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Zenith was a story about a British superherowhich appeared in the British science fiction comic AD. The character Zenith: Phase One real name Robert McDowell [1] first appeared in the second episode — the first episode set the backdrop for his introduction. Shallow and sarcastic, Zenith was a distinctly Generation X superhero. Morrison used the Zenith serial to explore cultural differences between generations and criticise the Conservative Party. Zenith was featured regularly in AD from untilwith occasional appearances since. The series was an early success for Morrison, who has since written popular works for DC and Marvel, using his own characters. Zenith appeared in August during a period when editor and assistant editor, Steve Zenith: Phase One and Richard Burton respectively, were shaking up AD by publishing numerous new stories which gave fresh talent a chance. With hindsight, Morrison stated, "I like Phase I the least now —- it wears its influences a little too obviously on its sleeve. It ended in March ofbut by that time this magazine was about to be cancelled. Zenith returned for Phase IV in but Morrison's attention was elsewhere: "I'd moved on and was more excited by the possibilities of working with American superheroes. ByZenith seemed like something dragged up from my past. I actually really like the last book of Zenith. I'm very fond of it. However, for years after that, attempts to re-publish the series including the never collected Phase IV were prevented by a copyright dispute between the publisher and Morrison. InMorrison said, "Fleetway have no paperwork to Zenith: Phase One their ownership of Zenith, so I'm currently involved in legal proceedings to clear things up. On 29 MayBritish publishing company Rebellion Developments announced that they were publishing a complete collection as a hardcover book limited to copies. The book collected all Zenith: Phase One phases and has a nearly exhaustive collection of covers and pin-ups. Whilst parties involved in ongoing legal proceedings are, as a rule, barred from speaking publicly of them, it appears Zenith: Phase One Morrison has been unsuccessful in halting that initial publication. Zenith Books 1 and 2 could be pre-ordered for a December launch through mainstream distribution chains. In September a new Zenith text story, "Permission to Land," appeared in progwith a new illustration by Steve Yeowell. Zenith also appeared in a story unconnected to the Zenith universe — "A Night 2 Remember," a strip about the comic's 25th anniversary celebrations, which appeared in prog Robert McDowell, alias Zenith, was Zenith: Phase One son of two members of Cloud 9, a super-team of the s assembled by the British military who had rebelled and become hippies and psychedelic fashion icons. Zenith himself used his Biorhythm dependant super-human abilities, not to fight evil, but to promote his career as a pop singer. Shallow, spoilt, self- centred and initially cowardly, he was reluctantly dragged into the struggle against malevolent, supernatural entities known as the Lloigor or " Many-Angled Ones ". The British superhuman project "Maximan" had emerged from work brought over by defecting Nazi scientists in World War IIin turn, having been developed from knowledge obtained from the Lloigor. The Nazis had created "Masterman"but the Zenith: Phase One purpose of the project was to produce host bodies strong enough to house the Lloigor's spirits. Due to those circumstances, within the Zenith: Phase One alternate historyBerlin was the target of the first nuclear weaponnot Hiroshima or Nagasakimainly because both the British and Nazi supermen were fighting in Berlin at the time. The British superheroes came of age during the tumultuous '60s, and promptly rebelled, Zenith: Phase One did many teens of that time. Ultimately, Zenith's parents Zenith: Phase One killed by American psychic agents - although that is not revealed until later in the storyline other members of Cloud 9 disappeared, and Zenith: Phase One few remaining lost their powers and retreated into civilian life: Zenith: Phase One St. Siadwell Rhys Red Dragon owned a pub in Wales - where he apparently spent much of his time drunk. Zenith since returned three times to the pages of AD : In zzzenith. Zenith once again Zenith: Phase One with St John, who was still in control of the country via a telepathically-manipulated Tony Blair. Zenith, being aware of that, was not particularly bothered, and therefore, St John seemed equally unconcerned by Zenith's knowledge of the truth. St John was still in possession of the Omnihedron pocket universe containing the Lloigor, however Marconi had been experimenting with it, and St John was worried about the results gained. Zenith was printed as a series of now out of print trade paperbacks by Titan Books. However, on 29 MayAD publishers Rebellion announced plans to re-print the entire series in a hardcover volume, limited to 1, copies. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Horrorsuperhero. Retrieved 22 September Masters of the Medium. Grant Morrison bibliography. Swithin's Day Zoids. Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods. Hidden categories: Comics infobox image less alt text Title pop Character pop All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from March Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Add links. Zenith on the cover of AD progby Steve Yeowell. Now Rebellion Developments. Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology s AD. Tharg Richard Burton. Collected editions. Zenith: Phase One h/c by Grant Morrison & Steve Yeowell

Goodreads helps you keep Zenith: Phase One of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Zenith by Grant Morrison. Steve Yowell Illustrator. Berlin, The allies unleashed the second world war hero Maximan upon the German supersoldier Masterman. So when he is contacted about the threat from the many-angled ones and the impending destruction of our world, his first reaction is to steer well clear. But the superhumans of the past have Zenith: Phase One plans Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Zenith: New Zenith: Phase One 1. Other Editions 6. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Zenithplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Zenith: Phase One. May 07, Sam Quixote rated it liked it. The approach feels derivative of Watchmen, with its postmodern view on superheroes, and has a predictable and rushed conclusion. It suuuucks! In other words, Morrison fans only though keep them expectations low! Jun 03, Mark Lawrence rated it it was amazing. One of my favourite series of graphic novels. Written in the 80s with Zenith: Phase One shallow superhero who captures the decade's zeitgeist. Clever writing manages to comment on the society and politics of the time without being heavy Zenith: Phase One. A comic that I read from issue 10 back in quickly acquiring the f One of my favourite series of graphic novels. A comic that I read from issue 10 back Zenith: Phase One quickly acquiring the first 9 and continued to read for another 30 years or so. Join my 3-emails-a-year newsletter prizes View 2 comments. May 05, Chad rated it really liked it. Probably the best of Morrison's UK stuff. You still feel those 80's comic influences like Watchmen and V for Vendetta when reading this. Morrison writes a pretty straight forward save the world from Cthullu story with a twist on the superhero archetypes. Nov 02, Tony Laplume rated it it was amazing. Zenith is a fascinating work, as it turns out. This Zenith: Phase One Grant Morrison's first notable project Zenith: Phase One by that point he'd already Zenith: Phase One writing for about a decadehis reaction to Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns or in other words the idea that making superheroes relevant again was to make them "realistic" and therefore more violent. He had a much simpler approach. You can still Zenith is a fascinating work, as it turns out. You can still see that reflected in Captain America, the curiosity still anchored in that era but Zenith: Phase One revived literally in the Marvel age that followed two decades later, the one currently reflected in a popular series of movies. Morrison took inspiration more directly from those days. He envisioned Nazis Zenith: Phase One were steeped more Zenith: Phase One in occultism and the idea of the superman than you're probably used to seeing although both Zenith: Phase One running themes of the Third Reich that tend to be downplayed by the extent of the Holocaust that became its true legacy, Zenith: Phase One it should be Zenith: Phase One also plays a role in the Zenith: Phase One thanks to X-Men villain Magneto's originsand came up with Masterman, empowered Zenith: Phase One fourth-dimension entities, rivaled by the British experiment known as Maximan but finally eliminated by the American atomic bomb. Zenith holds a lot of relevance to Morrison's later work. It's been out of print for years, possibly because Morrison used a lot of characters later in the narrative he did not technically have a right to which is a terrible excusebut this is the first in a series of collections that is finally correcting that, and hopefully now its legacy will expand. You can see parallels to his later Batman in the character of Mandala as if his presentation in Phase Oneanywayfor instance, or even in his latest project, The Multiversitythe idea of the latest generation of heroes having little to do and have as such Zenith: Phase One regular celebrities, be it rock stars or whatever Kim Kardashian is. This is the first of four "phases" or volumes; there was a limited edition that collected all four previously, but that's not any easier to come by than Zenith was before this effortand as such you don't get the whole story here, although Zenith: Phase One an opening arc, except for the cliffhanger ending, Phase One can be read for a complete experience on its own. Like Watchmen there's a group of '60s superheroes who for one reason Zenith: Phase One another disappeared. Much of the volume concerns Zenith's efforts to recruit the Zenith: Phase One members in his quest to defeat Masterman's twin if this counts as a spoiler in superhero stories, defeated Masterman is by the end. For its relevance to comics as they actually are, and even for the fact that it made a conscious effort to Zenith: Phase One on what comes nextZenith absolutely deserves to be rediscovered, as well as put in an argument for Zenith: Phase One the equal of its rivals. As to Zenith: Phase One or not it's betterthat might need to be revisited in other volumes. Most of the art is black and white, but Steve Yeowell's work is plenty vivid. The only aspect that seems dated now, nearly thirty years later, is Ruby Fox's hairstyle almost a female Donald Trump! Zenith himself is instantly iconic in his look, anticipating much of what the '90s Zenith: Phase One produce without being weighed down by it. In that sense, Zenith has already proven to be prescient. I'm an unabashed fan of Morrison, so have long been interested to see what Zenith was actually like, what Zenith: Phase One Morrison himself was actually like. I think both hold up quite nicely. This story has some nice moments. I like the sketches at the back especially. Nov 03, Kevin Wright rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novelsgrant-morrison. Zenith is the magnum opus of Grant Morrison's early UK comics career. While it may lack the mind-bending chaos magic of Morrison in his prime, the story is refreshingly straight-forward and lighthearted, yet still contains the seeds of Morrison's later thematic concerns. The idea of spoiled, indolent, self-indulgent superhumans superheroes as pop stars Zenith: Phase One of pugilists is one Morrison picked up again recently in Multiversity. But it was done first and arguably best with Morrissey lookalike Zenith is the magnum opus of Grant Morrison's early UK comics career. The story also displays Morrison's abiding interests in magic rituals, multi-dimensional beings and multiple universes, music, fashion, and generational differences. Like the best of Morrison's work, it also takes a firm stand against the grim-and-gritty comics of the day by affirming the power of the imagination. But, for all that, Phase One of Zenith is still more of a pastiche of influences than a fully formed statement of purpose. Both situate superheroes within their social and cultural contexts, integrating them into the social fabric of not only s Great Britain, but of world history, and working out how they would not only operate in the real world, but also impact global events and pop culture. Of course, the Golden Age of comics was during one of the Zenith: Phase One times of the 20th century. While American comics largely ignored it, the scars of World War II seem to be permanently ingrained in the British psyche. Morrison deftly balances the real world gravitas of atomic bombs, totalitarian regimes, and genocide with the sci-fi absurdity of Nazi aliens from the 4th dimension summoned by magic. He seems to be having an infectious kind of fun mixing '60s counterculture with superheroes and Aleister Crowley and H. Lovecraft, but he remains deadly serious in his Zenith: Phase One that imagination is the best weapon against authority. While not yet at the peak of his writing powers, Morrison deftly paces a complex story told in 5-page increments. Character development is compact, but economical. It feels like there's Zenith: Phase One to these characters than what we see on the page, and while we may not be privy to their hidden depths, there's a complexity to the characters' decisions, actions, and relationships. After being out of print for 25 years, I'd be happy with a mimeograph on the back of an eviction notice. Instead, Fleetway has put out a nice, glossy hardcover edition reproduced in sufficient size to admire Steve Yeowell's intricate and expressive artwork. Playful Lovecraftian horror, grafted into a multigenerational Gold-to-Silver-to-Bronze Age superhero saga, Zenith: Phase One a central hero who's a self-indulgent rock star, provides a trippy and light counterpoint to the tortured vigilantes of Alan Moore and Frank Miller in this late 80s saga from Grant Morrison. This series tilts my favor more toward Morrison in the pantheon of legendary comics creators. Jun 06, Kenny rated it really liked it. Morrison and Yeowell's excellent retro superhero and his groovy adventures. Nov 22, Chris Browning rated it it was amazing. Zenith started in the very second prog I ever bought of AD and it was probably the main thing that made me come back week after week. I reread to see if my instincts were right about it after finishing Watchmen. And yes and no. Zenith: Phase One by Grant Morrison

Search: All Products inc. Page 45 Review by Stephen "You don't understand what Zenith: Phase One can do to people. I even had the quiff and studded leather jacket. Unfortunately I had none of Zenith's powers nor musical prowess. Actually, I'm not sure Zenith had any musical prowess but as the first phase kicks off he is at number three in the pop charts. This Zenith: Phase One even better than I remembered it to be, and I cherished it dearly back Zenith: Phase One. His was the shiniest-ever superhero art, bathed in bold black which benefits enormously for the infinitely improved production values, printed on the crispest of paper preventing any bleed. By the very second page, however, it is clear that Britain has underestimated Masterman by misunderstanding his nature and Maximan lies broken in Berlin. At which point we drop The Bomb on them both. The Bomb, yes. Cut straight to and pop star Zenith has been invited onto Good Morning Zenith: Phase One to discuss a book re-evaluating the reputation of Cloud 9 - "the group of British superhumans who were as much of the swinging '60s as The Zenith: Phase One or Twiggy" - but he's really only interested in flogging his new single. Instead it's the more mature Ruby Fox, former model then known as Cloud 9's own Voltage, who refutes the allegations of self-indulgence by maintaining that they were all ill-prepared victims of an experimental drug, including Zenith's own parents, Dr. Beat and White Heat, who went missing in Zenith is now the only known active superhuman and he's only active in ways which enhance his lock- jawed, pop-star, thicker-than-pig-shit career; and only when his fluctuating, monthly biorhythm cycle allows. At its peak he can fly, crush ball bearings and is virtually invulnerable. Well, every year-old feels that way, don't they? Ruby Fox hasn't manifested her electrical energy abilities in years, Siadwell Rhys AKA Wales' pyrokinetic Red Dragon has put himself out with the demon drink and former turned-on, tuned-in Zenith: Phase One dropped-out Peter St. I wonder if he still has those powers of persuasion? It's funny how Zenith: Phase One radicals become such reactionaries, isn't it? I Zenith: Phase One you this had a socio-political punch. Meanwhile, as I say, Britain's manufactured response to Nazi Germany's Masterman misunderstood his Zenith: Phase One nature and Germany had a reputation for using twins. Eyes, teeth and hair, folks; eyes, teeth and hair. Also, a fine line in fashion. This item is possibly currently out of print, or is something that just takes us a little more time to restock. If we think we will be stocking it again we will leave the item here on the site, so check back or contact us for availability. Go back to the Page 45 Home Page.