This took me by surprise, because I love most of Morrison's work. I love his sense of the bizarre, mixed with a careful use of symbolism and how he manages to include in comics very powerful ideas from litearture and the arts. However, in this case, the results are outstandingly mediocre, his ideas are full of overused clichés, the characters are not interesting, and the main antagonist is a rip off of almost every world conqueror known. I was very dissapointed.