5/22/2023 0 Comments Scott mccloud comicsThe final story saw the character of Animal Man, who had already experienced (while on peyote) a breaking down of the 4 th wall in his reality and realizing that he was a character of fiction, had the character arriving at Grant Morrison’s very door-step to confront his own creator. Morrison enacted a similar feat of sorts at the end of his run on Animal Man for DC Comics from 1988-90. Let’s be honest…this sounds pretty freaking awesome. They created, as I cam to call them, ‘fiction suits,’ like space suits for sending yourself into stories. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby could send drawn versions of themselves into the created world of Fantastic Four, and those little drawings of Stan and Jack were like angels, UFOs, avatars from a higher universe, entering a world they’d made to interact with its inhabitants. Grant Morrison, in describing, in a bit of existential retrospection, how people come to perceive or interact with the 2D world of superheroes and comic books from the “higher dimension” of the real world recounts how:
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