KOBE27 wrote:
Flex Mentallo is completely non-linear.
I'll see how I feel after I re-read it.  Since it's only 4 issues, I may read it before and after the DP read.

BTW, one of the things that I love about Morrison's work is that he doesn't spell everything out for you.  And he plays with the format of the media.
For example, Seven Soldiers:  It has a beginning (SS0) and it has an end (SS1).  The reader decides how to read the middle (the minis).  That's one thing I struggled with when binding the series.

BTW2, a couple obvious themes in Morrison's work that have stuck out:
1. Alternate realities.  GM loves to create whole new worlds to play in and then send his characters there.  Off the top of my head, he does this in Animal Man, Doom Patrol, All Star Superman, Zenith and obviously The Invisibles.  Shoot, he even touches on this with Batman (zur-en-arrh) and JLA.

2. And to go along with that: What is Reality?  Similar to Philip K. Dick, Morrison loves to make his characters question what is real (Animal Man, Seaguy, Batman, Sebastian O, etc) and thus make the reader question himself as well.

3. And finally, Morrison loves to create characters fully formed, and sends readers into stories that don't necessarily have a definitive cookie-cutter beginning.  This really struck me last night when reading Sebastian O and Seaguy.  Here were these fully formed worlds and characters, each with a full backstory, and here I am as the reader joining a program already in progress.




'Reading' / 'Reading soon' stack: DC/Vertigo - ArtOps, Batgirl, Gotham Academy, Gotham by Midnight, Injustice; Marvel - Allred's Silver Surfer; Other - Abe Sapien, Descender, Fight Club 2, Goon, Mind MGMT, Southern Bastards