Superman writer Grant Morrison: I taught Robbie Williams magic

Morrison acquits himself well, but asking him, “what advice would you give to people thinking of doing their own voodoo rituals?” is really damn insulting. I like that he specifically mentions actual voodoo where interviewer Andrew Williams is clearly using the term pejoratively. Morrison gets lots of snickers I think for his belief in magic, and often comes off (sort of intentionally I think—it certainly helps build his mystique) as a crackpot for it, but he’s just answering honestly from what he believes.

I hadn’t heard this anecdote before:

Do some fans take things a bit too far?

There was one guy in the US who was ready to kill everyone in the office when I was working for Marvel. The FBI got involved and locked him up. It was about something in an X-Men comic. I didn’t write it but it drew on stuff I’d created and we’d done something to ruin the purity of his favourite childhood character. I wouldn’t want to tar all fans with that – you get all sorts, from people who write clever analysis to some real nutters.