Readers can definitely see the embryonic ideas that helped shape Morrison’s later works such as “Nameless”, 'Arkham Asylum', as well as recurring motifs that showed up in “Final Crisis”. It definitely gives it the noir/gothic feel that I'm fairly certain Morrison was going for. I'm not complaining because the black and white works. I’m not sure if it was originally published in color, but the hardback volume is in black and white. The artwork by Steve Yeowell is pretty minimalist, but it fits the tone of the series. He's slowly growing on me, though, and in each episode, he gets that much closer to figuring out how to be a decent human being. Zenith is one of those unlikable heroes who does the right thing for all the wrong reasons and, occasionally, by accident. Payne has teamed up with computer billionaire Scott Wallace, who not-so-secretly wants to take over the world, starting with London. Michael Payne, the elder scientist who helped engineer the creation of Zenith’s superhero parents. In “Zenith: Phase Two”, Zenith begrudgingly teams up with a CIA agent named Phaedra Cale to take on Dr. Imagine “Doctor Who” if Clive Barker from the ‘80s (“Books of Blood” Barker, not “Imajica” Barker) were writing the series. It’s actually a weird blend of cosmic horror and British black humor which just happens to feature superheroes. The series was called “Zenith”, and it isn’t really a superhero comic. (known for introducing “Judge Dredd”, one of my personal fave comic series, ever) featuring a thoroughly unlikable superhero/pop star battling Lovecraft-ian creatures from an alternate dimension. In particular, I have grown fond of a little series he wrote in the late-80s for the British comic book 2000 A.D. I realize that I just wrote a review in which I kind of slammed Grant Morrison (see my review for “Final Crisis”), but the truth is, I still kind of like him, especially his non-DC stuff. He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a 'counterculture' spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL.

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