Grant Morrison talks on SDCC11
- Batman: Leviathan begins in January 2012.
- You will cry, you will cry alot promises Morrison.
- Freddy Freeman, Mary, and the lieutenant Marvels will be in Multiversity.
- Grant: "I do have ideas for Wonder Woman. When I wrote Supergods and got into what Marston was trying to do, I didn't understand it, but I'd like to find some way to update it."
- New Gods are reborn in Earth 51 which also shows in Multiversity.
- Morrison has a Flash story in mind he wants to tell, he had talked to Dan Didio about doing Earth One Flash, but it's a single story, grounded and it's about 1 thing happening to 1 person or so.
- Once Cameron Stewart is done with the single issue of Batman incorporated he's moving onto Thunderworld, the "All Star Captain Marvel" issue of Multiversity.
- How does Morrison get inside the heads of freaks like Pyg? We all have that dark side in us he responses, kinda true when you think about it.
- "Professor Pyg I though, all these Batman rogues are supposed to be crazy, but I wanted him to sound ACTUALLY schizophrenic." - Morrison
- How did Morrison come up with Simon Hurt? His response: Morrison "I wanted to see Batman against the Devil, didn't have to be literal, just the idea of a devil. So it started out with Batman beats the Devil, then I created the lore behind him."
- Simon Hurt will NOT make an appearence by Morrison in Inc/Leviathan, he's told his story with him.
- No All-Star Superman follow up planned, but Action Comics has some of the same chords as thats showing us how Superman becomes a great hero like he was in All Star
- Regarding Action Comics: "They're playing up more of the Kryptonian stuff at the other title, but mine is about the farmboy in the city, and Clark Kent is doing as much work on fighting social injustice as Superman is."
- Superman will never be as brooding as Batman for Morrison. Superman has lost billions of people and he still smiles today. Batman's still crying for his mommy and daddy.
- "So my Superman will be a pro-active, young, powerful guy. It's Action Comics, so Superman has to be doing stuff!"
- "He's only darker in the sense that he gets stuff done. he's no longer a friend of the law, he stands for Justice, and that may conflict with the law sometimes."
- Fan asks if we will see more of Scarlet, Morrison's response was that he won't be writing her atleast.
- Morrison feels the Damian and Dick dynamic should have lasted longer, but they're making the departure and Dick going Nightwing into something that works and is believable.
- Batman: Leviathan is about Bruce and Damian, Morrison once again promises that you will cry, alot.
- Regarding Batman and Action Comics: "Batman's kinda a puzzle book for me. I set out to tell puzzle stories with secrets and solutions. Action is more about forward momentum."
- "It always starts with something, like the Ouroboros in Batman Inc, and it spins out into different things."
- Action Comics is set in the past for 6 issues, in #7 we get back to "modern" and then at times it jumps back and forth in the timeline.
- Morrison really likes the Batman the Brave and Bold spin-off comic.
- Action Comics is more about the tone of Golden Age era heroes without any specific storylines from then.
- Fan asks Morrison's thoughts on why Batman films > Superman right now, his response: Morrison "Batman's cooler and has money and is around femme fatales. I certainly think the anti-authoritarian Superman is coming back, we might see a Superman that's a bit more relatable."
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