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From Co.Create's excellent article about the controversy over the Watchmen prequels, Alan Moore explains everything to you: More »
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Over the weekend, Alan Moore engaged in a 2.5-hour webchat as a fundraiser for Cleveland's Harvey Pekar Library Statue. During this frank conversation, the Bearded Master addressed questions about his feud with Grant Morrison (short answer: there isn't one), why he wrote Neonomicon ("Because I had a massive, massive tax debt."), and the difference between DC resurrecting Watchmen and Moore appropriating literary characters for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: More »
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As you might've noticed, new Watchmen prequels — which will be published under the banner Before Watchmen — were officially announced yesterday by DC Comics. More »
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We've heard murmurs of the so-called Watchmen 2 project, and even an image or two mysteriously traipsed into the internet wilds a few weeks back. More »
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V For Vendetta writer Alan Moore and artist David Lloyd have admitted in interviews that they're tickled that the titular character's Guy Fawkes has become a protest standard. But Channel 4 went one step further and took the hirsute master to Occupy London to meet the masquerade. Alan Moore's chilled with John Constantine in real life, so I imagine he's used to this kind of thing. More »
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A lot of nifty stuff is hitting the stores tomorrow, but let's just pause for a moment and reflect on the innate weirdness of Alex "Epic Realism" Ross painting Voltron. Goodness, that's bizarre. Not as weird as his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen/30 Rock mash-up, but still plum hilarious. On to the comics! More »
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DC Comics is really going forward with the Watchmen tie-in project that everybody's calling Watchmen 2, as we warned a while back. Bleeding Cool's inside sources tell them that Andy Kubert will draw one of four prequel miniseries, each of which tells a story about a different character from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' masterpiece. And Andy "may not be the only Kubert getting involved with this," writes Rich Johnston. More »
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In the early 1980s, way before he was famous for absolutely anything, Alan Moore was tapped to pen a series of science fiction strips for the now-venerable British comic mag 2000 AD. Dubbed Future Shocks, these 2000 AD staples were one-and-done stories with diabolical twist endings and a quirky cast of aliens, time travelers, and ill-mannered mutants. More »
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Every few years or so, the internet hears whispers of DC Comics' plans to exhume Watchmen so that everyone can sleep on futons made of woven sapphire and topaz. More »
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Marvel Comics starts a new miniseries about heroes hammering down. Alan Moore collects his H.P. Lovecraft tales. Captain Kirk meets Brainiac 5, plus new issues of Batman and Wonder Woman. It's Comics We Crave, flossing your brainpan on a Tuesday morning. More »
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In January 1985 — well over a year and a half before the first issue of Watchmen would hit stands — Alan Moore had a short interview (click to enlarge) in Amazing Heroes #65 in which he gave a quick and dirty synopsis of the comic. More »
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century - 1969 sees Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's Britannic literary superteam in Love Generation London, where Aleister Crowley analogue Oliver Haddo conspires with Terner Purple, a thinly veiled reference to Mick Jagger's role in the rock-and-roll drama Performance. More »
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen return, and this time they're higher than kites! Also, everyone in Manhattan becomes a friendly neighborhood Spider-Person. Just your standard week in comics, folks. More »
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Green Lantern is quite possibly the most fiendishly complicated of all the superheroes, surrounded by cosmic mythology, strange aliens, and convoluted backstory. But let us help you through the insanity with this beginner's guide to all things Green Lantern. More »
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Man's best friend can be heroic. They can lead the blind, find explosives and rescue people. But as heroic as dogs can be, they're not superheroic. But some dogs go further, using amazing superpowers and rocking awesome capes. More »
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A brand new promo for True Blood season four has been released. So does it show Bill's solo misery, or the beginning of a human-vampire war? More »
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In this clip from Comic-Con 2007, Neil Gaiman recounts how dinner with Alan Moore involves in-depth descriptions of human viscera. Gaiman also reveals how he received his nickname, "Scary Trousers." More »
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The Register asked its readers to name the best science fiction books that haven't been turned into movies, and hundreds of nominations came in. Now the Register has whittled the list down to the 50 that got the most votes. More »
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Xombi was one of the coolest comic books of the 1990s, and it wasn't hard to see why each cover sported an adoring blurb by Alan Moore. And now this weird horror/superhero title is coming back on Wednesday. More »
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A new piece of Green Lantern merchandise appears to give our first glimpse of Mogo, the largest member of the Green Lantern Corps. More »
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What screams holiday cheer more than Alan Moore penning Lovecraftian horror? Only a dozen shoggoths, writhing in a riptide of egg nog, intoxicated by their own tumescence. It's comic book Wednesday. Dig it. More »
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What's in your comic book store this Wednesday? New adventures for Black Panther and Cade Skywalker and reprints of old gems from awesome artists like Moebius, Amanda Conner, and Stan Sakai. It's always comic book Wednesday somewhere. More »
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The mid-1990s was the heyday of Vertigo Comics, DC's trippy, grown-up imprint. But one of the best Vertigo-esque comics appeared instead, almost unnoticed, on DC's Milestone Imprint. And after 14 years, the unsettling supernatural nanotechnology tale XOMBI is coming back. More »
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A 1983 issue of the UK Marvel anthology Daredevils featured an odd back-up story that spoofed Frank Miller's acclaimed run on Daredevil. This throwaway strip would've probably been forgotten...if it weren't written by Alan Moore. More »
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As part of DC's Multiversity project, All-Star Superman team Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely will be helming a comic entitled Pax Americana, a tribute to Alan Moore's Watchmen that uses analogues to Alan Moore's characters in modern times. More »
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Before Zack Snyder put his stamp on Watchmen, both Terry Gilliam and Paul Greengrass had taken a pass at translating Alan Moore's work. Concept art from Greengrass' version has come out, showing how he'd planned to update the story. More »
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There's still only one way to bring a new person into this universe. Many science fiction/fantasy stories have featured the drama of childbirth... and some have done it better than others. Here are the best and worst SF/fantasy childbirth scenes. More »
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This year's Comic-Con was light on earth-shattering comic book news but chock full o' interesting tidbits about characters and upcoming projects. Here are some of the juiciest factoids that dropped this weekend. More »
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In a recent interview with Wired to promote his spoken word set Unearthing, Moore claimed that DC offered him the rights to Watchmen this week, albeit with certain unsavory stipulations. More »
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Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour is on sale today! Will Scott find Ramona? What's Gideon Graves' master scheme? Will Sex Bob-omb stop sucking? All this and Alan Moore's long-awaited H.P. Lovecraft comic, Neonomicon. More »
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Comic-Con 2010 is chock full of limited edition toys, comics, and collectibles that are available in ridiculously small amounts. Here are 25 gee-whiz exclusives you may want to check out before they're pillaged by the fan horde. More »
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Superhero comics are full of knockoffs, parodies, and shameless copies of iconic characters. And nobody gets copied more often than Superman and the Fantastic Four. Which of them has the best copy-cat characters? We break it down for you. More »
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It's the July 4 weekend, so naturally our thoughts turn to independence, and bloody, lovely revolution. Unfortunately, overturning your colonial rulers is hard work. So we've collected tips from the ten greatest science fiction revolutionaries, to help you prevail. More »
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If you've never had the pleasure of reading Alan Moore's Saga of The Swamp Thing, this week's a good place to start. A new edition of the Bearded One's run is on the shelves, and it's creepy as all get-out. More »
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At a panel at the University of Northampton, Alan Moore confirmed that he was no longer writing an opera about the alchemist John Dee with Gorillaz — apparently all of the writing and planning had been foisted upon Moore. Damn! More »
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Although science fiction usually looks to the skies, there's a whole world of wonder and mystery beneath the ocean's surface. When you need some advanced submarines to go exploring, these are the fourteen best. More »
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Alan Moore's H.P. Lovecraft-inspired comic series Neonomicon is set to debut later this year, but series artist Jacen Burrows recently dropped some knowledge on the cyclopean horror that readers can expect. More »
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Vincenzo Natali's Splice might be the most daring, bizarre movie of the year. But he's not aiming low for his next projects: He told us he wants to film J.G. Ballard's High Rise and Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing. More »
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Marvelman (a.k.a. Miracleman a.ka. the superhero at the center of one of the most screwball legal struggles in comic book history) returns to print this summer. Marvel Comics will publish a one-shot, series, and hardcover of Marvelman's past exploits. More »
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A truly great infodump is a work of art. The best science fiction authors can brief you on everything you need to know about their worlds, without making you feel lectured. Here are 20 great examples of the smooth infodump. More »
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