Category Archives: Alan Moore

Alan Moore Supreme is back!!!

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I know, I’m a week late. But Rob Liefeld has brought back the conclusion of the Alan Moore Supreme storyline. When we last left our writer, he had finished through issue 56 of Supreme. Then the next 6 issues were released as a mini-series: Supreme: The Return. The story wasn’t finished due to Liefeld’s publishing company having a bunch of financial issues.

Well, Liefeld finally got himself together long enough to publish the final Alan Moore Supreme in issue #63 (56+6 issue mini series took us to #62). It’s drawn (rather well) by Erik Larson (instead of Liefeld which is a relief) and Larson will take over the writing as well on issue #64. I don’t think I’m going to continue reading it. But for one brief issue, we got to see Alan Moore doing superheroes again. Liefeld has mentioned that he has some one-off Alan Moore scripts that he plans on releasing as well. So we do have that to look forward to.

Before Watchmen, A Really Bad Idea

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So, DC is going ahead and publishing a series of prequels to Watchmen. This is a bad idea on a number of levels.

First of all, the series has all the back story and information about all the characters. There really isn’t any back story to be told.What more do we need to learn about any of the characters that wasn’t already there in the original story?

Second of all, only one of the creators is involved. Dave Gibbons has given his blessing, but Alan Moore is laughing at it all. Without both of the amazing creators, then I doubt it could be anywhere near as good.

Speaking by telephone from his home in Northampton, England, Mr. Moore said, “I tend to take this latest development as a kind of eager confirmation that they are still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago.”

Third of all, it makes no sense. There was already a movie. It didn’t do enough business to justify a sequel. There have been Watchmen merchandise out for the last 25 years. Does DC think they can make more merchandise sales off a prequel? It’s not going to appeal to little kids, so the merchandising opportunities are limited. They aren’t talking about ongoing series, so there really doesn’t seem to be any long term plan here.

Overall, this looks like DC grasping at straws to find something that will connect to people without any understanding of why Watchmen was special. There’s a huge gap between using Watchmen as an influence for a new series and trying to trade on Watchmen’s popularity to try and sell comics. DC has crossed the line and no one is surprised.

Bill Sienkiewicz speaks on Big Numbers

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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.

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Graphic Novels you must own: Watchmen

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Watchmen is arguably the most important comic book series ever published. There are a (small) number of other books that are (arguably) better, but Watchmen is the one that made the non comic book world stand up and take notice. Other books would not have gotten the notice they did if Watchmen hadn’t made people look. And in a industry where books a month old are forgotten and pretty much worthless, Watchmen has been a best seller for 25 years. Buy why should you own it?

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From Hell by Alan Moore

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From Hell is Alan Moore’s take on Jack the Ripper. Jack is one of the great literary challenges because everyone has their own take on it. There are dozens (if not hundreds) of books, both fiction and non-fiction, about the murders and everyone has their own theory. As Moore details in the epilogue, he doesn’t care about who the murderer is, he just wants to use the murders as a backdrop for the story he wants to tell. So, he co-opted the theory from Stephen Knight about a royal conspiracy with a Freemason solution to the murders. So, what makes it so great?

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Alan Moore writing a movie and TV series???

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According to Bleeding Cool, Alan Moore wrote a movie script for a friend (as documented in Dodgem Logic #2). When that news came out apparently a British film company, Warp Films, became interested in the project.

As soon as word got out that Moore was writing something for film, people quickly got interested. Jenkins and Moore were approached by Warp Films (producers of Shane Meadows’ This is England and Chris Morris’ Four Lions), who offered to fund a feature version of the film.

These discussions grew to accommodate the idea of spinning off a TV series from the film, in the manner of This is England ’86. Moore said that initially he’d been dubious about how the story could be extended in this way but had now figured out a longer ongoing narrative.

Laconically, he described the premise. The story concerns a Northampton writer and occultist who is trying to take over the dreamtime of everyone in the Boroughs, before extending his influence over the country and then the world. Amidst chuckles from the crowd, Moore insisted that the series would expose his megalomaniacal tendencies once and for all!

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of this project is the intention to create a really immersive fictional world. Apparently there’s a young animator producing work that will feature on TVs in the background of scenes, and there’ll be a soap opera that the characters follow called (rather wonderfully) Wittgenstein Avenue. Also, Moore’s story involves an online game which British software developers may wish to develop!

Miracle(Marvel)man by Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and a cast of thousands

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Miracleman (also known on the England side of the world as Marvelman) started as a Captain Marvel replacement and ended up as a legal hot potato that involved bankruptcy, confusion over copyright ownership, lawsuits, two different comic book companies buying the rights from two different copyright holders, delays, confusion and still no end in sight. And it’s a sad story because not only are the Alan Moore stories now out of print, but the Neil Gaiman stories have never finished their storyline. But who or what is Miracle(Marvel)man?

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DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore

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DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore is a compendium of Alan Moore stories that he did as one-offs (or 2 or 3 offs) with various characters in the DC Comics Universe. Some of these stories have been reprinted in other books and some are only collected here. There are a mishmash or full comic length stories and smaller backup length stories. Not all of them are great, but for an Alan Moore fanboy, this is a must have.

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Skizz by Alan Moore

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Before coming to work in the US market, Alan Moore did a bunch of work in the UK market including Skizz. The book is eerily similar to E.T. because Moore’s editor asked him for his version of E.T. when they were discussing Skizz. But, while E.T. is more comedic, Skizz is more dramatic, with an older cast of characters rescuing the alien visitor.

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