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When Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely work with Robbie Williams … and made him their Jimmy Olsen for All - Star Superman
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With the release of the movieBetter Man , a biopic of international popstarRobbie Williams , international that is everywhere except for the USA , more attention has been brought to his back catalogue . Such asIntensive Care , the album by Robbie Williams , release in 2005 with the singlesTripping , Make Me complete , Advertising SpaceandSin Sin Sin , and a world turn . The album was co - written withStephen Duffyover two years , and had tarot design graphics designed byGrant MorrisonandFrank Quitely , in reaction to Williams ' request that they " change by reversal him into a superhero " for the tour . The " talismanic images " and " witchy hieroglyphic " include a " sigil " that , in Morrison ’s words , " can be actuate by finding the CD in the store or pulling the cover up on - screen and press Rob ’s digit . If enough of us do this the public will most certainly enter a Modern Golden Age of peace , creativity , and prosperity ! "
So that did n’t crop then . At the time , Grant Morrison also said " We met Robbie Williams , that bozo ’s involved in so much stuff , he ’s practically single - handedly saving the planet . We might actually be closer to superheroes than you cerebrate . " Sadly the coaction between Morrison and Williams did not make it into the movieBetter Man , so there were no panorama of a CGI monkey look down a shaven - headedDavid Tennanttalking about defenseless chaos magick . Any of that will have to be go out to the first edition ofBryan Talbot’sNaked Artisttome .
Here ’s the flavour of Jimmy Olsen inAll - Star Superman . Robbie Williams had need if he could be necessitate in it somehow and , without pass it with DC Comics lawyers who would likely have enunciate no , used him as the model for Jimmy Olsen in the comic . secure in the noesis that no American editor or publisher would know who the hell he was … could he have been anAll - Star Better Maninstead ?
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