![]() It’s not that these topics aren’t interesting subject matter – far from it – it’s just that it feels like they’ve been mentioned, brought up, or discussed plenty of times before, with more or less the same voice. ![]() Characters that either live or travel through another realm of reality wedged somewhere between our typical perceptions? Check. It makes sense, what with the sheer amount of output that Morrison manages, that this series might have some overlap with past works, but it really feels like all the hallmarks of a Morrison story are there. ![]() That being said, it’s understandable that Nameless feels like something I’ve already read from the man before. I can understand both points of view, but at the end of the day I’d put myself in the former category.Īside from being one of the more out there comics writers (which, believe me, is a hard thing to do in this medium), Morrison is also one of the busiest and probably most successful. ![]() Folks either seem to really love him or they seem to just find his particular brand of insanity and near-surrealism a little too off-putting. ![]() Morrison seems, to me at least, to be a very divisive author. This week sees the release of the first issue in a new Grant Morrison series, Nameless, and while a new Morrison series is always cause for celebration, I think it might be time to really dissect some of his work. Welcome to The Pull List, a weekly column where we check out a first issue of a new series and tell you whether or not to follow the comic based only on that. ![]()
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