The "Pilot of the Future" has been going on Buck Rogers-like adventures since the '50s, moving from children’s periodical “Eagle” to “2000 A.D.” and recently to a revisionist take by Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine for Virgin Comics but Grant Morrison and Rian Hughes got there a few years before them. It’s right there in the title! “Dan Dare” is an icon of British comics, one who never quite made it across the pond. The art was subject to significant online backlash, to the point where Croatian artist Igor Kordey all but abandoned American comics work entirely after having been rushed by Marvel editorial to meet impossibly tight deadlines. As it turns out, Magneto was behind everything all along! Again! Not only that, but Morrison made the villain a demented drug addict, in sharp contrast to his usual dignified depictions. "New X-Men" had plenty of plot twists that shocked readers, including the reveal of Xavier’s evil sister Cassandra Nova, thought killed in the womb, and the addition of “secondary mutations." Ultimately, it was the run’s conclusion that riled fans up the most. Quitely’s glacial work pace necessitated a succession of fill-in artists, while Morrison struggled with editorial interference by Marvel's former Vice President, Bill Jemas, as well as fandom's critical reception of his work. However, they found that this playground soon turned into a prison.
Tapped to bring the X-Men into the 21st century after the success of their big screen debut, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely were given total access to Marvel's mighty mutants. With that in mind, here's a selection of the most controversial comics throughout Grant Morrison's storied career.
Burroughs, he can’t resist some “South Park”-style controversy. Looking back across his career, controversy is something for which he has a unique flair. For all his referencing of Kabbalistic texts and William S. Of course, this isn’t the first time the avant-garde comics scribe has been deliberately provocative in his art. RELATED: The 15 Most Controversial Marvel Stories EverĮqual parts “Conan” and New Testament, Morrison’s collaboration with artists the Molen Brothers apparently involved a lot of academic research into the more esoteric areas of theology.
The name of this new serial? Why, “Savage Sword of Jesus Christ,” naturally! The man who DC trusted all of its big names to, who was tasked with rebooting the origin story of Santa himself in BOOM!’s “Klaus,” just announced his newest story for “Heavy Metal," the iconic French publisher for which he recently took over as editor. Having thoroughly revolutionized superhero comics and after leaving a lasting mark on the medium as a whole, Grant Morrison is returning to his roots: being deliberately provocative and offending everyone.
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