Alan Moore!

Anyone buy the latest Nemo spin-off? Looks like this one is all the German expressionist film characters like Caligari, Metropolis, Mabuse, etc. I love that stuff, but after the mediocre Cthulhu one I'd really only be getting it for O'Neill's take on those creations. Maybe I'll grab it on sale sometime.

It's $3.99 on Comixology if you read digital

Slightly baffling local hissy fit!

http://www.northampton-news-hp.co.uk/News/Northampton-News/Alan-Moore-tells-Northamptonshire-County-Council-I-will-never-trust-you-again-20140424083019.htm

heart is in the right place but he's being a little naive here

Why is this a 'hissy fit'? Think he's perfectly entitled to withdraw his services (presumably given for free) if he thinks the powers-that-be are acting like dicks.

man, tom strong is so so great. so fun and inventive and light in the best possible way. it should get more respect.

(this is unrelated to the news item above)

it totally rules! i wandered away when Moore stopped writing them though

ya i never read that far

Yeah for the first two books Tom Strong is p much my ideal of a super/pure fun/smart comic. Top 10 is up there, too. And Promethea ws great for his esoteric side, esp the final vols tying up the wandering plod it'd become, ie. basically the boring "erotic" stuff he's focused on since kinda sucks

I discovered the existence/amazingness of the ABC stuff (incl League of Gentlemen, which I bought/loved first of all) cos it ws all fairly new/ongoing just as i got back into comics in my late 20s, so it still seems weird to me his work ws so recently a+ and now such a chore

i love top 10 too. and league is one of my favourites (at least the first two TPs). he just is an unapproachable god of comixdom when he's at his best. i don't think anyone compares.

what i love about tom strong is that it's really really smart, "compressed" in the classic ILC sense, but done with such a light touch, never feels at all heavy-handed or serious, and that may be my favourite combo of qualities in art

agree that the initial spate of ABC stuff is all great (I am also fond of a bunch of stuff in the Tomorrow Stories, Jack B. Quick etc.). It is refreshing how simple and straightforward Tom Tomorrow is, there's really not a ton of dialogue or exposition, everything is very compact.

http://electricomics.net/

Electricomics will be a 32-page showcase with four very different original titles:

Big Nemo – set in the 1930s, Alan Moore revisits Winsor McCay’s most popular hero

Cabaret Amygdala – modernist horror from writer Peter Hogan (Terra Obscura)

Red Horse – on the anniversary of the beginning of World War One, Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Boys) and Danish artist Peter Snejbjerg (World War X) take us back to the trenches

Sway – a slick new time travel science fiction story from Leah Moore and John Reppion (Sherlock Holmes – The Liverpool Demon, 2000 AD)

hate ennis but the rest sound at least intriguing

More playing with other people's toys. Oh joy.

With no artist attached. To three out of four titles. This is... not a good way to launch?

More playing with other people's toys. Oh joy.

haha yeah I thought this too. Is the character of Little Nemo public domain yet?

xp the "big nemo" thing especially feels particularly well minded in moore's work already... and how do you improve on Veitch's take quite frankly?

nemo's been public domain for a long time:
https://archive.org/details/LittleNemo1905-1914ByWinsorMccay

u+k link there btw as that contains hi-res scans of ten years of the strip for free download

whoah! I have some of the big Fantagraphics reprints just love 'em - wish I could read them to my daughter but I'm a little hesitant to explain the Imp.

those nemo reprints were among the first written words i ever read (which led to me saying "oh!" a lot in kindergarten). it took me until high school to realize that flip or the imp were human at all. all the "jungle imp" stuff felt like an imaginary race of nonhumans, which of course they were... the imp doesn't code as 'black' to me in the slightest... it was ebony from the spirit that left me genuinely confused. You're the parent but I don't know that you need to unpack the historicity of everything in a comic strip for a kid up front, just be prepared to have the conversation.

haha yeah the Spirit is another one I've avoided cuz of Ebony, who, obviously as a talking character codes way more obviously as black. The Imp is a greyer area until you sit him next to other images of blackface etc.

OBVIOUSLY

moore can play with other peoples' toys all he wants if it turns out as good as the original leagues

does he still have the right to get mad at other people for playing with his toys tho

But it's been 15 years since the original League, and it's been downhill ever since.

does he still have the right to get mad at other people for playing with his toys tho

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dont care

how are the miracleman reprints?

i've been reading my old copies and the art is great but the colouring is dreadful. often out of register, sometimes entire panels are just a single colour.

http://miraclemen.info/2013/12/10/recoloring-comparison/

I'm against colourising and computer re-lettering, but the Marvel reprints are hideous rip-offs on almost every level, being something like $5 for 16 pages

i got the first collection from the library. the color is decent but it's years since i read the originals so i have no comparison. i didn't see anything wrong with that aspect if the book. the lettering was also redone (by computer) and doesn't always look so good though it remains consistant throughout (iirc there may have been multiple letters originally?). ultimately i would not be happy paying money for this because the production/design of the book is ugly and padded out with not-very-interesting original art scans and sketches. maybe i'm spoiled by the quality of fantagraphics/d&q books - the only marvels i normally ever bother with are essentials reprints - but for an archival project of such a prestigious series this is very poor to my eyes.

yeah, the original lettering varied in quality a lot. i heard they're gonna do a complete collection in oversized hardcover later anyway?

xp multiple *letterers* originally.

I'd say overall everything in this book - art/lettering/coloring - varied really widely over Moore's run, ranging from the horribly shitty to the stunningly awesome. Really it's only the latter Bissette/Totleben stuff that looked really great in the original print run. Not bothering with any reprints, still have my old issues, which are fine.

it was totleben alone on that stuff.

ah right

the lettering in the old versions is kinda patchy, not least where they scratch out marvelman and squeeze miracleman in it's place.

so is everybody SUPEREXCITED about even more Lovecraft nonsense? no? yeah me neither.

referring to: http://www.avatarpress.com/2015/02/alan-moores-providence-revealed/

Really it's only the latter Bissette/Totleben stuff that looked really great in the original print run.

Wrong: the Leach looked great and the Davis looked v good in the original print run; both of them looked kinda shitty in the Eclipse versions

sorry I wasn't clear, I was referring to the Eclipse versions (I don't have any issues of Warrior, my brother took those)

Eh, I'll give Providence a try.

Only read the first issue of Neonomicon and it kind of freaked me out, so I guess as horror it was kind of working.

It certainly had an effectively oppressive atmosphere, still not sure I'd call it 'good'.

his most carefully considered work in decades

Invoking a comparison it to a prior literary masterpiece is not something to be handled lightly, but in scope, importance and execution: Providence is the Watchmen of horror.

Moore has designed every cover, every single page, and every nuance of this work to create his most fully-realized vision to date.

kinda feel like they're setting me up for disappointment here tbh

After having to suffer through the horribly indulgent, needlessly long and graphic rape scene in Neonomicon, I don't think I want to read any Moore/Burrows collaboration ever again.