Nameless is a six-issue series mixing Cthulhu themes, space gods, the Mayan Popul Voh creation myth, Space X, grisly dismemberments, nested dreaming sequences, and questions of which level of reality is real. Vaughan and James Robinson hit me like that. Some of the works of Kelly Sue de Connick, Scott Snyder, Brian K. There are some authors whom I can’t – they’re probably using art too honed for me to learn from yet.

There are writers whom I can analyze and see what they’ve done with story or character and learn from them. Others can’t stand the ambiguity, obfuscation and convoluted logic in some his stories. So when I saw the cover to Nameless #1, all I thought was “Grant Morrison is doing space gods!”Ī lot of people think Morrison is a genius. I have a weird thing for space gods (as you saw in my Tin Foil Hats to Marvel’s Eternals post), dismissing them as conspiracy theorist nonsense, but seeing the dramatic story ideas in them concept.

This is our first or second close-up of the asteroid. Serious creep factors.īut that wasn’t why I read Nameless, a recent series of his through Image. I was very, very impressed with the creepy insanity he was able to channel in Batman and Robin while Dick Grayson was Batman. My own first experience with him were the early 2000s New X-Men series from time to time, but then intensively through the Batman R.I.P. His comic writing career started in small press when he was just 18 years old, and graduated to Marvel UK and the world of 2000AD in the 1980s, with some work with Marvel and DC as well.įrom the mid-1990s onward, he’s been consistently working on big projects for big publishers. Grant Morrison is one of the most successful and famous comic creators.

Nameless by Grant Morrison