NEW: Guide to Klaus by Grant Morrison & Dan Mora

It’s time for my tiniest guide of all time for Patrons of CK! How tiny? We’re talking about eleven issues. Twelve, if we count a black-and-white edition. So why make a guide to this comic? Because even though I own it, I wasn’t entirely sure of its release order or if there was a different order to read it in, and if I am not sure that means someone on Reddit is bound to ask! Plus, ’tis the season… for my Guide to Klaus by Morrison & Mora.

Guide to Klaus by Morrison & Mora

This guide is available exclusively to Patrons until Christmas Day!

I am historically not the hugest fan of Grant Morrison, but my curiosity got the better of me a few years ago and I dug into his initial seven-issue Klaus mini-series with artist Dan Mora. I was surprised to discover it was a surprisingly grounded “Santa Claus Begins” story. Given Morrison’s many authorial flights of fancy, I wasn’t expecting their take on one of the world’s most-cherishes myths to be quite so straightforward!

Then I read onward to the four one-shots that followed… which felt more like the Grant Morrison I know (and don’t always love).

Whereas the original Klaus series is like a wintery version of Conan or The Witcher, the four annual holiday one-shots that followed are Morrison at their kookiest sci-fi high-concept self, as abetted by Dan Mora’s fantastical artwork.

Morrison riffs on pulp fiction, Batman, horror stories, fantasy novels, and even Christmas calendars across the four one-shots, each giving us a glimpse into Klaus’s adventures from the 1980s through the present day.

I’ve read all eleven issues of Klaus before and even liked them enough to buy the lovely Complete Klaus deluxe hardcover collecting everything in one place. However, I read the annual one-shots once a year as they came out, and that was now over half-a-decade ago.

Each Christmas since then, I found myself wondering if they were best read in release order or if there was a better reading order. And, had they been collected outside of the deluxe hardcover now sitting on my shelf awaiting the next holiday to be taken down and read?

It wasn’t excedingly hard to answer those questions – after all, we’re only talking about 11 issues! My next guide is well over 1,500! But, I had fun answering the question for myself, and now anyone else who is confused about those one-shots and how to best collect them will have a definitive answer.

Also, I came up with detailed fan canon about comets and time travel. You’ll see my note when you read the guide.

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