Alan Moore!

yeah, the original lettering varied in quality a lot. i heard they're gonna do a complete collection in oversized hardcover later anyway?

xp multiple *letterers* originally.

I'd say overall everything in this book - art/lettering/coloring - varied really widely over Moore's run, ranging from the horribly shitty to the stunningly awesome. Really it's only the latter Bissette/Totleben stuff that looked really great in the original print run. Not bothering with any reprints, still have my old issues, which are fine.

it was totleben alone on that stuff.

ah right

the lettering in the old versions is kinda patchy, not least where they scratch out marvelman and squeeze miracleman in it's place.

so is everybody SUPEREXCITED about even more Lovecraft nonsense? no? yeah me neither.

referring to: http://www.avatarpress.com/2015/02/alan-moores-providence-revealed/

Really it's only the latter Bissette/Totleben stuff that looked really great in the original print run.

Wrong: the Leach looked great and the Davis looked v good in the original print run; both of them looked kinda shitty in the Eclipse versions

sorry I wasn't clear, I was referring to the Eclipse versions (I don't have any issues of Warrior, my brother took those)

Eh, I'll give Providence a try.

Only read the first issue of Neonomicon and it kind of freaked me out, so I guess as horror it was kind of working.

It certainly had an effectively oppressive atmosphere, still not sure I'd call it 'good'.

his most carefully considered work in decades

Invoking a comparison it to a prior literary masterpiece is not something to be handled lightly, but in scope, importance and execution: Providence is the Watchmen of horror.

Moore has designed every cover, every single page, and every nuance of this work to create his most fully-realized vision to date.

kinda feel like they're setting me up for disappointment here tbh

After having to suffer through the horribly indulgent, needlessly long and graphic rape scene in Neonomicon, I don't think I want to read any Moore/Burrows collaboration ever again.

Feel like the QI Klaxon should be going off and RAPE flashing on the screen behind Tuomas' head right now.

Moore really needs to get over his Lovecraft fixation. I get it already.

Happy to wait and see on this one. If anything I'm curious to see Moore back on monthly comics for the first time since, what, the end of Promethea?

I do pretty much hate the Avatar/Burrows aesthetic, though, from colouring to subject matter to draftmanship... the depressing focus on brutalised female bodies (with porn star tits, natch). Even the glossy printing paper they use is kind of icky to touch.

Yeah, non of the Avatar art ever works for me, which is a shame because some of their slightly older titles had promising elements.

Why did Moore say he would refuse the Angouleme award?

http://www.avatarpress.com/2012/04/alan-moore-accepts-first-ever-gn-bram-stoker-award-for-neonomicon/

All I could find was his funny Bram Stoker award speech but it doesn't really clear much up.

Starting to think the problem is that Moore thinks he's William Blake, when he's really just ("just") a really good comics writer

I read half of A Small Killing and I just couldn't be bothered any further, the main character was so dull and irritating, which I'm sure was intentional but I just couldn't. Zarate's art is interesting because it looks similar to a lot of old art depicting city night life, like Lautrec, Edward Hopper, George Grosz, Otto Dix and others I've forgot. It's not quite at that level though but there are interesting effects in there.

I remember liking ASK a lot when I read it, but that was like 20 years ago, so I'm not sure if I'd have the same opinion anymore. In any case, it's definitely a case of great art elevating the script; after all these years I still have a vivid memory of the scene where the protagonist opens the [SPOILER], it's quite unforgettable.

http://www.mustardweb.org/alanmoore/

Why did Moore say he would refuse the Angouleme award?

I believe it's because when you win, you're obligated to 'run' the next one, so he'd be ... doing con-related things

So Otomo is going to take care of the next convention? I can't see him being expected to do much.

Specialist round on tonight's Mastermind. Only one question wasn't incredibly easy.

I missed four? The cat one, the Simpsons one, the acting (?!) one, something about the CIA.

The acting one was the only one I didn't know.

Simpsons one was really a Simpsons question rather than an Alan Moore one.

just checked against the 2010 round on youtube, got one wrong

Just came across a great trivia question, maybe some of you might get the correct answer: when has Alan Moore written an X-Men comic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_for_Hope

Correct!

Probably also the only time Stephen King and George R. R. Martin have written X-Men?

in one book? yeah that sounds likely.

I can't bear to look at that photo in the first post, his beard just looks so unhygienic :(

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-09/29/electricomics-alan-moore-interview

electricomics kinda sucks by the way. adds a new and totally unnecessary complication to reading a book.

i am interested in the comics and open source aspects of this (although i'm unsure as to what it actually is...). but then they go and make it ipad-only which seems at odds with the second bit.

It's pretty ropey, looks like the web circa 1998. Thrillbent (which I subscribed to for a while, then got bored) doing a much better job. But it's kind of a "be number one in a field of none" opportunity.

Coleen

McKay

in fairness to wired, those appear to be consistent errors on Moore's part
though maybe you should edit the email responses you get prior to publishing? just a thought.

As Moore doesn't use email, it's unlikely to be his error, and Coleen is not consistent even in the same paragraph.

in the questions it's listed as Colleen and McCay. Anyway, somebody fucked up.

He just joined Goodreads last month and he has answered 75 questions and set his goodreads challenge to finish one book.

So, 'Jerusalem' - anyone up for it?

Half-tempted, but I already have several huuuuge novels I bought and have not yet tackled, so it might have to wait.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat, kind of overwhelmed at the moment. Grr, I pre-ordered it, but doesn't look like it's coming today - Amazon say they're 'still trying to obtain' it (I had some vouchers to use).

Oh! It's out today. I haven't read anything massive this year and I like a good reading challenge, so quite possibly. Could pick it up at lunch.