• Home
  • Episodes
  • iTunes
  • About
  • Contact us
  • The Podcast Arcade
    • Daydream Instruction Manual
    • Falcon Punch Thunder Dads
    • Underground Inc.
    • Geekvice
    • Paranormal Dads
    • Make Eternia Great Again
  • Archive
    • Gallery >
      • 2015 Conventions >
        • O Comic Con
        • Wizard World
      • Collections >
        • Ben's Collection
        • Billy's Collection
      • Funkograms
      • In Memory of Jeff >
        • Jeff's Collection
        • Jeff's Imitations
    • Our Instagram
    • Unboxing Videos
    • Mobile
  Underground Inc.

Alan Moore Month

9/2/2015

0 Comments

 
By Billy Peck
Picture
Alan Moore might be the most prolific writer in comics, yesterday and today.

The easy thing to go to is Watchmen and how important it is to the comic world. We all know as fans, that most of our lives and most of the time that comics have been around, that they're heavily considered for children or people of less intellect. Grown adults that can't get outside of their childlike minds. Alan Moore made such a well written, thought provoking tale that not only gave us awesome stories about it's main characters but secondary characters such as the Mintuemen and more specifically Hollis Mason's Under the Hood autobiography, where within the pages of the comic, we got actual chapters from his book... We also got to see pages from a comic within the comic, Tales of the Black Freighter. There's so much more to it that you'll be able to hear in our fan commentary coming later in the month. What I will leave you with in regards to Watchmen is that with all the things he did with it, it was put in Time's List of 100 Best Novels, as one of the best English language novels published since 1923. Not comics. Novels!
Picture
We focused a lot on the movies based on his works but there's some out there that haven't had films made. Most importantly is probably Killing Joke where we learn what is consider the official origin to the Joker. It also put some serious violence into the lore that involves Barbara Gordon, which changes her story for her entire future.
Picture
Alan Moore has worked with Swamp Thing, Superman, helped create John Constantine, wrote stories based on characters and real life events with League of Extraordinary Gentleman and From Hell, puts social commentary in his writing with V for Vendetta and of course Watchmen.

As we said. We put focus on the movies based off his stories, which you can listen to LoEG now in our podcast section.

While talking about Alan Moore's hatred for film adaptations, we actually came to a realization that, although we love Alan Moore, it is a bit hypocritical. In League, he's pulling characters out of other people's literature. Swamp Thing wasn't his character and yet he changed his story. He gave an origin to a character who was never really supposed to have one, in The Joker. All of which we and most fans are okay with because he writes it so well. So why the instant negativity to film adaptations?

Anyway, we love his work and came to enjoy most of the movies based on it. We see the differences. The quality of filmmaking certainly varies. By the end of September, we hope you joined us and had a good time celebrating Alan Moore month cause we had a great time making it happen.

Don't forget to vote in our Poll for best Alan Moore stories.
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All
    Adventure Time
    Alan Moore
    Alien
    Aquaman
    Arrow
    Arrowverse
    Avengers
    Baseball
    Batman
    Batman V Superman
    Beauty And The Beast
    Betsy Palmer
    Bill & Ted
    Black Panther
    Blade
    Bob Hall
    Captain America
    Captain Flash
    Cars
    Christmas
    Christmas Carol
    Christopher Lee
    Comicbook Men
    Comic Con
    Con
    Constantine
    Constellation
    Cosplay
    Crypticon
    Cyborg
    Daredevil
    Davey Johnson
    DC(Detective Comics)
    Deadpool
    Devil's Rejects
    Dick Tracy
    Disney
    Doctor Strange
    Doctor Who
    Doug And Eddie
    Dusty Rhodes
    E3
    Elfwood
    Emily Kinney
    Fantastic 4
    First Post
    Flash
    Flash Gordon
    Fox
    Free Comic Book Day
    Friday The 13th
    From Hell
    Funko
    Gaming
    Ghostbusters
    Ghost Rider
    Giant Monsters
    Giveaway
    Godzilla
    Green Lantern
    Guardians Of The Galaxy
    Guest Writing
    Halloween
    Hellboy
    Hook
    Horror
    Howard The Duck
    Independence Day
    Indiana Jones
    Intro
    Jeff Crane
    Joe DeMarco
    John Carpenter
    John Wick
    Jurassic World
    Justice League
    Kevin Smith
    King Kong
    Krampus
    League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    Lego
    Living Dead Dolls
    Lucifer
    Man Of Steel
    Marvel Comics
    Mary Ellen Trainor
    Midnight Sons
    Mike Fielding
    Ming Chen
    Mummy
    Neverending Story
    New England Comics
    Non Comic Movies
    O Comic Con
    Oscars
    Osfes
    Pinky And The Brain
    Pirates
    Pixar
    Podcast
    Podsgiving
    Power Rangers
    Promo
    Punisher
    Random Draw
    Rankin/Bass
    Resident Evil
    Review
    Rogue One
    Ryan Reynolds
    San Diego Comic Con
    Sasquatch Week
    Savage Dragon
    Scott Pilgrim
    Show Notes
    Smodcast
    Spawn
    Spider Man
    Spider-Man
    Star Wars
    Suicide Squad
    Supergirl
    Superman
    Swamp Thing
    Tattoo
    Terrible Lizard
    The Defenders
    The Phantom
    The Podcast Arcade
    The Terminator
    The Tick
    Thor
    Thunderous Thorsday
    Tim Burton
    TNMT
    Tusk
    Ultron
    Underworld
    Universal Monsters
    Update
    Van Helsing
    V For Vendetta
    Video
    View Askewniverse
    Watchmen
    Wednesday Writing
    Wes Crave
    Wizard World
    Wolverine
    Wonder Woman
    Word Art Online
    Wrestling
    X Men
    X-men
    XXx
    Yvonne Craig
    Zombilly


Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Episodes
  • iTunes
  • About
  • Contact us
  • The Podcast Arcade
    • Daydream Instruction Manual
    • Falcon Punch Thunder Dads
    • Underground Inc.
    • Geekvice
    • Paranormal Dads
    • Make Eternia Great Again
  • Archive
    • Gallery >
      • 2015 Conventions >
        • O Comic Con
        • Wizard World
      • Collections >
        • Ben's Collection
        • Billy's Collection
      • Funkograms
      • In Memory of Jeff >
        • Jeff's Collection
        • Jeff's Imitations
    • Our Instagram
    • Unboxing Videos
    • Mobile