'I've been studying nihilistic philosophy, which is basically the most depressing stuff on Earth. Mankind projects a lot of things onto zombies and their horror-movie ilk, but 'this notion of disease or decay as being outside us, it's what we live,' Morrison explains.

One of the things that scares Morrison the most that he's exploring is the basic nature of being human. They also yearned to have a much darker story than they ever could doing Batman, so they're tackling a variety of fears and terrors - maybe even some that folks are experiencing and not even know it. So far, Burnham has been playing with the contrast between very straightforward layouts and 'the weirder, chopped-up, trippy time-warp stuff,' he says.īurnham teases that the visuals 'will run the gamut from 'quietly eerie' all the way up through 'cut out my brain so I don't have to remember seeing this!' ' They wanted to continue to work together after their run on Batman Incorporated ended last year, but also experiment with storytelling techniques in the way panels work on the page. What Burnham does feel at home with - and in a good way - is working with Morrison. 'I don't want the readers of a horror book to feel comfortable at all.' 'Everyone's read the exact same books, seen the same movies and TV shows, so everything's starting to feel a little comfortably same to me,' the artist says. When it comes to horror, Burnham feels that the creators as well as the audience all have similar reference points, so with Nameless he wants to dig a little deeper and weirder instead of mashing up two things folks already like. And while Nameless could return for more stories, 'really this one is about the big test of the human experience against a nightmare.' 'I wanted to take it beyond that Frank Miller hard-boiled thing into a quite weird stream-of-consciousness, Lovecraftian kind of thing,' Morrison says.

Nameless by grant morrison