Grant Morrison took the stage mid-day on Thursday at San Diego Comic-Con 2011 to a packed house – there was actually a line of hopeful attendees wrapped all the way around the meeting rooms waiting to get in. Luckily, we had snagged our place from the previous panel, and were front row for a lively Q&A with the modern master.
Since Morrison kicked it off by sitting solo on stage and just talking directly to the audience, we thought we’d do something a little different, and just present the audience member’s questions… And then Morrison’s answers, with very little commentary from us, mainly because the whole thing was so darn entertaining. Only thing we couldn’t capture? Morrison’s amazing accent(s). So here we go:
Q: “I loved Final Crisis!”
Morrison: “So you’re the one!”
Q: “The Invisibles changed my life.”
Morrison: “It was designed to change fucking lives.”
Q: “What was the difference – for you – in writing The Invisible and The Filth?”
Morrison: “My life just changed for the better, honestly, I was just trying to make a darker book. I thought The Invisibles was lacking a bit of dimensionality, I wanted to get down into the dark and the cat shit.”
Q: “Don’t ever stop – ever.”
Morrison: “Tell that to the grim reaper!”
Q: “Will you ever tackle Wonder Woman?”
Morrison: “I would still love to do Wonder Woman, there’s still some issues I’d want to work out. Wonder Woman was very successful originally, so I’d like to find a way to make it more contemporary.”
He’s still working on the screenplay for Dinosaurs vs. Aliens, and there’s a graphic novel coming. “It might be the first of my movies to actually make it to the screen.”
