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Strange thought of the day

So I've been reading a lot of Morrison lately, primarily his non-mainstream work in Joe The Barbarian, The Filth and now Flex Mentallo. In each story, Morrison's childhood fantasies and heroes try to break through into the "real" world. Another writer I've been reading a lot of is Kurt Busiek, mainly his Astro City.

Driving around doing a few errands this morning, it hit me that the world that Busiek has created in Astro City is the world that Morrison is trying to achieve. The synthesis of a comic world and the "real" world is what Astro City is all about and it's what Morrison has been trying to create in his stories. Morrison's stories tend to be about the "birth" of such a world where Busiek's stories don't even ask about the origin of it and just accepts that capes and tights are flying around in the same world as you and me.

Does that mean that Grant Morrison wants to be Kurt Busiek?