![]() However, there’s a very clever and viable reason for the mundane underpinnings, and Morrison’s skill is in making the SF/horror mash-up work for so long before the big reveal. It’s therefore all in the trimmings, and Morrison supplies those by the bucket, on the scale from conceptual to downright coarse. ![]() When half a dozen specialists are introduced in a dangerous situation, the expectation is surely that few, if any, will still be around for a desperate final chapter, and we know despite his many failings Nameless is being set up to save the day. It’s Morrison toying with form, in some respects hacking out a mystical SF thriller to conform to expectation. ![]() ![]() The dissolute magician damaging himself as much as others is a walking, talking cliché, but Grant Morrison’s swaggering, preposterously macho dialogue and constant stream of occult-sounding babble crosses a bridge. Is Nameless a name? It’s one of several questions to ponder in the deliberately disorienting opening chapter about a mystic dabbler tasked with saving the world. ![]()
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