have to read Batwoman. With Morrison at the helm, Batman has become largely unreadable. A lot of hardcore comic fans defend his work as genius and point out how tiny details interlock and how if you read them over and over again, you see hints and foreshadowing and all that which is well and good, but at the end of the day when Batman comics end up looking like this:



or this:



or, of course, this:



it may be time to take the character back to his roots.

[Quillford]

In the words of Within Temptation "What have you done now?!". I don't understand why in THIS day when DC are struggling the on going battle of MARVEL, 2000 AD & TOP COW VS DC, we have poor comic writing there's no excuse.

[trashcanman]

The problem is that DC and Marvel don't let creators own their creations. They just throw X writer with Y artist to make Z character fit into A event storyline and that's that. That format does not breed creativity nor success. The good comics are all independent because the creator-owned titles are the ones where the writers and artists put their heart and souls into the characters and stories because they can't be yanked off the title and put on something else in a heartbeat like they are with the Big Two.