How Grant Morrison Elevates Batman as a Character

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[@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

[@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.

[@_Buttersaurus_]

I like men

[@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...

[@bluboy2317]

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

[@theirongiants]

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

[@MutantsInDisguise]

Yeah, so do I.

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@parsapouyafar1047]

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

[@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!

[@bobosprinkles]

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

[@LiamHarrington97]

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

[@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

[@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

[@Marx1684]

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

[@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.

[@balthazarasquith]

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

[@brungulo]

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

[@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

[@RyanTurner-bf1xh]

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

[@AbdulWahab-su9dh]

I love your videos

[@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.

[@mawinstallation6626]

Morrison is truly the goat

[@josephmalik3861]

this is brilliant

[@RedYaBoi]

Nice ma boi

[@E-Brightvoid]

Final Crisis was so close to being amazing

[@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

[@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.

[@jackgude3969]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@ywach945]

the fact they are scottish is legendary

[@DiegoGuzman-nf4im]

best run ever!

[@Flashgraham1]

Batman

[@andgalactus1]

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

[@sahilhossian8212]

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[@toaster9922]

what the actual hell is wrong with those subtitles?

[@turtleanton6539]

Yes😊

[@davicarvalho124]

I'm gonna be quite honest, i absolutely haye what i've read from grant morrison, which isn't a lot (new x men and half of batman and robin), it always feels like he's trying to do much more than he's capable of, like "hey it's the mastermold, remember him? Oh the shi'ar are here too bet you didn't expect them", but when comes to themes he brings up like when someones beat Emma Frost and says that he could sell her blood as some sort of colorant essentialy using violence as a product which is a good message and was made in an effective way that is if he didn't just a few issues later showed a baby choking another baby essentially doing what he criticized. Batman and robin was better still with unnecessary references like " hey look, it's Jason giving a choice to the public via phone calls, oh and now robin is beating the joker with a crowbar" but i didn't felt like it was pulling me away from the story or was creating weird plot holes. Overall i think he have some good ideas most of them when he tries to create something new like the stepford cuckoos, the secondary mutations or professor pyg. But he always tries to put some references to old stories which most of the times didn't work in his favor. I'll still finish batman and robin and after the video i'll be reading some if his batman stuff and see if my opinion changes. Great video, don't agree with some points, but it was well made.

[@skyyswaggstudios2934]

Morrison is a writer I really love (I haven’t read new X-men, but I have read several other stories), and my favorite Batman run is their run on Batman. It’s weird, adventurous, light hearted, dark, and sadly not for everybody. But I love the concept of everything since the 40s being canon despite it not making sense, because that’s kind of the point, what is this incredible and strange man who’s life makes no sense? How has he managed to get through all of this? It’s because he’s prepared for all of it. It also has pretty much everything there is to like about Batman through it, detective work, darker stuff with their joker, the weird stuff like zurr en arrh, smaller adventures, Batman the globe trotter at the absolute top of his game in Batman inc, etc. it is weird, but I like that about it, unfortunately it being weird makes it somewhat niche despite my thinking it being masterful. Also Batman and robin is the second part of this sort of three act story. I’d also say the references aren’t really for no reason, they’re integral for EVERYTHING to be real for Batman. Because we have to keep in mind without these weird villains and concepts from older comics being present throughout morrison’s Batman, then their whole premise for the run wouldn’t matter. If you want to give Morrison a chance with one of their other books, I’d recommend all star Superman, animal man is really good but it does dive into weird stuff, and joe the barbarian. Basically, Morrison is one of my absolute favorite writers

[@myconiusmaximus1022]

If you've only started Morrison's Batman run from Batman & Robin, you've missed all that came before. Pretty much the content of *Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus vol.1.* It's like trying to start watching a movie or tv show from the middle. You're not going to have an easy time understanding when you've already missed so much vital context.

[@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.

[@FantasmaNaranja]

the subtitles are a bit messy

[@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

[@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?

[@carzymoon.]

I even make comic book myself

[@G55544]

He kinda looks like lex Luther

[@kingb3746]

3:48

[@hana_fume]

3:39

[@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.

[@andyghkfilm2287]

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

[@alphyy3107]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@Chaogardenx]

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

[@skyyswaggstudios2934]

Based 🙏

[@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.

[@sahilhossain8204]

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