That said, it seems like Morrison is just bouncing from idea to idea as he escalates the story from an earth-bound one to suddenly being in space? It’s hard to complain because, if anything, the common syndrome of modern horror comics is to be a bit stagnant, so it’s refreshing to have a Lovecraftian story that moves quickly. Regardless, there’s a lot of really fun, occult madness constantly bubbling up through the action-packed narrative. From there, it accelerates into a skewed, mind-bending chase scene that ends by introducing a different conflict entirely? This immediately makes me suspicious why introduce an interesting antagonist unless they’re going to play a part in the larger narrative?

This zooms out to incorporate a global menace, upping the ante in a vaguely threatening manner before zooming in again to introduce an intriguing antagonist. The story kicks off with a scene of pure horror interleaved with psychedelic surrealism, far more intense than Alan Moore’s more subtle creeping terror. Morrison, though, isn’t Alan Moore by quite a notch, being a little less traditional in his approach. It has made me wary and consequently I went into Nameless with tempered expectations. This is a recurring theme, it seems, for English comic book writers Alan Moore’s most recent creator owned property, The Courtyard, was heavily Lovecraft, almost to a fault honestly. Nameless, no surprise, is heavily influenced by Lovecraft. Nameless appears to be his first creator-owned work in a while, near as I can tell, so let’s see what he does with it. And anyone who can connive the average superhero dweeb into enjoying surreal and creepy stuff deserves recognition. That being said, he’s leveraged his significant influence to bring “weird” into the realm of mainstream comics, specifically with his recent Multiversity work for DC, as well as his Batman comics. But I haven’t read any of what is considered his iconic work so maybe I am not the best person to be making comparisons but the fact is that what I have read just isn’t that striking. We3, A rkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth and his Emma And Mrs Peel series.

I’ve read one or two of Grant Morrison’s comics, but not many.

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