You get a character too cool for his own good. The team once again faces the threat of a dystopian future they could have prevented. Wolverine gets a new teenage sidekick, but this one’s spunkiness hides real pain. Morrison really gets the cyclical nature of the X-Men and he comments on this by taking every single X-Men trope and completely reinvents it. It was now Marvel’s version of Hogwarts, overflowing with a true variety of mutants, full of big personalities and amazing abilities.Īs a lifelong X-Men fan, what I love most about this story is just how… X-Meny the whole thing is. Xavier’s school was no longer home to just or 6 or 7 mutants.

The X-Men were rebranded from superheroes back into outcasts, ditching their trademark costumes for the black leather look and shifting their focus from saving the world to keeping mutants safe from the world. This was actually the direct cause for Marvel’s then-EIC to be removed from his position – lack of being able to capitalize on a successful movie and get the company out of bankruptcy – and left Morrrison in a similar position that lead to Claremont’s initial success – anything goes.Īnd what Morrison did with this is nothing short of outstanding. Editorial interference, endless crossovers and increasingly insular stories drove away fans and kept new fans turned on to the franchise from the film from hopping on. Claremont’s 17 year run cast a shadow so large that even the writer himself couldn’t crawl out from under it during a brief return. To the general public, the X-Men were more popular than ever, due to the success of:īut in comics? The X-Men had become a victim of their own success. The X-Men were in a weird place when Morrison and artist Frank Quitely were given the reigns. He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism.

In his secret identity, Morrison is a 'counterculture' spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician.

In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL.

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