Grant Morrison has said that the events in Flex Mentallo were based on his childhood.
CBR posted a video from last year’s Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods documentary in which the writer discussed the soon-to-be-reprinted legendary comic.
“All the stuff in Flex Mentallo is kind of real,” he said.
“[When I was young] I had my appendix taken out. I was lying in hospital watching this green light all night just imagining it was this kind of alien intelligence studying me as I lay in my bed of sick.
“All that’s real - w**king off to drawing young girls in the nude, I would do as a teenager without a girlfriend.”
A family friend featured in the video said that he had always believed Flex Mentallo was based on Morrison’s father Walter.
Vertigo recently announced that the four-issue series would be collected later this year. A legal dispute meant that it has never been reprinted since its release in 1996.
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