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Skizz - Alan Moore

 
Description: ISBN 1840234504 / Author: Alan Moore / Genre: Graphic Novels / Comics / When a spacecraft from Tau Ceti crashlands just outside ... more
Skizz - Alan Moore ... Birmingham, its sole occupant - Interpreter Zhcchz - is left alone and incapable of escape, in a world he can't begin to comprehend. Terrified, hungry and disorientated, the alien finally finds warmth in a dark shed...Luckily for the unfortunate alien, he is befriended by a Brummie schoolgirl, Roxy, who stumbles upon him by accident. But Skizz (as Roxy names him) becomes the object of a government search, led by the crazed alien-hunter Van Owen, after the object of a government search, led by the crazed alien-hunter Van Owen, after the wreckage of his ship is found. With Skizz still desperately trying to adjust to Earth, and only Roxy to protect him, will either of them survive, let alone cope with the strangest days of either of their lives?

Newest Review: ... minivan and they still have their pride. If E.T. was largely about the divide between adventurous, loving childhood and ... more

 ... cynical, paranoid adulthood (I actually can't remember, I haven't seen it since I was about four), 'Skizz' replicates this without much embellishment, ageing the main character to fifteen-year-old punk Roxanne and adding an irritatingly stereotypical arch villain in the form of Jan Van Owen, whose presence (and strange German accent) only serve to undermine the serious messages as the captured alien is subjected to testing and forced to reveal its non-existent violent agenda. Upon crashing outside Birmingham at night-time,...more

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Crowned Review Skizz - Alan Moore: E.T. II: Escape From Birmingham! (1431 words)
by - written on 02/12/07 (Very useful, 79 readings)
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Another fondly remembered series from the early bibliography of Alan Moore (at least fondly remembered by people who were born at least a decade earlier than I was, lucky gets), 'Skizz' is one of the major limited series he wrote for London-based sci-fi comic 2000AD before really hitting his stride with more ambitious projects, re-inventing the mature comic format and sodding off to America. This twenty-three part saga, originally published as five-page parts of a weekly serial, was primarily demanded of the writer by the comic's editor to be an unapologetic and shameless cash-in on the popularity still riding from Steven Spielberg's blockbuster 'E.T.', released the ...  Read the complete review

 

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