Alan Moore Thread. Get it ALL out.

[TrueDave]

I was talking movies to a new friend and was surprised at how often we came back to Alan Moore films. My friend doesnt know anything about comics so I thought about trying to explain Alan Moore.

I got into him with Swamp Thing. I liked him and Horor at the time because in Horror ANYTHING can happen. Actually just about everything he has done freaked me out. Even that old Green Arrow story that was a back up in Batman.


Lets face it , good comic writers are hard to come by.

Is the guy insane or what?

I cant seem to remember Moore doing any Marvel.

Anyway , what are YOUR Alan Moore stories? Opinions? News? Facts?

[Meule]

Let's see, I love Swamp Thing, Batman: The Killing Joke, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V for Vendetta.

[thunderbolt]

Watchmen, V, Killing Joke, Whatever happened to the Man of Tommorow?, and League all great stuff, but I don't really get his goofiness when it comes to movie versions.

[The Toyroom]

Was a big Moore mark back in the day (Watchmen, Swamp Thing, The Killing Joke, V for Vendetta....his Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? is a classic Superman story)...but I think his bitterness has got in the way of his talent. And lately he comes off as quite the aloof ****** in interviews, especially those concerning films based on his works....

[The Bat]

I hates every one of the Movie adaptations of his Comics. But liked I "The Watchmen" & V for Vendetta.

[samurainoir]

Moore is an incredibly principled and complicated guy. Regarding his Marvel work, early on in his career, he had a run in when Marvel threatened to squash him legally over Marvelman (which is why he showed up as Miracleman in North America).

The irony of this is, BOTH of the Marvelman creative team back then, Alans Moore and Davis were working on Captain Britain for Marvel UK at the same time!


Alan Moore at that point decided not to work for Marvel any more, with the exception of the script he donated to the Marvel Ethiopian famine relief project, where he was paired with Richard Corben on the Magneto chapter.

Although I have to admit that I am a bit confused why he was on the Marvel one, and not the similar DC Comic dedicated to the Ethiopian Famine relief, since he was working almost exclusively for DC during that period.

[thunderbolt]

I hates every one of the Movie adaptations of Comics. But liked "The Watchmen" & V for Vendetta.

all comic adaptations?

[samurainoir]

Of Moore's recent work, I have a real soft spot for Jack B Quick, particularly since I really love Moore's hugely underrated humour work (DR and Quinch, Bojeffries Saga).


Still marvelling at the complexity of Promethea.

JH Williams brought his "A" game illustrating it. It's "The Wealthy Barber" for the concept of Magic as Moore understands it, by way of a Wonder Woman archetype.

As much as I like Powers, Moore really runs rings around it when it comes to seemlessly melding the Superhero to the Police Procedural genre.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I liked his old 2000AD stuff (hee hee.... DR and Quinch....) but his superhero stuff always kinda seems like, well; superhero stuff. It's okay, but nothing special. Especially his independant superhero stuff, much of which feels like thinly veiled takes on big name characters.

Don C.

[kingdom warrior]

I've always been a fan of his work. I've always seen him as a real writer who just happened to work in comics. I honestly think he just doesn't give a hoot for how Corporations run DC and Marvel and The whole Hollywood movie machine.....
I mean he wrote and visualized those stories in his head why would he really care about the Hollywood adaptations which rarely even comes close to what he did. Watchmen was the closest to a near perfect adaptation.

I've come across so many people who like his adapted movies and I tell them all the time buy the Graphic novels they're so much better than the movies

My Favs: Swamp Thing,Watchmen,V for vendetta,Killing Joke,From Hell,Marvelman,Shadowplay:The Secret team, The Leaugue of ExtraOrdinary Gentlemen,
Lost Girls,Tomorrow Stories and Tom Strong.

[toywizzard71]

Hey guys got a quick question,which issue of Batman had the Green Arrow backup story by Alan Moore in it?

[Surfsup]

Hey guys got a quick question,which issue of Batman had the Green Arrow backup story by Alan Moore in it?

Detective Comics 549-550. I'm a big fan of Alan Moore; Promethea is a work of genius! Not to mention the League, Vendetta, Tom Strong and of course, Watchmen.

I can see why he distances himself from the movies, as all they have done is butcher his work. With the exception of Watchmen (if you forget about the ending), all the adaptations have been pretty poor. I still can't believe what they did with the League...somebody should have been shot for that.

[thunderbolt]

^^ League is ok if you take it as a bmovie, you'd only get mad if you were expecting a full adaptaion of Moore's work. V for Vendetta was a better adaptation than Watchmen.

[The Bat]

all comic adaptations?

I meant to say adaptations of HIS Comics. Also...in my post I forgot to say "I" liked V & Watchmen.

[samurainoir]

Hey guys got a quick question,which issue of Batman had the Green Arrow backup story by Alan Moore in it?

There is a collected edition of Alan Moore's various DCU work that contains that story.


Worth picking up. It's got lots of little gems inside. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, one of the all time best Superman stories. Moore's possible Phantom Stranger origin (which pretty much lines up with his portrayal in Moore's Swamp Thing as well as Gaiman's stuff). The Abin Sur story that Blackest Night launched out of.