With his look a mix between Jesus Christ and a Charles Manson lost from Woodstock itself, the writer Alan Moore it already appears at first glance as the different type that it is. But it is that Moore is the genius of a visual literature that as soon as graphic novel or the film script as it takes us into a comic that points to classics of our days.
The great creators are back from everything. Alan Moore also has several trips ahead of us. Thus, getting to read their stories is a challenge to all five senses. From reading to the image, everything conspires to provoke that complete shock, far beyond what can be achieved with sophisticated games or virtual realities, to name other elements of leisure.
If we exercise it, the imagination recovers that power that has always been assumed, although lately we have diminished it. Alan Moore is our best teacher to recover forgotten flexibilities of the gray muscle. And, oh, chorprecha! It turns out that imagination awakens the critical spirit and many other things.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Alan Moore
From Hell
It is clear that the theme of the noir or horror genre is most popular as a plot line for graphic novels. Cases like «Fly swatter»Or«Fight club 2They testify to this. The point is to get the perfect plot. And sometimes much of the composition of a great graphic novel may already be written even in the real world.
Between myth and reality (or rather the strange morbid mania for erecting myths from the most ominous of history), the case of Jack the Ripper continues to appear from time to time to our imagination. In that London assaulted by perpetual fog, old Jack put to the knife every woman who dared to walk past teatime.
Moore adapts the myth to his own research, a documentation that also delves into spurious interests capable of promoting atrocity to silence the links of vice and power. Thus only one of those disturbing novels could emerge in the strange new lights of a decadent world.
Eddie Campbell's illustrations accompany you like the hand that grabs you as you prepare to cross the fog with no return trip possible. It is never easy for an adaptation to be labeled a masterpiece and yet Moore and Campbell achieved it with this masterful volume.
V de Vendetta
Nothing seems exaggerated when referring to Alan Moore as the genius that he is if we consider the sociological relevance of this work. Because from the theatricality of this comic a whole social revolution was born that points to the anti-system as a necessity against the disguised authoritarianisms of our days.
V for Vendetta, as well as being one of the comics industry's greatest masterpieces and one of the most personal and accomplished works of its authors, Alan Moore and David Lloyd, is a horrifying and terrifyingly real story about the loss of life. freedom and the identity of the individual who is immersed in a hostile, cold and totalitarian world.
Against the backdrop of an imaginary England that has fallen under the boot of a fascist regime, life under a suffocating police state as well as the power of rebellion and the resistance of the human spirit to oppression and totalitarianism are analyzed. In a world where everything that is not prohibited is mandatory, one man can make a difference.
Batman The Killing Joke
We could point out many other works in this selection. But being Batman such a multifaceted superhero of our days, thanks to the plot and character revisions, it is worth dwelling on Moore's particular setting.
Here we are told the origins of the most charismatic supervillain in the world of comics, the Joker, and offers an unforgettable interpretation of the disturbing relationship between Bat Man and his greatest enemy. A twisted tale of insanity and perseverance in which the Clown Prince of Crime pushes the Dark Knight and Commissioner Gordon to the limit.
Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta) and Brian Bolland (Camelot 3000) sign this modern comic book classic. An essential work, presented through a new edition that has Bolland's own coloring, faithful to the original interpretation that the British cartoonist had in mind during the development of this acclaimed graphic novel.
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