One thing I did love was Morrision's Seaguy. It had just the right mix of totlaly OTT wackiness that I found absolutely endearing. His run on Doom Patrol is also brilliant. I'm not that up to date with comics though, I'm afraid.
Is this the Jim Crow issue? Funny how much it reminds me now of the plot of Get Out though I guess the idea of black bodies and labour used appropriatively by whties is built into the zombie mythos. And talking of appropriation, all the voodoo stuff is taken from Michael Bertiaux's Vodoun Gnostic Workbook. This is a gargantuan 600 page tome which reads like a schizod telephone directory. It's quite annoying 'cos it has fuck all to do with actual vodou as you experience it at an everyday level in Haiti or the Haitian diaspora. It's a weird insane text and annoying 'cos it's beloved of white occultists 'cos they can get their (rare, expensive, hard to understand) text on and avoid talking to any actual black people.
I think Grant said in an interview somewhere that he was playing around with the scorpion lwa and put himself in hospital?
Never read any other Grant Morrison, despite really liking comics in general, but maybe will pursue if I get into the invisibles.
My fave comics, by the by:
Almost anything by Chester Brown or Robert Crumb, but especially the Bible adaptations by Brown and 'My trouble with women', 'the religious experience of Phillip k dick' and 'genesis' by Crumb.
Fort thunder / Highwater books crew especially Mat Brinkman.
CFs powr mstrs series.
Simon Hanselmann especially Truth Zone.
Frank Santoro especially Incanto.
Almost all Amar Chitra Katha.
Archies.
And yes, that's the issue, I think? it features the top hatted guy who gets called upon by the grandmother, and he goes sorts out the bad men. It seems to be its own thing for the moment. Unless possibly I'm getting mixed up, not sure.
That's dead interesting how they all use the same source material. The voodoo thing is such a powerful trope. The dead eyed thing.
Gonna post another video shortly in the Arthur jafa thread and there's a voodoo Ness there as well.