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aekaAs some of you may have heard, there have been rumours circulating of DC doing a prequel (sequel?) to Alan Moore's Watchmen series. Whether or not that actually comes to fruition, only time will tell, though to be honest I'm not sure how I feel about DC releasing a prequel/sequel myself since I felt the original series was perfect the way it was.
( Nevertheless, BleedingCool released an image of Silk Spectre II by Amanda Conner, with a different variation to the original costume )
( Nevertheless, BleedingCool released an image of Silk Spectre II by Amanda Conner, with a different variation to the original costume )
'Tis the season and all that
Dec. 17th, 2011 09:45 amcausticladAlan Moore's and Steve Parkhouse's The Bojeffries Saga was sporadically published during the 80s and early 90s. It was more or less The Addams Family meets Coronation Street. Set in Northampton, England, Grandpa was a Cthulhoovian horror, the baby was a lethally radioactive metahuman in the basement, and Uncle Raoul was a werewolf. As for Uncle Festus?
( Well, you can probably guess... )
( Well, you can probably guess... )
What It Takes To Kill The Fury
Dec. 11th, 2011 02:08 pmmrosaAlan Moore and Alan Davis' Captain Britain run from the early '80s is one of my favourite superhero stories. It's a legendary story for the way it was so novel for the time. Not enough have read it, although it's influenced Marvel and the character in many ways. You may have heard of the godlike Mad Jim Jaspers and his reality-warping powers; of how he created an artificial super-being, The Fury, which could evolve and adapt to any superhero's powers; how The Fury killed Captain Britain; how Merlin brought him back to life, improved; how The Fury sweeped the floor with his body several more times; how in the end Jaspers and The Fury had an epic creation-killing-the-creator battle. But in the end, it wasn't Captain Britain who took down The Fury; he almost died again, if it weren't for this:
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My Favourite Moment From Supreme #56
Dec. 11th, 2011 01:39 pmmrosa
Awesome! New Supreme is on the way! Even if Erik Larsen's art is nothing compared to Chris Sprouse and Rick Veitch's, it's still written by Alan Moore! After more than a decade, his run is finally being completed! To celebrate, I'm posting one of my favourite moments from the series.
Supreme and Diana enjoy some quality time at her apartment watching Friends:
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mrosaAlan Moore has been interviewed recently, and he shares his thoughts about Frank Miller's recent anti-OWS rant, and in the process makes another sweeping, damning generalization about the comics industry:
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Warning: thread has spiraled into an awesome discussion "featuring a lot of oppressive terms and slurs." Enter at your own risk.
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Warning: thread has spiraled into an awesome discussion "featuring a lot of oppressive terms and slurs." Enter at your own risk.
Supreme Meets Jack Kirby!
Nov. 30th, 2011 06:53 pmmrosaI know there are many fellow s_d members who loved Alan Moore's Supreme series from the late '90s. You all know how the story ended in a cliffhanger, the publisher going belly up before Moore's last issue came out, wrapping his run. You've probably heard how Erik Larsen is going to finally draw the final Moore-penned script. It's not Chris Sprouse, but it'll do! Frankly, I'm just hoping that's an excuse for new, quality TPBs.
But until that happens, here's a reminder of the last issue published, when Supreme had a chat with Jack freakin' Kirby!
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But until that happens, here's a reminder of the last issue published, when Supreme had a chat with Jack freakin' Kirby!
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Big Numbers #2
Nov. 16th, 2011 03:57 pmmrosaAfter posting artwork from issue #1, I guess I should show something from #2. Reading this this issue, it struck me how sometimes it was actually creepier than From Hell.
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starwolf_oakleyI've said on this board I don't like it when superhero comics (and other forms of pop culture) make it look like mental illness is some sort of moral failing.
Three actual psychiatrists have taken issue (pun intended) with DC Comics and their description of the mentally ill, especially Batman's rogues gallery. It was originally in the New York Times.
Newsarama covered it as well.
More and four pages from THE KILLING JOKE after the cut.
( Comic book villainy and real-life mental disorders )
Three actual psychiatrists have taken issue (pun intended) with DC Comics and their description of the mentally ill, especially Batman's rogues gallery. It was originally in the New York Times.
Newsarama covered it as well.
More and four pages from THE KILLING JOKE after the cut.
( Comic book villainy and real-life mental disorders )
Introducing Splash Brannigan
Nov. 1st, 2011 09:44 pmmrosaIn Tomorrow Stories, Alan Moore and Hilary Barta introduced another pliable superhero, in the awesome tradition of Plastic Man: the pigment of the imagination, the smudge that won't budge, the brilliant Splash Brannigan!
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For Halloween: Alan Moore's Swamp Thing (Not for those of a nervous disposition)
Oct. 29th, 2011 07:36 pmicon_ukAlan Moore's run on Swamp Thing was memorable on many levels. As well as reinventing a rather lackluster take on the titular character and changing the rules of the game completely in "The Anatomy Lesson", he also introduced John Constantine and Swamp Thing's true nature as an embodiment of the plantlife of the world. Constantine would put Swamp Thing through many trials and tests to make him become used to his new existence and the true extent of his powers.
He also did some truly awesome horror stories... This is one that lingers with me, partly because of the hook for the main character, and partly because of the amazing art from Steve Bissette and John Totleben.
Say hello to the nice people Swamp Thing!
"Hi nice people!"
I was never able to take American's referring to "the Boogeyman" seriously. As a kid in the 1970's it was a dance, and how could a monster be named after a fun, if silly-looking, dance? In the UK there is another name for such monsters, a much less pleasant sounding word, so from Swamp Thing 44, I present...
( Bogeymen! )
He also did some truly awesome horror stories... This is one that lingers with me, partly because of the hook for the main character, and partly because of the amazing art from Steve Bissette and John Totleben.
Say hello to the nice people Swamp Thing!
"Hi nice people!"
I was never able to take American's referring to "the Boogeyman" seriously. As a kid in the 1970's it was a dance, and how could a monster be named after a fun, if silly-looking, dance? In the UK there is another name for such monsters, a much less pleasant sounding word, so from Swamp Thing 44, I present...
( Bogeymen! )
Return of a classic.
Sep. 6th, 2011 03:35 pmda_reapBack in 1986, a terrifyingly fearsome beard with a body attached to it wrote a comic. It was a potent comic, a beautiful comic, one that received positive reams of praise.
Oh, and then it wrote Watchmen. But that's not the topic of today.
( Instead, why not pay a visit to Pictopia? )
It may not get talked about near as much as his other works, but it's been argued that 'In Pictopia' is Moore's finest comic. The original prints have been displayed as a museum piece, and while I prefer the recolored version shown here by José Villarrubia, the story stands on its own either way.
EDIT: To conform to community guidelines as clarified by the mods, this story has been cut down to size. And while it's impermissible to link to the full story, I highly recommend checking the Comments section.
Oh, and then it wrote Watchmen. But that's not the topic of today.
( Instead, why not pay a visit to Pictopia? )
It may not get talked about near as much as his other works, but it's been argued that 'In Pictopia' is Moore's finest comic. The original prints have been displayed as a museum piece, and while I prefer the recolored version shown here by José Villarrubia, the story stands on its own either way.
EDIT: To conform to community guidelines as clarified by the mods, this story has been cut down to size. And while it's impermissible to link to the full story, I highly recommend checking the Comments section.
Two-Face Tuesday! A really, really in-depth, thinking-too-much critique of Joker's Asylum: Two-Face
Aug. 2nd, 2011 11:13 amthehefnerI’d put off reviewing Joker's Asylum: Two-Face--by David Hine and Andy Clarke--for almost three years. The story was just that maddeningly frustrating to me, as was the fact that many people love the ending.
Just before its release in 2008, I was cautiously optimistic about JA:TF when I read an interview with Hine (the same one wherein he compared Harvey to the cult novel The Dice Man, a comparison which I've ranted about over at that link), in which he mentioned that the story would involve Harvey meeting Holman Hunt, a man with similar facial scarring, thus creating a sort of “man in the mirror” effect.
Quoth Hine: "Essentially, Two-Face sets out to prove, that given the right circumstances, Holman could be converted to Two-Face’s way of thinking. Namely that the universe is a chaotic place where any values we attempt to impose are transient and ultimately meaningless. Take that, Alan Moore!"
Heh. Okay, so he's pretty much saying that he'd pulling a Killing Joke scenario here. We agree on that, yes? Putting aside the fact that it's kinda been done to death, there already HAS been a story like that with Two-Face. But sadly, that amazing story is completely forgotten, so I can't blame Hine for wanting to tell his own tale. Besides, who’s to say there isn’t more potential for that premise?
After all, many people *did* respond to JA:TF, especially thanks to the ending. Hine had high aspirations there, "hoping that this will turn out to be a good old-fashioned twist-in-the-tail type of story that Uncle Creepy would have been proud of." A fine goal, one with horror-geek cred.
So how did he do? You’ll certainly hear my thoughts, but in the end, you must be the judge. I mean that more literally than you might suspect.
( Harvey meets the man he could have been--or, looked at it another way, the man who could become him--behind the cut )
Postscript: When I first posted this to About_Faces, my Batman fanblog, David Hine opened an LJ account purely to respond to my review. I was surprised, to say the least, and also a bit nervous. Okay, a LOT nervous. But to his considerable credit, Hine was nothing but civil, and many other comics professionals would do well to follow his example when it comes to interacting with fans. Even passionate, opinionated geeks like me. :)
As such, I think it's only fair to give David Hine the last word here: "... perhaps you'd like to take this into account. This is 'Joker's Asylum'. This isn't me telling a comic book story about Harvey Dent. It's The Joker telling a story about Harvey Dent. Read it again from that perspective."
Just before its release in 2008, I was cautiously optimistic about JA:TF when I read an interview with Hine (the same one wherein he compared Harvey to the cult novel The Dice Man, a comparison which I've ranted about over at that link), in which he mentioned that the story would involve Harvey meeting Holman Hunt, a man with similar facial scarring, thus creating a sort of “man in the mirror” effect.
Quoth Hine: "Essentially, Two-Face sets out to prove, that given the right circumstances, Holman could be converted to Two-Face’s way of thinking. Namely that the universe is a chaotic place where any values we attempt to impose are transient and ultimately meaningless. Take that, Alan Moore!"
Heh. Okay, so he's pretty much saying that he'd pulling a Killing Joke scenario here. We agree on that, yes? Putting aside the fact that it's kinda been done to death, there already HAS been a story like that with Two-Face. But sadly, that amazing story is completely forgotten, so I can't blame Hine for wanting to tell his own tale. Besides, who’s to say there isn’t more potential for that premise?
After all, many people *did* respond to JA:TF, especially thanks to the ending. Hine had high aspirations there, "hoping that this will turn out to be a good old-fashioned twist-in-the-tail type of story that Uncle Creepy would have been proud of." A fine goal, one with horror-geek cred.
So how did he do? You’ll certainly hear my thoughts, but in the end, you must be the judge. I mean that more literally than you might suspect.
( Harvey meets the man he could have been--or, looked at it another way, the man who could become him--behind the cut )
Postscript: When I first posted this to About_Faces, my Batman fanblog, David Hine opened an LJ account purely to respond to my review. I was surprised, to say the least, and also a bit nervous. Okay, a LOT nervous. But to his considerable credit, Hine was nothing but civil, and many other comics professionals would do well to follow his example when it comes to interacting with fans. Even passionate, opinionated geeks like me. :)
As such, I think it's only fair to give David Hine the last word here: "... perhaps you'd like to take this into account. This is 'Joker's Asylum'. This isn't me telling a comic book story about Harvey Dent. It's The Joker telling a story about Harvey Dent. Read it again from that perspective."
icon_ukLooking at whitesycamore 's posting of Halo Jones, reminded me that in the earlier post, someone noted we don't have any DR and Quinch on S_D.... and that just plain ain't right!
DR and Quinch are the creations of Alan Moore and Alan Davis back in 1983, and if that combo doesn't at least leave you wanting to see a LITTLE more, then you can check your geek cred at the door methinks. ;)
Our Devastating Duo had many adventures, but this is their introduction to the readership of planet Earth.
They first appeared, not in their own strip, but as one of Alan Moore's legendary contributions to 2000AD's "Time Twisters" series; short, done-in-one stories with the core concept of time travel somewhere within them. Moore's tended to be VERY clever and elegantly convoluted... but, as you will see, not ALL of them.
I should add that, as is nearly always the case in Moore and/or Davis work, cutting it to a 1/3 is a positively painful work. This is approximately 2 pages out of 6, and I hope this might encourage you to seek out the collected works, because I've had to hack great swathes of fun out of it.
So, without further ado.
( D.R. and Quinch have fun on Earth )
whitesycamore 's posting of Halo Jones, reminded me that in the earlier post, someone noted we don't have any DR and Quinch on S_D.... and that just plain ain't right!DR and Quinch are the creations of Alan Moore and Alan Davis back in 1983, and if that combo doesn't at least leave you wanting to see a LITTLE more, then you can check your geek cred at the door methinks. ;)
Our Devastating Duo had many adventures, but this is their introduction to the readership of planet Earth.
They first appeared, not in their own strip, but as one of Alan Moore's legendary contributions to 2000AD's "Time Twisters" series; short, done-in-one stories with the core concept of time travel somewhere within them. Moore's tended to be VERY clever and elegantly convoluted... but, as you will see, not ALL of them.
I should add that, as is nearly always the case in Moore and/or Davis work, cutting it to a 1/3 is a positively painful work. This is approximately 2 pages out of 6, and I hope this might encourage you to seek out the collected works, because I've had to hack great swathes of fun out of it.
So, without further ado.
( D.R. and Quinch have fun on Earth )
Halo Jones part 2: aboard the Clara Pandy
May. 10th, 2011 08:10 pmwhitesycamoreUnlike part 1, there's not much of a plot here, just a few pages that set the mood for the second (and my favourite) part of the book.
( Nine pages from the Ballad of Halo Jones TPB under the cut )
( Nine pages from the Ballad of Halo Jones TPB under the cut )
The Lurker Within
Mar. 25th, 2011 03:22 amarbre_rieur
The fourth and final issue of Alan Moore's NEONOMICON's finally out. And hey, this one's actually safe for work.
( Four pages from issue 4 and one from issue 1... )
