We already knew artist David Lloyd visited Occupy Wall Street when he was in town for the New York Comic Con and liked what he saw– now The Guardian has asked Alan Moore, the other half of the creative team of V for Vendetta how he feels about the image of V being used as…
Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V For Vendetta continues to inspire as a symbol of resistance. Here’s the latest version. L.A. street artist Shepard Fairey has released a second original design for the Occupy Wall Street movement — and this time, instead of playing it safe with a wistful scene out of an Angela Davis…
“There’s no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There’s only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.” —V, [[[V For Vendetta]]] Next Saturday is going to be very interesting, isn’t it?
Well, this is different– and yet, very familiar. Batman: The Killing Joke, written by Alan Moore and drawn by Brian Bolland, has been partially adapted into a Lego version. Voice actor Patrick Girts does an amazing job channeling Mark Hamill’s version of the Joker, and it was animated with Legos by filmmaker Forrest Whaley. Take…
MotherJones.com used this image to help illustrate and explain the current political unrest in Egypt. It’s a Guy Fawkes mask, superimposed over the Sphinx. In the article, Mother Jones claims that the image of Guy Fawkes, the English Revolutionary, is from the movie, “V for Vendetta.” But clearly, it’s based on the graphic novel of…
Expanding the Wold Newton Concept: J.T. EdsonBy Brad MengelIn 1972, Philip José Farmer created the Wold Newton Family with the publication of Tarzan Alive, where he postulated that many great heroes and villains of adventure fiction were all related.This concept, that many different series were connected, has inspired writers like Howard Waldrop, Kim Newman, Alan…
Expanding the Wold Newton Concept: J.T. EdsonBy Brad MengelIn 1972, Philip José Farmer created the Wold Newton Family with the publication of Tarzan Alive, where he postulated that many great heroes and villains of adventure fiction were all related.This concept, that many different series were connected, has inspired writers like Howard Waldrop, Kim Newman, Alan…
Expanding the Wold Newton Concept: J.T. EdsonBy Brad MengelIn 1972, Philip José Farmer created the Wold Newton Family with the publication of Tarzan Alive, where he postulated that many great heroes and villains of adventure fiction were all related.This concept, that many different series were connected, has inspired writers like Howard Waldrop, Kim Newman, Alan…
THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN 2003 20th Century FoxProduced by Trevor Albert and Don MurphyDirected by Stephen NorringtonScreenplay by James RobinsonBased on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill The concept of THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN is so simple that I’m honestly surprised nobody before Alan Moore thought of it. Here…
THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN 2003 20th Century Fox Produced by Trevor Albert and Don Murphy Directed by Stephen Norrington Screenplay by James Robinson Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill The concept of THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN is so simple that I’m honestly surprised nobody before Alan Moore thought…
All right, let’s get them all out of the way… ALAN AND DAVE’S BOGUS JOURNEY WATCHMEN 2: THE QUICKENING BLUE HARVEST WATCHMEN: THE SALLY JUPITER CHRONICLES BRIDE OF NITE-OWL WATCHMEN 2: THE LEGEND OF CURLY’S GOLD COMEDIAN’S LITTLE DIVIDEND WATCHMEN 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO ERNEST SAVES WATCHMEN WATCHMEN 2: THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES FROM RORSCHACH WITH LOVE…
Saga of the Swamp Thing Book Two By Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben DC Comics, 224 pages, $24.99 DC’s hardcover collections of Alan Moore’s run on [[[Swamp Thing]]] continues with the release of the second volume next Wednesday. The nicest thing about these releases is that it prompts us to go back and reread…
