Alan Moore knows the score!

[D-Rider]

I'm also very much looking forward to this... Am dragging a couple of pals along to see it next week.

Have to say, though, that I thoroughly enjoyed the V for Vendetta film. Although, sadly for a comichead, I must confess to never having read that one!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Crisis - took itself far too seriously, humourless and worthy. The artwork quickly went downhill and the stories were worthy only of a spotty sixth year student.

The 'Third World War' sequence in Crisis was a favourite of mine and it was nice to have some in-your-face global and green politics in a popular form. That really had never been done before. It was particularly good when it got back to Britain. The rest of Crisis was utter shite, espcially that awful uber-trendy Camden story. Horrible.

There was also Revolver which featured the wacky psychedelic curry-pulp of 'Rogan Ghosh'.

 

[TVC]

Just listened to Mark Kermode spend 20 minutes trashing it, he reckons V for Vendetta was better than this - not a very high bar then.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I think I heard Alan Moore being interviewed on a radio 4 programme called The Chain or something, where the interviewee one week interviews someone else the next week. He's quite a funny guy with a Brummie accent IIRC. I quite like the way he disses all the film adaptions of his work and won't accept film credits or money for them.

I too used to be a 2000AD reader, but obviously missed it during its golden period. I used to like Button Man and The Hanged Man. I can't say for sure these are Alan Moore's work, but I wouldn't mind betting these get made into films.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Alan Moore is born and bred in Nottingham - this featured in some of his work, particularly Big Numbers and his novels.

 

[just jim]

I loved the "Sin City" adaption - never mind "The Wrestler", this was Mickey Rourke's return. It stayed true to the comic without being slavish as some seem to say about "Watchmen".

 

[Crackle]

You realize Watchmen is directed by the same gibbering cross-eyed alcholoic monkey as made 300 don't you? - It'll be sh!t.

 

[longers]

Is "Alan Moore knows the score" a PWEI line?

 

[Piemaster]

Starlord

I did buy Starlord and 2000 AD.
Seem to remember they merged at some point.
I have somewhere 'Prog 1' Anyone remember 'Flesh'?

Also used to get 'Action' until it underwent an overnight revision when a parent somewhere read a copy and actually found out what was in it 'The Kids are Alright' I think was the story that did it. Or possibly 'Hookjaw'

 

[Chuffy]

Is "Alan Moore knows the score" a PWEI line?

53 posts in and someone cracks it!

PWEI - Defcon 1

 

[Chuffy]

You realize Watchmen is directed by the same gibbering cross-eyed alcholoic monkey as made 300 don't you? - It'll be sh!t.

I am aware of this. The adaptation of 300 was actually perfectly good. It's just that the source material is nasty right-wing tossery....

 

[andygates]

Actually, it's very good right-wing tossery. Leni would have been proud and libertarians still get Rugged Individualist boners at the thought of it.

Still right-wing tossery, mind.

 

[Chuffy]

Actually, it's very good right-wing tossery. Leni would have been proud and libertarians still get Rugged Individualist boners at the thought of it.

Still right-wing tossery, mind.

How long did we spend ranting after we saw it? Hours iirc.

 

[goo_mason]

Crisis - took itself far too seriously, humourless and worthy. The artwork quickly went downhill and the stories were worthy only of a spotty sixth year student.

It did have a fairly interesting sub-watchmen story of superheroes called The New Statesmen but even that wasn't that good.

And ironically enough, one of it's stories was called Halcyon Days.

'Revolver' was the other one - it had Dan Dare in it.

I wish someone would try and make a "Marshall Law" film - Kev O'Neill's artwork was always something I looked forward to.

 

[goo_mason]

I once got mistaken for Grant Morrison by the guy who ran DeadHead when it first opened in 1990...