Dare

by Grant Morrison, Rian Hughes

Imagine that the future England of Frank Hampson's 1950s science fiction hero Dan Dare has become a little truer.
Aging Colonel Daniel MacGregor Dare has retired from his career in Space Fleet to live in rural retreat with his housekeeper, his memoirs & his painkillers.His splendid isolation is uninterrupted until he attends the funeral of a friend & former Space Fleet nutritional scientist., Jocelyn Peabody, & encounters estranged colleague Albert Digby. Then a summons to meet Prime Minister & Unity Party leader, Gloria Monday draws Dare into a web of power & corruption that has enveloped the beloved England for which he always fought....
Morrison & Hughes rework the fabric of real & fictional past into a disturbingly familiar future which chillingly parallels life in present day Britain.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

78 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning their American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. Since then they have 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. 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, they have 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.

In their secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. They are also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. They divide their time between their homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.

Reviews

[Duncan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Morrison is a master story teller, and this piece is clearly an homage to someone who had inspired him.

I really enjoyed the art, thought the art deco styling was a good match for Dan Dare.

I’m a longtime fan of Morrison from 2000AD, but my experience of Dan Dare came primarily from a game that my brother and I used to play on our old Amstrad computer.

While there are some cliches, and not too many surprises in the end (I thought it could have gone a little longer), I really enjoyed this, and am now settling down with an edition of some of the original comics that I found.

[Arsnoctis]

Più che un insieme di vignette sembra un insieme di cartelloni pubblicitari, ognuno con il suo messaggio da strillare in faccia al lettore. Un Morrison pessimista e complottista che prova a illudere con una copertina colorata, ma che non sa imbrogliare nessuno, nemmeno il lettore occasionale. Per conoscere meglio l'autore c'è solo l'imbarazzo della scelta tra sue opere e opere su di lui. A chi non si sapesse decidere da dove cominciare, segnalo il mio video-introduzione a Grant Morrison

[Timo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Soooooo...... the more everything changes the more everything stays the same. That truth can again be found in this comic from 90-something where a female politician is trying to piece things together with publicity stunt when everything is pretty much fucked up already. Or then Morrison just predicted Brexit.
Squarey and blocky art that did not work for me and an ending that was a clumsy and hurried and stupid. But good moments in this also. Sadly they were a bit far and few.

[Aavedon Roy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this is a brilliant deconstruction of the Thatcher Age of British Politics. But I think this work is far too cynical for Dan Dare book. For those who don’t have context for the orginal version Dan Dare at one point was the equivalent of British Captain America, in terms of optimism and fighting for the future. I know this is subjective and shallow review espically as someone who like Ennis’s work but the places it goes just don’t work

[ems · Rating 3 out of 5]

More of Grant Morrison's feelings about Thatcher. (See: St. Swithin's Day). Had a better ending than Soylent Green, though -- and the style of art is perfectly matched with the story.

[Paul Grimsley · Rating 5 out of 5]

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