He's exactly right about Wonder Woman. I'd love to see him write stories for her.

I also like his thoughts about Superman.

I wonder what he thinks about Red She-Hulk?

Frank Quitely Draws Grant Morrison and Friends for 'Playboy'

On sale now, the May 2012 issue of Playboy comes with a new illustration by Frank Quitely depicting frequent collaborator Grant Morrison along with many of his comic book creations, co-creations and other characters with whom he's become strongly associated. Among them, Zenith, the Morrison and Steve Yeowell superhero who I don't think Quitely has drawn before; a seemingly Playboy-ified Zatanna from Morrison and Ryan Sook's Seven Soldiers of Victory: Zatanna; and Flex Mentallo, star of Morrison and Quitely's classic Flex Mentallo: Muscle Man of Mystery, which was recently reissued as a deluxe hardcover.





Entitled "The Super Psyche," the Gavin Edwards feature revisits material that is familiar to longtime Morrison fans -- such as his estimation of superheroes as models for humanity and the future, and his reported encounter with aliens from another dimension -- but includes a section where Morrison offers commentary and trivia about his work, characters and ideas, some of which are quite interesting and provocative.

On Batman:

Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay. I think that's why people like it. All these women fancy him and they all wear fetish clothes and jump around rooftops to get to him. He doesn't care -- he's more interested in hanging out with the old guy and the kid.

On Wonder Woman:

The article indicates that Morrison is presently at work on "a stand-alone Wonder Woman graphic novel" for DC Comics. Presumably this is the material Morrison spoke about last year, a Wonder Woman story that deals with the character's feminist and fetishistic origins.

On Magneto:

The X-Men fans hated me because I made him into a stupid old drug-addicted idiot. He had started out as this sneering, grim terrorist character, so I thought, Well, that's who he really is. [Writer] Chris Claremont had done a lot of good work over the years to redeem the character: He made him a survivor of the death camps and this noble antihero. And I went in and sh*t on all of it. It was right after 9/11, and I said there's nothing f**king noble about this at all.

You can read much more in the May 2012 issue of Playboy, on sale now in print and digitally.

What do you think about Grant's views on Batman, John?

I guess if he chooses to see it that way, then that's what it is for him.

Only with Batman. I bet they do it to watch all the uptight Americans flail their arms in an insecure bout of homophobia.

Only with Batman. I bet they do it to watch all the uptight Americans flail their arms in an insecure bout of homophobia.

I think the only completely straight SuperHero is Iceman. Nuff Said.

Its with more than Batman, especially Moore.

Only with Batman. I bet they do it to watch all the uptight Americans flail their arms in an insecure bout of homophobia.

Source?

Fixed for brevity and intent.