My Inner Child Is a Huge Nerd

Daniel Robert Epstein does the Suicide Girls interview with Grant Morrison, who's looking sharp in a white suit and talking about his latest radical overhaul of DC's "C-list superheroes" in the Seven Soldiers maxi-series. Along the way, he reminds me of what motivated my long-term attachment to comic books twenty years ago (including, once he came along, his surrealist take on Doom Patrol):

"I think comics were more interesting when they were written for children because when people write for children it seems to free them up to be less self-conscious. Traditional American superhero comics are being written for an older audience now. I think that since superhero comics started being aimed at adults they've become a bit too self conscious and a bit less visionary. I don't know why that is because adults should enjoy fantastical stuff as much as any child... I write for the intelligent 14 year old because that's how old I was when I really got into comic books in a big way. I was a smart kid and I liked Jim Starlin's Warlock and Dr. Strange by Steve Englehart because even though they were written and drawn by heads doing cosmic, philosophical acid stuff it was still soap opera action comics with monsters and villains and it fed me on so many levels."

Morrison also says he's working on a Pop Magic book, "an account of all the occult stuff I've studied and the personal system of magic I've developed over the years," which ought to be a heck of a lot more interesting than what passes for magickal instruction among most books on the subject.