Via their Substack newsletter Xanaduum, Grant Morrison has revealed a new series with “The Green Lantern” artist Liam Sharp, titled “Eden’s End.” The comic, which will launch in a “week or two,” is “an epic prehistoric barbarian sci-fic adventure” inspired by the Old Testament and the Epic of Gilgamesh, which reimagines the origin of mankind, “the first superman,” “the first king,” “the first betrayal,” and “the first interdimensional war.”
Morrison also indicates it will have a feminist bent, referencing the phrase from the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar “the Evil That Men Do,” and calls it “the Gospel According to Lilitu,” which is another name for the demon Lilith, believed to be Adam’s first wife in non-canonical ancient texts; she is shown in further artwork depicting her in lieu of the serpent from the Garden of Eden story, offering the Forbidden Fruit. They describe the book’s hero, who is shown in the main artwork slicing and dicing ape-like beings with two axes, as simply being a “violent c**t.”
“Eden’s End” will begin on Xanaduum later this month, and will be followed later this year by more comics from Morrison and Sharp like “Poison Peach,” and “It’s a Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead World.” Details on these will be revealed at a later date. In the meantime, in Morrison’s words, these comics “will be made available ONLY to our elite cadre of wondrous PAID SUBSCRIBERS, so if you’ve yet to take the plunge, if now you wish to experience ‘Eden’s End’ and all these upcoming Xanaduum Presents comics, come join our sinister cult of confusion here at Xanaduum!”
