Darque Edge Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 Alan Moore, for the unenlightened, is possibly the greatest comic writer in history. The worst complaint that's been sent his way is that he's sometimes TOO intellectual. If you haven't read these three, do so. Watchmen - The best comic book series ever. Written the same year as The Dark Knight Returns, it's so superior, it's not true. Possibly the most important comic of the last twenty years. From Hell - It's the size of a phone book. It's a deconstruction of Jack The Ripper and the events surrounding it. It's stunning. Expect me to talk more about this at a later point. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Ignore the movie. You probably thought it was a good concept, but crap film. Now, imagine that concept done better than you could think. That's how much fun this is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drqshadow Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 Top Ten is far from shabby, too. I actually liked that better than League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I just wish he'd hurry the f up with season two. drq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darque Edge Posted March 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 You know he did a mini-series spin off, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James D. Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 I liked the LXG movie... Seriously though, the graphic novels are brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drqshadow Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 You know he did a mini-series spin off, right? Smax? Yeah, and I'm loving it... but the whole precinct needs to come back. drq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 You know he did a mini-series spin off, right? Smax? Yeah, and I'm loving it... but the whole precinct needs to come back. drq Yeah, I think it's pretty good, but I'm a much bigger Gene Ha fan than I am Xander Cannon. Has this man written anything bad? I'm not sure that he has. Seriously.. Top Ten, Tom Strong, Watchmen, LXG, From Hell, Swamp Thing, etc, etc, etc, etc.. sigh. He's so dreamy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJG Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 You should see Chrono Cops, a one off strip he did with Dave Gibbons for 2000 ad. It was an insane time travelling version of Dragnet. Also check out DR & Quinch for his incredibly off the wall humour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drubot Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 I absolutely loved Top Ten. Still have to read Watchmen and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen both Vol. 1 & 2. But isn't he retiring from writing comics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 But isn't he retiring from writing comics? Sadly, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darque Edge Posted March 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2004 Interesting Alan Moore interview from last week. There's a new graphic novel coming out. Very much mature readers (it's the long awaited 'Lost Girls'), but if you've read 'Magic Words' then you know how good his mature stuff can be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darque Edge Posted March 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 I just nearly got in trouble through laughing at work over these two paragraphs of Alan Moore taking the piss out of Eddie Campbell. I nicked this from The Engine. From here: http://www.geocities.com/magicofalanmoore/simmoore/one.html Well, I can’t in all honesty claim to be surprised by the incessant complaints of this embittered transportee. This kind of craven back-stabbing is, of course, only to be expected of a clan that sided with the English during the Highland clearances and slaughtered the McGregors in their beds. Do you know, there’s a hotel situated at the top of Glencoe where to this day they have a sign on the lounge door that reads "No dogs or Campbells"? And this isn’t just me saying bad things about Eddie: this is the deep and resonant bass voice of History itself saying bad things about Eddie. On the matter of what has been viewed in some quarters as an untoward wordiness in my panel descriptions, might I draw your attention to the final volume of From Hell, specifically to page two, panel five of our epilogue, The Old Men On The Shore. In the script description for this panel I unfortunately allowed myself a moment of laxity and omitted the words "INSPECTOR ABBERLINE’S HEAD IS STILL ON HIS SHOULDERS DURING THIS PANEL. IT HAS NOT RETREATED TORTOISE-LIKE INTO HIS NECK, NOR HAS IT IN SOME FASHION MANAGED TO REFRACT LIGHT AROUND IT LIKE A KLINGON SPACESHIP SO THAT THE INSPECTOR RESEMBLES SOMETHING OUT OF MAGRITTE WITH HIS BOWLER FLOATING THERE SUSPENDED ABOVE THE EMPTY COLLAR OF HIS COAT." Last time I’ll make that mistake, obviously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darque Edge Posted March 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 Clicky clicky I found this MP3 - a nice, relatively in-depth interview with Alan Moore. Funny stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Marv Posted March 26, 2006 Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 Great, now I'm not going to be happy until Alan Moore writes a Super Moby Dick of Space comic. A question unrelated to Alan Moore, is the rest of British talk radio as depressing as it sounds? I mean, "40 years later, friends and family remember Churchill's funeral" doesn't exactly sound like a lot of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darque Edge Posted March 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 I don't often listen to the radio. It's probably depressing. Hell, our daytime TV celebrities are Richard and Judy. It's depressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLee Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 http://fourcolorheroes.home.insightbb.com/free.html There's a link I found to a lot of Alan Moore work, including some of his comics, essays and other cool stuff. It's ogt the proposal for Twilight of the Superheros on it, and reading it is absoultly fascinating, I can definitly see why DC wouldn't have published it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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