Promethea: Book 3 - Alan Moore

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 - Alan M ...

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 is the first part of the third volume of Alan Moore s classic comic series about a team of period superheroes drawn from literary fiction who work for the British Government. This is the first of three issues (of eighty or so pages) that will make up the complete arc of volume 3, with each issue to be set in a different time period. Part two is due in 2010 with the final part in 2011. The great twist in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series is that fictional characters from books are real and exist here together in the same universe . The League has previously included the likes of the Invisible Man and Mr ...

Watchmen - Alan Moore

Watchmen is one of those titles that everyone who reads comics should own. Written by Alan Moore it explores an alternative world where heroes and one superhero exist. This isn't your standard superhero stuff though as Moore creates an incredibly realistic world. Following the story we see the affect of the heroes on society and on each other. The heroes here have genuine problems and motivations and are not infalliable. The most powerful of all has in essentially transcended normal humanity and persues his activities with a detached disinterest. The artwork by Dave Gibbons is clean and simple and personally I like his style. Of particular note is the structuring ...

Watchmen - Alan Moore

Quis cutodiet ipsos custodies or who watches the watchmen is the phrase you will find at the end of the book and it is very apt considering the subject. This is what I count as one of the classic graphic novels written about our world, but with superheroes. These, in the majority, aren’t your Superman or Spiderman type they are very like Batman, just ordinary people with a few special gadgets. The story itself is set a few years after an act of congress made there vigilante activities illegal and brought the majority of them into retirement. In page one a murder is committed and this is the catalyst for the rest of the story, who did it and why. One of the things that sets this ...