This focus on non-traditional protagonists both brings the reader closer to the character since they are seen as being more “human,” while at the same time creating a world or scenario outside of the comfort zone of established comic book Instead they are deeply flawed characters with familiar problems who react to situations very differently from traditional comic book super heroes. In fact most of his protagonists cannot really be called heroes, at least not in the traditional sense. With a few notable exceptions, most of Morrison’s work is centered around non-traditional heroes. That “something more” is what ultimately separates Grant Morrison’s work from that of most other comic book writers. Over the years as I read more of Morrison’s books-becoming quite a fan in the process–I began to see that there was something more to them than just the typical super hero action that I’ve always loved.
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It was mysterious, dark and crammed full of symbolism that I couldn’t yet (and still today do not quite) understand. It was unlike anything I had read up to that time. I first encountered Grant Morrison’s work around 1989 or 1990 when I picked up his Batman hardcover graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth. These books changed forever the ways that comics are both read and written. The results of course were Watchmen (Moore), Sandman (Gaiman), Stormwatch and The Authority (Ellis) and many of the books that are included in this annotated bibliography. Along with fellow UK comic book writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Warren Ellis, he was approached by DC comics in the 1980’s to revitalize their properties and inject some “new blood” into mainstream American comics, which had become pretty stale and rote by that time. Grant Morrison is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comic book writers of the past twenty years. Rather, it is a (very amateurish) attempt at cataloging stories by Morrison where certain themes seem to be present as well as and authors that have influenced these themes.
**note** This is in no way a comprehensive list of the books Grant Morrison has written. Annotated Bibliography and Influence Study on selected works
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