As many of you remember, Alan Moore broke from mainstream comics in the late 80s after getting fed up with the mainstream comic industry for quite a number of reasons. Having started his own publishing company (Mad Love), Moore decided his next book would be his best ever and started on Big Numbers. The story was going to be the effect of an American shopping center on a small English town. Of course, it would be much more complicated than that (this being Alan Moore after all). And away we went.

Two issues came out and they were amazing. Bill Sienkiewicz’s art was amazing and we could see the story starting to unfold in front of us. Then stories came out that Bill Sienkiewicz had left and his assistant Al Columbia had taken over. Then came the rumors that Al Columbia had gone crazy and destroyed his own Big Numbers artwork. Finally Moore announced that Big Numbers was canceled.

There has been much talk and even more speculation about what happened to Big Numbers, but we had never heard from Bill Sienkiewicz before. Now a blogger has talked to Bill and gotten his permission to post Bill’s side of the story. As a bonus, the same blogger had posted 40 pages of the unpublished Big Numbers #3 a year ago and has provided a link to it. So, go enjoy the background, read unpublished issue #3 and join the rest of us is wondering what if it could have been finished.