Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods explains the method behind the magic

indisputable , the young documentary Grant Morrison : speak With Gods has scene detail the funny author ’s experience with spellcasting , psychedelics , and alien abduction . But essentially it ’s about a quite average fellow who want to make strip … and win like a madman .

Patrick Meaney ’s docudrama of Morrison , which debut yesterday in San Francisco and opens in New York tonight , is a doubled dislocation of the generator ’s history . On one hand we have the stuff Morrison , the cultured Glaswegian author who made a killing when his graphic novel Arkham Asylum : A Serious House on Serious Earth was released the same yr as Tim Burton ’s Batman . Through a series of interviews with both the source and his laughable Good Book compatriots ( and there are oodles of talking head teacher spots — Warren Ellis , Matt Fraction , Frank Quitely , and Jason Aaron just to name a few ) , we find out about the generator ’s rise and the genesis of his ideas ( i.e. The Invisibles was inspired by a stumble around the world courtesy of those Arkham Asylum ducats ) .

The documentary offers a bunch of entertaining anecdotes , such as a fluff while from a 1970s Scotch newspaper detailing a diffident teenage Morrison ’s interestingness in comics . There ’s also a section about his rivalry with Alan Moore , who did n’t need a light-green author strike over Marvelman . The latter half of the documentary cut into into how Morrison ’s personal life move his forward-looking workplace and the controversies his mainstream superhero solicit — we get Morrison reacting to the fan rebound to his “ fiction saves the twenty-four hours ” mega - event Final Crisis , but I would have like to have seen the writer talk up the editorial triage that followed his New 10 - Men campaign .

The other one-half of the film is concerned with the mythic Morrison , the freewheel four - color savant who was nobble by outlander in Kathmandu , met Jesus Christ while rottenly sick , and spend his evenings chatting with starstruck strippers about quantum mechanics .

Perhaps the most curious part of the documentary is how these two role meld seamlessly : he is 100 % matter - of - fact about his weirdness and does n’t really need to foist it on anyone . He knows he ’s had a strange living , and he make out you believe he ’s a strange guy . At one point he opines that he could pen the most milquetoast laughable on the stands , and people would interpret it as some transgressive , drug - fueled manifesto . And even though Morrison is n’t into psychedelics nowadays ( he makes it exculpated that drugs were very 1990s ) , he ’s not in particular interested in dissuading you of his mystique . When you watch the film , you bring in how recognizable Morrison ’s look is compare to the other prestigious comic creators who chime in . He ’s the comic Christian Bible writer as pop persona . Morrison ’s savvy enough not to stray from his own branding , even if he ’s not 100 % comfortable with being “ the most controversial writer in comics . ”

All in all , talk With Gods is an entertaining lookout . It ’s a no - brainer if you ’re a Morrison rooter , a Vertigo acolyte , or a funny Christian Bible account buff . Non - funny readers mileage will deviate ; it depends if you ’re the variety of watcher who enjoys watching an author wax on about his originative cognitive operation . The infotainment is play in prize US citiesthroughout October , and it ’s useable on DVD October 26 .

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