Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is a feature-length documentary that takes an in depth look at the life, career and mind of the Scottish comic book writer Grant Morrison. Talking with Gods features interviews with Morrison and many his most collaborators, such as artists, editors and other industry professionals.
Among those interviewed are Executive Editor of DC Comics Dan Didio, and Karen Berger - Executive Editor of DC Comics' Vertigo. Artists interviewed in the film include Phil Jimenez, Jill Thompson, Cameron Stewart, Frazer Irving, Steve Cook and many others. The film also features interviews with Morrison's collaborators Geoff Johns and Mark Waid, as well as counterculture personalities like Richard Metzger, Douglas Rushkoff and Jason Louv.
Sure, this documentary has scenes detailing the comic author's experiences with spellcasting, psychedelics, and alien abduction. But essentially it's about a quite ordinary fellow who wanted to make comics and succeeded like a madman. Grant Morrison doesn't fit the profile of your average comics writer, he dresses in very nice suits, looks like he's from the future, and talks freely about past drug use and his unabiding love for chaos magic.
He's ridiculously cool and could be a comics character himself - a feat he routinely pulls off by basing characters on himself and even appearing in one of his early comics. It is interesting the Idea of his work "The Invisibles", an assumed Hypersigil that he empowered while he began to live like the characters in his book. He went to the same exotic locales, imbibed the same substances, and went on adventures to the extent that the comic was as much a memoir as a book following a group of super hip magic anarchists could be.
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