What is his best comic?

All of them.

The Invisibles. It expanded my world in ways few others have. If you mean Capebooks, however, I'd say probably Doom Patrol, JLA or X-Men.

Doom Patrol

Invisibles or Doom Patrol

>>78956749
Doom Patrol

Doom Patrol

JLA

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>>78956749
Flex Mentallo

>>78956959

"You know what I think? I think you want to be dead because looking at life makes you realise what you're missing. Only a bitter little adolescent boy could confuse realism with pessimism."

One of my favourite quotes and one I wish the comics industry had taken to heart.

Batman and Robin

>>78956749
All Star Superman

The reverence and love he has for Superman shines throughout 12 issues in a way that has not ever been replicated nor previously demonstrated.

>>78956749
Animal Man, hands down
At least the part before it got all meta

Animal Man is my personal favourite
Doom Patrol and All-Star Superman are close though

Any of his creator owned stuff worth looking into?

>>78958182
This. Animal Man is GOAT

>>78956749
I liked Annihilator most, personally

but they're all great

>>78958163
>At least the part before it got all meta

Really? This is a lot of people's favorite part.

Superman Beyound

>>78958182
Nameless is worth reading

Marvel Boy

or

Doom Patrol

depends on my mood.


>>78958182
We3 is totally worth looking at as is Seaguy and Zenith some of the other stuff is fun too

Doom Patrol
also Seaguy

I'm reading JLA now, and while the writing is great, the terrible 90s art makes it a lot less enjoyable.

>>78958701
Porter works on some of it but yeah Earth 2 and Classified shine so much more because it is not him.

>>78956749
We3 or Flex Mentallo, really anything he's done with Quitely. Except New X-Men, I wasn't a fan of that.

>>78958628
>>78958690
SEAGUY ETERNAL FUCKING WHEN

>>78958784
Stewart keeps mentioning that it is in the cards in interviews and at conventions so who knows

>>78958182
All of his Vertigo and Brit and Scottish work is worth reading.

>>78958182
>>78958983
Not just worth reading, some of it is must read.

>>78959050
Nothing is must read. Especially nothing in the Grant Morrison catalog.

>>78956749
All Star Superman followed by Animal Man.

>>78956749
Hd pic of Pluto?

Sea Guy

>>78958163
>doing the hypercrisis wrong

>>78959121
Fucking pleb

>>78959254
I wish, it would be so much easier.

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I've always thought Doom Patrol but I didn't know so many others agreed.

Everything that's great about Morrison colliding in one run with a great balance that keeps any of his one elements from going too far

>>78959930
He throws out more ideas in a single page during the Decreator arc than some books have in their entire runs.

>>78959379
You are a plebeian. I am patrician and can see this. Stop trying to speak to someone above your station.

>>78957158
I love that line too.

is it a shot at moore?

>>78960149
It's a shot at comics in general. Flex Mentallo came out in, what, 94, 95? That was when the industry was still in the Grim 'n' Gritty phase of things. Yes, that was kickstarted by Watchmen (and Dark Knight Returns) but that's beside the point. A lot of Morrison's work is on the deeply optimistic side. Even stuff like The Filth ends with the potential for better things. If anyone believes in fighting through the darkness towards the light, it's Morrison. That quote just reflects it: reality isn't all-depressing all the time and thinking that makes your art more 'meaningful' is just self-indulgent bullshit you need to grow out of.

>>78960149
Maybe not so much Moore specifically as much as the movement in comics that Moore started in the late 80s.

You, anon.

You.

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>>78960346
>and Dark Knight Returns
I let out an audible laugh when I first saw Flex's parody of the TDKR cover

>>78960452
It wasn't a parody. It just shows Flex through the dark age, like the previous two had covers related to Golden and silver age.

>>78960348
It wasn't started by anyone and also the thing about the comic people point to by Alan Moore at the time as being the inciting incident has a pretty positive outlook on the world all things considered.

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>>78960606
You're right in that issue 3 is focusing on flex dealing with the (then present) dark age of comics, but you're crazy if you don't think that cover is parodying the TDKR cover

>>78960671
Not so much parody. The structure of the comic is based around the different ages of comics.

>>78960934
Yes but that cover specifically with the only thing highlighted being his shorts is a parody.

Flex Mentallo is basically Morrison's mission statement, and what I'd consider his defining work.

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>>78956792
>>78956804
>>78956817
>>78956827
>>78958690
>>78959930
This.
Read it at /co/s behest after repeated failed attempts to get into Morrison's work. It's now the only Omnibus I own.

Animal Man desu

>>78961598
true though

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>>78963195
>Animal Man
Fuck, this is one of the worst ends I've seen in comics

>>78961598
Well so are Invisibles and The Filth because they are all basically telling the same story.

>>78963319
pleb detected

>>78963353
I don't mean it was a bad ending, I mean it was a bad end for the character.

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>>78959121

>>78963352
They are telling it from opposite sides.

>>78965707
Well not quite

There are no sides

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>>78956749

>What is his best comic?

His best comic?
But OP, there was only ever ONE comic.

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>>78965819
Ya' got me

>>78965824
we ARE that comic.

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>>78965824
Guys, what if Morrison is writing this thread?

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>>78965911

>>78965932

HYPERMIND

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I honestly think it could be his run on Batman.
RIP.
Batman and Robin.
Batman Inc.
Good fucking memories.

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>>78966163
Only Bats tpbs I own

>>78956749
Seven Soldiers.

Shame it hasn't been mentioned yet.

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>>78966757
>>78966757
>>78966757

Quality choice mate.
Especially Zatanna and Klarion.

I can't believe we forgot about that.

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>>78966939
My nigga

It's probably his most underrated work. It hardly ever gets mentioned here but it's probably the best comic book mega-series ever made. Probably, I don't know, I haven't read any others. All I know is that it's a fantastic work.

The Zatanna mini is probably the best Zee story ever made. Required reading for Zatanna.

>>78966163
His work on batman and superman are character defining and letters of love, but are somehow too big to be considered the best since it depends of too much stuff non/morrison related. But yeah it's great. I would include gothic.

>>78966757

This is my absolute favorite

>>78967396
The problem with his Batman run is half the art in it is bad and the other half is really good.

Which is why while fun on the first read is barely ever worth going back to as a whole.

>>78967436
It's pretty fucked that they got Tony Daniels to do the art for a lot of his run, particularly the first third of it or so, while Morrison was writing Batman. Tony Daniels is such a mediocre, generic artist.

>>78967436
>is barely ever worth going back to as a whole.
uwot? What art in it is so bad that it would prevent a re-read?

>>78967436
The run was also cut and forced to be rushed by new52.

>>78967515
Well unless your memory is bad and you forget parts of it. In that case though I wouldn't go back and read all of it(being just the Morrison Batman stuff the dumb flowchart /co/ made is ridiculous and needless).

There is rarely enough time to read comics with art that is not good once (but sometimes there are reasons) there is no time to do it more than once.

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I always thought that this bit of Animal Man was so strange because to have Morrison's stand-in for the author argue for wiping continuity is so antithetical to everything else he does.

>>78967570
specifically the stuff before Batman & Robin

Tony Daniel is a boring artist as is the Kubert brother who does a chunk of that stuff.

Andy Clarke is pretty boring too he is in there somewhere I think after Stewart??

Some of the artist choices on RoBW are just sloppy, and then by the time Inc rolled around I felt like while the art was great the momentum after The Return and RoBW and B&R was out and I was slowly slipping out.

It just meandered along for much too long.

>>78967546
Batman inc maintained as one of DC's best sellers even after the New 52 reboot; it still maintained for 14 issues after Flashpoint. I doubt Morrison intended it to go on that much longer.

>>78963319
>>78963619

Young Moz busting out the Twilight Zone stinger.

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Lets post our personal Seven Soldiers minis ranks without being complete dicks to each other because we all loves comics

>1. Klarion the Witch Boy
>2. Shining Knight
>3. Zatanna
>4. Frankenstein
>5. Manhattan Guardian
>6. Bulleteer
>7. Mister Miracle

Miracle is the only one I think had major problems but that was because the shitty art and because he didn't have enough space to do the New Gods justice. Fixed that in Final Crisis though.

>>78968051
1. Frankenstein
2. Manhattan Guardian
3. Klarion
4. Shining Knight
5. Mr. Miracle
6. Bulleteer
7. Zatanna

>>78967666
Tony Daniel is a shitty artist and shittier writer but yeah I loved everything Morrison did on Batan.

>>78968051
I don't know if I can rank them much at all, although I'd say that Mr. Miracle was probably the worst of them, despite me being really into the New Gods. It does kinda work as a precursor to Final Crisis though. I still liked it a lot but it really is probably the worst of them.

The rest were all amazing, although the best were probably Bulleteer, maybe Klarion and Frankenstein too. Zee's was fantastic of course.

>>78956749
It might just be because it was the first comic of his that I read and I'm biased, but Arkham Asylum is just fantastic and imo should be listed among TDKR, Year One, and Killing Joke as one of the great late-80s Batman comics.

>>78967623
That was early in Morrison's meta-development, and Morrison's true stand-in in Animal Man is himself, not some yellow alien.

>>78968051
1. Frankenstein
2. Manhattan Guardian
3. Shining Knight
4. Klarion the Witch Boy
5. Zatanna
6. Bulleteer
7. Mr. Miracle

>>78966757
Seven Soldiers is ridiculously good. I didn't think I'd like the Frankenstein stuff, but it was as on-point as the rest of it.
One of my favorite Zatanna stories, and I really enjoyed the Bulleteer and Guardian minis as well, considering I didn't know much about either character/prior versions thereof.