Alan Moore, Author , illus. by Joe Bennett, Rick Veitch and Alex Ross. Checker $26.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-9710249-5-3
No one understands superheroes better than Moore. This collection won him the 1997 Eisner Award for Best Writer, and shows he can still find fresh things to say about the nature of comic book superheroes. Supreme
began life as an exceptionally...
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Alan Moore, Author and various. DC Comics $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0927-8
While Moore was evolving the superhero story with his work on Swamp Thing
and Watchmen
in the '80s he was also taking smaller freelance assignments for DC Comics. The works in DC's newly assembled collection of these stories (all...
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Alan Moore, Author, Gene Ha, Illustrator, Zander Cannon, Illustrator . DC Comics/America's Best Comics $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-56389-966-9
Continuing his exploration of superhero comics, Moore speculates on what would happen if an expansion in the number of people who are able to develop their desires into super powers led to the creation of Neopolis. His world is populated by...
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Alan Moore, Author, Gene Ha, Illustrator, Art Lyon, Illustrator . DC/America's Best Comics $24.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-56389-757-3
Retro-futuristic art meets postwar expansionism and superhero psychology in this tour-de-force graphic novel. It's a prequel to the often hilarious Top 10
series, which followed the cases of the police force in Neopolis, a city populated...
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Alan Moore, Author, Melinda Gebbie, Illustrator . Top Shelf $75 (264p) ISBN 978-1-891830-74-7
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Neil Gaiman
Almost 10 years before his The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
took many of the figures of Victorian popular fiction on a remarkable romp, Alan Moore, in collaboration with underground artist Melinda Gebbie,...
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Alan Moore, Author, Alan Moore, Author, Chris Sprouse, Illustrator and others. Checker $24.95 (258p) ISBN 978-0-9710249-6-0
Following last year's Supreme: The Story of the Year, here are the remaining stories in Moore's provocative reinvention of Rob Liefeld's mediocre superhero. The story doesn't feel as complete as the earlier saga, since Liefeld's...
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Alan Moore, Author, Chris Sprouse, Other, Karl Story, Other . DC Comics $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-56389-880-8
Tom Strong returns as the interplanetary, interdimensional "science-hero." Created by acclaimed comics writer Moore (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
; From Hell
), Tom follows in the tradition of the sci-fi pulp hero, with elements of...
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Alan Moore, Author, Kevin O'Neill, Author, Kevin O'Neill, Illustrator . DC Comics/America's Best Comics $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0117-3
Moore continues his trip through pulp genres with this second volume of The League
. This collection includes plenty of faux-Victorian backup material, including the comic book series' original covers, and a lengthy prose short story by Moore....
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Alan Moore, Author, Kevin O'Neill, Illustrator DC Comics $24.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-56389-665-1
Acclaimed comics author Moore (Watchmen) has combined his love of 19th-century adventure literature with an imaginative mastery of its 20th-century corollary, the superhero comic book. This delightful work features a grand collection of signature...
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Alan Moore, Author, Bill Sienkiewicz, Author, Bill Sienkiewicz, Illustrator Eclipse Books $8.94 (31p) ISBN 978-0-913035-67-2
In this long-awaited documentary comic book, Brabner, co-author of the comic book Real War Stories , and political illustrator Tom Yeates have produced a straightforward and competently illustrated journalistic account of the CIA's pivotal attempt...
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Rick Veitch, Author, Alan Moore, Author, S. R. Bissette, Author . King Hell $16.95 (86p) ISBN 978-0-9624864-9-4
Veitch has led one of the more idiosyncratic careers in comics in the past 30 years. Both small publisher and mainstream writer (most recently of the brilliant war comic, Army at Love
), Veitch's obsessions and anxieties manifest themselves in...
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Alan Moore, Author, Kevin O'Neill, Author . DC/America's Best Comics $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0306-1
After several delays, the latest installment of Moore's pastiche of public domain literary figures is finally here and it's worth the wait. In 1958, two mysterious figures steal the Black Dossier, a compendium of information and articles...
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Alan Moore, Author, Kevin O'Neill, Illustrator . Top Shelf $7.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-60309-000-1
Sometimes less is more. Although only 80 pages long, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910
is a spectacular return to form for Moore's critically acclaimed adventure series about a turn of the century superteam made up of characters...
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Alan Moore. Liveright, $35 (1280p) ISBN 978-1-63149-134-4
Reviewed by Heidi MacDonald
In this staggeringly imaginative second novel, Moore (Watchmen) bundles all his ruminations about space, time, life, and death into an immense interconnected narrative that spans all human existence within the streets of...
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Edited by Matt Pizzolo. Black Mask (blackmaskstudio.com), $15.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-62875-007-2
The cover of this anthology refers to the collection as a “time capsule.” It’s a pretty apt description. This book preserves three star-studded floppies released at the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement; publishing these is a worthy exercise
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Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill. Top Shelf/Knockabout, $14.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-60309-274-6
The latest tale from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen—Moore and O’Neill’s pastiche of public domain literary heroes and their own spin-offs—will not disappoint fans. The story picks up in 1925, a decade and a half after Captain Nemo’s death,...
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Alan Moore. Bloomsbury, $30 (464p) ISBN 978-1-63557-880-5
Legendary graphic novelist Moore (Watchmen) further burnishes his reputation in his first prose collection, which features nine career-spanning tales. The stand-out short novel, “What We Can Know About Thunderman,” is a scathing take on the American
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Alan Moore. Bloomsbury, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-63557-884-3
Bestseller Moore (Illuminations) brings the rich detail and intricate plotting familiar to his fans to the first epic fantasy in his Long London series, set in 1949 and premised on the notion that “there might be a higher world concealed behind our...
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