An Incomprehensible Condition: An Unofficial Guide To Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers

by Andrew Hickey

In An Incomprehensible Condition, Andrew Hickey examines Grant Morrison's 2005 comic series Seven Soldiers of Victory, and traces the history of the ideas used. From Greek myth to hip-hop, from John Bunyan to Alan Turing, from Arius of Alexandria to Isaac Newton, we see how Frankenstein connects to Robert Johnson, what George Bernard Shaw had to say about Bulleteer, and what G.K. Chesterton thinks of I, Spider.

Genres: Nonfiction

Nook

First published July 13, 2011

About the author

I had a biography here but it was very out of date. Currently my main work is my podcast, A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs. The New Yorker compared that to the Bible, Oxford English Dictionary, and the works of Gibbon and Pepys, and said it "will eclipse every literary project in history". So that's nice.

Reviews

[Tom Ewing]

A slim but dense book, being a series of essays on various topics inspired by Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers metaseries. Direct commentary on the comics is kept to a minimum but Hickey draws useful connections and fills in a lot of the reference points. Topics include Leadbelly, M-Theory, John Bunyan and (as they say) much more. I guarantee there will be something here you either didn't know or hadn't thought of.

[Shane Charles]

Grand analysis

The author takes a look behind the background of one of Grant Morrison’s greatest works. This is not review of the series and is recommended to those with an open mind who want to explore further some of Morrison’s themes.

[John]

This is basically an essay with endless digressions....how I write many of my reviews on good reads.

[Lawrence]

http://gnomeship.blogspot.com/2014/08...