- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics (July 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1401200877
- ISBN-13: 978-1401200879
- Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 16.9 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 304 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,827,021 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the 1980s, while busy revolutionizing the superhero genre in Watchmen and Swamp Thing, comic-book writer Moore occasionally wrote scripts featuring other DC Comics characters, from its biggest stars to such obscure also-runs as the Vigilante and the Phantom Stranger. Most of the 13 such stories collected here are qualitatively several notches above run-of-the-mill, even if none approaches the lofty heights of Moore's more renowned work. Unable to give these stories' characters the wholesale overhauling for which he is famous, he relies more on imaginative plotting and incisive characterization. Outstanding are a pair of Superman tales, one also featuring Batman and Wonder Woman, and the other portraying an encounter with Moore's breakthrough character, Swamp Thing. It helps that those selections were drawn by the best artists on view here, Dave Gibbons, Moore's Watchmen collaborator, and Rick Veitch, who drew many of Moore's Swamp Thing scripts. If these stories amount to little more than an entertaining footnote to Moore's big hits, it is nice to have them gathered in one convenient volume. Gordon Flagg
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Book Description
Hailed as one of the best and most influential writers in comics today, Alan Moore has penned such important and critically-acclaimed titles as Watchmen, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: The Killing Joke, Swamp Thing and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Now, collected for the first time ever, Moore's rarely-seen and hard-to-find one-off stories can be enjoyed anew. Featuring such superheroes as Superman, Batman and Green Lantern, and illustrated by a host of comic luminaries including Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), Kevin O'Neill (Marshal Law), Rick Veitch (Swamp Thing) and Klaus Janson (Daredevil), these tales showcase Moore's versatile and innovative style. The perfect introduction to a master storyteller!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
When genius is bottled like Kandor,
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This review is from: Across the Universe - The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore (Paperback)
Thank the gods that Moore did not write many DC superhero stories. The DC universe is too limiting. These are all excellent stories (particularly the concepts), but the mind of Alan Moore is in a straightjacket. It's a little like watching a great pianist doing five-finger exercises: interesting and enjoyable, but not really what you want. By all means buy this book to complete your Moore collection, but buy his ABC work (especially the brilliant "Promethea") first.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice stuff, but....,
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This review is from: Across the Universe - The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore (Paperback)
...other than two very excellent Superman stories, the cream of this crop are three Green Lantern Corps stories. Great stuff. However, they were only part of an overall GLC backup series from the mid-eighties that were done by a who's-who of comics talent that was incredible! As great as Alan Moore is, and I really do love a lot of his stuff, I would have preferred a full collection of these GLC stories. This collection sells entirely because of Moore's star appeal, but imagine how much better a collection would sell of stories by Moore AND probably one of the best collections of comic talent ever to work on one series (Dave Gibbons, Gil Kane, Don Newton, the list is ridiculous....). And that, really, is my only problem with this collection. It's existence probably means the other, better collection will never occur.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Some excellent short pieces by the modern master of comics,
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This review is from: Across the Universe - The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore (Paperback)
This collection has some excellent short subject work Alan Moore did for DC throughout the early '80s, before his falling out with the company over WATCHMEN. Moore tells several stories featuring prominent DC characters of the period. This includes a fantastic couple of Green Lantern Corps stories, a decent Green Lantern tale, an average Vigilante story, an Omega Men backup story with a nice twist ending, and a rather disturbing Batman/Clayface story. Of all the stories, the GLC stories got my imagination going the most, and whetted my appetite for more stories about them by Moore, which never came and most likely never will. These stories showed he had a real grasp of the Green Lantern dynamic and were wildly imaginative. I highly recommend this collection.
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