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Konnie Huq, Rufus Hound, Al Murray, and Janet Ellis are just some of the celebrity voices behind Future Shocks Radio – a brand new series of audio adaptations of classic 2000 AD stories! Future Shocks Radio logo The first episode went live on the app on Monday 14 December and is a Christmas-themed adaptation of 'One Christmas During Eternity' (from 2000[...]

The blood-spattered smiley button from the 2009 adaptation of Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons The actual button used in the movie, worn by The Comedian, and picked up by Rorschach and appearing prominently in all marketing for the film This should be going for big bucks at Comic Connect as the auction comes to[...]

And Scott Dunbier was the point man for publishing Alan Moore's ABC line of comic books, including Top Ten, Tomorrow Stories, Tom Strong, Promethea and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Then Scott Dunbier was fired over the breakdown regarding the publication of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier. But he still has some stuff from[...]

This could make collector's lives even more confusing. Hachette Launches DC Comics Collections With Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore DC HEROES AND VILLAINS COLLECTION VOLUME 1 – BATMAN: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CAPED CRUSADER? HC (W) Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore (A) Andy Kubert, Simon Bisley, Mark Buckingham From the fertile imaginations of Neil Gaiman (Sandman) and Alan Moore (Watchmen) come[...]

Even though he never actually put it into print… he gets a Thanks credit on the show. He did got an interview on Marvel.com a few days ago, where they only used illustrative pages written by Alan Moore We'll get to that. Once upon a time, in 1981, Dave Thorpe was writing original Captain Britain comic strips[...]

Yesterday was Alan Moore's birthday Today is the final day that one of his final comic books, Providence, will be available on Kickstarter, including its signed editions, with 6 hours to go Providence Compendium, the complete collection of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' Providence, a reinventing and encapsulating of the stories of HP Lovecraft for[...]

From Pokémon GO, X-Men and Transformers to Alan Moore's birthday – The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Daily LITG: Pokémon GO, X-Men and Transformers – The ten most-read stories yesterday… LITG: X-Men art by[...]

From Pokémon GO, X-Men and Transformers to Alan Moore's birthday – The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Daily LITG: Pokémon GO, X-Men and Transformers – The ten most-read stories yesterday… What you were reading[...]

Avatar Press owns Bleeding Cool, and as they launched a Kickstarter to publish the single collection of Alan Moore's Providence, I was asked to review Providence now that time has passed since its initial publication since so few reviews were ever published I didn't need an excuse to read it again, but it's always fun[...]

After the events of the New 52, with 52 alternate universes, the DC universe was Earth-Prime, and the differences between realities was all down to what was happening on Earth, despite each reality containing an entire universe. It took a Brit, Alan Moore, to declare that the Marvel UK universe he was writing in, was Earth[...]

In the Chris Claremont series X-Men: Die By The Sword, he gets Jim Jaspers to create a bevy of Furies and, yes, that's a point, maybe it's time to re-read that series given its title. Mad Jim Jaspers was a character created by Dave Thorpe and Alan Davis for the Captain Britain comic in Marvel UK series Marvel Superheroes. The character[...]

Bleeding Cool told you yesterday that Batman: The Three Jokers #3 by Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok worked as a direct sequel to Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland Here's where it breaks down most visibly Big spoilers going in, you have been warned. Batman: The Three Jokers. So Batgirl gets her own[...]

In that original comic, written by Alan Moore, the story of a failing stand-up comedian who gets used as a gangster patsy, The Red Hood, taken down by Batman, and suffering the death of his family, sending him insane, this was seen as coming from an unreliable narrator The Killing Joke was an origin but[...]

Providence Compendium, the complete collection of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' Providence, a reinventing and encapsulating of the stories of HP Lovecraft for a modern – and post-modern generation, has hit Kickstarter, for publication in March/April 2021 Published by Avatar Press, who also publish Bleeding Cool, includes a level for signed volumes which, unless you[...]

That's the mystery to be unraveled in the comic. In the original Watchmen series, Rorschach was Alan Moore's commentary on Ditko's Mr A character, taking the absolutist black-white moral stance of the character to its logical conclusion It was Moore's opinion that such a character would likely be psychotic, deeply alienated, dangerously violent, and smelled bad[...]

The Providence Compendium collection, collecting Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' 12-issue HP Lovecraft epic was meant to have been published this year, but has now been rescheduled for February/March 2021 But are taking orders now. Alan Moore's Complete Providence Compendium – Order Now Avatar Press, who also publish Bleeding Cool, have confirmed details of what they call[...]

Which means a comic book creator from yesteryear is the new Rorschach. Rorschach #2 art by Jorge Fornes. As for Pontius Pirate, his comic book creation, in other promotional artwork, we have seen that is being made into a movie. Rorschach #1 art by Jorge Fornes. DC Comics and Alan Moore fell out pretty spectacularly over DC's decision to[...]

The graphic novel in question is one of the most respected and beloved examples of the medium: From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell IDW Publishing's Top Shelf has joined with Campbell for this new version of the classic, fully restored and with color added, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the book with From Hell: Master[...]

Alan Moore has conducted an interview with Tom Grater at Deadline, to promote the screening of his long-awaited new movie, The Show, screening at the Sitges International Film Festival this week – and meant to be online now, though I confess, I can't actually find out how to access it Any help? As ever, Alan[...]

Here's a first-look trailer for the movie The Show, written by and co-starring Alan Moore, directed by Mitch Jenkins and starring Tom Burke, Siobhan Hewlett, Ellie Bamber, Darrell D'Silva, Richard Dillane, Christopher Fairbank, and Sheila Atim It will premiere next week in the Official Selection for the 53rd Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de[...]

Even though Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins are premiering their long-awaited movie The Show at Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia. I'd be fine with providing the Spanish Ministry of Health with mandatory contact information and any history of exposure to COVID-19 48 hours prior to travel, taking a temperature check and undergoing a visual[...]

Which means a comic book creator from yesteryear is the new Rorschach. Rorschach art by Jorge Fornes. As for Pontius Pirate, his comic book creation, in other promotional artwork, we have seen that is being made into a movie. Rorschach art by Jorge Fornes. DC Comics and Alan Moore fell out pretty spectacularly over DC's decision to not hand[...]

All eighteen issues of the Alan Moore/Kevin O'Neill curated comic book anthology with a cover price of $40 As well as the title comic by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, completely told in the series, the others including supernatural paramedical drama Code Pru, by Garth Ennis and Raulo Cacares, the Mad Max-meets-Pokemon of Modded by Kieron Gillen and Ignacio Caleres, Kaiju-procedural The Vast by Christos[...]

Cinema Purgatorio was a comic book anthology curated by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, featuring five ongoing features, published by Bleeding Cool's own publisher, Avatar Press Cinema Purgatorio ran for eighteen issues, finishing each story, None of the series have been collected, and certain individual issues can go for a pretty penny But going to[...]

The collectible must have no evidence of any manufacturing or handling defects."  In the scheme of things, the CGC 10.0 designation is rarely seen even on modern comics.  For example, the CGC Census for the 2018 DC Comics release for Action Comics #1000 shows that of 671 copies evaluated as of this writing, none have[...]

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Once upon a time, in 1987, Alan Moore was to write the big post-Crisis event story for DC Comics It was called Twilight of the Superheroes and DC Comics bought the pitch It would have told the future – or, a future, of the DC Universe All the heroes had aged and been replaced by[...]

Ballard's 1964 story "Time of Passage", which clinically and calmly describes a man's life backward, from the moment he's dug up and taken out of his coffin to his growing younger and getting unmarried to his wife to his de-aging all the way to being an infant being taken to the hospital by his parents[...]

In the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, Doomsday Clock by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, Rorschach returned - but not the original, who had been killed in

He lasted a year, before he was replaced by Alan Moore who amped up the weird – but Thorpe did create a number of concepts on the Captain Britain comics which were then taken up by Alan Moore Mad Jim Jaspers, Saturnyne, The Crazy Gang, the Jaspers Warp – and the idea that the Earth[...]