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Today's Gwenpool Out-Grant-Morrisons Grant Morrison (SPOILERS)

One upon a time, Bryan Talbot wrote and drew a comic book called Brainstorm, featuring the character of Chester P Hackenbush. The strip would be influential on both Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, with Alan creating his own version of Chester for Swamp Thing and this scene from Talbot…

Today's Gwenpool Out-Grant-Morrisons Grant Morrison (SPOILERS)

…being reprised years later in Animal Man by Morrison and Chas Truog.

Today's Gwenpool Out-Grant-Morrisons Grant Morrison (SPOILERS)

A scene which ensured Morrison's fame in the USA, continued in Animal Man…

Today's Gwenpool Out-Grant-Morrisons Grant Morrison (SPOILERS)

…and something he would revisit in years to come in The Filth with Chris Weston.

Today's Gwenpool Out-Grant-Morrisons Grant Morrison (SPOILERS)

Of late, Christopher Hastings and Gurihiru have been having their own games with Gwenpool. Already a character aware of her fictional nature, she's been able to take more advantage of that of late, thanks to meeting her not-quite evil self from the future.

Today's Gwenpool Out-Grant-Morrisons Grant Morrison (SPOILERS)

And in today's Gwenpool #21 she takes a classic superhero trope, hanging a character off the edge of a building to elicit a confession from them (as we all know, such forms of torture have a 100% information reliability score)…

Today's Gwenpool Out-Grant-Morrisons Grant Morrison (SPOILERS)

…by finding a perp of her own. In this case, classic Fantastic Four villain, Paste Pot Pete…

Today's Gwenpool Out-Grant-Morrisons Grant Morrison (SPOILERS)

…and doing the exact same thing.

Today's Gwenpool Out-Grant-Morrisons Grant Morrison (SPOILERS)

In a manner of speaking.

Today's Gwenpool Out-Grant-Morrisons Grant Morrison (SPOILERS)

It's a long way down to the infinite of the collective read subconscious. And you'll never like what you find there.

 

 


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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