1990 saw the debut of not one, but two of comics’ most notable fourth-wall breakers. In December’s The New Mutants #98, readers met Wade Wilson a.k.a. Deadpool , the Merc’ With a Mouth–then just a Deathstroke and Terminator rip-off and not the self-aware figure he’d become. A few months earlier, Animal Man #25 introduced the Writer, a kind Scottish person who welcomes Animal Man Buddy Baker into their home and explains that they are the cause of all the heroes’ suffering because they are Grant Morrison , the writer of the comic.

At least, we thought that the Writer is Grant Morrison, especially when the character showed up in last month’s Batman/Deadpool #1, written by Morrison and penciled by Dan Mora. But in the latest edition of their newsletter Xanaduum , Morrison clar

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