Alan Moore in general

Alan Moore has been probably the best writer in the field of comics for the last two decades. With the possible exception of Frank Miller, no one else has so helped to dispel the idea that comics are simple entertainments aimed at children. Alan Moore is an enormous man with an enormous beard. He's a practising magician, and some of his more recent work has started to feature magic explicitly as a key plot element. I'm going to just run through Alan Moore's most important stuff here - he's written shed loads of stuff. His trademark is lengthy, dense and challenging work, which he does very well, but he's also extremely adept at comedy when he ...  Read the complete review

If you are reading this, it is probably because you have some idea who Alan Moore is and want to see how he is rated here. or maybe it is because you have been recommended to try him out, either by a review here or from another source. Chances are that, if you are the former, he needs little introduction. But if you happen to fall into the latter category, then let me introduce to you the man himself. Alan Moore has been a driving force in the field of comic writing for 2 decades. Like many British comic writers, his early work was on the weekly '2000 AD' comic, as well as work on the 'Dr Who' fan magazine. Following success on both comic ...  Read the complete review