Comments on: Insane or genius? The Mindscape of Alan Moore.

By: Jeremy Couturier

Jeremy Couturier — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:18:15 +0000

I LOVED the Born Again series, just amazing and his 80s work is stellar but after Sin City he seems to be coasting. Really I wouldn’t criticize him if I weren’t such a fan. That being said my affection for Will Eisner and the Spirit run deep. Miller grew up idolizing Eisner and is greatly influenced by the man. The movie could have been so much more. Now the general public views the Spirit as some shallow Sin City knockoff.

By: Bryan White

Bryan White — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:59:54 +0000

I’ve had this argument with people about Frank Miller, but I really like his books. The Daredevil run is so great. It’s not quite Dark Knight Returns but you could see that he was trying to move Daredevil in that direction to make him a darker more serious character. Great stuff. I also LOVE Sin City. But I don’t know what happened to Miller. At some point he started embracing mediocrity and hasn’t kicked out anything good in a really long time. His flirtations with film have been disastrous, though.

By: Jeremy Couturier

Jeremy Couturier — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:30:48 +0000

I really admire Moore and his seemingly Grumpy Old Man attitude. His work overall really outshines Miller, who with the Spirit movie, shows the lack of depth in his writing skills AGAIN! This is the reason why Moore is against people filming his works. I mean if the source material is so great why change it. I hope Moore never changes, although the Watchmen movie looks great. If Dave Gibbons was impressed thats a good sign to me.

By: jsc4president

jsc4president — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:11:53 +0000

wish you lived in NYC so i could take a look at (your copy of) Kill Your Boyfriend. lol I have been looking for that comic for the past 6 months and have opted not to take the easy route and buy it via ebay.

I never really understood the value of Morrison’s Doom Patrol… i had the first few issues of his first story line.. Crawling from the Wreckage and it did not capture my attention. I will look at the Invisibles. I often confuse the Invisibles and the Filth.

Meanwhile…. there is a website where they analyze ever single panel of Watchmen,…. page by page… book by book. All i can say is that Moore and Gibbons were absolutely brilliant with the detail of each issue. Of course, i am anti-Watchmen movie… so i dont discuss Watchmen like i used to.

Overall… i think DC Vertigo has produced some of the finest comics in our lifetime. I am 32 years old and would assume you are a similiar age.

By: Bryan White

Bryan White — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:38:49 +0000

If I had to put a finger on my favorite Alan Moore, it’s definitely V For Vendetta. I totally love it. But his Swamp Thing run constitutes what I consider to be the perfect comic book. That heaven and hell arc that introduces John Constantine nearly brought a tear to my eye in the end.

Also, I’ve been meaning for years to read Morrison’s run on Animal Man but I never remember to pick them up when I’m in a comic store. Of what I have read of his, I can’t see how anything can top The Invisibles. He also did a one-shot called Kill Your Boyfriend that I think is the shit. The copy I have is so beaten up from being read by everyone I know.

By: jsc4president

jsc4president — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:30:09 +0000

awesome man. I had no idea there was an Alan Moore doc. His best work was Swamp Thing IMO… And Grant Morrisons is/was animal man… just an fyi

By: NekroDave

NekroDave — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:53:38 +0000

Cool, I had not heard of this. I’ll have to check it out.

Just yesterday, I placed my order for the preview of his new horror book, “Alan Moore’s Neonomicon Hornbook”. The preview should be out in January and the regular in fall 2009.

By: thebonebreaker

thebonebreaker — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:16:53 +0000

I am going to go add to this to my Netflix Queue, right now!

Thanks for sharing!