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  • December 6th, 2012 11:13pm

    You have to remember, in the entire history of the universe, you’re the only you that has ever existed. Only you see the world the way you see the world. We want to know how you see it. It might be so beautiful, so different, that it changes everything.

    — Grant Morrison, 2008 (via deantrippe)

  • November 29th, 2012 10:17am

    I find it tragic but quite pertinent to this piece that the loudest voice in our business – the one that carries the furthest and is taken most seriously by the mainstream media – is the one that offers nothing but contempt and denunciation, with barely a single good word to say about any of the many accomplished and individual writers currently working in mainstream comics, let alone the wealth of brilliant indie creators.Does he ever, for instance, use his high media profile to do anything other than steer potential readers away from modern comic books and their creators – while over-playing his own achievements and placing himself centre stage at every turn? How hard would it be to say something encouraging, positive, or hopeful about the generally improved standard of writing in all comic books these days? Or at least say nothing at all.

    And if I may untangle the logic behind so much of his hectoring: Moore constantly reiterates the idea that all modern comics are copied from stuff he did in the ’80s – and they’re all rubbish!

    Is he genuinely saying that his influence has been entirely malignant? If he actually believed that, I’d almost feel sorry for him. I see my own influence all over the place and I’m quite chuffed.

    —

    Grant Morrison, on Alan Moore’s accusations that Morrison has been stealing from him for years.

    (via comicsalliance)

  • October 27th, 2012 12:18pm

    We’ve deconstructed all our icons. We know politicians are lying assholes, we know soap stars are coke freaks, handsome actors are tranny weirdos and gorgeous supermodels are bulimic, neurotic wretches. We know our favorite comedians will turn out to be alcoholic perverts or suicidal depressives. Our reality shows have held up a scalding mirror to our yapping baboon faces and cheesy, obvious obsessions, our trashy, gossipy love of trivia and dirt.

    We know we’ve fucked up the atmosphere and doomed the lovely polar bears and we can’t even summon up the energy to feel guilty anymore. Let the pedophiles have the kids. There’s nowhere left to turn and no one left to blame except, paradoxically, those slightly medieval guys without the industrial base. What’s left to believe in? The only truly moral, truly goodhearted man left is a made-up comic book character! The only secular role models for a progressive, responsible, scientific-rational Enlightenment culture are… Kal-El of Krypton, aka Superman and his multicolored descendants!

    So we chose not to deconstruct the superhero but to take him at face value, as a fiction that was trying to tell us something wonderful about ourselves. Somewhere, in our darkest night, we made up the story of a man who will never let us down.

    — Grant Morrison (via comicsandjunk) (Reblogging because this quote is never not relevant)

  • October 4th, 2011 5:36pm


    miss-mgann:

    I love how most of Dick’s conversations with Alfred tend to go something like ‘blah blah science blah blah crime fighting blah bla-OMG ALFRED THIS FOOD IS TO /DIE/ FOR- blah blah science.’

    –Batman and Robin #1