![]() Morrison: We've deconstructed all our icons. He seemed the perfect subject for what became an attempt to make a mainstream, adult superhero comic that didn't rely on ultraviolence, or superheroes swearing and getting their dicks out. That seemed worth exploring via the original superhero, Superman. ![]() It seemed fairly significant that the more threatening the world has been made to feel, the more this concept of the superhero has bled from the margins into mainstream consciousness, onto screens and T-shirts and into political speeches. Grant Morrison: I tried to be true to the concept of Superman as I understood it. : All-Star Superman exploded the narrative possibilities of the Man of Steel. ![]() caught up with the prolific genius to chat about the aforementioned and much more, including continuity, deconstruction, M-Theory and humans' obsession with the sexy apocalypse.Īll-Star Superman explores a timeless hero without catering to humanity's darkest nature. From cinematic adaptations of his cyborg animal series We3 to games, TV shows and a Batman and Robin series filtered through the iconography of David Lynch, Morrison's plate is packed. "I spent months immersing myself in the thought processes of an evil, dying God who longed for nothing less than the degradation, destruction and enslavement of all of DC's superheroes," he confesses, "along with every other living thing in the universe and beyond!"īut he's not taking a break far from it. ![]()
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