Illuminations: Stories

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Aunque tuviera entre sus manos los materiales más excelsos para construir una maravillosa historia (que tampoco, no hay en uno sólo de estos relatos rastro de belleza o verdad, salvo cierto ingenio y todo lo que deriva de éste, artificio, ironía y superficialidad) la jodería con la prosa más sobreescrita, insufrible y pagada de sí misma que he leído en años. Is hierarchy really so ingrained in the structure of everything, not just in the stupid mammals on one particular marginal planet? I’ve read enough histories of comics to know that many of the people involved, especially in the early days, were somewhere between unpleasant and criminal, that they cheated creators (few more than the cheated Alan Moore), that the whole business model was a fly by night that somehow became an institution.

There's no path out to successful creator-owned work, certainly no big films or TV shows based on properties the creators still own, such as The Walking Dead. I would read more of this though, as I feel it has potential (uuugggghhhhh and now I just feel pretentious saying that about Alan Fucking Moore!The League and the far less highly regarded Cinema Purgatorio, incidentally, are among the few works from Moore's vast back catalogue to appear in Illuminations' savagely pruned By The Same Author list, which omits anything where he doesn't retain the rights, and even a couple like Neonomicon where I'm pretty sure he does. Not least because he's amped up just enough of what is on the record that he has cover beyond the changed names for what isn't. A lot of the supporting cast get swapped around, so it's Malcolm McDowell not Terence Stamp as not-Zod, Bogarde not Hackman as the Luthor analogue and so forth. And his son's disastrous performance at the Senate hearings which would lead to the imposition of the Comics Code is here pushed from merely disastrous to hilariously catastrophic.

In Not Even Legend, a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. Este Illuminations recolhe alguns dos seus contos, e faz muito sentido que Moore também dê umas tecladas como contista. It felt a little obvious to me, and while the sex scene was kind of fun in a blasphemous way, it actually took away from the story for me because it felt a little hammed in there.But for a man who's complained about how heavily comics is still influenced by a bad mood he was in during the eighties, it would surely be healthy for all concerned if he could maybe move on from being in a bad mood about comics to quite this extent. Themes and concepts that should be familiar to any casual Moore reader are simpatico with what’s here – if not outright recycled.

Thank you to NetGalley, Bloomsbury Publishing, and Alan Moore for this book in exchange for my honest review! In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover - and in some cases even make and unmake - the various uncharted parts of existence.As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary–authors such as William S. I loved the ending, where, if I’m interpreting correctly, she was led into the Garden of Eden hungry. Welcome to the creation of life in the universe as imagined by Alan Moore - I don't think you'll be disappointed. He brings to light a lot of the things that eventually turned me off of the Beats, and the structure of this one is just really fun.

Watchmen and From Hell creator Alan Moore on Illuminations: 'I wanted to exorcise my negative thoughts about comics' ". HYPOTHETICAL LIZARD - Five stars - I'd read this one before a couple times in graphic novel form, but the prose version is much more riveting and expands on what was already one of my favourite stories. Em The Improbable Complex High-Energy State, Moore atreve-se a imaginar um universo, e vida inteligente, a desenvolver-se no instante de Planck, uma minúscula eternidade que nasce e se extingue com o big bang, mas onde as criaturas são atreitas a todos os vícios humanos.this has some good short stories and some other undefinable stuff for which even the structure can't be described (the long story one about the first femtosecond of the creation of the world, for instance). The only thing that makes it recognizably Alan Moore-y is the scaffolding of local history, which is by far the most interesting part of the story. I grabbed this from NetGalley mainly for the author (‘Watchmen’ is almost like a master class for adult comic lovers), and partly for the concept.