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Alan Moore Top 10
by clergyman @ 01/10/2007 - 21:28:27

Looking back at this blog it struck me that it's a bit light on praise for The Greatest Comic Writer in history. I'll be making up for that over the next few posts, and to get things started, here's my hastily compiled Alan Moore Top 10:

1) Watchmen
2) Batman: The Killing Joke
3) League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 1
4) League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 2
5) From Hell
6) Top 10 Books 1 & 2
7) Halo Jones
8) V For Vendetta
9) Terra Obscura Book 1
10) Lost Girls

I won't go into any great detail about my choices right now, except to say that the more glaring ommissions are mostly due to my unfamiliarity with Swamp Thing and Miracle Man. I've read some of both but all of neither and I don't feel able to include them here.

Perhaps inevitably, Top 10 has to feature in a Top 10, and I've lumped both books together because they're fairly clearly the same story. By the same token I've counted both volumes of LXG separately. Okay that's a bit arbitary, but hopefully not in a credibility destroying way.

Arguably my most left field choice is Terra Obscura, which is co-written rather than fully authored by The Special One. Still I really felt it had something going for it, a lightness of touch, a compelling narrative, and in truth Book 2 is probably not far away from the Top 10 itself.

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Danny Graydon [Visitor]

05/10/07 @ 13:55

That's an interesting list, my good man - certainly surprising to see Terra Obscura on there. It's enjoyable enough, but surely Promethea is both technically and thematically stronger, by a long shot? Certainly, of the ABC oeuvre, if you give League honourable exclusion, Promethea is the crowning effort of that line, I think. (LXG is the most enjoyable). The last few issues of Promethea contain some of the most wildly adventurous experiments with comics language that he's ever committed. For me, though, From Hell would have to come firmly at the top of any list relating to The Great One. It's never less than utterly astounding and, to my mind, it's a "true" graphic novel.

I love Watchmen, obviously, but I think my appreciation of it is occassionally dimmed by all the sub-standard imitations that followed it (but you have to remind yourself that wasn't his fault). I have a special soft-spot for The Kiling Joke which will never fade, but even that has been slightly dimmed by the scavenging way that the story has been ham-fistedly appropriated in to mainstream Bat-continuity.

In any case, The Special One's greatness is without end!

clergymanclergyman [Member]
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05/10/07 @ 17:26

Thanks for the feedback, Dan!

Ah yes, Promethea. One day I will give that another go but I do have serious issues with Moore's "I'm a real magician" stuff of which Promethea is a prime example.

deleted user [Visitor]

23/03/08 @ 13:31

Lost girls makes me want to drink tropical juice.

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