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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DC Comics bought the pitch It would have told the future – or, a future, of the DC Universe All the heroes had aged and been replaced by[...]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[...]

Extinction Rebellion has released a video that Alan Moore made for them a little while back to encourage Londoners to take to the streets for upcoming Extinction Rebellion protests Their next planned events are to be on the 1st of September. A transcript follows below: Hello, I'm Alan Moore and I couldn't be prouder than to be[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on Tom King and JorgeFornés upcoming unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, Rorschach. But what can we see in the images revealed so far? And can we start a campaign from this point to get Tom King to give us his take on Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz's Brought To Light? Anyway… Rorschach 1 We have a cover[...]

It's called Rorschach not because of the character Rorschach, but because what you see in these characters tells you more about yourself than about them." Rorschach #1 art. So what does it mean when Rorschach reappears as part of a pair of assassins trying to kill the first candidate to oppose President Robert Redford in decades? Follow[...]

Plus, it would be beautifully ironic if someone continued on with Lindelof's story in much the same manner he continued on with Alan Moore, David Gibbons, and John Higgins' comic book classic So until I hear otherwise, I thought I'd offer up five concepts that might be worth looking at if the series goes the "pseudo-anthology"[...]

Jack B Quick was a character created by Alan Moore and Kevin Nowlan for the Tomorrow Stories ABC anthology series published by DC Comics/Wildstorm in the late nineties The character was a child genus living in small-town USA (literally) with his various inventions and challenges to conventional physics, causing all manner of frustration for his[...]

Tom King likes Watchmen. But then, don't we all? Recently DC Comics has been reviving Watchmen with prequels like Before Watchmen, unauthorised sequels

The cable network screened a marathon of the series on Friday, as well as making Lindelof's pseudo-sequel to Alan Moore, David Gibbons, and John Higgins' comic book classic starring Academy Award winner Regina King available for free on HBO.com and Free On Demand Now, King, Lindelof, director/executive producer Nicole Kassell, and writer/executive story editor Cord Jefferson[...]

Anyone want to beat that? Remember there is still a Greg Hildebrandt Captain America currently at $6420… A page from the unpublished Big Numbers #3 by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz currently at $3000.. donated by Paul Jenkins. And a page from X-Men by Jim Lee, with a promise to match the top bid, currently at $18,000 With[...]

Thankfully, we're able to take a break or our "will he/won't he" obsession over Damon Lindelof possibly returning to the universe of his "remix" pseudo-sequel to Alan Moore, David Gibbons, and John Higgins' comic book classic for a little more appreciation of the original series Currently streaming on HBO Max and set to hit Blu-ray and[...]

I first met filmmaker Damien Sung a few years ago, when he was filming an evening with Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins He's worked with Danny Boyle, Prince [hell, he lived with him], Peter Jackson, Alex Garland and more, and he directed the Unearthing movie based on the work of Moore and Jenkins He is[...]

The one-shots have seen Cerebus rooming in Hell with the Coronavirus as Hell adapts to social distancing. Dave Sim Goes Full Alan Moore Parody For Latest Cerebus In Hell Art from Aardvark-Vanaheim. This new edition attempts to cram in all manner of Alan Moore-related storylines, including Marvelman, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Watchmen and others, while continually focusing[...]

Of late, Marvel's Immortal Hulk has been described as their version of Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, Rick Veitch and John Totleben's Swamp Thing Creating a horror comic with storylines ripped from the headlines and an overall environmental theme, as well as exploring power structures, activist movements, economic theory, a lot of body horror and what[...]

A copy of the rarest pulped League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen #1 is now on eBay, listed by its editor, Scott Dunbier to raise money.

Once again, Alan Moore, who explored this idea in the original Watchmen comic back in 1986, was ahead of the curve all along Lindelof and Garland, who definitely read the comic, have now taken up the challenge of trying to answer the Determinism vs Free Will question By the end, Devs takes the easy way[...]

This would have been the cover to an unpublished issue of Big Numbers by Alan Moore and Sienkiewicz The third issue of the unpublished comic book has been put together, lettered and recreated from photocopies but until now it did not have a cover That state of events may now have been repaired The current bid[...]

A few days ago, IDW Special Projects Editor Scott Dunbier posted the first page of an unpublished Alan Moore story for a long-forgotten Gen-13 Annual He came across the document when sorting papers and has been posting a few others since Including Alan Moore's original proposal for the ABC line, America's Best Comics Published by[...]

Scott Dunbier was the editor of Alan Moore's America's Best Comics line at WildStorm/DC Comics It wasn't the easiest of tasks In recent days, Dunbier has been sharing some of its history on social media Including encouraging people to guess who the three people who turned down drawing Promethea were, before JH Williams III accepted[...]

It includes rare stories written by the likes of Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman as well as the first strips featuring Bryan's dimension-hopping character Luther Arkwright.   Photo by Danacea We'll let James speak for the website and the list of comics on offer. Announcing the Bryan Talbot free comics compilation! "As a little pick-me-up during the coronavirus lockdown, I asked Bryan if[...]

Twilight of the Superheroes was a series proposal for DC Comics by Alan Moore, written around 1985 and 1986 Differences between Moore and DC, principally over the rights to Watchmen and V For Vendetta, saw him withdraw from the project It was never published, though aspects have appeared in a number of series since, most[...]

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, Alan Moore wrote and drew a cartoon strip called Maxwell The Magic Cat for his local newspaper Northants Post under the pseudonym Jill de Ray An inventive, surreal and innovative strip, he had to stop when his career really took off, and a few years later,[...]

When a new mayor is elected in Gotham City, Batman is forced into retirement, replacements: the Metal Men, robots embodying the natures of gold, platinum, mercury, iron, tin, and lead who are impervious to harm, But Gotham's new protectors are forced to call on Batman's help when armed men break into Wayne Enterprises – if[...]

Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins have been making the movie The Show for at least ten years It began life as a burlesque video that Mitch was making but got more elaborate as Alan Moore provided character, backstory, plot and dialogue, then spitting out five short films collectively dubbed Show Pieces, as well as the[...]

Alan Moore called it "a pitch-perfect narrative from two of my favourite creators." Jeff Lemire called it "One of the most charming and wonderful comics being published today." But hardly anyone reads it That is going to change, fast Resident Alien by Tom Strong's Peter Hogan and BoJeffries Saga's Steve Parkhouse is published by Dark Horse[...]

So Cinema Purgatorio by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill is about a woman in purgatory, condemned to visit a very dodgy cinema, which shows movies that are familiar, but are analytical of movie form, culture and history We get the history of the Warner Brothers as if they were the Marz Brothers We see tales[...]

Leila del Duca does good work as well, considering Chris Roberson gives her a story set in a single room. The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, Todd Klein, and Ben Dimagmaliw: Western comics' most decorated writer and one of England's most iconic pencillers complete their decades-in-the-making story Tempest challenges and[...]