Top DC Comics Writer Tackles Indian Epic

COMMENTS (10)

• Will a tanned white guy play the lead role in the inevitable film adaptation?

  Comment by Nick — Thursday March 25, 2010 @ 11:31am EDT  Reply to this post

  • My thought exactly!
    Horrifying!
    There was an incredible adaptation of the Mahabharata for the British Channel 4 directed by Peter Brook (http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0097810/) that featured a multi racial cast. It was glorious. I hope this incarnation will live up to that 1.

    Comment by e — Thursday March 25, 2010 @ 2:31pm EDT  Reply to this post

• As with all religious texts, the value comes from the spiritual truths within. The literal events of a book or our lives are one thing, but it is most helpful when they are placed in context of what underlies all.

  The universe is but a thought within Consciousness. All is within. Namaste all.

  Comment by Mark Stark — Thursday March 25, 2010 @ 2:28pm EDT  Reply to this post

  • Interesting insight and 100% accurate. That so-called battle is not what the Gita is actually about but getting into contact with the God-within or the Atman who some call today the Higher-Self. And finding and owning that is the real “battle” of the Gita as Arjuna well discovered.

    Comment by Mike — Thursday March 25, 2010 @ 4:09pm EDT  Reply to this post

• lol @ nick

  Comment by Anonymous — Thursday March 25, 2010 @ 2:31pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Sharad Devarajan is a snake and has no idea what he’s doing. He ran Virgin Comics into the ground and will no doubt ruin this venture as well. Ask anyone who worked for him.

  Comment by Anonymous — Thursday March 25, 2010 @ 4:18pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Grant Morrison’s writing style is choppy and incoherent. Much of what he writes doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. How he gets work is a minor mystery. Having him take on the Bhagavad Gita is like inviting Helen Keller to play a game of tennis.

  Comment by dave — Thursday March 25, 2010 @ 4:45pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Let’s hope Morrison can make up for the debacle that was “Final Crisis”. Lately, he seems very pleased with himself to throw some really cool ideas into a swirling structureless mess and not make his storytelling subject to annoyances like clarity and character development.

  Meanwhile, one of his best works, “We3″, still has not been adapted for either TV or screen. His fellow Scot, Mark Millar, is seeing his work adapted before it is even finished in print (“Kick-Ass”) though hopefully the studio hasn’t butchered that idea the way they did “Wanted”.

  Comment by Brooklyn Transhumanist — Thursday March 25, 2010 @ 5:45pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Those east Indian themed Virgin comics were really dreadful and a financial disaster. The only thing Virgin had that was any good was the old British sci-fi adenture series Dan Dare, which was updated by Garth Ennis, the writer of Preacher. Grant Morrison’s usual druggy hipster take on this looks like some lame attempt to cash in on Avatar, judging from the visuals. Another turkey.

  Comment by alex larson — Friday March 26, 2010 @ 3:14pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Politically incorrect, mon: lessay “bull in a china shop” eh? Wassay yu?

  Comment by Lassim — Friday January 7, 2011 @ 9:35am EST  Reply to this post