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A WAL where the idea is watch along with other people the same program at the same time and make witty remarks. Also âthatâs so coolâ is an accepted response.
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Whoâs art on that? Looks very cool.
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Not my number 1 recommendation, but check the links at the top of the thread for a two issue Vigilante story by Moore. Nice solid story.
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Travis Charest.
I sold my copy of that book years ago, butâŚI have a bead on where I can get a new copy and for cheap.
I hope that one day his run gets the digital treatment. It was easily the best WildC.A.T.S run ever (no offense to Grant Morrison and Jim Leeâs one-issue run).
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Will do thanks cap. Sorry, your icon & background made that sentence come out. lol.
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I saw it opening day & I only include that b/c itâs my #1 DC live action movie ever. So everything thatâs came b4 or since hasnât topped it for me? The shows amazing too!!!
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Super easy question for me.
The thing I like best about League is that it contains potentially every single character Iâve read and loved in other books. I am actually shocked at how many popped up that I knew. It isnât the first team-up of characters from literature, but I feel it is the best and definitely the most thorough. Itâs so thorough so it requires commentaries to make sure you get all of the obscure references, yet the story is so good that you donât need to dig that deep unless you want to (and yes, I want to).
Volume II is my favorite because of the Martian issue with John Carter. So cool.
@scoop001 I am excited for you getting to read this for the first time. I really hope you love it as much as I do.
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As to best
(Besides the above)
I just reread
Promethea 1
That is a great comic
With a stunning setup
All in one issue
And
In a non linear narrative
First Alexandria Egypt
With the name drop of
Hypathia
Her death was horrific
And considerably toned
Down in the movie
Hard to watch
Then
In the present
But not our present
An alternate world
As Moore gives us clues
That this is so
With a college student
Trying to do
A paper on
Promethea
Whose names
Keeps appearing
Through the centuries
An ideal point of view
Character
For exposition
I remember
Reading the series
And I think it went
Well for many issues
Tom Strong was good too
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Held well for two volumes
Until Moore
Decided in
Subsequent volumes
That
Storytelling
And narrative
Were not to be
The main features
Of this series
The trailer
For From Hell
Says
That Jack the Ripper
Created the 20th century.
Today
Mass violence
Can occur
In a movie theater
A super market
A primary school
Anywhere
Jack
Killed a small number of ladies of the night
No other types
The public
Was never in danger
Yet some
Say
It almost brought
Down both
Royalty and the government
Why?
Mass media was possible with
Invention of the telegram
Papers competed for sensational stories
People were uprooted
From their land
By the
Industrial Revolution
And thrown into the city
Socialism was at its height.
The Police seemed useless
The Prince of Wales
The next king
Was scandalous
But if you try
To read the phone book
I donât think
He really shows us that time
I tried to reread it and failed.
As for
V for Vandetta
Evie stays with V
After being tortured by him?
No way
There were too many characters
Often I didnât know who they were
The Leader?
How did he become so?
It is not shown.
The scary thing
About Thatcher
Was that she was effective
None of the forces
Allied against V
Seemed to be that.
The Valerie sequence is
Quite effective though
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Iâm on 18 for Promethea. It is a very dialogue or narrative dense book. And the language is not always straightforward or the topic simply explained, so they take time to read. About the last three issues I read were just beautiful. Thatâs the word I have to use. This is partly based on where I am and what Iâve experienced so maybe it wonât hit the next reader the same way.
Also, the books look amazing.
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Alan Moore favorites roughly in order
Watchmen
Superman Annual #11 âFor the Man Who Has Everythingâ
Superman #423/ Action Comics #583 âWhatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrowâ
Top 10 (including Smax and the 49ers GN)
Tom Strong (including Terrific Tales and Tesla Strong)
Supreme
Jack B Quick (Iâm splitting up the Tomorrow Stories features)
1963
Promethea
Green Lantern #188 âMogo Doesnât Socializeâ
Killing Joke
DC Comics Presents #85 âThe Jungle Lineâ
Batman Annual #11 âMortal Clayâ
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (books 1 and 2 only, I havenât read the rest)
Greyshirt
Star Wars UK Weekly
Secret Origins #10 âPhantom Stranger: Footstepsâ
Spawn #8
Cobweb
First American
Terra Obscura
Green Arrow feature in Detective Comics #549-550 âNight Olympicsâ
Splash Brannigan
not read
V For Vendetta
Swamp Thing
From Hell
anything else not listed above
If my research is right, my last Alan Moore comic was Tom Strong #36 in 2006
the story title⌠âAt the End of the Worldâ
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The movie is on peacock, think Iâll watch it sometime next week.
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My recommendation is Top 10, available here on DCUI. The work and people of one police station in a world populated by superheroes. I know others have successfully done the world with powers, and have done cops in a world with powers before and since, but no one has done it better. Love the humor, character work, criminal investigations and art work. And, you can spend hours scouring the backgrounds for easter eggs beyond counting. My favorite appearance is a Charlie Brown Doctor Doom child.
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a great story set in the past with all the great literature characters, that I read about as a youth, perhaps not as exciting for those under 30, as they probably read or consumed different media formats. Just like, I always enjoyed Tarzan, John Carter and Conan adaptions.
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My favorites are the ultramice and the rubbernecking gag.
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We need an ultramice series. The result of the subplot is so meta-comics cool/funny.
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As the moderator at the table, I believe it is incumbent upon me to note that the Roundtable has determined a Watchmen Babies and an Ultramice series are essential projects.
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I just read the first cycle of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen on Comixology. I liked it a lot.
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You have no idea the disappointment I had when I realized it wasnât any of these Top 10 books.
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