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carbonated ink : one man's struggle against boredom

The Kid and the maps from hell

[]    comics : 21. June 2004, 22:38   

In a panel-discussion on Confuse, Johan Anglemark used William Faulkner as an example of a book that many readers have a problem with due to the demanding first part. I remembered this when I today read Grant Morrison’s Kid Eternity mini-series for the first time. The beginning was confusing. I had no idea what happened or why, I didn’t even understand what things were. But when you just ignore that and go on everything became much much clearer. Therefore, it must be good literature and I’ll never feel ashamed to mention both Morrison and Faulkner in the same sentence.

The mini-series wasn’t really what I thought—which is a good thing, surprises are always nice. But me and Kid Eternity has a past that doesn’t start with me reading it. It actually starts way back in -91 where the small but very good roleplaying magazine Sinkadus had a comic column for two issues. They had two comics that made me interested, Kid Eternity and Sandman by that Gaiman fellow. Truth to be told, I tried to find Kid Eternity first and then settled for Sandman only when I was unable to locate even one issue. (I still think Morrison is more interesting than Gaiman by the way.)

Ima. As I told Boo on the phone, you could nail the three issues to the wall next to each other and get a stylish poster, but then you’d be a moron as they’d be unable to be read. And read they must be. While it’s not my favourite of Morrison’s output, it is far from the worst—if such a word can be used. The art by Duncan Fegredo is amazing and gives me the same sort of feeling I get when reading the Mr E-part in Gaiman’s Books of Magic but at the same time it’s darker and more twisted.

Many questions remain so far, but that is how it should be. One question is much more percistent and that is why this hasn’t been collected yet.



Comments

  1. - Wow. You really floored that guy.
    – Pff. I barely tapped him… Old people go down easy.
    — Tommy    (@ 22. June 2004, 14:27)
  2. - Put the gun down!
    – It’s not a gun!
    – Put the gun down, now!
    – It’s a cow!
    – ... Put it down!
    — Tommy    (@ 22. June 2004, 14:27)
  3. Damn you.
    — Nicklas    (@ 22. June 2004, 20:36)
  4. - When she was 16 a baby-Jesus ornament sat fire on the Christmas tree, and burned down the house. Her parents died in the accident.
    – Oh my God… OH MY GOD!
    — Tommy    (@ 23. June 2004, 11:41)