Salon.com Books | The man who invented the future Salon.com Books | The man who invented the future Two warnings, 1. you'll have to look at an add to read this and 2. its written in American new vernacular, ie filled with all sorts of hasty generalizations that reduce the big conclusions to something like nonsense.

This man wrote a number of things that had a profound impact on my imagination. The stories that have been into movies, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell weren't the one that really got me. I started ready Watchmen soon after the 3rd or 4th issue was released. If you think reading it in the collected edition is exciting, consider having to wait months between episodes, dwelling over those brilliantly detailed Dave Gibbons pictures, searching through Moore's mostly prose appendices looking for clues and coming to realize all the cool symmetries, references and back stories.

I didn't take drugs as an adolescent, Alan Moore took them for me.

D.R & Quinch, the Ballad of Halo Jones, V for Vendetta, 1964, ... I should stop now, my obsessive fan boy side is rearing its ugly, acne afflicted face. It could be worse, I could regail you with tales of how I discovered Isaac Asimov in the fourth. Its a tale guaranteed to make everyone wish I would go back to trying to explain Kant.   ¶ #

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