Grant Morrison

Ray Spass is a Hollywood scriptwriter who has squandered his earnings on the things Hollywood wunderkind usually squander their earnings on. He is a horrible person and he is trying to write a script about a haunted house in space. He buys a haunted house and holds a squalid black mass to summon the devil, and learns that he is dying. Then the mephistophlean main character from his screenplay turns up and asks him to write his story for him.

Max Nomax is a fugitive from a prison hovering on show more the event horizon of a massive black hole. The prison is haunted by the results of some dreadful experiment gone horribly wrong. How did Max escape to Earth? Ray has to write the story to find out, and hopefully stop the avenging space angel from recapturing Max and destroying the universe.

Look, yes, just the ploy alone is bonkers, but reading it, every panel is crammed with the bonkers, this s bonkers on a fractal level. It's also hilarious as Ray and Max are too dreadful, narcissistic, self-absorbed personalities playing off each other, and horrifying, as Max's space prison is basically hell. Completely, brilliantly bananas. show less

“My advice? If really want to get out of this alive, PAY ATTENTION TO THE TALKING HORSE!”

That horse, or more specifically unicorn/Pegasus, Happy the Horse, Hailey’s imaginary friend! And Happy needs Nick Sax, “a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hitman” to partner up to save Hailey! But Nick? Well, in his own words, “I’m a killer. I kill people for money to buy booze, sex, and eczema medication.” And, he’s the only one who can see Happy!

I really loved this book! It's just show more the craziest, most perfect team up of all time! Like a My Little Pony flying around in Garth Ennis' "PunisherMAX"! Also, like my own daughter's favorite toy in my favorite kind of graphic novel! Weird, but it totally works! And that makes me, ... wait for it, ... happy! show less

Dick Grayson is playing Batman, bopping around in London with Squire and Knight in search of a mysterious pit in a deep dark mine while Damien is getting his spine replaced back at ninja assassin headquarters. Will the lazarus pit revive Brice Wayne? Will Damien shake off the influence of his mother? Who has been leaving clues across time embedded in the foundations of Wayne Manor?

Though carrying on the densely bonkers story of RIP and Final Crisis and with plenty of nods to then-current show more and ancient continuity, there's a marvelous crisp clarity to the storytelling, aided superbly by the art of Cameron Stewart. This is so much fun. show less

Grant Morrison's legendary epic run on Batman begins with a bang -Batman shooting the Joker in the head? Except it's not Batman, it's an ex-cop dressed as Batman. With the Joker incapacitated, and Gotham peaceful after an anti-crime blitz, Bruce Wayne can take some time of doing playboy millionaire things uch as attending charity auctions in London. Ninja man-bats invade, bred by Talia al Ghul, daughter of the Demon, and she has a special surprise - Batman's son, Damian, a spoiled, vicious, show more dangerous boy. Meanwhile the fake Batman proves to be the first of three fake Batmen, and a sinister entity called the Black Glove is orchestrating murder and mayhem and Batman is about to be pushed to some very strange limits.

I can just about take Batman seriously as something other than a rich man who dresses up to beat down on the underpriveleged for kicks when he's up against the strange, the bizarre and the completely crazy. Ninja man-bats, strange alternate Batmen, hidden forces organising murder mystery weekends on luxury islands with a group of international Batman-types are the very stuff of fun Batman stories and Morrison knows it well. This is a big collection, and it's thoroughly addictive. The only thing that doesn't work is the Joker illustrated prose story, which is just a comic with nasty horror prose inserted between the story and the dialogue. Not awful, but a bit meh, though I think the new iteration of the Joker it depicts is relevant to the next part of the run. show less