The main character, known as “Nameless” because he won’t give that power of his name to anyone, may either be the hero of the villain of this comic. About midway through the book, you’re faced with the possibility that the first half of Nameless is really just the main character’s way of processing a far more horrible reality and fate than what we’ve been shown up to this point.Īs a horror story, Nameless plays with our perceptions of reality, dangling possible ones in front of us without ever completely revealing a truth to us. Their story tries to disguise itself as one thing at first, a haunted house in space story, before revealing a second possible aspect. Together, this trio creates a haunted house story that stretches back to before the dawn of mankind and into a recognizable future of rich, industrial men really running the world through their technological breakthroughs. It’s a worm that sneaks into your system through the trojan horse of this comic.Ĭhris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn are equal partners in this latest virus/update of Morrison’s operating system. Nameless isn’t something that you download and wait to see what kind of groovy new features will be included in this release. (You could even make an argument that Multiversity is an add-on for this os but that’s a piece for another time.) But what’s odd about this golden release is that it’s a virus. In tech terms, think of Annihilator as a final beta of this system while Nameless is the full, ready-for-prime-time release. Nameless complements the work done in Annihilator as both books give Morrison a far darker and sinister level to work on but in the end offers are a far more complete reboot of our systems of perception than Annihilator did. His most recent attempt at introducing a new operating system to mankind happened in Nameless, a book which one of the characters in it describes the plot as “ The Exorcist meets Apollo 13. His Annihilator with Frazer Irving (published concurrently with Nameless) was a fantasy horror book that tried to upgrade us on multiple reality levels.
His X-Men stuff was all about rewiring how any why the X-Men worked as a mirror of the real world even if Marvel was quick to backtrack on it once he left. In his DC Comics, it books like The Invisibles or even Multiversity which try to upgrade our perceptions of reality, colored by the action/adventure adrenaline of those heroes. I seriously think that Grant Morrison is trying to rewrite our OS the same way that Apple or Microsoft upgrade their operating systems every couple of years.
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