Grant Morrison talks to us about horror sci-fi comic Annihilator, the music of Multiversity, and more!
WithAnnihilator#1 from Legendary Comics, Grant Morrison has once again teamed up with artist Frazer Irving.
A good sport, he replied Ah, a day that will be remembered for millennia hence!
I always felt that the guy inFlex Mentallohad a distinct Syd Barrett vibe.
Ray is a bit darker.
I mean, bizarre things would happen.
Ive never really known anything like that.
I live in old houses, and some people feel like they kind of go into it there.
Im not like Ray, though.
With Ray I wanted to create a kind of lovable monster.
Do you think his whole cure for death is a good thing?
I think its an entirely selfish goal on the part of Max Nomax.
So, no, absolutely no.
Immortality would get kind of boring, anyway.
Ray, though, Hes only interested in his own creative expression.
Hes pushing a certain appetite at a slightly more ridiculous level.
Max is kind of the sci-fi product of those.
Nobody should take him or Ray necessarily seriously.
Both of them are bastards in retrospect.
Are you facing your own mortality through these characters?
It became this kind of odd way of dealing with it.
I didnt want to think about it or talk about it.
I hope its a fun one.
Is Frazer Irving the only person who could have drawnAnnihilator?
It was written for Frazer!
Hes completely realized everything I wanted but on a much higher level.
The guy is great.
He can do characterization just by hand gestures alone.
The body language that Max has on that last page is really something and really drives that character home.
Im glad you see that, because thats the point where he becomes Mephistopheles as well.
On page 1 ofAnnihilator, is that a TIE fighter?
It kind of looks like one doesnt it?
(laughs) Youd have to ask Frazer, since he designed that thing.
But it certainly looks like an expanded concept like that.
As we go throughAnnihilator, how much more of Rays screenplay are we going to see?
What were you listening to while writingAnnihilator?
Theyre a kind of techno/psychedelic band Im quite fond of.
Have you heard from John Lennon lately?
Its not so much a thing where you’ve got the option to hear from him.
(laughs)
When wasAnnihilatorwritten?
The contrast between this and the relatively upbeatMultiversity… Those concepts come from 08 or 09.
ButAnnihilatoris much more recent.
You take that whole idea of the multiverse being separated by vibrations into the musical realm, as well.
Are you familiar with the lost Who album,Lifehouseand some of the concepts Pete Townshend was playing with?
It deals with some of the same…
Oh yeah, absolutely!
So yeah, definitely, I think all of that has had some effect.
Whats the latest on your Wonder Woman graphic novel,Wonder Woman: The Trial of Diana Prince?
Were forty pages to the end.
So [artist] Yanick Paquette has basically finished 80 pages, I guess.
I imagine once those forty pages are finished it will probably be out sometime next year.
Id imagine maybe spring or summer, but thats up to DC Comics to announce it when its ready.
So its maybe not the kind of Silver Age fantasmagoria people may expect.
I do have the idea, and the door is open for me to do that.
I havent been doing very much superhero stuff sinceBatman.
Ive been very much focused onAnnihilatorand stuff likeNamelessover at Image with Chris Burnham and a bunch of other things.
Its been quite a different phase for me.
Im really glad about that.
Maybe Ill hit two audiences!
(laughs)
Are you excited to seeZenithcoming back into print?
Its good to see it again.
But Im glad people will get to see it.
Its a good piece of work and I enjoyed doing it with Steve Yeowell.
What can you say?
I think its better that people get to see the work than not.
I hope you enjoy it!
Grant Morrison, thank you very much.Annihilator#1 arrives on September 10th.
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