Wait, what's an occult specialist doing on an Armageddon-style space mission?īecause the Asteroid is carrying something alive, something sinister.īranding Nameless as a complex madness is actually an understatement. But his path takes a U-turn when Sophia and billionaire Paul Darius recruits him for a space mission to stop a deadly asteroid hurtling towards our little blue planet in full might. He is a Constantine style occult specialist who does odd jobs to make a buck. Honestly, There are some things you wish you'd never live long enough to see.Īh, the premise: We are introduced to our hero who goes by the name "nameless". And finally, at 5 in the morning, my little brains understand about 70% of Morrison's fucked up story about gods, aliens, ancient wars, killer asteroids and good ol' fashioned gore. I'm reading bible verses connected to wormwood while listening to LibriVox recording of Machen's Novel of the Black Seal. At 2.30 and I kid you not, I'm rereading nameless in reverse.
At 2, I'm back on Internet, reading Aleister Crowley and Grant. At 1 in the morning, I'm reading the last two chapters of nameless in a crazy loop. At 12.30, I'm on a Wikipedia page researching complex Jewish mythology. At 11.30, I rereading this six-part story again. At 11, I'm on a Reddit thread discussion which is dedicated to the convoluted and complex plot of nameless. At around 10.30, I'm in my bed confused as an ostrich on the moon and I'm reading the reviews of my good GR friends and wondering what the hell did I miss. It was 9 at night, and I'm sitting in my chair holding Nameless, thinking that I'll finish the book in an hour or so, then catch a movie and hit the bed like a good responsible adult. He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.
He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL.
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