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**BIGREDROBOT** · 08-23-2011, 12:57 PM

Why would a writer like Grant Morrison have any opinion on digital distribution? He's never been seen as any sort of authority on the business side of comics. I'm more intersted in his sick burn on Mark Millar than I am his opinion on the intricacies on digital distribution.

Rurik · 08-23-2011, 01:07 PM

Well he is talking about the death of comics, digital just seems relevant to me.

I do agree that he totally burned Millar. It was hilarious.

chris graves · 08-23-2011, 01:09 PM

Another classic interview. Little tired of hearing about Katmandu and all that stuff, it's Morrison 101. I love that man but he should trip balls on something NEW and talk about that lol.

**BIGREDROBOT** · (This post was last modified: 08-23-2011 01:30 PM by BIGREDROBOT.)

(08-23-2011 01:07 PM)Rurik Wrote: Well he is talking about the death of comics, digital just seems relevant to me.

It is relevant, but Morrison's the last guy whose opinion on the comics business I trust. Chrome-colored higher-dimensional beings? Yes.

But he's right. Monthly printed comics as we know them are dying out. Numbers don't lie. And right now, digital sales aren't even close to the limp printed sales. I think cheaper digital with eventual printed collections is the way to go, but we'll see what happens in the next few years.

My favorite bit from the interview, regarding Identity Crisis:

Quote:It's hard to tell because most men try to avoid misogyny, really they do, in this world we live in today. It's hard for me to believe that a shy bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic. But unfortunately when you're looking at this beloved character who's obviously been a**-raped on the Justice League satellite, even saying it kind of takes you to that dot dot dot where you don't know what else to say.

**thechrishaley** · (This post was last modified: 08-23-2011 01:45 PM by thechrishaley.)

(08-23-2011 10:28 AM)themonkeybar Wrote: I still think greater diversity would help to attract new readers.

That and a move away from standard continuity towards something more flexible and fluid.

Not to mention doing more to attract young readers and encourage a life time habit.

Oh and of course doing more to promote the idea that comics are for everybody and not just 'kids stuff' which still hasn't gone away.

If you can give people the message that comics are a medium as flexible and open to all as books and film then you might see an improvement in sales. You won't get new readers by repackaging what you're already doing to appeal to a target audience who have already abandoned the industry or chosen something else to entertain them instead.

Bingo.

I'm happy to hear anyone explain their side to me, but I really didn't read anything in that interview that seemed like something to get upset over.

Maybe there's some more in the full interview that'll be in the magazine that others know about and I don't, but as it stands I don't know what the problem is.

deebeemonster · 08-23-2011, 01:48 PM

I don't get why people are pissed off or angry at this interview? Maybe I'm misreading people's interpretations at it.

He basically tells Chris Ware to shut the fuck up, wants to run over Mark Millar, and calls out Brad Meltzer for writing a terrible comic book.

Chris Ware has a great ability to make comics, and his novel Jimmy Corrigan is great as a sort of modern dystopian view of the world. But that's all he does, and he has had an openly shitty proto-hipster attitude towards cape comics.

Mark Millar is just... man he is a negative version of Alan Moore. I don't need him, don't want him.

I will say that him coming out and saying WTF about Identity crisis POST SuperGods is pretty weak. Like why didn't you say this BEFORE hand, but again, the dude is getting the opportunity to write Action Comics for a (hopefully) new generation of kids. I can see and understand why he might have played a softer hand earlier.

But really, what's the big deal? He basically calls a spade a spade in this interview.

Jay Kay · 08-23-2011, 04:20 PM

(08-23-2011 01:48 PM)deebeemonster Wrote: I will say that him coming out and saying WTF about Identity crisis POST SuperGods is pretty weak. Like why didn't you say this BEFORE hand, but again, the dude is getting the opportunity to write Action Comics for a (hopefully) new generation of kids. I can see and understand why he might have played a softer hand earlier.

Well, he says in this interview that he saw some good stuff in it, he just also went WTF over Dr. Light raping Sue and Ralph wrapping his arms around his charred wife's corpse.

winnr · 08-23-2011, 06:26 PM

(08-23-2011 12:57 PM)bigredrobot Wrote: Why would a writer like Grant Morrison have any opinion on digital distribution? He's never been seen as any sort of authority on the business side of comics. I'm more intersted in his sick burn on Mark Millar than I am his opinion on the intricacies on digital distribution.

Man that burn was so great. And it was really good to get a bit of insight into the falling out, even if it was just Morrison's side (the only side I care about).

(08-23-2011 01:09 PM)chris graves Wrote: Another classic interview. Little tired of hearing about Katmandu and all that stuff, it's Morrison 101. I love that man but he should trip balls on something NEW and talk about that lol.

He was on NPR this weekend talking about cross-dressing in order to write The Invisibles, so there's that. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/14/138923519/...-supergods

I just can't believe I might be buying Rolling Stone next month.