Grant Morrison's 18 DaysWritten by Grant Morrison
Art by Mukesh Singh
2010
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Well... this is a strange one. Not quite a comic book - and not quite a screenplay: but skulking somewhere in the murky in-between: this is a collection of notes, scripts, character design and artworks for an as-yet unproduced animation/webthingie/something series called "Grant Morrison's 18 Days." Pitched as "Jack Kirby doing Hindu gods" it's a western-style re-telling the story of the Mahābhārata (a Sanskrit epic of ancient India): featuring LOTR-style battles, futuristic weaponry (militarized UFOs, atomic god weapons, engraved chrome cyborgs etc) and a brief digest of the four ages of time ( Golden, Silver Age, Bronze and Iron apparently). Utilizing a "Holographic" structure (which I think is just a fancy way of saying it's going to have flashbacks and flashforwards) that - in the book at least - never really has a chance to get going (it only features 3 of a projected 18 episode run): it's sounds like it could really be something very awesome (even if it does have a tinge of the Matrix sequels to it): but - sad face - the book itself feels like someone describing a film they've seen in every exact detail - which isn't really my idea of a good time. Not that it's bad at all: There loads of beautifully rendered, highly detailed scrumptious concept art by the wicked-cool Mukesh Singh and extracts of script (really liked the sound of the fly eye perspective shot): but however ambitious and complex it is/may be - the book in-itself it's not a satisfying beginning-to-end reading experience: more something to oooooooh over and dip in-and-out of.
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Links: Heavy Interview.
Further reading: Vimanarama, 300.
Profiles: Grant Morrison.
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