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In Bloom said:
Definately. Plus it'd save us from Vin Diesel as Rorsharch, or whatever abysmal casting decisions are bound to be made.
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I did see somthing about the casting a while back, I'm pretty sure they have a pretty boy for Rorsharch.
 
I'm a huge fan of his Promethea series although I don't have much of a clue about's what's going on towards the end when it gets really esoteric :eek: :cool:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cmoIAAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:Alan+inauthor:Moore

Mr jb knew what he was doing when we started going out and was trying to get me to get over my disdain for comics (other than Misty) - gave me Watchmen then V for Vendetta to start on, then straight into Sandman and then into the Vertigo stable

I would love to meet Alan Moore but suspect I'd be a gibbering idiot if I ever did - my sister used to live near Northampton and I have wandered around the streets hoping to bump into him a couple of times :oops:
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
I did see somthing about the casting a while back, I'm pretty sure they have a pretty boy for Rorsharch.
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IMDB has a cast.


No idea if it is accurate and I have no idea who any of these people are.


WHich I suppose is a good thing - rumours were abound that Keanu Reeves had been offered Manhattan and Jude *ptchew* Law Ozymandius
 
Swarfega said:


IMDB has a cast.


No idea if it is accurate and I have no idea who any of these people are.


WHich I suppose is a good thing - rumours were abound that Keanu Reeves had been offered Manhattan and Jude *ptchew* Law Ozymandius
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Its a film that shouldn't have any 'stars' as such. It would deflect too much away from the story.

Maybe the odd Willam H Macey type at a push.

I hope Night owl is cast well. I bet they do a pretty boy for him too.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Its a film that shouldn't have any 'stars' as such. It would deflect too much away from the story.

Maybe the odd Willam H Macey type at a push.

I hope Night owl is cast well. I bet they do a pretty boy for him too.
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*nods in agreement*
 
Paulie Tandoori said:
Do you know what happened to the Big Number story that he started, printed 2 issues and not much more?
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From here...

http://www.ninthart.com/display.php?article=711

1990 - Moore forms his own publishing company, Mad Love, and begins publication of BIG NUMBERS. Drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz, BIG NUMBERS - an ostensibly simple story about an American company's plans to build a modern shopping centre in the middle of a declining English industrial town, with parallels based in fractal mathematics - is the most complex work Moore has attempted to date. Rumour has it that notes for the 12-issue series include a wall-sized chart outlining the arc and connections of all forty characters, and the excruciatingly detailed scripts run to absurd lengths.

BIG NUMBERS #1 sells 65,000 copies, but soon after #2 is released - and for reasons that no-one has ever been able to agree on - Bill Sienkiewicz quits. His replacement, Al Columbia, produces nothing publishable. Mad Love effectively bankrupts Moore. Despite persistent rumours of a television version or replacement artist, BIG NUMBERS is never completed. Though people are still hoping for its completion more than ten years later, Moore is said to be surprised that anyone still cares.
 
andy2002 said:
A toss up between Brought To Light and V For Vendetta. But he's rarely put a foot wrong to be honest.
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Don't know Brought to Light but I thought V for Vendetta was a bit poor to be honest, better at the time because it was so ground breaking.

Albion was bollocks, I can't belive it was really him. Promeatha was lovely but slighty unsatisfying as a story, nice bit of envelope pushing that wasn't Ashley Wood style bollocks (thought I do love some of Woods art).
 
He luuuurves Northampton !


Very striking gent, tall, huge beard, silver topped cane and lots of big silver rings.....


:cool:
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Don't know Brought to Light but I thought V for Vendetta was a bit poor to be honest, better at the time because it was so ground breaking.
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TBH, I haven't read either for a few years – Brought To Light was the most politicised thing he's ever done dealing with American foreign policy and CIA black ops. It's terrific and, IIRC, was adapted for the stage at one point. I guess the problem with V, if it has one, was that it wasn't written as a graphic novel but as monthly installments of six-seven pages. It's a bit disjointed because of that.

ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Albion was bollocks, I can't belive it was really him.
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Well, he only plotted it - the actual script was by his daughter (Leah) and her husband, John Reppion. Only read the first issue and wasn't terribly impressed.
 
I am currently enjoying the Moore Swamp-thing run.


:cool:


Did his "Lost Girls" ever make it on to shelves in the UK or is Paedo-mania keeping it at bay?

I was considering importing it from the States via mail order, but is not the kind of thing I want to be importing into the UAE - even under plain covers.
 
I'd have to say V or Watchmen. V is one of the best comics ever written, if not the best. Watchmen is likewise hard to beat.

I did love his Tom Strong stuff though.
 
Stewart Lee also did a 30 min interview with Alan Moore as part of Radio 4's chain reaction thingy - (Johnny Vegas interviewed Stewart Lee before, and I can't remember who Alan Moore went on to interview).

It's well worth a listen. If someone can't rustle up a link I'll up it later.
 
Swarfega said:
Did his "Lost Girls" ever make it on to shelves in the UK or is Paedo-mania keeping it at bay?
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I think it's being released here on January 1, 2008.

I did get hold of a copy and was a bit disappointed. It looks beautiful and it's all jolly clever but it's also a bit dull, which, for a porn book, isn't quite what I was expecting.
 
andy2002 said:
It's terrific and, IIRC, was adapted for the stage at one point. .
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Halo Jones was made into a musical as well wasn't it?

I think boringly Top 10 might be my favorate. I quite like all the boys own stuff he does with Tom Strong too.

When I was young I really thought Dr and Quinch was the best thing ever but it really didn't stand the test of time for me.
 
andy2002 said:
Yep, it was. It's weird because it's pretty faithful to the comic and yet still manages to fuck it up. Not sure why that is.
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Somehow managed to make V into Dr Phibes
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
I think most of his stuff would make better TV serials.

I would love to see top 10 on TV. Would need a bit of a heavy budget though.
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Oh my god, that would be amazing :eek: We can dream.
 
I'm reading From Hell at the mo and whilst I'm enjoying it, I don't think he's a terribly good writer.
 
Orang Utan said:
I'm reading From Hell at the mo and whilst I'm enjoying it, I don't think he's a terribly good writer.
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Actually, one of the most interesting things I've read recently was a review of Lost Girls by Michel Faber. Since Faber wrote my favourite book ever ever, The Crimson Petal and the White, it was entertaining to read him actually criticise Moore's writing. There's been so much slavish adulation from comics fanboys directed at Moore, it was refreshing to read someone who's willing to point out the flaws.
 
elevendayempire said:
Actually, one of the most interesting things I've read recently was a review of Lost Girls by Michel Faber. Since Faber wrote my favourite book ever ever, The Crimson Petal and the White, it was entertaining to read him actually criticise Moore's writing. There's been so much slavish adulation from comics fanboys directed at Moore, it was refreshing to read someone who's willing to point out the flaws.
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"In truth, the dialogue is shaky, frequently eroded by Moore's poor grasp of American vernacular" - I think this is a valid criticism - the Victorian dialogue in From Hell is kind of excruciating
 
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