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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[...]

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[...]