July 21, 2006

The Morrisons descend

Posted by Joe Casey on July 21, 2006

From the mists of Scotland, they arrive. And now he speaks…

GRANT MORRISON: Here on the blood red carpets of San Diego pretending not to be me – the heat inside this sweating hall of mutated flesh! The blinding glint of light from shiny ill-fitting costumes! The stench of dreams wrapped in plastic, pimped, sold, and flaunted before a Rabelaisian outpouring of humanity! Oh, the diribles! Thank god for the marines in the harbor and the helicopters – these guys are the only thing that stands between us and the howling mustachioed hordes of Saddam Hussein and Shirley Temple! Doesn’t anyone realise how difficult it is to go through a tough military hazing ? Never mind Al Eisner and Bill Kirby and all these comic book bods, the real heroes are bullnecked boys with grudges!

And now Joe Casey …

Here’s a Flash Fact for you… Morrison’s types with the middle finger of his left hand. Subtle message to his millions of readers…? U-Decide.