Top 10: The Forty-Niners - Alan Moore

Skizz - Alan Moore

further two series of Skizz for 2000AD in the early nineties, but trade paperbacks seem to focus solely (and thus I assume, wisely) on the original written by Moore, coming in at just over a hundred, nicely thick, black-and-white pages and retailing around the £10 mark, though probably a bit more expensive today. The complete series is presented back-to-back with only the unavoidably tell-tale Next Prog: , title bubble and repeated writing/art credits seeming amiss in this format, and the book is kick-started with a three-page The Making of Skizz from the 2000AD annual that came out that year, a fair substitute for a more recent, original introduction by Moore or ...

Skizz - Alan Moore

further two series of Skizz for 2000AD in the early nineties, but trade paperbacks seem to focus solely (and thus I assume, wisely) on the original written by Moore, coming in at just over a hundred, nicely thick, black-and-white pages and retailing around the £10 mark, though probably a bit more expensive today. The complete series is presented back-to-back with only the unavoidably tell-tale Next Prog: , title bubble and repeated writing/art credits seeming amiss in this format, and the book is kick-started with a three-page The Making of Skizz from the 2000AD annual that came out that year, a fair substitute for a more recent, original introduction by Moore or ...

The Ballad of Halo Jones Book 3 - Alan Moore

Halo Jones was never intended to be the last, but its open ending feels like a satisfying conclusion of the character’s early life that really could go anywhere, though writer Alan Moore has failed to betray his principles and write a sequel for over twenty years (and to be fair and understating, he has been concentrating on a couple of projects in the meantime). 2000AD publishers IPC Media, whose comic hosted the series in its original five-page weekly form, continued to add irritating pressure and unrealistic guidelines for Moore’s increasingly popular story, and to his credit Moore once again reached a compromise that didn’t impede on the quality of the finished ...

The Ballad of Halo Jones Book 3 - Alan Moore

Halo Jones was never intended to be the last, but its open ending feels like a satisfying conclusion of the character’s early life that really could go anywhere, though writer Alan Moore has failed to betray his principles and write a sequel for over twenty years (and to be fair and understating, he has been concentrating on a couple of projects in the meantime). 2000AD publishers IPC Media, whose comic hosted the series in its original five-page weekly form, continued to add irritating pressure and unrealistic guidelines for Moore’s increasingly popular story, and to his credit Moore once again reached a compromise that didn’t impede on the quality of the finished ...

The Ballad of Halo Jones Book 2 - Alan Moore

those who found the first story alienating or dull, and were awaiting Halo’s transformation into Judy Dredd: Space Warrior Whore or something similarly backwards-looking. Fortunately we’re dealing with Alan Moore, a follower of Glycon the hairy snake god glove puppet; a writer who is renowned for sticking to his strong principles even when they fly headlong into the face of public opinion. He admits without shame in his introduction that he was happy to go along with IPC Magazine’s demands of more action and less futuristic newspeak, but only because these could be fit nicely into the story he and artist Ian Gibson had already outlined. Consequently, Book 2 of Halo ...

The Ballad of Halo Jones Book 2 - Alan Moore

those who found the first story alienating or dull, and were awaiting Halo’s transformation into Judy Dredd: Space Warrior Whore or something similarly backwards-looking. Fortunately we’re dealing with Alan Moore, a follower of Glycon the hairy snake god glove puppet; a writer who is renowned for sticking to his strong principles even when they fly headlong into the face of public opinion. He admits without shame in his introduction that he was happy to go along with IPC Magazine’s demands of more action and less futuristic newspeak, but only because these could be fit nicely into the story he and artist Ian Gibson had already outlined. Consequently, Book 2 of Halo ...