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Zenith: Bk. 5 (Paperback)

by Grant Morrison (Author)
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  • Paperback: 64 pages
  • Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (30 Aug 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1852862637
  • ISBN-13: 978-1852862633
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,054,200 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Image is everything, life is one long party, and saving the world is just a pain in the arse! Meet Zenith, all a good superbeing shouldn't be. From the labyrinthine mind of Grant Morrison (The Invisibles, JLA) comes the weirdest, wildest counter-culture hero of all.

A record in the charts, a page-three girl on each arm ... all's right in Zenith's world. He can fly, he's all-nut invulnerable, nothing can harm him. Or so he thinks. Zenith is about to het a huge wake-up call, courtesy of a WWII legacy that won't stay buried and a multi-dimensional race of soul-eating gods that want to re-shape the Earth and its inhabitants in their own image. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Groundbreaking British Superhero, 3 Jul 2001
This review is from: 2000 AD Presents Zenith Phase 1 (Zenith) (Paperback)
"Zenith" was 2000AD's first venture into the superhero genre which dominates American comic books: luckily, they chose Grant Morrison, who at the time (early '88) was just starting the career arc that would take him from the UK industry through DC's Animal Man, Arkham Asylum and Doom Patrol to the Justice League of America.

Zenith the strip is Very Eighties: postmodern in the style of Max Headroom and Moonlighting, namedropping breakfast TV stars and London clubs. Zenith the man is 19, arrogant and pretty as Matt and Luke Goss in their prime. Crimefighting is just another photo-op inbetween Top of the Pops, until a 1940s Nazi superhuman is brought back to life and Zenith learns what it is to be outclassed.

The plot is short and simple, following the classic Magnificent Seven story: recruiting a bunch of unlikely retired heroes from the 60s and trying to persuade them to fight one last battle. Ruby Fox works for a Cosmo clone, Peter StJohn is a Tory MP and Siadwell Rhys is a hopeless lush, but they all make it back into their old uniforms and return to central London just as the Nazi villain Masterman hits town. The battle doesn't go as expected.

Zenith is a hip, smart story which is more important now for what it became: Phase One in an ambitious superhero epic. Phase Two explored Zenith's past, Phase Three was a vast, majestic storyline about crisis on parallel Earths, and Phase Four, in this reviewer's opinion, lost the plot rather. Nevertheless, I hope this means the whole series will be reprinted.

You can't go wrong with Zenith I-III: even if you don't like the story, Steve Yeowell's art is glorious. Morrison did what they said couldn't be done - wrote a convincing British superhero - and he wrote it better than most American heroes of the time.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Alternate World Superhero - funny and violent, 27 Oct 2001
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This review is from: 2000 AD Presents Zenith Phase 1 (Zenith) (Paperback)
Grant Morrison here not only creates a new superhero, but a whole, alternate world in which he convincingly exists (rather like Alan Moore's Watchmen, only on a smaller canvas.)
One of the most fascinating parts of this 1st volume is the WW2 backstory, where Zenith's forerunner feels that the men he's fighting with are resentful of him simply because he's invulnerable and they're just ordinary British tommies.
This would never happen in a WW2-set American comic book, but WOULD happen in a "real" world where super-powered men lived.
As for Zenith himself...spoiled, arrogant, in love with himself...a brilliant character. Let's see more of him.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Birth of a Hero, 22 Feb 2007
By Adam Adamant "Dungeonmaster" (Liverpool, England United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zenith: Bk. 1 (The Best of 2000 A.D) (Paperback)
Zenith is the only active superhero in Britain so rather than fighting crime and rescuing people he makes crap records appears on chat shows and parties with glamour models. His world falls apart;however; when he's forced to help Ruby Fox a surviver of the sixties supergroup that his mum and dad belong to before they died.

This is the comic that really made Grant Morrison in the UK (yes I know he's done JLA and X-men in the states). I's a mad mix of HP Lovecraft monsters, Nazi genetic experiments, sixties kitsch, Thatchers Britain and superheroics. In it's way it's as fresh and original as Watchmen (though without the boring Pirate story in the middle) albeit less ambitious.

Steve Yeowell does an excellent job following on from Grants Original designs (some of which are reprinted in this volume as a bonus). Unless someone gets the rights to publish Morrisons writer artist venture Gideon Stargrave from AD-Astra this is about as early an example as you're going to get to the start of Grants madcap comic genius

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