In this case, the largely forgotten not-so-classic titular Kid has been exhumed from the dusty cobwebs of yesteryear’s comic collection. What initially feels akin to an old art school project that has been reexamined under more mature eyes finds itself bound with another degree of externally found work. Zeigeist-setting sage or bombastic buffoon (both definitions are equally applicable for this critic) Kid eternity is absolutely something every self-described comic book aficionado should experience. I’ll try to break down this curiously overlooked ‘91 gem from everyone’s favorite comic luminary, Grant Morrison. And there’s a lot of the minding as well. 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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