I’ve always gravitated towards from hell— I think its got a great gothic setting and his most interesting explorations of magic and eternalism. Been slowly going through his work at Awesome comics and just finished Youngblood—honestly quite fun if just to see him do something else.
Favorite Alan Moore Work?
Oliver Lee
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Aaron Reed
It's From Hell for me too. Conspiracy, architecture, time fuckery, and the holistic approach are a winning combination. And of course Eddie Campbell.
Have you read his works in America's Best Comics?
James Ross
Considering how spiteful of the superhero genre and it's fans Moore has been, I find it hypocritical that since Watchmen he has consistently written countless superhero comics at Image in the 90s and at ABC in the 2000s.
Jacob Cox
I really dig on Promethea
Lincoln Gray
I literally just finished reading V for Vendetta for the first time. Guess I get why Zig Forums's always calling him a commie and whatnot now.
>I find it hypocritical that since Watchmen he has consistently written countless superhero comics
Watchmen wasn't written in spite of the superhero genre; it's a deconstruction of it, but it certainly isn't shitting on it.
Hunter Hall
Lincoln Cox
>commie
It is anarchism vs fascism, not communism.
Colton Taylor
It's kind of obscure
William Wright
this was an interesting read, thank you
Noah Cruz
From Hell or either of the first two League books. Black Dossier is pretty great too, though.
Landon Bennett
Violator vs Badock or Spawn and WildC.A.T.S. everything else is rubbish.
Jose Morgan
what is with this prose?
it's a very strange read for sure
James Collins
They made a comic off the TV series? Sounds lame
Brandon Morales
I know, but anything radical left around here is called communism.
Robert Long
Caleb Moore
It's not hypocritical at all. Quite the opposite. "There, that's how you do it"
Henry Diaz
For me? It's Tom Strong. I always thought of From Hell as more of an Eddie Campbell book than an Alan Moore book, somehow.
Jaxon Lewis
One of the first graphic novels I ever bought was a variety of DC stories by Alan Moore.
Most people shy away with a comics that get too wordy but I think he does a great job in suspense or horror stories through lots of narration to really suck you in, like his Swamp Thing run or lots of his thriller/horror DC stuff.
Carson Campbell
>One of the first graphic novels I ever bought was a variety of DC stories by Alan Moore
What "graphic novel" was this? Are you sure it wasn't a bandes dessinee or a gekiga?
Thomas Watson
I've only read Watchmen and i'm looking for some of Moore's more optimistic works, where should i start?
Bentley Garcia
Supreme.
Samuel Turner
Maybe try his Superman stuff.
Even For The Man Who Has Everything and Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow have tragic moments but happy endings.
Oliver Diaz
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Robert James
are you sure it wasn't a
volume rassemblé d'histoires illustrées ????
Justin Thompson
Maybe even sequential art.
Blake Campbell
I was warned off this, but it's arguably his most sustained comic since Promethea.
Wyatt Young
>sustained
What did he mean by this?
Andrew Collins
Seems a good a place as any to say that the From Hell storytime will continue tonight after I got swamped yesterday.
Connor Sullivan
Thanks.
Oliver Nelson
I really love some of the verses he wrote for V for Vendetta.
>there's a policeman with an honest soul
>that has seen whose head is on the pole,
>and he grunts and fills his briar bowl
>with a feeling of unease,
>then he briskly frisks the torn remains
>for a fingerprint, or crimson stains,
>and endeavors to ignore the chains
>that he walks into his knees.
>but the backdrops and the sets give way
>and the cast gets eaten by the play;
>there's a murderer at the matinee,
>there are dead men in the isles.
>and the patrons and the actors too
>are uncertain if the show is through,
>and with sidelong looks await their cue
>but the frozen mask just smiles
>at last the 1998 show!
>the torch-song no one ever sings.
>the curfew chorus line, the comedy divine,
>the bulging eyes of puppets strangled by their strings
Tom Strong
It's pretty damn good, though knowledge of Lovecraft's work is required as he goes kinda obliquely about it and doesn't really explain much.
Julian Cook
Is there a Moore Checklist?
Bentley Butler
Joseph Wilson
Oliver Evans
>knowledge of Lovecraft's work is required
This is true, as well as at least some knowledge of the genre scene Lovecraft was part of and its immediate predecessors (Chambers, Dunsany). It's part of what makes it such a rewarding read.
My one criticism is that Moore doesn't quite deliver with the final issue. I also think it was a mistake to tie it back to Neonomicon, which is a weaker work and doesn't become stronger for being linked to a better one.
Gavin Gonzalez
Thanks
Hudson King
Just read his Star Wars stories last week. Jeez was the old EU packed with some crazy shit
Nathaniel Rivera
Gabriel Moore
but it's all connected. sure, courtyard and neonomicon aren't up there, but providence is technically the third chapter of the whole story, and the last issue is the capstone.
Ayden Barnes
Christian Gonzalez
Jacob Reyes
Alright Moorelads, tell me the absolute truth about League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.