I sometimes don't know what Grant's going on about, I often enjoy his work a lot, and I keep reading most of what he writes in the hope that one day he'll blow my mind again as he did with The Coyote Gospel.

IMP.

"I thought Morrison's comments about Miller were a bit tounge-in-cheek.  Having read a couple of interviews with Morrison recently, I think it would be a mistake to take everything he says too seriously, especially when he talks about other creators. "

Morrison certainly has a bit of WWE flair in saying bombastic nonsense in interviews, giving voodoo rationals to writing choices, controvercial motivations which have no relivance to the printed stories, etc etc .. but when you talk of other creators, you're dealing with their reputations, which these days is tied hard to their livelyhood - or do think that his "less than serious" jibes at JB's Doom Patrol had no sales effect on it?

"I think there's a plain fact in the observation that Morrison has poked fun
at the concept of superheroes and more specifically their costumes, but I
don't see this as anymore than one aspect of his body of work - looking
at the wider picture, I just don't see that he 'hates' superheroes. It would
be fair to say that he has at times jumped on the 'self-loathing fanboy'
bandwagon to get some cheap laughs out of the 'lookit that guy with his
underwear on over his pants' motif. I just think that there's a lot more to
Morrison's superhero work than this one thing - he's developed and
changed as a writer, and continues to do so, and there's a lot of variability
in there."

Just because sometimes Morrison doesn't Mock Superheros doesn't really have a barring for the fact that he HAS in nearly every super-hero project he's done - you can look at his total body of work and size up how good of a writer you feel he is, stand in a vacuum of the printed medium and somehow find him creative - but just saying he does OTHER stuff besides mock superheroes doesn't make mocking them okay.  Sometimes the total thrust of his work is to tear down Superheroes - i.e. the X-Men, or sometimes it's just a bitter pill, i.e. the batman page -- but a LITTLE bit of poison in a Cake, is still a poisoned cake, you can't say "yes, but look at all the cake that isn't poisonous"

btw, I should say Welcome to you -- don't mean to seem hostile just as you walk in the door, so to speak - it just that i was already into the debate 'mode' on this thread.

I for one am quite glad that my parents had unsafe sex.  They were married at the time, much like Batman and Talia were in Son of the Demon (albeit by the rules of Talia's poorly-defined culture), so i'm not quite sure why that's objectionable.

In any event, I have noticed Morrison toss little asides into his superhero work over the years, not always about costumes but in the same vein as the Batman panel reproduced here.  I don't see that as disrespectful; it just tells me that Morrison has a sense of humor about his work.  I guess I can see how it would be off-putting to some, and of course to each his own, but having never met the man I'd have a big problem presuming to know what he thinks.  Seems a lot like mind-reading to me.