Grant Morrison Critiques Man of Steel, Says Warner is Afraid to Develop Wonder Woman

Superstar comics writer Grant Morrison, in a USA Today article, has a few choice words for Warner Bros.–the parent company of DC Entertainment–about a couple of DC characters that he’s spent more than a little time with.Speaking about a broad range of topics, Morrison said told the newspaper that he wasn’t crazy about certain elements of Warner’s most recent comic book adaptation, and shifted the blame for another’s failure to get off the ground squarely onto the studio.Asked about his response to Man of Steel, the Superman reboot that drew from elements of Morrison’s own All-Star Superman for inspiration, the writer hedged a little.A. I kinda liked it and kinda didn’t, to be honest. I feel bad because I like (director) Zack Snyder and (writer) David Goyer, and (star) Henry Cavill was really good. But it felt like one of those ones where it’s like, “Bring on the second movie now that you’ve done this,” and I don’t need to see that as someone who knows all I know about Superman. For me, it was a bit “seen it before,” no matter how they tried to make it a little bit different. I’m more looking forward to the Dark Knight version of Superman, the next one, where hopefully it will have Lex Luthor and be some fantastic second act.It’s a credible Superman for now. But I’m not sure about the killing thing. I don’t want to sound like some fuddy-duddy Silver Age apologist but I’ve noticed a lot recently of people saying Batman should kill the Joker and, yeah, Superman should kill, he should make the tough moral decisions we all have to make every day. I don’t know about you, but the last moral decision I made didn’t have anything to do with killing people. And I don’t think many of us ever have to make the decision whether or not to kill. In fact, the more you think about it, unless you’re in one of the Armed Forces, killing is illegal and immoral. Why would we want our superheroes to do that?