This is typical of Grant Morrison.

While the majority of his run on Action Comics has meandered into obscure, disjointed storytelling, here comes a singular, amazing one-off!! A one-and-done story that is beautifully rendered, both artistically and in prose.

Here’s a theory…

When we read a one-and-done from Grant, it doesn’t matter that his story jumps from one thought (say, for example, page 1 and 2) to a completely independent thought on page 3 and 4, because he’s going to wrap up all of these independent thoughts (mess of thoughts??) by the end of his 22-page script. One-and-done. And, it all makes sense and it combs together seamlessly into a great story.

The problems happen when he gets involved in long, expansive arcs. Some thought processes take a year to flush out and the reader — not knowing what it was about a year ago — likely disregarded important details back in arc #1 that are relevant in, say, arc #4. Maybe Morrison has a photographic memory. He can remember vividly all of these obscure details.

Drives me nuts!!

More one-and-dones from Grant Morrison. Less 2-year, expansive, globe-trotting arcs, and we’re happy readers…

This one-and-done gets 5’s