Geoff Johns, Author, Grant Morrison, Author, Greg Rucka, Author et al. DC Comics $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1353-4
W
hen this first of four volumes was serialized, its selling point was that it was a weekly, soap-operatic series happening in “real time,” a sort of 24
with superheroes, written by four major comics names. As a single book, it's a
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Grant Morrison. Spiegel & Grau, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6912-5
A Scottish playwright and comic book writer, Morrison (Arkham Asylum) traces the rise of superheroes from the 1940s golden age to the comics industry of today. This excellent survey of pop deity origins begins with "the ur-god and his dark twin,"...
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Grant Morrison et al, DC Comics, $39.99 (400p) ISBN 9781401226954
Morrison's 2005 project, whose first half is collected here, is an astonishingly clever feat of superhero writing: eight simultaneous, interconnected serials (each drawn by a different artist) about a "team" that has to save the world despite the...
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Grant Morrison, Chris Sprouse, Frazer Irving, and various, DC, $29.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2968-9
An odyssey for one of the most iconic figures in comics stretches from prehistory to the end of time, revisiting and reimagining Batman's mythology through a complex narrative. Writer Morrison and a team of artists pick up from the end of Morrison's
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Grant Morrison, Frazier Irving, David Finch, et al. DC, $24.99 (168p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3091-3
An opening scene in which a bat-garbed Dick Grayson is shot in the back of the head gangland-style sets the tone for Morrison's tale. A man posing as Bruce Wayne's father, Thomas, returned from the grave, claims Bruce's wealth and attempts to carry...
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Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette. DC, $22.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2978-8
Veteran comics scribe Morrison (Multiversity) reunites with his Batman Inc. partner Paquette to retell the origin of the most beloved female superhero for a new generation. Princess Diana of Paradise Island leads an idyllic life among her Amazonian...
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Grant Morrison and various. DC, $29.99 (264p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3212-2
Superstar comics writer Morrison may be best known for his bizarro stylings on series such as Doom Patrol and The Invisibles, but he also unashamedly wears his love on his sleeve for Silver Age DC Comics stories and puts it to good use. In this...
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Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham. DC Comics, $24.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4012-4400-2
Chaos rips across Gotham in the second and concluding collection of Morrison's series about Batman's attempt to franchise himself around the world, a move which provokes crime syndicate the Leviathan and Ra's al Ghul's even more sinister daughter...
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Grant Morrison and Sean Murphy. DC/Vertigo, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2971-9
An Eisner nominee for “Best Limited Series,” this extraordinarily rich book transfigures adolescent angst. Thirteen-year-old Joe Manson has many excuses for self-pity: his soldier father was killed in the Middle East, and his despairing mother is...
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Grant Morrison, Author, Frank Quitely, Illustrator . DC Comics/Vertigo $12.99 (104p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0495-2
Bandit, Tinker and Pirate are three pets who just want to go home. This collection of Vertigo's three-issue release tells the tale of a dog, a cat and a rabbit, who, like their Incredible Journey
–style forebears, work together as they...
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Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. DC/Vertigo, $22.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3221-4
This legendary epic in the oeuvre of the acclaimed Morrison/Quitely team (We3; All-Star Superman) is at long last available after legal troubles kept it out of print for years. Flex Mentallo is just one of dozens of secondary character in the acid...
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Grant Morrison, Author, Frank Quitely, Illustrator, Jamie Grant, With . DC $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1837-9
Morrison, Quitely and Grant conclude their fresh and compelling take on the most iconic superhero in comics. Recently, grittier modern-day reinterpretations of classic characters, set outside normal continuity, have become the popular way to do a...
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Grant Morrison, Author, Frank Quitely, Illustrator, Philip Tan, Illustrator et al. DC $24.99 (168p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2566-7
Following Bruce Wayne's reported demise, this Grand Guignol miniseries shows the competition to fill his role. Dick Grayson, the original Robin, has established a separate crime-fighting identity as Nightwing, but now has donned the iconic cape
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Grant Morrison, Author, Chris Weston, Illustrator, Gary Erskine, Illustrator . DC/Vertigo $19.95 (316p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0013-8
The mutant child of Alan Moore, Terence McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson, Morrison has emerged as one of only a handful of comics writers with a true voice and vision. He's as fascinated by paranoid conspiracy theories and the Kabbalah as he is...
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Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell. Rebellion/. 2000 AD (Simon & Schuster, dist.), $25 (112p) ISBN 978-1-781-08276-8
If you are looking for a formula here, it’s not too hard to find. Take Booster Gold, put him in a Watchmen-like situation, add in Nazis and Lovecraftian abominations, mix well with battle scenes. That’s not the sum total of the book, but it’s closer
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Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham. Image, $24.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-63215-527-6
The journey is more important than the destination in this occult SF mind-bender from Morrison (Doom Patrol), a writer who knows his way around mind-benders. A man known only as Nameless is on the run through city streets, fleeing from lizard-like...
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Grant Morrison, Author, Philip Bond, Author . DC/Vertigo $12.99 (102p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0496-9
Morrison is well known for the bizarre ideas that thrive in his comics like Doom Patrol
, The Invisibles
and Seaguy
. What is often forgotten is that he balances those off-the-wall ideas with a wonderful humanistic touch that gives readers a reason
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Grant Morrison, Author, Tony S. Daniel, Illustrator, Sandu Florea, Illustrator and various. DC $24.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2090-7
Batman is pushed past the edge of sanity in this spectacular story that mixes icy mind games and passionate outbursts. A club of criminal masterminds, the Black Glove, has an elaborate plot to make Bruce Wayne/Batman self-destruct by convincing him...
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Grant Morrison, Author, Frank Quitely, Author, Frank Quitely, Illustrator . DC Comics $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0914-8
Morrison's superb Superman stories can be poignant, action-packed or downright silly, often in the same tale. An expedition to the heart of the sun is sabotaged by Lex Luthor, who would stand to profit from a global water shortage. Superman...
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Grant Morrison, Author, J. G. Jones, Illustrator, Doug Mahnke, Illustrator and various. DC $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2281-9
Morrison's big, beautiful mess of an apocalypse is gathered in this deluxe volume, along with one of the spinoff mini-series that took place between issues. Darkseid, one of the New Gods of Apokolips, is taking over the universe, broadcasting...
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Grant Morrison, Author, Steve Yeowell, Illustrator Vertigo $9.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0337-5
Comics readers who only know Morrison's work on flagship superhero series like X-Men and JLA will be astonished by this imaginative, subversive 1993 miniseries. Evoking steampunk science fiction, this saga is set in a Victorian England that has 21st-
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Jamie Delano, Author, Garth Ennis, Author, Grant Morrison, Author Vertigo $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0240-8
This selection of six issues from one of Vertigo's longest running series brings together a few of the morally ambiguous stops on John Constantine's journey through the bleak heart of humankind. The episodes, originally published from 1988 to 1994...
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Grant Morrison. Del Rey, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-593-35530-5
Comics writer Morrison (Supergods) debuts with an intricate and fantastical take on All About Eve starring an aging drag queen and her ambitious protégé. The not-entirely-reliable guide through this “haunted arcade of shifting selves and liquid...
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