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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2017 20:10:04 GMT -5
His Tom Strong stuff is surprisingly good and I'm already hooked on it and thinking about talking my friends of what direction that I go from it. Any suggestions members? Definitely Top 10 and his Supreme issues. Both were cut short, but what he did was worth the read. All the ABC stuff is good. I only couldn't get into Peomethea. and I thought Promethea was head and shoulders above everything else he did for the ABC line, so to each his own. -M |
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Post by kirby101 on Nov 19, 2017 20:33:13 GMT -5
Definitely Top 10 and his Supreme issues. Both were cut short, but what he did was worth the read. All the ABC stuff is good. I only couldn't get into Peomethea. and I thought Promethea was head and shoulders above everything else he did for the ABC line, so to each his own. -M Promethea was well liked. I just couldn't get into it for some reason. |
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Post by berkley on Nov 19, 2017 21:25:24 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought Promethea was the only one of his ABC concepts that I'd rank up there with his very best work - From Hell, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, etc. There were other excellent ABC series - series that would rank with the best of pretty much any other writer you could name - but Moore is something else.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 19, 2017 21:36:20 GMT -5
I've yet to check out Promethea, but I plan to before too long. Has anyone read the Birth Caul? A friend of mine reckons it's really good and a very underrated Alan Moore work.
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Post by Warmonger on Nov 19, 2017 21:59:02 GMT -5
I’ve said multiple times that I consider his Swamp Thing run to be the single greatest thing to ever emerge from the superhero medium.
And then there are works like Watchmen and From Hell that go without saying...but Miracleman might be only 2nd to Swamp Thing for me.
Also just recently read the trade of Neonomicon, to include some of his more recent work. Disturbing as hell with Lovecraftian love notes littered all over the place.
Guy is a damn master
Don’t know if we’ll ever see the likes of him again.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2017 22:44:44 GMT -5
His Tom Strong stuff is surprisingly good and I'm already hooked on it and thinking about talking my friends of what direction that I go from it. Any suggestions members? Definitely Top 10 and his Supreme issues. Both were cut short, but what he did was worth the read. All the ABC stuff is good. I only couldn't get into Peomethea. I was emailing a friend and he suggested that I go after Supreme and the ABC stuff too. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2017 23:01:54 GMT -5
Definitely Top 10 and his Supreme issues. Both were cut short, but what he did was worth the read. All the ABC stuff is good. I only couldn't get into Peomethea. I was emailing a friend and he suggested that I go after Supreme and the ABC stuff too. @mechagodzilla here are my reviews on Moore's first 12 part arc on Supreme Review of Alan Moore's Supreme |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2017 23:07:20 GMT -5
I was emailing a friend and he suggested that I go after Supreme and the ABC stuff too. @mechagodzilla here are my reviews on Moore's first 12 part arc on Supreme Review of Alan Moore's SupremeHe has those issues and he's going to give it to me (on loan) after Thanksgiving and he's going to give me a rundown of the characters too. Thanks for sharing that link. Appreciate it very much! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2017 23:10:41 GMT -5
I've yet to check out Promethea, but I plan to before too long. Has anyone read the Birth Caul? A friend of mine reckons it's really good and a very underrated Alan Moore work. I read it when it came out but haven't revisited it since. It is another adaptation by Eddie Campbell of a spoken word performance by Moore, part of the same series as Snakes & Ladders. I remember preferring Snakes & Ladders over Birth Caul, but not why, but it's been 20 or so years since I encountered them. -M |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 20, 2017 9:34:12 GMT -5
I've never really been a fan of the types of stories he wants to tell. But it is undeniable what he has done for the comic book industry. While I don't particularly care for the defines an "adult comics" he certainly did great things and was able to bring comics to whole lot of people who before wrote comics off as kid's stuff.
If anything I were to say of his I liked it'd be Swamp Thing.
At least, unlike Miller, in bringing "adult comics" to the industry he didn't ruin Batman for several generations. :mad:
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 20, 2017 10:38:31 GMT -5
At least, unlike Miller, in bringing "adult comics" to the industry he didn't ruin Batman for several generations. :mad: Don't blame Miller for that. Blame the writers and editors who decided that was the only way to do Batman and the buyers who lapped it up. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 20, 2017 11:23:47 GMT -5
At least, unlike Miller, in bringing "adult comics" to the industry he didn't ruin Batman for several generations. :mad: Don't blame Miller for that. Blame the writers and editors who decided that was the only way to do Batman and the buyers who lapped it up. That's fair enough. But why you guys want Batman this way? Why?  |
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Post by String on Nov 20, 2017 19:47:14 GMT -5
Forget Watchmen or DC stuff, for me Alan Moore means one thing... Doctor Who! Mainly his DWM back-up strips that were every bit as good as the main strips. ( Black Legacy and Star Death being my favourites.) I thought his Captain Britain stuff was fairly good too. Back then the quality of his writing was top notch and he was always destined for better things. So plenty of love for one of my childhood heroes... Happy Birthday Alan! After finally reading it, his Captain Britain work has quickly become one of my favorites by him. Although I have yet to read any of his Doctor Who comics. Has it been collected/reprinted in any fashion? His Writing for Comics is a thin book, not really what you might expect from a writer of his reputation or talent on that subject. But man, he just nails the absolute essentials within that text, a great book. I haven't read everything by him but what I have read never fails to be thought-provoking, moving and entertaining, one of the all-time best ever. Many Happy Returns indeed! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 20:57:49 GMT -5
Warmonger ... He mentioned Swamp Thing, I totally forgot about it and that's work is amazing and he's nailed the character of Swamp Thing - Spot On.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Nov 21, 2017 12:46:48 GMT -5
His Writing for Comics is a thin book, not really what you might expect from a writer of his reputation or talent on that subject. But man, he just nails the absolute essentials within that text, a great book.
To be fair, it was originally a series or articles written in the mid-80s for a British fanzine. It was never intended as a definative tome on the subject.
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