Category Archives: Alan Moore

Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore

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Voice of the Fire is Alan Moore’s first prose novel. It’s probably his second published prose story (after A Hypothetical Lizard (published in volume 3 of Liavak collections and republished in 1988 The Year’s Best Fantasy).  Voice of the Fire was originally published in the UK in 1996, but didn’t get a US version until 2004. It’s a more of a collection of 12 short stories, than a true novel, with each story set in Moore’s hometown of North Hampton, England and set in a different era from 4000 BC to 1995 CE.

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Swamp Thing Part 2: The Alan Moore Years

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In 1984, Alan Moore took over Saga of the Swamp Thing from Marty Pasko. Moore had made a name for himself in England with his work on 2000AD and Warrior (where he had two ongoing series: Marvelmanand V for Vendetta). The book was headed for cancellation with low sales and DC saw no harm in letting Moore try a revamp of the character. What DC didn’t anticipate was the ramifications that Moore would have on DC and the whole US comic industry.
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Swamp Thing Part 1: Dark Genesis

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The character of Swamp Thing has always been a personal favorite of mine. I saw the first movie, enjoyed the several of the comic book series and might even have seen a few episodes of the TV show. So today is the first of a 3 part look at Swamp Thing and his many incarnations. Today we’ll look at the beginnings of the character through the end of the Martin Pasko run on the comic books, a stretch which includes the Wes Craven movie.

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An Imaginary Review

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Today’s review is of a book (actually a comic book mini-series) that never existed, only a proposal was ever created. And the comic book company is doing their best to make sure no one knows it ever existed (except for the Wikipedia page and the sites they haven’t been able to shut down yet). If you ask why, there are suspicions that later mini-series might have copied some of the concepts, but those creators deny knowing about it. So why is the company trying to assert copyright on a proposal? No one knows, but at the end of the day it’s irrelevant why, but we can look and see what if not why.

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Superman Week: Book #2

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Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow by Alan Moore (author of Watchmenand V for Vendetta) marks the end of an era (literally in this case). DC Comics had decided to reboot Superman and hired John Byrne to helm it. But they decided that the Silver Age Superman needed a sendoff and brought on wunderkind Alan Moore to script it and Curt Swan (the definitive Silver Age Superman artist) to illustrate it. What they did was so amazing, that it almost overshadowed the reboot.

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