Grant Morrison
 

I was looking at my collection the other day and y'know what? I dont think I really like Grant Morrison. I mean, I like to think i like him. But when I really sit down and think about it... not so much.

All Star Superman I liked. But I remember being very bored and kind of just flipping the pages when I read it. Something about his writing doesnt suck me in. It just tells a story. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's definitely a lack of heart in his storytelling. I even debating picking up volume 2 I was so uninterested. And his writing also comes off kinda pretentious. Maybe its just me though.

I was looking at my collection and I have Arkham Asylum, Final Crisis, All Star Superman 1&2, The Filth, Batman RIP, We3... I dont really care for any of these. Nothing too much anyways. I think I'm done buying his books before reading them.

I kinda agree on the All Star Superman and Batman RIP just sort of being told and not really engaging. Sort of like everyone was going through the motions. The story itself was good, just the characters in them seemed a bit eh. Arkham Asylum however was amazing. It pulled me in and didn't let go till the very end.

Again, I think Arkham was a great concept and story but I was pretty unattached. And I was in a PRIME setting when reading it. Dark room, with just a lamp with a dieing lightbulb(so it had that occasional bzzzzt and flickering:D). I couldn't have asked for a better setting reading the book. But other than that first confrontation between Batman and Joker, I kind of have a hard time remembering anything that happened.

It's not just you. I really don't care for him either. Nobody talks like regular people in his books. It's all this pretentious dialogue. And, with maybe the exception of All Star Superman, I never get emotionally involved in his books. It's like they are devoid of emotion. And from the stuff of his that I've read, I've rarely understood what exactly was going on. I think he's highly overrated.

I agree with everything except the diologue. I like the pretentious banter, although All Star Superman felt kinda limp to me, I like the art and the story just i dunno lacking somehow. Same with Batman RIP, but RIP felt more rushed than anything.
As for Arkham Asylum I really enjoyed it and maybe it's just me but I thought it was built up pretty well from Batman and Joker's encounter onward.

Arkham Asylum is one of my favorites

All Star Superman is great. His other **** is pretty lackluster. Apparently his Batman & Robin run is excellent, but I wouldn't know. I hated RIP, and that put a bad taste in my mouth for his Batman stuff.

But with that being said, there's a ton of stuff sprinkled in RIP that becomes insanely relevant in his later Batman stories. THAT's interesting, but still a pretty awful story.