How Grant Morrison Elevates Batman as a Character

[@Kade_Kapes]

Nt trying to rag on you, but Grant Morrison goes by they/them. Didn't know if you knew.

[@Mulletman_Comics]

I didn’t know until after posting, I’m incredibly sorry for this.

[@Kade_Kapes]

@@Mulletman_Comics The fact that you care is enough of an apology, keep being a good person.

[@lilblock3564]

Wtf

[@Kade_Kapes]

@@lilblock3564 What the fuck? What the fuck what?

[@lilblock3564]

@@Kade_Kapes You know exactly wtf is up

[@tacticoolgun]

I got into bodybuilding and martial arts as a kid thanks to batman and grant morrison’s work with the character. After winning my first Natural Bodybuilding OCB show, I’m more in love with the character than ever. I appreciate you summing up his work but also just speaking so much on Batman’s best stories. Love your channel man, keep going.

[@CHAYZ26]

That one scene where he needs to bench press 600lbs of dirt to emerge from the grave

[@E-Brightvoid]

I could listen to Grant Morrison talk about Batman for a billion years

[@kyleco9149]

Batman rip became my personal favourite, due to the fact Bruce himself was pushed to his absolute limits both physically and mentally and still came out on top...

[@colingallagher1648]

''they've been on so many mind altering chemicals from scarecrow and joker they just see graphic appear in the air'' lol

[@olivergianelloni6520]

Man I hope no one finds the bodies in my basement.

[@Von_Dooms_bot]

I like men

[@skyyswaggstudios2934]

Morrison is one of my absolute favorite writers, their stories are so interesting and ingrained with strange ideas and fun I just love reading through their catalog. Their Batman run also happens to be my absolute favorite run on Batman, so many cool ideas and stories, it’s just incredible!

[@bluboy2317]

Speaking of Morrison I recommend his Animal Man run from his early works😼

[@myconiusmaximus1022]

Grant Morrison *IS* the high water mark of Batman comics! It's absolutely brilliant how Grant took the nameless doctor from *BATMAN 156* and combined him with Thomas Wayne Jr *World's Finest **#223* and even incorporated Darkseid to create Simon Hurt. Such a creative imagination on Grant. The true magnificence is when you start seeing the all the foreshadowing and clues of later events within the run. No other writer has been able to match up with what Grant was able to do with Batman and his history since. Same goes for the brilliant explanation for Grant's reason of why the Joker acts completely different every time he reinvents himself. The Clown at Midnight is an under appreciated masterpiece! Great video! I always enjoy listening to others speak of my favorite comic book run.

[@theirongiants]

I like how his Batman is more fantastical, mystical and goofy yet more psychological, human, and imperfect.

[@MutantsInDisguise]

Yeah, so do I.

[@ldiescin4108]

I never read any of grant Morrisons batman comics, but I have to say the way he elevated Batman and his history, blows me away. I like that he takes the 80 year history, and doesn’t ignore the little things but tries to incorporate them in a creative and sensible way. He’s a damn good writer

[@johnlindsay7301]

Grant Morrison‘a Batman run is such a great story it might be the best published work of fiction of the new century. No cap. I think the only work of fiction that I’ve read, and I’ve read a lot, not just comics and manga, that compares to it in quality is Hunter X Hunter. Batman is slightly better. But Hunter X Hunter is very good. I’ve read Morrison’s Batman a handful of times and it never gets old. There is so much depth. So much intrigue. The character development is top notch. I just love it.

[@barkley8285]

I can name 5 comics that shit all over hunter hunter

[@salinimuthirackal8947]

Read naoki urasawa mangas

[@parsapouyafar1047]

You should totally follow up on this with batman inc. this got me really intrested

[@bobosprinkles]

Thank you for this heartfelt celebration of Batman RIP. My personal favorite as well!

[@joelthhicks]

This is a great analysis! I stayed up late to read the whole thing through, and I was lost a bit towards the very end. Morrison’s passion for the weirdness of the continuity is so evident. Thanks for this!

[@johnmoser9731]

This is a great video. I've never made a youtube video but I've thought about making something similar to this. People need to appreciate Morrison's run more! I know people like it but there's so much history involved I feel like myself and a few other really hardcore Batman fans can have a seizure from all the wonderful little references Morrison puts in there.

[@LiamHarrington97]

Brooo more videos like this!!! This was great!

[@balthazarasquith]

Great video man. There is a documentary about Grant Morrison well worth the watch

[@Rain-King]

My lord, that extract from Morrison's interview is hilarious. Few people so frankly acknowledge the ridiculous history of superhero comics, but also with so much love, as they do.

[@brungulo]

2:29 you're telling me Kevin Smith is going to cry? No way.

[@Marx1684]

4:09 Thank you for this. Some damn good stuff. 💪🏾

[@RyanTurner-bf1xh]

I met grant morrison back in 2017, grant was so down to earth and so nice, ( we are both from glasgow)

[@mawinstallation6626]

Morrison is truly the goat

[@barrybaxterbarryductions2918]

Three words, six syllables, seventeen letters: "Holy tribute, Batman."

[@strikermodel]

Seeing Batman as a 21 year old vigilante is just hard to imagine. Seeing him as anything younger than 30 just doesn't make sense to me personally. Then again, I've lived a very, very slow life.

[@RyanG0899]

Batman has always started his career off very young.

[@strikermodel]

@@RyanG0899 losing his parents in the way he did probably forced him to mature too quickly

[@polkadotproductions3459]

That rock monster has just unlocked a hidden memory in my mind, in the 2010s kids short film the jokers playhouse they include the giant rock monster as an Easter egg.

[@AbdulWahab-su9dh]

I love your videos

[@aurahoneydew9607]

Grant Morrison really cooked with his Batman. He really went for big swings and landed them when it could fallen flat and left him looking silly so easily. This was during the JMS Spider-Man so people were eating great if they wanted a sequel to everything they knew about childhood characters.

[@DarthAlphaTheGreat]

I may be alone in this, but how DC is treating the Gentry and the Empty Hand right now in Dark Crisis is outright disrespect for the original source of Multiversity.

[@zayneabdelmegid2740]

EH not really. (Gd = reader = biggest bad, EH equals hand of reader) the Gentry can be comsidered disrespectfed though

[@MutantsInDisguise]

I love Grant Morrison's Batman. I'd always wanted to collect their Batman run, and now I got help to mske my dream come true. Not only that, but their Batman was a true superhero, a mortal who took tragedy and turned it into a force of good by traning physically, intellectually, and spiritually, and took down an evil god before being sent to humanity's beginning.

[@Johnmrobinson-vb5vd]

The way he describes bstman at 25 having had a robin grow up is funny considering in continuity thats the age he becomes batman

[@logan-vq3dm]

we love grant morrison

[@atomicgator5207]

I always thought the ending of RIP was the perfect ending for the caped crusader. That DC should have let Batman die. At least until the next reboot anyways.

[@myconiusmaximus1022]

But then we would have been denied the brilliance of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne. There are several easter eggs hiding in *Batman RIP* foreshadowing Bruce's travel through time. Because Grant is just that much of a genius!

[@cookies23z]

such a cool fkn idea, thanks for sharing, your vids have let me learn a bit more of the comics that I never was able to get into really as a kid

[@logan-vq3dm]

"once i was funny, once i was sexy, once i was weird, and now im all of them"

[@E-Brightvoid]

Final Crisis was so close to being amazing

[@RedYaBoi]

Nice ma boi

[@jackgude3969]

Shoutout to Bat-Mite, the absolute realest one there ever was

[@josephmalik3861]

this is brilliant

[@ywach945]

the fact they are scottish is legendary

[@EliteEasyE]

I fn love the eraser. Aw man I hope James Gunn does his pencil look in the Brave and the Bold movie

[@Gakushanoikari]

Batman

[@omegaminoseer4539]

Batman R.I.P. has to be one of the best structures for writing conspiracies with Batman. Forcing Bruce to believe that the organization is false, only to fall for a woman named Jezebel was a nice touch.

[@logan-vq3dm]

huh i always thought of batman and robin like father and son but brother makes way more sense

[@DiegoGuzman-nf4im]

best run ever!

[@ZacharyDietze]

I know I'm a bit late to all of this, but I just want everyone who can see this to know that Grant uses both they/them AND he/him pronouns, or at the very least Grant doesn't mind it whenever they are/he is referred to as the latter, So yes, you can still say it's a he/him if you feel like it's more convenient, and I don't blame you. You do not need to feel guilt or shame for calling him a him, they/them are simply just pronouns he prefers more.

[@kadegetslaid634]

People being werided out in some comments that grant morrison is non binary when thats literally the least weird thing about them, such an interesting and cool person loved their book supergods

[@Tiny15891]

It's so easy to criticize morrison and his work but he's an amazing writer. He's created so many of my favorite stories and I don't care its edgy bullshit to others

[@sahilhossain8204]

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[@toaster9922]

what the actual hell is wrong with those subtitles?

[@turtleanton6539]

Yes😊

[@G55544]

He kinda looks like lex Luther

[@andgalactus1]

You know those auto subtitles are all kinds of jacked right?

[@blockwearingman]

he literally looks like lex luthor

[@andyghkfilm2287]

Dude, brainwashed Batman calling himself “Zorro in Arkham” is WHAAAAT

[@goofyvince5803]

Bro looks like professor x

[@riccardobaldini3774]

I know it may sound stupid and inappropriate, and for that im sorry, but is Grant Morrison dead?

[@MrPWHITE1014]

How did this tell how Grant elevated Batman though?? This was basically a comic book story breakdown or telling. It was a great one, but it didn’t tell me anything about Grant himself which was what I was searching lol. Great vid nonetheless.

[@myconiusmaximus1022]

Grant incorporated Batman's entire publishing history into one cohesive comic run. It's something no other writer ever dared do before, and no other writer has ever been able to accomplish ever since. Yet Grant was able to achieve this masterfully.

[@myconiusmaximus1022]

@Fantasy Dad If it had been done before, then please provide some examples when other writers had taken Batman's entire publishing history and composed an entire run built upon it.

[@FantasmaNaranja]

the subtitles are a bit messy

[@carzymoon.]

I even make comic book myself

[@hana_fume]

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[@ChrisSuperDude]

I'm not a big fan of Batman, I'd even go as far as to say he's slightly overrated, but Batman RIP is one of my all time favorite comic stories.

[@Chaogardenx]

Morrison doesnt go by "man" anymore, now is They/them I think, he said so in twitter

[@skyyswaggstudios2934]

Based 🙏

[@alphyishere]

doesn't he own amazon? isnt he crippled? doesnt he have that giant green and purple mech suit for non nefarious reasons?

[@niteshanthony2324]

Hey, we do not know each other but I would like to tell u that despite all the bad that you have done in your life, GOD still loves you and wants you to be with him (GOD), all yoi must do is to trust in Jesus like how he would trust in parachute when jumping out of a plane and you must be willing to turn from your wrong doings and do what is good❤❤ 0:16

[@AsgersWeb]

It's really interesting because it's only with Batman in comics that this insane level of continuity is acceptable I'd say because in any other medium and with any other character this would diminish the work and just create a creative dissonance but with Batman in the comics it works.

[@okentrepreneur3777]

Is dick grayson batman in this story ?

[@cjtucker4958]

Yes he is. I want to see how frequently he’s present as Nightwing. With the announcement yesterday

[@sahilhossian8212]

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[@kingb3746]

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