Grant Morrison's Captain Clyde was the comic book writer's first published superhero work, which they also drew. A local superhero to the Clyde area, it ran in the Govan Press and the Clydebank & Renfrewshire Presses from 1979 to 1982 on the TV listings pages. It also included some proto-superhero revisionist ideas and superheroes dealing with real-life situations and locations. Captain Clyde was Chris Melville, an unemployed Glaswegian who was transformed by the standing stones of the Orkneys, granted magical powers by the goddess Elen, and would defend Glasgow against villains such as Quasar and Deros and would finally meet his end after a fight to the death with the devil.

Fellow Scot Etienne Kubwabo is a film director who has also created comics, including the first Black Scottish superhero DJ ET in his comic book Beats of War, which was part of the Black Lives Matter Mural Trail, with a large-scale artwork installed at Platform Arts Centre in Glasgow's East End. He has toure

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Amazon knocked back the latest version of the script for The Invisibles last week, so that’s that. It’s unlikely that project will ever get adapted now. I’ve sold it five times now, I think, to different companies, and written five different versions of a pilot or feature script! I don’t think I have another ‘take’ on the material left in me. I was never going to get away with a story where billionaires are working with evil ultraterrestrials to accelerate global warming and environmental collapse as a means of terraforming the planet for their masters while engineering a race of slaves to serve them… not at Amazon!..

A pity as it seems very timely, although it always has.

Almost a decade ago, James Gunn expressed an interest in making a movie based on a comic book about adorable little animals who were experimented on and tortured. This weekend, Gunn released Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which features adorable little animals who were experimented on and tortured. But back in 2014, Gunn wasn’t talking about Rocket Raccoon and the other critter victims of the MCU’s latest supervillain, the High Evolutionary. Instead, Gunn was talking about a three-issue series from 2004 called We3.

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A few months after the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie came out, Gunn told Morrison via Interview Magazine that We3 was his “favorite short-form comic series, ever,” and that he cries every time he reads it. He also said that Don Murphy, producer of Natural Born Killers and the first two Transformers, kept encouraging him to adapt it into a movie. A year later, Gunn once again expressed his interest in making a We3 movie, writing in a Facebook Q&A that the t

Assuming you choose to believe Adolf Hitler's sister-in-law, then apparently the Fuhrer really did live in Liverpool between 1912 and 1913, staying with his half-brother Alois and family in an attempt to avoid conscription. Comics writer Grant Morrison took that basic premise and ran wild with it, producing a 48-page fantasia on Hitler's life that he gave to regular collaborator Steve Yeowell to draw. In 1989 it was serialised in a Scottish magazine called Cut, where it incurred the wrath of co-editor and Hue and Cry vocalist Pat Kane, who insisted the comic promoted fascism. The following year it had a UK-wide outing in Crisis, the lefty adult spinoff from 2000AD, only for the controversy to crank up all over again with accusations of Morrison actually being a Nazi. In the subsequent decade and a half, all attempts to republish the strip have failed, and these days Yeowell suspects that the original colour artwork doesn't even exist any more.

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A trawl through the world of What Might Have Been.

An examination of Grant Morrison's announced, hinted at or otherwise mentioned works that, for one reason of another, never saw the light of day; from small press British indies at the very beginning of his career to multiple-title spanning blockbuster summer crossovers.

Most of the info in this section comes from Morrison's own comments in contemporary interviews, though a few facts are gleaned from his collaborators in these unrealised projects. I'll be actively seeking more information on all of these unseen titles and adding to the pages as and when I find it, so if you can help with anything get in touch here.