His comic books have grabbed solid readerships through their wacked out physics, sci-fi ideas and his ability to keep people on their toes. His readers are constantly surprised by the twists that the plot takes, by some of the stuff that'll come out of his character's mouths, and by the depth of the works that he puts together. Morrison's able to get the story across through the words, the images, and also weave his story well underneath everything.

Grant Morrison has been bringing his innovative and imaginative side of writing to comics since the late 1980s. He grabbed critical attention with Animal Man (1988), a character that he used to start breaking down walls of strictly linear storytelling and of his characters minds. He continued to do this with Batman: Arkham Asylum (New York: DC Comics, 1989). In the graphic novel, Morrison weaves a story looking at Batman's insanity through the lens of all of his insane enemies, while at the same time telling an intertwined story from the past dealing with the creator of Arkham Asylum, the giant revolving door of an insane asylum used for Batman's enemies. He brought a look at a Greek myth through the eyes of Britain's disaffected youth in the graphic novel Kill Your Boyfriend (New York: DC Comics, 1995).

Morrison has dealt with all sides of comics. He's tackled the mainstream spandex-wearing pantheon with his own sci-fi style and panache in DC's Justice League America, a super team made up of the greatest heroes the world has to offer (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.). He's tackled the more twisted side of heroing with his run on Doom Patrol, one of the DC Universe's teams that was made of people trying to protect what they see as right without the god-like power of the Justice League of America.

While Grant Morrison's presence in comics has been pretty steady for the past few years, it also seems as if he's on the brink of taking his toys and going to play with people in a different medium. There are many, many similarities in appearance and idea between Morrison's time-jumping mind twisting series, The Invisibles (1994) and The Matrix (1999). To the point where Morrison considered pursuing legal action against the creators of the film. The Invisibles was the book that was all Morrison. Time travel, kinetic action, wildly imaginative science fiction ideas and more made it a fan favorite, and the book that people would graduate into reading when they wanted to wrap their heads around something. In the end, all the Matrix/Invisibles legal issues were dealt with outside of the courthouse, but this instance combined with other creative walls that Morrison was running into made him decide to leave the realm of creating comic books all together for a while.

Comic fans breathed a sigh of relief when Morrison signed on to do books with Marvel Comics, although for at least the time being it seems that his dealings with DC Comics are a thing of the past.

Currently, Morrison is working on a Marvel Boy mini-series for Marvel's "Marvel Knights" imprint. Marvel Boy is the story of an alien ship crewmember that is stranded on Earth, his pursuit by the people who stranded him and his interactions with the alien world he has found himself stuck on.

He'd also been tapped to be part of Marvel's re-working of the X-Men (2001). Now that the X-Men are familiar to the eyes and ears of millions more people then pre-movie, Marvel's hoping that Morrison's ability to amaze and impress his readership will spark interest in a line that has previously done what should be impossible: people claimed to be really impressed with the book, but it was always a best-seller as far as comics go. Morrison's looking to make people actually want to read the book and be pleased with it.

In addition to his work in the comics industry, Morrison also works in creating music, both by himself and in bands. He writes novels, has written screenplays and theater, waxes poetic about magic and its influence on the world and the individual, and does pretty much anything else you could imagine a person could create.

Morrison's books of note:

· Animal Man (New York: DC Comics, 1988)
· Batman: Arkham Asylum (New York: DC Comics, 1989)
· Doom Patrol (New York: DC Comics, 1989)
· The Invisibles (New York: Vertigo, 1994)
· Kill Your Boyfriend (New York: DC Comics, 1995)
· Flex Mentallo (New York: Vertigo, 1996)
· JLA (New York: DC Comics, 1997)
· JLA: Earth 2 (New York: DC Comics, 1999)
· Marvel Boy (Marvel Knights, 2001)
· New X-Men (New York: Marvel Comics, 2002)
· Crisis (Fleetway)
· The Flash (DC)
· Near Myths (Galaxy Media)
· One Million (DC)
· Skrull Kill Krew (Marvel Edge)
· Starblazer (DC Thomson)
· 2000 AD (Fleetway)

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