The story kicks off with a scene of pure horror interleaved with psychedelic surrealism, far more intense than Alan Moore’s more subtle creeping terror. Morrison, though, isn’t Alan Moore by quite a notch, being a little less traditional in his approach. It has made me wary and consequently I went into Nameless with tempered expectations. This is a recurring theme, it seems, for English comic book writers Alan Moore’s most recent creator owned property, The Courtyard, was heavily Lovecraft, almost to a fault honestly. Nameless, no surprise, is heavily influenced by Lovecraft. Nameless appears to be his first creator-owned work in a while, near as I can tell, so let’s see what he does with it. And anyone who can connive the average superhero dweeb into enjoying surreal and creepy stuff deserves recognition. That being said, he’s leveraged his significant influence to bring “weird” into the realm of mainstream comics, specifically with his recent Multiversity work for DC, as well as his Batman comics. But I haven’t read any of what is considered his iconic work so maybe I am not the best person to be making comparisons but the fact is that what I have read just isn’t that striking. We3, A rkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth and his Emma And Mrs Peel series.
I’ve read one or two of Grant Morrison’s comics, but not many.
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