Talk:Grant Morrison

message: I feel like the entire article is littered with negative bias towards him and his work.
This is because he is shitty and his work continually fails to please anyone who doesn't want to blow him.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.189.77.154 (talk) 20:36, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "Admits" makes it sound like a crime. He's quite open about his views on chaos magic, and has done quite a few interviews on the subject. Euchrid (talk) 05:32, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Objectivity

message: I haven't read the Simpsons Comics in which Morrison makes an appearance, but why exactly is it "ironic" that the issue doesn't mention his work on Animal Man or The Mystery Play?  The current parenthesis is a bit jarring and unexplained.  I'm tempted to remove it entirely, guessing that it's sufficient to say that he's depicted arguing with Mark Millar about the X-Men titles. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:33, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simpsons Comics appearance 

message: I think "The Invisibles proved to be a huge impact on the counterculture" is a bit of an overstatement. Without specific examples of the series's influence, it's impossible to evaluate. Can we have some specifics there?
Also, the "Matrix" issue is controversial, and writing that Invisibles "is said to have been a major influence on The Matrix" begs the question: said by whom? Can we cite sources?
Update: On the advice of another user, I'm going to delete. Feel free to reinstate with specifics. Gabriel Roth 04:16, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thats all thats needed. Its mentioned in the Matrix entry (where they are unfortunately less critical of his statements) and so would need to be mentioned somewhere here. Given the whole Sophia Stewart business perhaps there should be an entry about everyone claiming the film nicked their ideas. (Emperor 13:59, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Wachowski Brothers kept copies of 'The Invisibles' on set for cast and crew during the filming of the first Matrix movie. I don't have any citations, but I remember reading that long ago. Es-won 23:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 1990s 

message: I was just coming on to remove the bit about a Deep Throat of comics suggesting he will be doing a new Doom Patrol. His work commitments and the DP storyline pretty much preclude this (if not forever then for quite a time). If anyone adds that back in then they are going to have to state a source. (Emperor 14:16, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New Doom Patrol?

message: ought this article not include a photo of the good looking man? alan moore, garth ennis and warren ellis all have their heads featured on respective article. surely grant morisson is as legendary
:That's odd - it did have a piccie, its had a couple now I think about it. Its possible they have been removed because the copyright didn't allow their use. You'd need to dig through to find out what was removed when (i might have been just clumsy editting). Also if someone has a photo they took that would be the best solution (Emperor 12:57, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: picture?

message: I believe has written a couple of plays - this from his homepage "Morrison is also the author of two stage plays Red King Rising’ and ‘Depravity’, which, between them, won a Fringe First Award, the Independent Theatre Award for 1989 and the Evening Standard Award for new drama at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival."  - can anyone dig out more information and drop something on these into the entry? (Emperor 12:57, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Plays

message: Morrison apparently didn't write Batman 659, nor is the story in 659 the Joker story teased at the end of 658.  Instead, John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake started a new storyline, "Grotesk".  I'll leave it to wiser and more wikiskilled hands to do the actual editing.
--71.162.33.250 03:17, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for spotting that - it looks like its slipped. Updated now.  (Emperor 03:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Batman 659 and on 

message: Things down there had started getting awfully confusing with 2 lots of reference sections wrapped around external links. All rather odd. What I've done is sorted it out (one of the "references" was really external links), added in a sectionfor external links that are interviews and made the actual reference section capabl of accepting footnotes. I'd suggest making more extensive use of this and not adding a lot of other links in (and possibly migrating some links up to be references for different points made in the entry). See: Wikipedia:Citing sources and Wikipedia:Footnotes. It should eventually help tighten up the whole entry and we can get rid of the links clean up tags. (Emperor 15:50, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Links and references

message: I try and avoid trivia as much as possible as the good stuff can usually be included in the biography and the other stuff is often not worth mentioning. In this case there is only one item and I'd suggest this would be better off in a section on awards: "Awards and recognition" possibly? (Emperor 19:21, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:All Star Superman Cover.jpg

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message: I heard that Grant Morrison says that he fought a demon when he was sixteen. Does anyone have any information on that? 151.198.233.92 12:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Morrison says a lot of weird sh!t.  I wouldn't wear myself out tracking down info on some of his trippier stuff. 214.3.138.234 (talk) 13:05, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Demon Fighter

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Biblejohn.jpg

message: The link to Bible John-A Forensic Meditation is currently just a redirect back to this article.  Anyone feel like creating an article for the book itself? ClovisPt (talk) 23:21, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Worth noting that there was an article on this , if anyone has any other sources which could help meet the notability standards we can set it back to the version before it was redirected and go form there. (Emperor (talk) 16:03, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bible John-A Forensic Meditation 

message: The Barbelith interview archive, linked at the bottom of the page, has long since given up the ghost and hasn't been updated in a couple of years.  
As a replacement, can I suggest the regularly updated archive at https://sites.google.com/site/deepspacetransmissions/interviews-1
I'd add it myself but I run the site and I'm sure there are Wikipedia rules about that sort of thing :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.80.105.2 (talk • contribs)  13:12, 2 August 2011
:And it's very good of you to be aware of that possibility; thank you. Aside from the conflict of interest, as you noted, Wikipedia's guidelines on External links precludes linking to a page of links. With regards --Tenebrae (talk) 18:55, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link to interview archive 

message: Who is this guy? Writes "symbolic" stories about superheroes? Not exactly Harold Pinter then. The length and over-excessive detail of this fan-piece confirms the worst prejudices of anyone who thinks that the internet and wikipedia are too weighted in favour of transient trivia. This should be hacked back to one paragraph (and do we really need photographs?) Twizzlemas (talk) 09:02, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree; it's very fannish and needs work. "Hacked back to one paragraph" is perhaps overstating it. And, yes, three images of the same subject looking essentially the same age in each is too many; the shot of him with his face half-hidden at a book signing doesn't add anything. --Tenebrae (talk) 19:28, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

text: Hack it, baby! As Tenebrae says, perhaps not back to only one paragraph. Yworo (talk) 19:45, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

text: Grant Morrison is a major writer in the comics industry. I agree that the tone of the article needs work, but the size is perfectly appropriate Euchrid (talk) 21:05, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out of Proportion 

message: In addition to all the aforesaid issues with this article, the influenced/influenced by claims in the infobox were all uncited except for the three names there now. I would ask anyone editing biographical articles of comics creators or anyone else to remember, please, that this is an encyclopedia and to read WP:VERIFY and WP:BLP and not insert uncited personal opinion. --Tenebrae (talk) 20:32, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Influenced/Influenced by claims

message: A paragraph about a promoter throwing a fan event is purely promotional content even without such non-encyclopedic WP:TONE-vio hype like "an intimate gathering featuring a hand-picked selection of some of the industry's most exciting comic creators."  Please. --Tenebrae (talk) 22:54, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: MorrisonCon

message: there's nothing in the article supporting the claim that the subject is an "occultist". what exactly is this and what has he done to warrant such a fantastical appellation?  Nucas (talk) 02:26, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: "occultist"?

message: The bit about Morrison working on an Invisibles reboot needs to either be cited or deleted. It's certainly the first I've heard of it. 2A02:C7F:8ADD:6C00:5DE3:D6E0:333D:C293 (talk) 12:46, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears Morrison was developing it in 2018 as part of a larger option, but there has been no news in the past several years. Especially considering that the main article for The Invisibles does not mention any forthcoming UCP adaptation I don't believe it is notable, so I've removed it from this article. --Mashed Potate Jones (talk) 23:57, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invisibles reboot 

message: I want to add producer, screenwriter, and playwright to Morrison's bio because they have done other stuff in addition to comic book writing lately. They've co-created two tv shows and written screenplays. We should add more occupations than just comic book writer. they've also written two books so we should put author instead of just comic book writer. Author would cover more. Other writers have author listed like Neil Gaiman. 173.66.8.230 (talk) 20:01, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @173.66.8.230: Gaiman has been writing novels since 1990 and producing and writing for television since 1996, that's why he's called "author of comic books and novels" and "producer". Morrison, in addition to 40 years of comic books, has written (I type this for the third time) two plays that have been out of circulation for decades, one novel (published two months ago), one semi-non-fictional book, a couple of television episodes (most of which were for the series based on their own comic book) and a few short stories. They've also released a few songs and produced several variuosly themed columns, both online and in print. Does that make them "playwright", "author of novels", "producer", "musician", "columnist", "blogger"? Perhaps an "eco activist" as well, since that theme is often featured in their work? I think, at this point in time, it makes them a veteran comic book writer who sometimes branches out into other mediums. What's wrong with being called a "comic book writer" anyway?You've also asked why Aaron Sorkin can be called several things but not Morrison--I think the answer is easy to surmise from a quick glance over his filmography section--but you'd notice Sorkin is not called an "actor" despite appearing in eight relatively well-known series and films. Why is that? 5.18.179.179 (talk) 20:54, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

text: The lead shouldn't mention everything that someone has done, just the ones they're actually notable for. Drmies (talk) 20:57, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't matter, I'm leaving screenwriter and producer because that's the things they have done. He's moving on to television and film and this article should reflect that. I think you're the one who doesn't understand how lead paragraphs work. 173.66.8.230 (talk) 02:27, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @173.66.8.230: The lead should reflect the actual things that Morrison spent considerable amount of time producing and is actually known for, not what they're planning to do and be known for in the future. You know this is not a promotional page, right? Edit warring will just result in the page being locked again. 5.18.179.179 (talk) 04:38, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding a few new occupations to Morrison's lead paragraph.  

message: Please add the following categories:
:Category:20th-century Scottish LGBT people
:Category:21st-century Scottish LGBT people 170.76.231.175 (talk) 17:02, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: 〜 Askarion ✉ 02:28, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 18 March 2024