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Grant Morrison first appeared as a comics character with a cameo in Animal Man #14. He made a full appearance at the end of issue #25, and spent most of #26 in a lengthy conversation with the comic’s title character, particularly on the topic of how realism has to be part of comic books somewhere. Nevertheless, in the end, Animal Man’s family returned from the dead due to ‘his’ influence.Shortly afterwards, a Morrison-resembling character called “The Writer” appeared in issue 58 of the DC Comics title Suicide Squad (written by John Ostrander).[12] This issue was part of the War of the Gods storyline. He was seen protesting that other “writers” had taken control of his fate now that he was part of “the continuity”. He demonstrated his skills by writing down dialogue onto a laptop. This text was attributed to specific, gathered, super-hero allies. Moments later, the allies then said those very words. He then participated in the attack on the stronghold of Circe. He eliminated a few enemies by writing of their deaths, which then happened. Writer’s block then hit and he was killed by a bestial humanoid.Morrison would later be counted among the Seven Unknown Men of Slaughter Swamp, the body of “reality engineers” seen throughout the Seven Soldiers miniseries event.[13]He has also appeared in an issue of Simpsons Comics, where he is seen fighting with Mark Millar over the X-Men titles.[14]In the notes to the Absolute Edition of DC: The New Frontier, writer Darwyn Cooke mentioned that this version of Captain Cold was visually based upon Morrison.In the Doctor Thirteen story found in Tales of the Unexpected, Thirteen encounters the self-proclaimed Architects of the DC Universe. This foursome wear Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and Flash masks, and could be interpreted as the writers of DC’s 52. The Batman mask-wearer bears more than a passing resemblance to Grant Morrison.In Mad Magazine, he is referred to as Jim Morrison in a review for a comic book he supposedly wrote.It has also been suggested the near-future Batman depitcted in issue #666 of the comic book of the same name is based on Morrison: “Oddly, the shaved-headed Batman in the trench coat looks a bit like Grant Morrison and he has a cat named Alfred. In other words, it looks like Morrison (who is known to love cats) made himself Batman in this story. Of course, in Animal Man, Morrison appeared as himself as the teller of tales of Animal Man’s life; in Seven Soldiers, the tailors who tell the tales of the universe looked like Morrison; and now he seems to be the Batman of the not-too-distant future.”[15] However, Morrison has stated that the decision to base the appearance of the future Batman on him was one taken solely by the artist, “I had written him as having a buzz cut, I think, but Andy drew him bald. I think a lot of people just assumed that I stuck myself into a comic again, but that was never intended.”[16] Similarly, in Morrison’s The Filth, the central character, named Greg Feely, becomes acutely physically similar to Morrison at the exact same time that his cat dies under the care of a malicious body double of his; Feely’s care for the cat mirrors that which Morrison has claimed he felt for it.[edit] Screen writing and scriptsMorrison has become more involved in screenwriting and has written numerous scripts and treatments.His screenplays include Sleepless Knights for Dreamworks, WE3 for New Line (both in development with Don Murphy producing) and most recently an adaptation of the video game Area 51 home console game [17] for Paramount (in development with CFP Productions producing).Morrison provided outline story and script work for two video games (Predator: Concrete Jungle and Battlestar Galactica) both by Vivendi Universal, though the finished products often didn’t contain all his contributions.He has also been a successful playwright, with two plays written for and performed by Oxygen House at the Edinburgh Fringe. The first was Red King Rising in 1989, about the (partly fictional) relationship between Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell and the second in 1990, Depravity about Aleister Crowley. Both plays were critically acclaimed and won between them a Fringe First Award, the Independent Theatre Award for 1989 and the Evening Standard Award for New Drama. A film adptation of Red King Rising is in discussion. Both plays were collected in his collection of prose, Lovely Biscuits released in 1999.[18]

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