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I've yet to contribute, and this is because of the terrible emptiness in my life that is my non-ownership of 'V for Vendetta', which is what I always say as 'best Moore', but am incapable of affirming if that remains true today.
So, the other favourites, and then I might get to booting a Pete Milligan ish in this series.
Over the last decade, and I've not read any of the Arcade, is it? - the Liefeld stuff apart from Judgment Day is it? The trial of the Youngblood guy entwined through a whole cloth comics and universe history composed on the spin. That was alright, pretty impressive. Anyway, over that timespan, I think Top Ten's actually the tightest and best high-concept... well, there's all that magic gear, Birth Caul, Disease of Language, which is probably cleverer but it does go on, doesn't it? Anyway, it's not as enjoyable as Homicide: Life on the Street (best TV ever, if you need reminding) crossed with a superhero universe confined to a single city. Numerous subplots, quality revolving cast, tightly bound - apart from that Rumour plot which was probably done in the spin-off by the other guy, but fuck that anyway. There's some deeply impressive singles in Promethea, the last issue and the tarot one in particular, but the whole Qaballah thing was awful dry and didactic, and some of the dialogue was awful clumsy. 'Haha, yes, that's just like...[unifying concept of this particular sphere]'
Prior to ABC and Wildstorm/Image work, I really loved the sci-fi soap of Halo Jones, all that fighting in heavy gravity, desolate planetary outposts guff. Don't have that either. I don't particularly rate Moore as a short writer, that said, really unimpressed with Tomorrow Stories apart from the Kyle Baker Splash Brannigan remix of Pictopia (also very good) in the ABC 64-pg Giant, and the only other I particularly rate is the absolutely incredible Abin Sur Green Lantern one with the terrifying Kev O'Neill art. Thank god I never read that as a child; I can kinda see why the comics code initially banned it outright. Qu'll of the Five Inversions. Brr.
A lot of the latter Swamp Thing stuff I really rate, love the whole cross-cosmos journey really, but particularly 'My Blue Heaven' #fifty-something, which is quite possibly the most emotionally affecting superhero-type comic ever written. I loved Captain Britain, too, which seems to have invented about five new tropes for superhero comics but I'm slightly leery of the recommendation having recently checked those Excaliburs that I said were good in the Ellis thread, only to discover that they are at least 50% shite. |
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