Just noticed this oh shi
This week, March 14th, you can pick up a newly packaged hardcover edition of the DC Universe by Alan Moore. Several years back a paperback collection was put out including Moore’s Batman and Superman stories along with much more. Now there’s a new edition which adds over 150 pages worth of content to the collection including Voodoo and Deathblow stories.
I tend to take this latest development as a kind of eager confirmation that they are still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago.
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Alan Moore, who has firmly stated multiple times in the past several years that all comics now are just people being, as he said again here, dependent on the stories he told so long ago. He’s said it about Johns’ Green Lantern run, he’s said it when Marvel wanted to reprint his MiracleMan stuff, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t say it about Snyder’s Swamp Thing series. Alan Moore believes that comics now are all crap, and that the only good comics are ones that he wrote, which is why writers now are “dependent” on his ideas. Read this article for more on that. |
I want to hear Alan Moore whining about this.
Honestly though, it couldn’t have been done a better way than this. It’s not going to tarnish the ending of the book, but instead expand upon origins already seeded. Plus, how awesome are the creative teams? My wallet’s going to be a mad little man this coming summer, I’ll tell you that much.
Look how pretty and complete the Swamp Thing section of my library looks :D
I’ve got all six of Moore’s HC’s as well as the three TPB’s of Veitch’s run, Swamp Thing: Roots by Jon J Muth, the three TPB’s of Swamp Thing series four (by Diggle and Dysart), and then the rest of the issues of series four, except issue #29.
Now all I need is the Roots of Swamp Thing TPB that’s due out at the end of next month, and I’ll have all the collections! Nice!
About a week ago I had five volumes of Swamp Thing.
Now I have eleven. (the extra six are Veitch’s run and Diggle/Dysart, to the right of Moore’s books)
Thank you, internet, for expanding my horizons. And by that I mean allowing my purchase of these books.
I also have one more on the way, and I’m waiting for the final HC of Moore’s run to released. Hells yeah.
Watchmen #6, Fearful Symmetry, is aptly named. The entire issue is symmetrical, so to say that if you look at the first page and the last page, they reflect each other. If you look at the second page and second to last page, you will find the same, and so on with each of the pages until you reach the middle of the issue where the center spread reflects itself.
Beautiful.
Just…perfect.
This is the only comic I want all the separate issues of, as opposed to the TPB.
I have the TPB, the hardcover, and the single issues (not to mention the motion comics in two formats). The singles aren’t as expensive as you’d think. I think they ranged from $8-12 each, but I got them for half off.
Watchmen #6, Fearful Symmetry, is aptly named. The entire issue is symmetrical, so to say that if you look at the first page and the last page, they reflect each other. If you look at the second page and second to last page, you will find the same, and so on with each of the pages until you reach the middle of the issue where the center spread reflects itself.
Swamp Thing isn’t Human
The Saga of the Swamp Thing #21
By 1984, Swamp Thing’s popularity was dwindling. If DC wanted the book to stay relevant then something had to be done. Enter Alan Moore with an idea so bold and so drastic that it literally turned everything we knew about Swamp Thing on its head. And while that phrase gets tossed around a lot lately, he actually delivered on such a promise.
After seemingly killing Swamp Thing with his debut in issue #20, fans wondered just what Alan Moore had planned. Swamp Thing’s strange anatomy is revealed slowly, hardly making any sense, and it’s at that exact moment that Moore drops a bombshell; the creature was never Alec Holland, it merely thought it was. Initially it’s difficult to fathom what this meant for the creature and how it changed everything that came before, and Swamp Thing’s reaction to this revelation is as heart wrenching as it is gruesome.
In the end, the creature could do nothing except return to the swamp and contemplate just what this startling revelation meant. By stripping away the human aspect of the character Moore opened up an entirely new and exciting world of possibilities and adventure, setting the stage for an epic run that still stands as one of the greatest of all time.Now go ahead and read that and tell me you don’t want to read Swamp Thing.
MG, read this and youll want more
Swamp Thing isn’t Human
The Saga of the Swamp Thing #21
By 1984, Swamp Thing’s popularity was dwindling. If DC wanted the book to stay relevant then something had to be done. Enter Alan Moore with an idea so bold and so drastic that it literally turned everything we knew about Swamp Thing on its head. And while that phrase gets tossed around a lot lately, he actually delivered on such a promise.
After seemingly killing Swamp Thing with his debut in issue #20, fans wondered just what Alan Moore had planned. Swamp Thing’s strange anatomy is revealed slowly, hardly making any sense, and it’s at that exact moment that Moore drops a bombshell; the creature was never Alec Holland, it merely thought it was. Initially it’s difficult to fathom what this meant for the creature and how it changed everything that came before, and Swamp Thing’s reaction to this revelation is as heart wrenching as it is gruesome.
In the end, the creature could do nothing except return to the swamp and contemplate just what this startling revelation meant. By stripping away the human aspect of the character Moore opened up an entirely new and exciting world of possibilities and adventure, setting the stage for an epic run that still stands as one of the greatest of all time.
Now go ahead and read that and tell me you don’t want to read Swamp Thing.
Alan Moore Voices His Support Of Bradley Manning
Famous Comic Book Scribe, Alan Moore (V For Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell), recently released a statement in support of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning, the intelligence analyst alleged to have given Wikileaks access to restricted material, including the Iraq & Afghanistan War Logs and U.S. Embassy cables.
Manning has been held in solitary confinement for over a year without a trial.
He can be so supporting of people when they’re outside of his medium of work, but he would never possibly say this about other comic writers. Maybe it shouldn’t, but this makes me even more pissed off at Alan Moore.
He can’t even say anything but horrible words about pretty much the ENTIRE comics industry, and all of the current writers, though he’s admitted to not having read any new comics for quite a while. Thusly, he threatens people who try to, or DO do work on properties he created, or did work on. WHY Alan? WHY must you continue to be comics biggest ass hole?
You know what? Go to Grant Morrison and ask him about Moore. You know what he’ll say? He loves his works, but he doesn’t like him as a person, mostly because of how he’s treated him. You know what Moore would say about Morrison? Likely something about how his works are rubbish and that he wanted to steal Miracle Man from him.
Ask Morrison about starting writing comics and he’ll encourage you, and be a GREAT voice of inspiration. I can only bet that Alan Moore would tell you not to do it, and that your work is horrid.
