Grant Morrison

  Grant Morrison is a comic book writer who began his career in the eighties he began writing for underground British comics and now writes mainly for DC Comics and Vertigo some of his works include:

    
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A 70's British spy and MIchael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius, As well as JG Ballard's short story collection The Day of Forever. The character in fact made an appearance in a later Morrison work The Invisibles under the name King Mob who writes the character under the pen name of Kirk Morrison, making the character something of a avatar for Grant Morrison.

He wrote for the defunct British comic magazine Warrior.

Morrison also wrote for Marvel UK the characters he wrote were Doctor Who, Zoids and Spider Man.

Morrison then wrote a number of titles from 2000 AD that included Zenith, a reaction against dark superheroes portrayed in Dark Knight returns and Watchmen.

Morrison also sent a number of pitches to DC Comics including a reboot of Animal Man and Doom Patrol that led to the characters becoming more popular with Animal Man addressing Animal rights and breaking the fourth wall and Doom Patrol becoming darkly surrealistic.

Morrison also began his association with Batman writing Arkham Asylum and Batman:

The Legends of the Dark Knight story "Gothic".

Morrison continued to write in Britain penning the controversial St. Within's day, the 2000 AD spin off Crisis and the controversial New Adventures of Hitler.

Morrison also for DC updated Kid Eternity and updated Dan Dare.

Grant Morrison and Mark Millar also wrote Judge Dredd and and a controversial strip Big Dave.

Grant Morrison began writing for Vertigo comics as well, writing and creating Sebastian O, the graphic novel The Mystery Play, Doom Patrol spin off Flex Mentallo and wrote the series Kill your boyfriend.

Grant Morrison and Mark Millar also created the character Aztek and wrote a series with him as the title character.

He also had a popular run as the writer of the JLA series and it's crossover DC One Million. Grant Morrison and Mark Millar also wrote The Flash for a time.

Grant Morrison then wrote the Vertigo series The Invisibles a series about a number of super powered anarchists who battle to free humanity from oppression from alien gods. Grant Morrison says that he got many ideas from what he believed was an alien abduction but later said was a strange experience and alien abduction was easier to explain. He also wrote JLA: Earth 2 during this time his last DCU work for a while.

Grant Morrison left DC and started writing for Marvel comics.

He began writing the X-Men title which was renamed New X-Men and made a reboot of the Xbooks. 
 
Grant Morrison also had one more Vertigo book left to do in this time called The Filth. 
 
Morrison also wrote marvel Boy and Fantastic Four 1234 for Marvel.

Soon he returned to DC and Vertigo writing JLA Classified, Seaguy, WE3 and Vimanarama. Also he began writing the Seven Soldiers meta-series Seven four issue mini series and two bookend issues starring Zatanna, Manhattan Guardian, Shining Knight, Klarion the Witch Boy, Bulleteer and Frankenstien.

Grant Morrison also began work on the successful All Star Superman.

Following Infinite Crisis Grant Morrison also wrote ideas for reboots of many DC characters including the Freedom Fighters and The Atom that were used and written by other writers.

Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid and Geoff Johns all were named writers for the year long series 52 in 2006 through 2007.

Grant Morrison intended to write relaunches of Wildcats and The Authority but both have had long delays.

In 2006 Grant Morrison began writing Batman which and changed many things in the Bat Universe including the return of Batman's son now called Damian Wayne and many events that lead up to the 2008 storyline RIP which had been alluded to since his first issue of Batman. RIP was billed as Bruce Wayne's most dangerous threat. Grant Morrison also wrote the series Final Crisis a reworking of a pitch he had called Hypercrisis but found it's ideas in Seven Soldiers, 52, All Star Superman and eventually Final Crisis itself. The events of Final Crisis were built on story lines started in 52 and Seven Soilders as well as the late Jack Kirby's New God universe. Toward the end of both stories Batman RIP and Final Crisis became connected with the supposed "death" of Bruce Wayne.

The aftermath of Bruce Wayne's death and the continuation of his Batman stories continue in Batman and Robin.

Grant Morrison recently wrote Seaguy book two he will write the series War Cop that will be more like his older works and the Vertigo series The New Bible and the Vertigo series going by the working name Joe the Barbarian. And for DC the title Multiversity a series of one shots that explore the DC Multiverse.