Originally posted by roughrider
I got more excitement reading the climatic issues of Ultimates 1 & 2, than almost anything else this decade.
Originally posted by Bouboumaster
Me too.Ultimates 1 and 2 were the shit!
✅ 👆
His 26 issue run on Ultimates is my favourite comic series, ever. It's the only comic series I've ever considered buying the omnibus edition of, despite already owning a copy of the issues....can't afford it at the mo, though...
I'm waiting for the trade for his current run, and just ignoring the Loeb stuff.
Originally posted by Disappear
peter david's my all-time favorite. never read anything of his that i didn't get completely engrossed in.i'm "discovering" jonathan hickman and jason aaron at the time, both of whom give the same david-esque sense of satisfaction with everything they put out.
I think Hickman's got a lot of potential, I think he Fraction and Tomassi could be the next decades; Bendis, Brubaker and Johns.
I have a lot of love for Moore and Mark Waid, there aren't many out there more influential upon the medium,
But for the ketamin induced, profound, mind-experimenting, a-priori,sci fi creative, weirdness, that I love no writers comes close to the English duo of Ellis and Morison.
Authority, Planetary, Allstar Superman, Transmetropolitan, JLA, New X-men, Seven Soldiers,
the types of literature that make me proud to be a comic book fan.
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
So? He has Watchmen, V for Vendetta, League and From Hell to his name.He doesn't need to write a comic again as far as I'm concerned.
Besides, his influence isn't something we should necessarily be thankful for. What HE did was amazing and revolutionary, but it spawned decades of people trying to copy him.
When you consider that Civil War and Blackest Night both take elements from things he's wrote, it shows how unoriginal (Though these stories can still be great) comics currently are.
Anything you consider relevant probably bares a lot of Alan Moore hallmarks.
-AC
Moore's not as revolutionary as everyone regards him to be ...
Most of his deconstruction work, prevalent in Miracle Man, Supreme, What Ever happened to the Man of Tomorrow , Tom Strong etc is lifted straight out of Robert Mayers, Super folks.
And V for Vendetta is just a footnote to 1984.
Originally posted by Cartesian Doubt
Moore's not as revolutionary as everyone regards him to be ...Most of his deconstruction work, prevalent in Miracle Man, Supreme, What Ever happened to the Man of Tomorrow , Tom Strong etc is lifted straight out of Robert Mayers, Super folks.
And V for Vendetta is just a footnote to 1984.
Who did what he did, before him?
Not "He was influenced by...", who actually did what he did, on the scale he did, for comics? Who had as many stories that garnered such critical praise when the medium wasn't regarded with serious acclaim?
-AC
Originally posted by Cartesian Doubt
Moore's not as revolutionary as everyone regards him to be ...Most of his deconstruction work, prevalent in Miracle Man, Supreme, What Ever happened to the Man of Tomorrow , Tom Strong etc is lifted straight out of Robert Mayers, Super folks.
And V for Vendetta is just a footnote to 1984.
Kirby>Moore.
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Who did what he did, before him?Not "He was influenced by...", who actually did what he did, on the scale he did, for comics? Who had as many stories that garnered such critical praise when the medium wasn't regarded with serious acclaim?
-AC
Didn't Stan Lee and Jack Kirby do that for the medium by bucking the stereotypical superhero trend with the creation of Spider-man?
Going further back, didn't characters like Superman add a new genre called the "superhero" to the comics that came before it?
Each time someone does something new or popular or outlandish or something important for the medium, but that's not really the point is it?
You even said in one of your first posts on this thread that the older stories were revolutionary but cheesy. Why is Moore any different to those that came before, when compared to the newer talent? I'm sure we agree they paved the way for the modern writers to build upon. 🙂