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I don't really like Moore's work, so I barely read what I referenced the first time around, and I had to do a little digging to find it again.
From Egonlabs, circa October, 2002.
"WizardWorld reports that Alan Moore will let go the reigns of his "America's Best Comics" titles at an unspecified point in the coming 15 months to two years. The series, Moore's re-imagination of classic pulp hero archetypes in a mainstream comics idiom, have represented his primary new comics output for the past several years. After taking a proper vacation, Moore will return to his creative projects, but not, Wizard reports, "the more commercial work he's been doing since entering the field... Rather, he will concentrate on producing more mature-minded and complex work" in comics, prose, music and performance. Wizard further reports: "And all of Moore's future work will be readily available to the comic buying public since they will be published by the likes of Top Shelf, a company Moore heaps praise upon, and other indy publishers." Top Shelf is the American distributor for Eddie Campbell Comics, which publishes "From Hell," and will also be publishing "Voice of the Fire," "Lost Girls," and other Moore projects in the coming year."
According to this interview with Moore, LoEG will be exempt from Moore's departure.
AM: "We’re already starting to think about the third book of the League which will probably [snipped because I'm a bastard]. I can see that with the formula as we have it I could quite easily continue writing stories about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for years, because we’ve got the whole of literature, past, present, and future as this enormous technicolor playground that we can run amok in."
"JN: I know that you made the announcement, a month or two ago, that you were going to be scaling back on your work for ABC and some people were wondering if that meant the third volume of League would be delayed awhile. So you’re thinking–-
AM: Well, the third miniseries will, I’m gonna start work on it as soon as I finish this one. I’m hoping to get it finished by the end of next year, which is when I shall be going into a peculiar kind of semi-retirement. But it’s worth pointing out that of all of the ABC books League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is the only one that me and the artist actually own, so there’s no reason why I can’t continue doing League as and when me and Kevin feel like it, from now into the indeterminate future."
There is speculation that other creative teams will takeover the titles. Also, Promethea will be ending with issue #32. |
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