Grant Morrisson is someone whose work I like but I'm not incredibly enthused about.

Though that can probably be attributed to his fans and Wizard Magazine, he delivers a pretty good story and they all jump up and down like it's the second coming and all I can say is that it was pretty good or even really good.

Seven Soldiers of Victory was really good but essentially it boiled down to big evil guys and we need seven unlikely heroes to save the world. Not sure what was groundbreaking about that.

It's kind of odd but it isn't like Alan Moore fans who can often be really stuck up and snobbish, more like Morrison's fans just have incredible enthusiasm for his work and don't understand why others might not be as enthused.

It's almost like Millar for me, I really enjoy a lot of Millar's work but he comes across in interviews as a bit of a wank and at times it makes me eye his work a little skeptically. Instead of hoping the work is good, or expecting the work to be good I'm thinking the work had better be good to justify his statements.

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If I recall correctly Morrison does hate Super Heroes almost as much if not more than Alan Moore and Garth Ennis do. What irks me so much about him and especially his fan-base is that they swear up and down that Morrison has done the characters justice and kept them in character where every writer has failed before. Which, if you closely scrutinize Morrison's work none of the characters act like they did previously to his involvement. What is even worse is Morrison's fans claim that JB is the first and only deconstructionist that destroys characters and franchises when Morrison is the one who goes around causing such destruction. He's already ruined Batman and made him into a joke. Now, Idioto is letting him be in charge of Final Crisis so he can damage and perhaps destroy the DC Universe permanently.

" . . . claim that JB is the first and only deconstructionist that destroys characters and franchises . . ."

Say WHAT?! 

Seriously - that's one I hadn't heard. I am literally shaking my head right now thinking about how ridiculous that statement is.

Michael, you wrote, "if i recall correctly Morrison does hate superheroes "

if you recall what correctly?

Paulo you wrote "  want to say Grant Morrison, Mark Millar (and others) but I haven't read enough of their work, nor am I likely to do so. . . Oh yeah, I want to say Bendis too but I haven't really read anything of his either."

why, or how can you not get a writer when you havent read any of their stuff?

QUOTE: why, or how can you not get a writer when you havent read any of their stuff?

Based on what I've heard and the small sample (smaller, in case of Morrison) I've read of these authors.  That's why I say "I want to say" instead of actually saying it.  In other words, I'm withholding assessment of them.

I have taken to describing Morrison's so called "love" of Silver Age Superheroes as being akin to the love a juvenile delinquent has for the fly he pulls the wings off of.  He finds them perposterious things for him to play with, nothing to respect or revere.