Just spent a few nights reading through the six issues of Alan Moore's 1963 series that came out of Image a few years back, and I just want to know did they ever produce the "eighty page" annual featuring the Image characters and those Affable Al had created (Mystery Inc, The Fury, etc).
Anyone heard about this, or better still seen one and knows where I can get my grubby little mits on it?
Sadly, it fell apart, like most of Alan Moore's work in the early 90's. I know that it was blamed on the Image mess at the time, but how many of his "Big Projects" died before he started ABC?
If I didn't know better I'd say he just lost interest in a lot of things and went where he could get Rob Liefeld's money.
Good to see you back, adam. Earlier, I described yr name as the most annoying on the board (but, perhaps I should have clarified, only if you read it as "Adam's wish"). Don't hate me. Annoying in a good, "puppyrunce", kinda way.
There was some Shadowhawk (gah) issue at a later time that had 1963 characters in it, though. I remember being happily surprised to see those characters revisited, although it obviously wasn't that exciting.
And didn’t the 1963 characters pop up in Valentino’s semi-autobiographical ‘A Touch of Silver’ when he wanted to refer to comic characters he loved as a kid and wasn’t allowed to use DC characters ?
Although they might have been characters from Big Bang comics. Hmm. I’m probably not helping, I’ll go ‘way.
Shame, really. I love that series and really miss those characters, especially Johnny Beyond, who embodies the coolness of Dr Strange so well. And the Hypernaut is amazing... I keep finding them in quarter bins and urging my friends to pick them up. The art is sooooo cool too!
As I understand it, Moore's capstone (the Special) was basically: classic Lee-Kirby Silver Age Values vs Modern Image, compare and contrast. And, lo and behold, he concluded that the Image lineup were a bunch of self-obsessed meatheads with axes to grind and nary a scrap of heroism. At the last minute someone let the "Image 7" read a copy of the script and then Rob Liefeld's lawyer suggested that really they shouldn't really pay to publish a book where the (then) God Of All Comics shit on them from such a great height.
Lots of people claim that DKR and Watchmen gave us all those grim'n'gritty comics boobs of the early '90's. Personally, I love 1963 but I'm not sure it isn't outweighed by the highly egregious wave of valium-fuelled wasn't-the-Silver-Age-really-really-nice comics which choked all life out of the mid '90's.
