The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

Another in the Uncollecteds series, for the idea and the rules see the first post.

I knew there would be a Grant Morrison special as soon as I started this. If only because there’s a hell of a lot of Grant Morrison stuff that I own that I’d love to be able to get in collections. In fact, just in one piece would be good, as some of my Grant Morrison rarities are in a file, ripped from magazines and comics.

But, like Alan Moore, I think we should really have better access to all of these Grant Morrison rarities:

The Complete Grant Morrison – The Early Years

Looking at the excellent TimeMachineGo comixography there’s an awful lot of stuff that could be pulled together as a Complete Early Years type thing. Even if Fleetway just collected all his work for 2000AD it would be a start.

Bible John: A Forensic Meditation – Grant Morrison & Daniel Valley

Published in Crisis #56-61, 1991. A look at the nature of evil investigating the unsolved Bible John case (Bible John wiki).

Big Dave – Grant Morrison & Steve Parkhouse

Part of the 2000AD summer offensive of 1993, where Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and John Smith were allowed to write everything in the comic, introduce new series and basically go wild. It’s basically Desperate Dan meets Viz with added violence.

Lovely Biscuits

Grant Morrison’s only published prose collection from 1998. It’s a grab bag o previously published short stories and plays.It’s either brilliant or virtually unreadable, depending how much of a genius you think Grant Morrison is.

Flex Mentallo – Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely

At one point we figured this would never, ever be collected. The similarities between Flex and Charles Atlas resulted in almost immediate legal action for DC Comics after Morrison’s Flex Mentallo first appeared in Doom Patrol and then his own brilliant 4 issue series. But DC have recently reprinted the Doom Patrol issues featuring Flex in Volume 4 so maybe there’s hope yet?

New Adventures Of Hitler – Grant Morrison & Steve Yeowell 1989/1990
Spectacular art and truly bizarre colouring just added to an already bizarre concept of Hitler in Liverpool between the wars, hallucinating Morrissey and John Lennon singing to him from his wardrobe. It also helped to show that Hue & Cry were not just a terrible band but pompous wankers as well. (wiki, Steve Flanagan overview on his blog.)

St Swithin’s Day – Grant Morrison & Paul Grist 1989/1990
This sort of doesn’t belong here, since it was originally published in issues of Trident in 1989 and then collected into one comic in 1990. But the rules are mine and I’ll be breaking them for possibly my favourite Morrison comic.

“Death To Maggie Book Sparks Tory Uproar” was the Sun’s headline at the time this came out. Morrison maintains the dialogue comes from his own diaries of the time. But I imagine he never stole a gun and took a train to do damage to Maggie.

I’d pay really good money to see this as a hardback reprint with extra illustrations by Paul Grist. In fact, I have Paul Grist’s email and my family always struggle for original Christmas presents …… (wiki)

Steed & Mrs Peel – Grant Morrison & Ian Gibson 1990

Three books starring the Avengers from the TV series. (Reprint This)

I think that’s it. Somebody, somewhere, please try to get this stuff back into print.