I was recently listening to the League of Nobodies‘ podcast where they were discussing the first volume of Alan Moore and Chris Sprouse’s Tom Strong. I haven’t read all the series yet but listening to them talk reminded me of something from the very first issue. During the podcast, they talk a bit about Tom’s [...]
Tags: Alan Moore, Chris Sprouse, Tom Strong
I want to live in the world created by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 1910. Not because it looks like a paradise or even a nicer place than where I live now but because there’s a strange fictional logic to their world where Ismael from Moby Dick can exist [...]
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Note: There may be spoilers in this review of both the comic and the movie of Watchmen. I’ve tried to keep the events of both stories general and avoid specific spoilers. Remember sleepovers from when you were a kid? Paul, my best friend growing up, and I never went to the same schools so sleepovers [...]
Tags: Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Watchmen, Zach Snyder
That’s my copy of the Watchmen trade paperback, a first printing from 1987. It’s actually one of my prized possessions. Not because it’s in mint condition which it isn’t. Not because it’s autographed by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons because neither man has ever laid eyes on this particular copy of the book. This book [...]
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So yesterday all the talk was about the Watchmen images that Zack Snyder posted online. And there was plenty of discussion about the movies, everything ranging from comparing them to Batman & Robin to these are the coolest things ever. While I do expect Mr Freeze to almost show up somewhere in the background behind [...]
Tags: Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, John Higgins, Watchmen, Zack Snyder