How about Warren Ellis' Planetary (with art by John Cassaday), which also incorporates characters from all over the (pulp) fictional world?

Every year about this time, I look for another book of equal caliber and every year I get disappointed. Don't get me wrong, I don't like everything Moore has done, his run on "Swamp Thing" did nothing for me, but the guy has to be given credit for finally giving comics a REAL adult look. Unlike Stan Lee, he didn't just assume that his audience were minors and in most cases, counted on the idea that they weren't.

Any guy who worships ancient Egyptian gods is going to be considered eccentric in this day and age, and his falling out with BOTH major comics companies in America is well known (I still thinl it was a mistake to take his name off the "V" movie and the upcoming "Watchmen"), but the man was the first to truly realize that you didn't need to talk down to your audience to get them to buy stories about grown men who wear masks and wear their underwear on the outside of their circus outfit (is there any dispute that "For the Man Who Has Everything" is the best Superman story ever?). An argument I have heard more then once is that Moores run on "Supreme" (the only thing Rob Liefeld ever did that is of any value, and he just owned the damn thing!) is largely responsible for the new Silver Age style direction DC is now taking Superman these days.

I think for that alone we should all be greatful for his work and his, albeit mixed, legacy. Thank You Mr. Moore for finally guiding comics into adulthood and if I ever find another comic that compares to "Watchmen" in mere scope and complete scope, I'll let you know.

Please stop putting articles at the top of the page if you are not going to allow responses.

"My mother's dying words were, 'You'll never be good enough.'"

Wha??

Anyhoo, my general response to this review is "gimme gimme gimme." I love the idea of the 3-D glasses, but too bad the 45 is missing. I wish more people had read Lost Girls, so I wouldn't feel so embarrassed bringing it up in conversation and describing it.

It sounds like a bot roamed over Wikipedia and assembled random bit of crap and stitched it together into a mass so uncomprehendingly overwrought, precious and ironically self referential that it implodes into a sewer of shit so evil it can only be called a new art form for the fanboys and other losers.

It's sad that even on a story about a comic, we still can't get away from the right wing trolls...

Two words: Thomas Pynchon.

For those who might be interested (and haven't already found this site), here's a link that very thoroughly identifies Moore's many allusions in the first to LoEG volumes: http://www.geocities.com/athens/olympus/7160/league1.html

And ditto on the point about Pynchon, though I think that maybe the author of the article was limiting his scope to comics.