![]() ![]() Zenith supposedly is a slacker superhero, and these stories are old enough that Generation X (my generation) was the one filled with young lazy layabouts who couldn’t be bothered to work - whereas now we know that really describes millennials, who have the bad grace to be young now, when so many of us are sadly no longer so. (Not that Morrison was lacking in either of those.) ![]() All the stories were written by Grant Morrison, at that point the current snotty Young Turk of British Comics, and drawn by Steve Yeowell, who had no such easy hook to be hung on and so had to get by on hard work and talent. His stories originally ran in the UK comics magazine 2000 AD, in weekly installments between 19, which explains the five-page-chapters issue. That sounds like damning with faint praise, and there’s an aspect of that - those short chapters put Morrison and Yeowell’s work in a straitjacket that they can never get free from, denying them all but the most absolutely necessary splash pages and forcing every installment to move forward quickly and efficiently - but it’s still an impressive achievement, and a pretty good revisionist superhero in general. ![]() Zenith is quite likely the best possible revisionist superhero comic series told in five-page chapters. ![]()
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