The first half of this book is a stylish and entertaining history of comics.. I was already familiar with the history of comics but Grant Morrison brings an intelligent and insightful perspective to it. At around the half way mark the history of comics catches up with his own life story which then proceeds to engulf the narrative.

I would never have bought an autobiography of Grant Morrison but that is essentially what the book is. It's filled with self-indulgent details about his life. At one point he tells us about what he used to have for breakfast in 1986. He has a tendency to write himself in to his fictional works and he could not help but put himself at centre stage again.

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