Kill your boyfriend

Rating:
Summary: Boy meets girl, boy and girl go totally mental
Review: A lovely short story from Grant Morrison, the genius reinventor of Doom Patrol and the current chronicler of The Invisibles. A sulky schoolgirl somewhere in suburban Britain meets a cheeky delinquent boy on the bus one day, and before your jaw can drop they've gone on a killing spree, hooked up with a bunch of anarcho-hippies on a bus, experimented wildly with their respective sexualities and found themselves halway up Blackpool Tower with a live grenade while the Police shout threats at them through a bullhorn.

Love story, irresponsible celebration of violence and Dionysus myth, this is a highly cheeky piece of work from the irrepressible Mr. Morrison. Always a man to take the phrase "For Mature Readers" to the absolute limit, Morrison respects not a single taboo. I forget who the artist is and I'm not proud of having done so, as the art is appropriately wacky and witty, as befitting the, well, Dionysian tone of explosive release. Great fun, even if you're glad it didn't happen to anyone you know, and a slap in the face to boring journalists who claim that British fiction is dead. (Why don't those idiots read comics?)

Rating:
Summary: Boy meets girl, boy and girl go totally mental
Review: A lovely short story from Grant Morrison, the genius reinventor of Doom Patrol and the current chronicler of The Invisibles. A sulky schoolgirl somewhere in suburban Britain meets a cheeky delinquent boy on the bus one day, and before your jaw can drop they've gone on a killing spree, hooked up with a bunch of anarcho-hippies on a bus, experimented wildly with their respective sexualities and found themselves halway up Blackpool Tower with a live grenade while the Police shout threats at them through a bullhorn.

Love story, irresponsible celebration of violence and Dionysus myth, this is a highly cheeky piece of work from the irrepressible Mr. Morrison. Always a man to take the phrase "For Mature Readers" to the absolute limit, Morrison respects not a single taboo. I forget who the artist is and I'm not proud of having done so, as the art is appropriately wacky and witty, as befitting the, well, Dionysian tone of explosive release. Great fun, even if you're glad it didn't happen to anyone you know, and a slap in the face to boring journalists who claim that British fiction is dead. (Why don't those idiots read comics?)

Rating:
Summary: Darn those crazy kids.
Review: A short (56 pages) Grant Morrison story that contains neither superheroes nor science fiction. The plot is similar to that of NATURAL BORN KILLERS, where 2 youngsters run off to take drugs and kill people. Like that film, this story is also a dark comedy, although this one takes a more aloof and antiseptic tone than the film did. The tale gets much of its energy from its complete and matter-of-fact disregard of any ethics or morality.

Philip Bond's colorful artwork contibutes a lot toward the dry humor in this story. He draws people's faces and their expressions quite well, which is particularly useful in the numerous asides to the reader, where the girl looks directly out of the page and talks to you. It reminds me of some movies that have used this device.

Although not the greatest Grant Morrison story ever written, it's a malignant little comic with a certain charm, and worth reading if you can find a copy somewhere.

Rating:
Summary: Darn those crazy kids.
Review: A short (56 pages) Grant Morrison story that contains neither superheroes nor science fiction. The plot is similar to that of NATURAL BORN KILLERS, where 2 youngsters run off to take drugs and kill people. Like that film, this story is also a dark comedy, although this one takes a more aloof and antiseptic tone than the film did. The tale gets much of its energy from its complete and matter-of-fact disregard of any ethics or morality.

Philip Bond's colorful artwork contibutes a lot toward the dry humor in this story. He draws people's faces and their expressions quite well, which is particularly useful in the numerous asides to the reader, where the girl looks directly out of the page and talks to you. It reminds me of some movies that have used this device.

Although not the greatest Grant Morrison story ever written, it's a malignant little comic with a certain charm, and worth reading if you can find a copy somewhere.

Rating:
Summary: not Grant's best at all
Review: Grant Morrison, at his best, is one of my favorite comic book writers. The Mystery Play, Arkham Asylum, and parts of Invisibles rank among the very best comics ever made. However, like Frank Miller, it seems like Grant either brings the house down in a pyrotechnic jubilee or writes virtually unreadable junk, the latter being the case with Kill Your Boyfriend. It's actually not THAT bad a read-- it's a sexual, violent, druggy romp, but unlike Grant's best works, nothing more.