“It’s an old, old story: here comes your replacement,” says writer
Grant Morrison of Luda, their gossipy, Faustian fairy-tale of pantomime dame Luci LaBang and her titular enigmatic protege. “They’re gonna charm you and flatter you until the point where they’ve stolen your power, in which case they will destroy you.”
Coming after decades of influential work on comics including, and , is Morrison’s first prose novel, and – like their best work – it’s transgressive, witty and kaleidoscopic. The book was originally planned as a series of short comics based in ‘Gasglow’, a bizarro version of Morrison’s home