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There's some really great stuff on the way to #50. Day of the Krypton Man, in particular (which sort of starts at the end of the Exile omnibus). I still have the original tpb of 'Krypton Man', titled "Superman: Eradication", but it skipped a ton of stuff in between Clark getting whammied by the Eradicator in the fortress and when the programming started to take hold.
So much goodness from Exile to the end of Fall of Metropolis. In my opinion, the best stretch of consistently great storytelling for Superman, probably in his history (not necessarily the best stories, but they weren't bogged down by bad filler back then). Superman #50 is the end of the 'Krisis of the Krimson Kryptonite' story, isn't it? Also pretty great.
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Well... it certainly wasn't the usual Grant Morrison. Ha.
I agree with creator-owned. That's his stuff. It's sink or swim. But still, look what happened when Frank Miller tried to turn in that Batman abortion that eventually became Holy Terror. His long-time editor Bob Schreck just kept smiling like he ate a **** sandwich and let him do what he wanted. Someone with some sense at DC (a rarity) told him to take that ****-show story on the road. I can't remember which sucker (Dark Horse?) finally published it.
All that said, more power to the author for creator owned stuff. I agree.
I still think he needed a stronger editor for Final Crisis. and some of his Batman (mostly because he tried to blend in a lot of archaic history). Oddly enough, I thought the Return of Bruce Wayne was fairly manageable. And Batman Inc? Wow. For the most part that was great, especially the final run up and the end. Big explosive stuff!
I was mostly thinking of the ending of the return of Bruce Wayne. That was a bit...weird
I think Legendary published Holy Terror, same guys who put out Annihilator from Morrison (if I'm not mistaken). But might have been DH. But I would say Miller is a unique animal. There is a difference between bad books and basically offensive hate speech. It's not really the industry standard.
Morrison is a lovely guy and his stuff was always positive (even if it was buried under a ton of eyebrow raising imagery).
Now that I think about it the ending was a little odd.
Also, I’ve always felt the same vibe when reading and listening to each of them. I’d have no desire to hang with Miller (and there is a lot of older stuff that he did that I like) but I’d definitely want to talk and hang out with Morrison. Also, did you ever read the letter pages in Invisibles? Haha. Despite its weirdness he had a lot of fun with that book.
So with the first Morrison Batman Omnibus coming out soon, it got me wondering how many do you guys think there will be? 3?
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I'm quite sure it'll be 3 parts. Each of the three parts (Omni 1; Batman & Robin, Return of Bruce Wayne, Time and the Batman; Batman Inc v1, v2) are about 25 issues. It'd be pretty weird to either combine everything left into one more volume (twice as large as the first) or split up either of those arcs so we get four omnis.
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I think I've read the letters but not sure. Although he was a very different person in the 90s, even in the early 2000s. If you watch his Marvel comic con panel when he is spitting beer and appears in a leather coat that's a very different guy from the current suit wearing Morrison.
Also he had a lot of fun until his lungs collapsed while writing the chapter with King Mob being infected with a virus He genuinely thinks he almost killed himself just with writing the story (let's keep it a mystery if I believe it )