Source: bleedingcool.com
7. The Writer
Grant Morrison is easily one of the best comic book writers of our time. Between his JLA run, which includes the spellbinding World War III, and his work on All-Star Superman, there is very little he’s written that I don’t like. Also, I recommend his book Supergods to anyone with even a passing interest in superhero comics.
But why am I talking about a random comic book writer? Why, because he was a Suicide Squad member, as well!
You see, at the end of Morrison’s run on Animal Man, the title character breaks the fourth wall and goes to meet Morriison himself. Suicide Squad writers John Ostrander and Kim Yale took note of that and in Suicide Squad #58, Morrison appears in a lineup of new Squaddies, explaining that once he wrote himself into Animal Man, he became trapped in the DCU as a fictional character.
Morrison’s ability is to type out what is about to happen in script form on a laptop, unless the story’s actual writers overrule him. He charges straight into battle with the rest of the Squad, lasting four pages before he gets writer’s block and is disemboweled by a werebeast. Everything about this series of events is A: hilarious and B: so meta that Morrison himself couldn’t have done a better job.
