books by Alan Moore

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Swamp Thing Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing

Alan Moore

Vertigo, 1998

the beginning of a horror masterwork
"No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing dispair which flows from a loss of identity. Merging with nothingness is peaceful oblivion; but to be aware of existence and yet to know that one is no longer a definite being distinguished from other beings - ...

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore, David Lloyd

Vertigo, 1995

Don't read this with a closed mind
If you encountered the movie first and are merely following up on the book, keep one thing in mind. This is how the story was originally intended. Initially, when I read that Alan Moore was not happy about how the movie turned out, I was puzzled. However, after ...

From Hell - New Cover Edition

Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell

Top Shelf Productions, 2000

Jack the Ripper's story in a comic book
From Hell is kind of confusing for the first four or five chapters. You really don't have too much of a clue what's going on and who every character is. However, after the first murder, it really starts to weave all of the confusing parts of the first few chapters ...

Alan Moore's Writing For Comics Volume 1

Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows

Avatar Press, 2003

Worth It: Half Way Done.
Worth it. I am a striving comic creator who works and won't have time to read as much as I did this last summer. If you're a striving comic creator this is great book about the medium not because it teaches you how to write, but because it invokes you to create. The ...

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2

Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill

Wildstorm, 2004

The League at it's best!
I loved volume 1 and volume 2 was even better. I thoroughly enjoyed the Almanac section of the book and the cool board game and other little "quips" that were added by Moore and O'Neill. There is a little more sexual content in this volume, but it doesn't detract ...

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier

Alan Moore

Wildstorm, 2007

Is Billy Bunter really Big Brother
Even if you haven't read the 101 novels, plays and pulp magazines referenced in this thrilling roller coaster action adventure, you'll still love it. It's high speed chase through 1950's England climaxing at the 3D top of the world, punctuated by extracts from the ...

DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore

Alan Moore

DC Comics, 2006

Sometimes Laughably Dark
Alan Moore is bubbling over with great ideas, but the short form of the DC universe isn't his strong suit, it's like asking Thomas Hardy to write for the Larry David show. In this book I found about half of the pieces impenetrable, and I would be surprised if Moore ...

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1

Alan Moore

America's Best Comics, 1999

Moore is at it again
It seems that each new read of Alan Moore makes me realize once again that D.C. had no idea what they had in Alan Moore. To call him pure genius may be the most accurate way of describing his work. It's not writing -- it's art. In League, I found myself unable to ...

Batman: The Killing Joke

Alan Moore, Brian Bolland

DC Comics, 2008

The Joke's on Me
Amazon recently recommended that I purchase The Killing Joke based on my new addiction to comic books and graphic novels. (I've also only recently gotten into video games and other things that I think that I was supposed to start liking a long long time ago...Can you ...

Watchmen

Alan Moore

DC Comics, 1995

A true classic
A significant crossover point between the comic book superhero genre with it's tenuous link to reality and modern literature. The back story is largely the whole story as the superheroes who save the world are given a canvas which is not merely black and white upon ...

Promethea (Book 1)

Alan Moore

Wildstorm, 2001

Trust the Snakes
I'm up to Promethea Part IV by now so I should back up and rein in my thoughts on Volume 1 (which collects the first 6 comics from back in 1999 it looks like). Anyway hats off to Alan Moore for serving up another variation on his "superwoman" ideal, as if Mina Harker ...

Swamp Thing Vol. 2: Love and Death

Alan Moore

Vertigo, 1995

Shush Your Cyanicisms
I can't take credit for the title of this review. That's a line uttered by the incongruously adorable guest character Pog in this volume of the Swamp Thing series. This is the second collection of the brilliant run by Alan Moore. This edition is a little bigger than ...

A Practical Guide to SysML: The Systems Modeling Language
Sanford Friedenthal, Alan Moore, ...

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Systems engineers and architects must understand how all the parts of a system work together to satisfy its requirements. SysML is a general purpose graphical modeling language used to specify, analyze, and design systems that may include hardware, software, and personnel. It allows engineers to describe how a system interacts with its ...

Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier (Absolute)

Alan Moore

WildStorm, 2008

Poor production quality adds to problems with this troubled book.
This review pertains only to the Absolute Edition of The Black Dossier. In comparing the Absolute against the standard edition I found it to have inferior image quality. Here's where the former suffers in comparison with the standard: The artwork in the Absolute ...

Swamp Thing Vol. 5: Earth to Earth

Alan Moore

Vertigo, 2002

His Blue Heaven
If you've read the prior collections in this series and you thought things couldn't get any better, well you ain't seen nothing yet. This installment of the Swamp Thing graphic novel series contains just six issues from Alan Moore's run (#51-56), but that does include ...