Something about Final Crisis worries me now.

[cissie_king]

There is this new interview with Grant Morrison. Well, and he talks about Final Crisis, mostly things we already heard and then there is this...

"Supergirl and Mary Marvel are in it. They have a big climatic battle to decide how femininity should be portrayed in superhero comics!"

OH MORRISON, NO! That's like having a fight between Mandingo and the

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[cissie_king]

> Since when? Last I knew, Scott Free was a fairly respected member of
> the superhero community.

The Mister Miracle from Seven Soldiers was Shiloh Norman, not Scott Free, who as part of the New Gods is probably dead already or something. And Shiloh had a nervous breakdown in that series.

> I call bullshit on this. Less than a year ago, it came out that Morrison's plans to kill off Bruce Wayne

Actually, that was just a rumor. From what I read, Morrison planned some DC heroes to replace momentarily the New Gods and have them embody the concepts they represent. From that, after a game of telephone, people ended up thinking Grant was going to kill Batman and make him ascend into New-Godhood.

> Oh, god, it's Identity Crisis all over again. And people call him a CREATIVE GENIUS

Grant has done more than enough genius works to deserve the title, even if he fails once in a while. The description does sound bad, but I'll save my complains for when it actually happens.

> Oh, gee, Grant, I'm sure I have NO *coughROYcough* clue who
> *coughROYcough* on the current *coughROYcough* JL roster would
> qualify as *coughROYcough* an "ordinary person"

Well, not necessarily. It can be any of the JLAers looking at ordinary people on the street.

[rdfox]

Didn't know about the new Mr. Miracle; last I knew, Scott Free was about the only person to escape DotNG so far.

While you're right about Morrison's plan (I admittedly super-simplified the situation), apparently the rumors got big enough that some Time Warner execs actually did send down the edict that Batman Will Always Be Bruce Wayne. I wish I could give you a reference, but I heard about it in... probably the Casstoons thread.

Personally, I think there's a bit too much stock being put in the creativity of various writers these days; I keep seeing massive worship for various writers who never struck me as being all that "genius." I wonder if maybe people will look back on the 00s sort of like how we look back on the 90s, but with respect to writing instead of art--cults of personality being formed around "superstar" writers who may or may not actually be good, but who get worshiped as gods by their fans and thus can get away with murder.

Not to mention that I'm now of the cynical opinion that comic books--particularly at DC--are written more by the editors than the writers today; these days, it seems like the editors dictate the stories to the writers, who then have to fashion scripts for them. I wouldn't entirely be surprised if that even happens to Morrison on this one...