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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 4, 2016 11:17:36 GMT -5
Tom Strong, it's what initially introduced me to the concept pulp science-heroes
1963 was also pretty darned good in it's own right, shame the final issue was never completed :/
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Post by Trevor on Mar 4, 2016 12:24:37 GMT -5
Choosing would be like choosing my favorite child! Wait, I only have one kid, and my choice here is Swamp Thing. And if I had a vocabulary, I would have said something almost exactly like what coke&comics said a few pages back.
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 4, 2016 12:27:28 GMT -5
Choosing would be like choosing my favorite child! Wait, I only have one kid, and my choice here is Swamp Thing. Your child is Swamp Thing? |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 4, 2016 13:35:44 GMT -5
Choosing would be like choosing my favorite child! Wait, I only have one kid, and my choice here is Swamp Thing. Your child is Swamp Thing? Changing the diapers of my children, way back when, such a thought frequently occurred to me. |
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Post by Action Ace on Mar 4, 2016 15:22:29 GMT -5
I've read well under half of what the best comic book writer of all time has produced, but I'd rate Watchmen at the top.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 4, 2016 20:31:48 GMT -5
I consider Alan Moore the single greatest writer in comics. I'm curious what people think his strongest work is. He's not my favorite*, but I'd put him in the top two writers in mainstream/factory system comics in terms of skill. The other one is John Stanley, for completely different reasons. * Steve Gerber |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 5, 2016 2:54:58 GMT -5
I consider Alan Moore the single greatest writer in comics. I'm curious what people think his strongest work is. He's not my favorite*, but I'd put him in the top two writers in mainstream/factory system comics in terms of skill. The other one is John Stanley, for completely different reasons. * Steve Gerber I suspect Alan would take offence at being described as "mainstream", and certainly at "factory system"... |
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 5, 2016 5:23:21 GMT -5
He's not my favorite*, but I'd put him in the top two writers in mainstream/factory system comics in terms of skill. The other one is John Stanley, for completely different reasons. * Steve Gerber I suspect Alan would take offence at being described as "mainstream", and certainly at "factory system"... I think you're probably both right. A very good chunk of his work falls into that category. But he's got plenty of indie stuff under his belt. On comics Like Taboo and Aargh! |
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 5, 2016 8:56:17 GMT -5
He's not my favorite*, but I'd put him in the top two writers in mainstream/factory system comics in terms of skill. The other one is John Stanley, for completely different reasons. * Steve Gerber I suspect Alan would take offence at being described as "mainstream", and certainly at "factory system"... Moore has fallen so far out of the mainstream since America's Best Comics ended that it's not even funny. Even Neil Gaiman is better known by causal comic fans |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 5, 2016 10:45:24 GMT -5
I suspect Alan would take offence at being described as "mainstream", and certainly at "factory system"... Moore has fallen so far out of the mainstream since America's Best Comics ended that it's not even funny. Even Neil Gaiman is better known by causal comic fans Surely Neil Gaiman is pretty well known anyway, as a best selling novelist with an international reputation? As for Alan, I doubt he cares about the mainstream, or casual comics fans. Anyway, I think he's still probably the best known comics writer in Britain, which is, after all, where he lives and works... |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Mar 7, 2016 14:41:47 GMT -5
Alan Moore doesn't even have a passport, so I guess that tells a lot about his aspirations to be a mainstream international auhtor...
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 7, 2016 15:08:45 GMT -5
Alan Moore doesn't even have a passport, so I guess that tells a lot about his aspirations to be a mainstream international auhtor... Well, an author doesn't need to travel abroad in order to sell abroad. And after all, what does any other country have to offer Alan that his beloved Northampton does not? |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 7, 2016 20:01:16 GMT -5
He's not my favorite*, but I'd put him in the top two writers in mainstream/factory system comics in terms of skill. The other one is John Stanley, for completely different reasons. * Steve Gerber I suspect Alan would take offence at being described as "mainstream", and certainly at "factory system"... Then he should learn to draw faster. I'll change that to "pure scripters" if you want. On my "writers" list - including cartoonists - he wouldn't make the top 25. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Mar 7, 2016 20:52:19 GMT -5
Alan Moore doesn't even have a passport, so I guess that tells a lot about his aspirations to be a mainstream international auhtor... Well, an author doesn't need to travel abroad in order to sell abroad. And after all, what does any other country have to offer Alan that his beloved Northampton does not? Well, my point is that it seems that if you want to get the level of notoriety and acclaim Gaimen got in the USA, you got to get yourself here. Gaiman's done hundreds of bookstore signings and other promos there, his sole talent didn't get him that status, or so it seems. And even if I love Moore's work and can't wait for Jerusalm to turn up in my mailbox next september, I've been to Northampton and wouldn't trade any places I lived in for that city, unless Moore was my friendly neighbour  |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 7, 2016 21:03:36 GMT -5
I suspect Alan would take offence at being described as "mainstream", and certainly at "factory system"... Moore has fallen so far out of the mainstream since America's Best Comics ended that it's not even funny. Even Neil Gaiman is better known by causal comic fans Nah, not true. All those movies that Moore is so mad about and that I haven't seen have raised his profile. He's better known that ever now. (And there are A LOT more casual comics fans now than in the '80s or '90s.) |
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