The greatest Silver Age comic of the 1990s returns for at least one glorious issue, as Alan Moore's final unpublished story is finally finished!
I read only this three page preview and laughed out loud a dozen times:
http://www.imagecomics.com/previews/0047/1
I don't know who will be taking it over after this issue (if it continues), but there's no way I would pass this up! I may even get out my original run and reread it. Alan Moore knows what made the SA so much fun.
-- MSA
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If whoever takes over this book is as good as the team on Glory, then I will keep on buying. Also, the art on Prophet was incredible. I didn't pick up the second issue of that book's return yet, but man, it was pretty cool. Very impressed with the relaunch of Leifeld's Image properties.
Ina Bob Mackie gown,pushing a hand at you and going STOP! Baby Love! Come See About Me>:-)
I had no idea there was a long lost Moore-scripted SUPREME story left in the vaults, but the way that comic kind of fizzled out towards the end... well, not the comic so much as the publisher... it doesn't surprise me that there was some stuff left unused.
Now, dare we hope that somebody unearths a long lost Moore-scripted SWAMP THING story? Probably not very likely...
Yes, there was one more script written when Awesome Entertainment went down, and now it's been completed. I don't think that happened with Swamp Thing--if it did, I don't think it would've waited this long to surface.
Erik Larsen is doing the art for this issue, and then will take over both writing and drawing after that. Needless to say, it won't be the same, but it might be readable. He did that FF pastiche (World's Greatest Magazine) sometime back which wasn't bad. His influences are much more Kirbyesque than SA DC, so it's hard to say how he'd do.
-- MSA
Also, they used a few scripts that Moore and others produced as fill-ins, so there probably weren't any of those left over either.
speaking of ending a storyline/run in a satisfying manner, Veitch's script for when ST met Jesus the magician while lost in time is the one I want to see produced.
big props to MSA for posting this. Given how much hoo haa there has been lately about a certain other superhero property, its strange how little fanfare there has been about this. A lost Moore Superhero script? Weird. In most realities that'd be a big deal.
So did Moore finish it recently? Or someone else finish it? Maybe he's coming in from the cold? :-)
When is it due out, anyway?
I was just kidding about the long-lost Swamp Thing script. There have been quite a few legendary long-lost Moore stories, or stories that were plotted out but never made it to the printed page, like the 1963 ANNUAL, or that "Twilight" thing he came up with for DC that would've blown everybody's mind, but left DC backed into a corner (which, considering where they are now, probably wouldn't have been such a bad thing at the time). I consider Moore's SWAMP THING on the same level as WATCHMEN, and since we know we're never gonna get any more WATCHMEN out of him, we can only hope that somewhere buried in the DC vault of never-published scripts, there's a Moore proposal for a SWAMPY ANNUAL that never came to be.
The Twilight of the Superheroes script wouldn't have backed anyone into a corner. The clever ending saw to that...
(And backing folk into a corner with future stories never bothered the X-Men line....)
What was fascinating about that script was how Moore thought it all through to benefit corporate DC. The different houses for the groups of toys, how his maxi series would allow the ongoing series to tie into it and benefit from the marketing and hype, or not as the writers wished, whilst leaving at the end a standalone high-quality maxi-series that would have a shelf life like Watchmen, (or Kingdom Come hee hee!) that would be accessible to the wider public and could inspire movies etc.
Moore was very far from being belligerently against DC at that point. Making sure he knew his place was more important to them in the end than keeping great talent on board and strengthening their own market and brand.
I'd love to read the 1963 annual too. That was such a fun series.
Anyone wishing for more quality Moore genre comics should look out for his collected Future Shocks and collected Halo Jones, both 2000AD stories.
And yes, his Swamp Thing was a real high water mark. I think we all thought at the time that "hey! Comics are soon going to be all like this!"
Not sure what it is, but I can't bring myself to read any of the Alan Moore Swamp Thing. Something about a woman having sex with a plant just...rubs me the wrong way. I just can't get over it. I'm not offended by it in the least (heck, I've read much weirder things), but I just can't get into the whole "woman finds man made of bark and moss irresistible" idea to work for me.
Figserello said:
So the whole 'its personality that counts' theme was kinda lost on you then... :-)
JeffCarter said:
Whereas I based much of my dating life on that premise. Which, come to think of it, may explain a lot ...
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