Let's Read THE FILTH by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston
By Zack Quaintance — At last, it has come to this — we are preparing to read The Filth by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston. You see, over the past year and change (or maybe longer…what is time?), myself and Comics Bookcase Senior Staff Writer d. emerson eddy have been marching through all the comics written by Grant Morrison, in near chronological order with a few deviations.
To refresh your memories, we’ve done Doom Patrol to Flex Mentallo, we did The Invisibles, we did their Marvel work, and then most recently we went back and read Zenith. Now we are planning to read The Filth, all 13 issues of it. I know this is one of Morrison’s more polarizing works, but at the same time, I’m excited to read it. Artist Chris Weston is fantastic, and I’m also told these comics are in some ways a culmination of ideas Morrison has been playing with going back to Zenith.
Moreover, I am nothing if not a compulsively into completionism.
Filth by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston
So, that friends is why we’re reading The Filth by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston. This is one of the easier books to lay out a read for, seeing as it proceeds in easy order from The Filth #1 to The Filth #13. I’m using The Filth Deluxe Edition, which you can purchase via the link below:
The last item of note, is that this read will start on Monday, April 11. We’re reading one issue per day, and myself and d. will be tweeting about each issue, marking those tweets with the hashtag, #ParaPersonality. As always, I will sporadically update the space below with Tweets from that read…
WEEK ONE, The Filth #1 - The Filth #5
WEEK TWO, The Filth #6 - The Filth #10
WEEK THREE, The Filth #10 - The Filth #13
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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.