Grant Morrison – The Cosmic, Mind-Bending, Genre-Breaking Wizardry

Trying to sum up Grant Morrison is like trying to explain the multiverse in one sentence - it’s impossible. But we’ll still give it a shot! Morrison doesn’t just write comics, they deconstruct, rebuild, and warp them into something entirely new. Their stories are big, weird, deeply personal, and always pushing the boundaries of what comics can be.

Morrison has written definitive superhero runs, mind-melting sci-fi epics, and meta-layered, reality-bending masterpieces. Whether it’s Superman, Batman, X-Men, or some completely original psychedelic trip, Morrison’s comics always feel like an event.

Sure, not every comic is for everyone. But it's almost impossible, that there is not one special book, that will convince you of Morrison's genius! 

Essential Grant Morrison Reads

• Animal Man (with Chas Truog) – What starts as a solid superhero run turns into a fourth-wall-breaking, reality-questioning masterpiece. The moment when Animal Man meets his creator (literally) is one of the most famous in comics.
• All-Star Superman (with Frank Quitely) – Some say this is the all-time, definitive Superman run. Morrison strips the character down to his core - pure optimism, kindness, and god-like power - and delivers something timeless, emotional, and awe-inspiring.
• Batman: Arkham Asylum (with Dave McKean) – A dark, twisted fever dream where Batman navigates a madhouse full of nightmares. Less a superhero story, more a psychological horror trip.
• Batman by Grant Morrison — Morrison brought back Damian Wayne, killed Batman (kinda), and redefined the mythos with big, psychedelic, multi-layered storytelling. Collected in three Omnibus collections, this is one of the defining, modern Batman-runs.
• The Invisibles – Morrison’s most Morrison comic. A counter-culture, reality-warping, conspiracy-laced epic that’s part sci-fi, part philosophy, part chaos magic. If The Matrix and punk rock had a baby, this would be it. Their most personal work. 
• Doom Patrol (with Richard Case & Others) – The weirdest superhero team of all time gets even weirder. Sentient streets, abstract villains, existential crises—Morrison turned Doom Patrol into pure, surreal brilliance. One of the highlights of the Vertigo era.
• New X-Men (with Frank Quitely & Others) – Morrison blew up the X-Men status quo and rebuilt it into something modern, dangerous, and socially relevant. This run introduced secondary mutations, Cassandra Nova, and a much edgier, cerebral take on mutantkind. Also: leather jackets. 
• Final Crisis (with J.G. Jones & Doug Mahnke) – Not just a Crisis event—a meta-textual, mythic, dimension-breaking DC epic where evil wins, time collapses, and Superman saves everything with a song. Yeah, it’s Morrison at full power.
• We3 (with Frank Quitely) – Three cybernetically enhanced animals try to escape from a military experiment. It’s beautiful, heartbreaking, violent, and completely unforgettable.
• Seven Soldiers of Victory (with Various Artists) – A massive superhero experiment, featuring seven heroes, seven interconnected mini-series, and no team-ups. Morrison took lesser-known DC characters like Zatanna, Klarion, and Frankenstein and turned them into something epic, weird, and unforgettable.

Morrison’s comics aren’t just stories—they’re experiences. Sometimes they make perfect sense, sometimes... they make no sense at all! At least if you're using your 3-dimensional brain in stead of your 11-dimensional soulbrain. Anyway, they’re always ambitious, always challenging, and always unforgettable.