In the late 80s and early 90s, Grant Morrison wrote a number of comics that are considered amongst some of the great superheros stories. Doom Patrol. Animal Man. Arkham Asylum. But he also wrote today's series, a 3-issue prestige format pre-Vertigo revamp of Kid Eternity. It didn't take off quite the same way that his other works did, though a couple of years later the Kid gets his own series from Vertigo. We'll get to that soonish, I think.
I'm not sure what it is about this series that doesn't take, but my recollection of it was that it was relatively normal. Well, sort of. It's a messed up and weird Grant Morrison story, but to me it reads in a lot of ways like he is trying to write an Alan Moore story. Not that I would put this past Morrison at all. Duncan Fegredo's art is, as usual, amazing, and painted, and really scary. Definitely a Dave McKean-ish vibe. I was about to say that there was influence, until I realized that the two were, in comics, relatively contemporaneous.
I wonder if it's a combination of the artist and the writer, both of whom were skirting the edges of the form at the time. Perhaps it's just too much weird.
Nah.
More tomorrow...
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