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?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 26 February 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 26 February 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
Starting to think the problem is that Moore thinks he's William Blake, when he's really just ("just") a really good comics writer
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 27 February 2015 01:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 1 March 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 March 2015 12:49 (nine years ago) link
http://www.mustardweb.org/alanmoore/
― Οὖτις, Monday, 2 March 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
I believe it's because when you win, you're obligated to 'run' the next one, so he'd be ... doing con-related things
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
So Otomo is going to take care of the next convention? I can't see him being expected to do much.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link
Specialist round on tonight's Mastermind. Only one question wasn't incredibly easy.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 18 September 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
I missed four? The cat one, the Simpsons one, the acting (?!) one, something about the CIA.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 18 September 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link
The acting one was the only one I didn't know.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 18 September 2015 23:45 (nine years ago) link
Simpsons one was really a Simpsons question rather than an Alan Moore one.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 18 September 2015 23:46 (nine years ago) link
just checked against the 2010 round on youtube, got one wrong
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Saturday, 19 September 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Tuomas, Monday, 28 September 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_for_Hope
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 28 September 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
Correct!
― Tuomas, Monday, 28 September 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link
Probably also the only time Stephen King and George R. R. Martin have written X-Men?
― Tuomas, Monday, 28 September 2015 14:00 (nine years ago) link
in one book? yeah that sounds likely.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 September 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
I can't bear to look at that photo in the first post, his beard just looks so unhygienic :(
― soref, Monday, 28 September 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-09/29/electricomics-alan-moore-interview
― koogs, Thursday, 1 October 2015 08:35 (eight years ago) link
electricomics kinda sucks by the way. adds a new and totally unnecessary complication to reading a book.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 October 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Thursday, 1 October 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 1 October 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
Coleen
McKay
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 1 October 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
in fairness to wired, those appear to be consistent errors on Moore's partthough maybe you should edit the email responses you get prior to publishing? just a thought.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 October 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link
As Moore doesn't use email, it's unlikely to be his error, and Coleen is not consistent even in the same paragraph.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 1 October 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
in the questions it's listed as Colleen and McCay. Anyway, somebody fucked up.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 October 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
He just joined Goodreads last month and he has answered 75 questions and set his goodreads challenge to finish one book.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 23 November 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
So, 'Jerusalem' - anyone up for it?
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 05:06 (eight years ago) link
Half-tempted, but I already have several huuuuge novels I bought and have not yet tackled, so it might have to wait.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 06:09 (eight years ago) link
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).
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 07:38 (eight years ago) link
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.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 08:12 (eight years ago) link
dowd, it looks like Amazon have made the first few chapters available to compensate for delays
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 08:20 (eight years ago) link
I've heard its really brilliant from one reader.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 08:48 (eight years ago) link
Thanks for the tip! I'm really more of a physical reader, though.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 09:06 (eight years ago) link
Dont kindle previews equal 10% of the book? So thats at least 100+pages
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:18 (eight years ago) link
Eesh, based on the first couple pages, the writing is... not good.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:47 (eight years ago) link
Or, let's say, not my thing.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:52 (eight years ago) link
But...crosswords!
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:08 (eight years ago) link
I loved Voice of the Fire, so I should be more psyched for this than I am. but then I really loved the comics work he was doing then, and have not LOVED a comic of his in a while, so there is that.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:27 (eight years ago) link
Reminds me a bit of the Morrissey book - i.e. unedited and a little incoherent
Obviously anyone reading a 1000+ page book by Late Period Alan Moore will expect to have some *work* cut out for them (in fact, I'm sure that's part of the appeal) but the sentences read very un-special - there's a lot of overdescription like he's still writing for an artist, and a lot of unedited pluperfects
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:35 (eight years ago) link
This is based on a single ten minute squiz on Amazon, though, so do ignore me.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:37 (eight years ago) link
Almost twice as long War and Peace. Holy fucking shit
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:39 (eight years ago) link
Moore is great but I expect most of this to be typing and not writing
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:40 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I will never get round to reading this, if someone could summarise it on this thread that would be great.
― chap, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:43 (eight years ago) link
I was in Gosh Comics on Friday and the staff were packaging up copies of the book into what looked like* custom cardboard sleeves and writing addresses for EG Portugal on them.
*but I can well believe you can get them in all sizes.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 12:18 (eight years ago) link
The staff did not look, at that point, like Alan Moore fans.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 12:21 (eight years ago) link
this is pretty much where i'm at - huge moore fan up until the early-mid 2000s, thought voice of the fire was really great, but i've long since stopped paying close attention to his work. i'd like to give jerusalem a try but i dunno if i've got the enthusiasm and/or stamina required to make it through a thousand pages from a writer who i suspect may have passed his peak, or at least sharpened his talents/obsessions to so fine a point that it'll only cut it with a very specific group of readers.
maybe once the reviews are in i'll rethink...
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 12:43 (eight years ago) link
haven't read past the title yet but...
http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/alan-moore-jerusalem-comics-writer.html
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 13:54 (eight years ago) link
Moore brings up the amount of sexual violence in Jerusalem, which won't exactly silence his "rape in every book" critics.
Anyway, I'm at pretty much in the same place as everyone else. Although I'm quite enjoying Providence it does seem to be a bit of an exercise in Mooresplaining and, as somebody said ^^^^ his desire these days seems to be to write things that require annotation and which he seems to want to do himself. Has anybody seen him and Jess Nevins in the same room together?
I thought Voice Of The Fire was great but the comics have become less essential with each passing commission (Crossed +100 turned out to be something Moore only seemed to be interested in the semiotics of, for example, as outside of setting up their language it really was nothing and I really couldn't care less about Cinema Purgatorio).
Having said that, I thought the Jimmy's End films were fun and Frank & Nick Make You Sick maybe shows where he should be focusing his attention?
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link