I Am Not a Comics Critic #5: Everywhere I Look It’s A Darkness
December 29th, 2018
Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1
Written by Scott Snyder, Grant Morrison, James Tynion IV and Joshua Williamson, drawn by Howard Porter, Jorge Jimenez and Doug Mahnke with Jamie Mendoza
This is a story about a creature – no let’s call it what it is, or at least what it might once of conceived of itself as, a god – trapped in its own creation.
From The Invisibles volume two #4, by Grant Morrison and Phil Jimenenz
Echoes of its own previous compositions haunt the piece like half-forgotten memories of childhood. How else could the story go? The fallen demiurge may no longer be in charge of the story but it’s still a part of it, still conscious, still able to discern its own hand in proceedings.
From Dark Knights: Metal #6, by Scott Snyder, Jonathan Glapion and Greg Capullo
It’s not just the question of who’s in control of the dreaming that’s confusing here though…