Alan Moore Thread. Get it ALL out.

[The Toyroom]

^ Moore wrote a Vigilante story?

[toywizzard71]

Thanks alot.

[palitoy]

^^ 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.

I dig it in the same way I like "The Omega Man", it's an entertaining movie but I don't find it reflects the source material. I love the original comic but I doubt a straight up adaptation would have faired well.

Personally I love Moore's hero work, especially when he's just having fun with the characters, he injects some wonderful things to a story. I got Top 10 for Christmas last year, what a fun read.

As a person, I kind of view Moore as a fairly sensitive guy who has a lot of his enthusiasm dampered by what he considers poor treatment, sometimes I feel he's right, other times not so much but that's what makes him tick. If you read interviews with him 20 years ago, he's a different man, now he's a lot more bitter sadly. This probably will see him becoming less and less commercial.

[TrueDave]

The Superman story was too distrubing . Toy man having dead bodies pop out of a Jack in the box/

The Swamp Thing team up with Superman was great. About the red kryptonian disease ? Really good work. Cant remember the name of DC Comics team up title.

Did they HAVE to use the creepy picture of Alan Moore on the cover of the collected works?
His stories scare me plenty enough !

His Werewolf story that talked about menstration and womens treatment in Swamp thing was great. Also the only time I remember him actually coming into the leters page and responding to a lot of bad readers letters.

Oh and the Phantom Stranger story. I read that issue of Secret orgins ?? He wrote the one where the phantom Stranger ends up being the wandering Jew of biblical reference. ( I think)

[samurainoir]

Oh and the Phantom Stranger story. I read that issue of Secret orgins ?? He wrote the one where the phantom Stranger ends up being the wandering Jew of biblical reference. ( I think)

Moore wrote the one where the angel couldn't decided which side he was on during the original war in Heaven and was rejected by both sides. The interesting part is where we get to meet Etrigan before the fall, although this doesn't quite jibe with the later accounts which have Etrigan born of demon parents.

It fits nicely into the Phantom Strangers role in the big supernatural rumble at the climax of The American Gothic saga in Moore's Swamp Thing.

[samurainoir]

^ Moore wrote a Vigilante story?

They were a "special issue" about child abuse.

[bgrimm77]

I've alway's been a fan of his writing style and do believe that he is mad. I personally believe that he simply couldnt be bothered with Hollywood and cant stand to see his work butchered. Although I loved V , Watchmen , and From Hell. I imagine him brooding in a castle smoking opium and drinking absinthe , slowly plotting his quest for global domination.

[samurainoir]

I imagine him brooding in a castle smoking opium and drinking absinthe , slowly plotting his quest for global domination.

According to first hand accounts by both Neil Gaiman and Warren Ellis when I've seen them at live speaking engagements, it's actually a cave he's dug out in his backyard and his work is fueled by marijuana as his vice of choice (and you can often see that quality in his work).

I had the pleasure of having dinner with an artistic collaborator of Moore's a couple of years back. He had actually made the trip overseas to meet Moore face-to-face, and he had some interesting insight into Moore's reclusiveness. I don't think I'm speaking out of turn, because I believe Moore has gone on record with the fact that he's partially deaf. You can imagine how larger social gatherings can be uncomfortable for him, which is why he prefers one on one interaction.

[Brazoo]

"From Hell" would easily be my nomination for best graphic novel of all time. The movie was horrible though.

[Meule]

"From Hell" would easily be my nomination for best graphic novel of all time. The movie was horrible though.

I loved both the book as the movie

[Brazoo]

I guess the movie and book are so different I can see how someone would like both. I was a big fan of the book and was more than a little disappointed that all the stuff I was interested in was left out of the film.

I don't think Moore is as crazy as people might think he is. Initially he was not against making some money from film adaptations of his work. His falling out with DC and Hollywood was based on financial and legal matters.

Here's a cool interview and article:

Alan Moore Still Knows the Score! | Books | EW.com
Lying In The Gutters: 5.23.2005 - Comic Book Resources

[johnnystorm]

I like From Hell & LOEG. As far as his comic work, the final Superman story he did was classic, and the Annual with the flower that controls your mind (given his opinion on movie adaptions of his work, wonder how he felt about the JLU cartoon adaption of that story).
Swamp Thing was actually not to my taste, I guess I preferred the original stories. It made the character less tragic in my opinion, knowing he was an elemental not a man. Just my opinion. And of course, because of the Moore version, we've effectivly lost the Swamp Thing as a DCU character. DC is only interested now in Vertigo type use of the character - which is not I believe what Moore intended, judging from his use of DC characters like Batman & the Demon etc. in his run. I would really like to see Swampy back in the DCU, showing up in Brave & Bold (both the book & the cartoon). But I digress...
Some of Moore's recent stuff is kinda out there...the last couple LOEG books were not much to my liking, and were too heavily involved with obscure literary characters. For my mind, the league works best if the characters are more 'famous' ones. Sometimes too much detail is too much, you know?

I did enjoy Tom Strong very much though. I'd welcome more of that, I would!

[kingdom warrior]

I always thought he gave great interviews....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX7ehbE1vc0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKebC...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtDph...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS5Sv...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucba9NtF3cE&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXSk-...eature=related


These Last Three Interviews from a radio Show Chain reaction. Kinda Blows the idea that he's some brooding nut job....he's actually a riot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2kD...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1WDv...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wgin...feature=relate

[samurainoir]

And of course, because of the Moore version, we've effectivly lost the Swamp Thing as a DCU character.

You never know. Doom Patrol, Phantom Stranger, Doctor Occult, Wesley Dodd and Animal Man have all returned to the DCU. I believe the trade-off for Animal Man was that Vertigo got Dead Man (at least in title).

I really don't think there is much more that Vertigo could have down with Swamp Thing after Mark Millar's run. I really enjoyed Brian Vaughn's Swamp Thing focusing on Swampie's daughter Tefe, but I guess it was too far ahead of the curve given the fact that he gave Yorick a similar journey in Y the Last Man.

The last Swamp Thing series just didn't have anyplace to go and instead they devolved the character. Three issues of great Corben art aside, it's really difficult to top what Moore, Vietch, Morrison and Millar did on their run.

I had heard rumours that JMS really wanted to do Swamp Thing in his Brave and Bold. Maybe he's got the juice to make it happen?

[bgrimm77]

After my initial post on this thread I went into my vault and picked out a copy of Swamp Thing #53 , Oct.86 . The story is great , it's when Alec turns Gotham City into a jungle and has to deal with a very P.O.'d Batman....It has everything that was mentioned earlier , an appearance by Batman , use of Marijuana and other illicit substances , and an overall AWESOME story with great artwork. Check your archives everyone and if you have it.....re-read it