If you find typical Christmas tales such as Twas the Night Before Christmas a tad sentimental and cloying, try out this alternative origin story for Santa Claus by Grant Morrison, a variation of an historical fantasy set in the middle ages, featuring a warrior named Klaus who would defeat an Evil Lord Magnus who enslaves his men in mines and cancels Yuletide and toys for children. If this sounds like something you might be interested in, then I'd definitely encourage you to give it a try. Most of the time they're a bit too sappy for me and just not what I'm looking for in my reading material.īut if there is such a thing as a holiday genre that I would be interested in, then this is it. I'm on a Christmas mission to track them all down and check them out. <- did not expect that from Morrison.Īlso, I didn't realize that there were more (one-shot) stories that add to the mythos of this character and his universe. I mean, sure it's a barbarian fantasy thing with Klaus (Santa) fighting evil and magically making toys to combat the unhappiness caused by a demon-controlled king. I was expecting something absolutely off the wall when I read this because, well, it's Grant Morrison retelling the origin of Santa.īut this was actually pretty normal. *cough*.as told by Grant Morrison.<-Ho, ho, ho, bitches Merry Christmas and behold the true story of Santa! He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a 'counterculture' spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL.

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