John42

March 1, 2012 7:50 pm Good call on Tom strong and promethea. I would disagree with league.

March 1, 2012 7:32 pm To point A: pedestrian is really harsh. I felt the piece had a logical flow. It was called "so I read lost girls and OTHER PERTINENT THOUGHTS" not "my thoughts on porn". Discussing a work where Moore takes liberties with others' creations naturally leads to a discussion of his thoughts about people taking liberties with his creations. And I wouldn't call this discussion a flame war. A heated debate maybe, but everyone has contributed ideas they've clearly put thought into as opposed to just yelling at each other.

March 1, 2012 3:39 pm I think Hickman listed Morrison as his favorite writer in article for this site

February 29, 2012 10:45 pm And frankly, reading Alan Moore books kinda just depress me now. Yes, the craft is impeccable, but the philosophy is so overwhelmingly nihilist. All heroes lose, no one is effective, the world sucks, etc. V will always be my favorite because he was advocating something he believed in, not skillfully tearing down something he hated. And I can't forgive him for the hyde/invisible man rape scene in league 2. As a friend of victims of rape, I vociferously say that's not something you should make into a heroic 'fuck yeah' moment

February 29, 2012 8:50 pm Have any of moore's works been wholly original? Beyond the obvious stuff like marvelman, swamp thing, league, watchmen, and lost girls, V is Guy Fawkes, necronomicon is lovecraft, top 10 is the whole superhero genre... And I love everything I mentioned (except necronomicon- does everything you write need rape?), and it wouldn't bother me at all (i like the pixies and nirvana) if he wasn't so vicious about works like blackest night that he hasn't and most likely will never read.

February 2, 2012 10:17 pm y'know, for some reason i've always associated Ron with the singer from the get up kids. I think because at one time they had the same hair.

December 21, 2011 2:57 pm i would also say the chaplins, but that's a kind of love-him-or-you-don't thing that's highly dependent on personal taste. actually i'd suspect Josh you'd be more of a keaton guy. anyway, if you wanna do the chaplins i'd do it in this order: dictator, times, lights (which was orson welles' favorite movie) and you're gonna have multiple opportunities to dvr wonderful life on sunday. it's also as good as its rep. and it features the first of jimmy stewart's PTSD-fueled performances. for everyone watching it this christmas, jimmy couldn't work for a while after the war. he had a lot of trouble with the fact that, as an accomplished pilot, he blew up a lot of people. he had to go to therapy, which was extremely taboo in 1944. His trademark character was the ultimate aw-shucks innocent, and then he killed people. That changed him, and he started to show that on screen culminating in Vertigo (btw, nicely done on the intro Conor). Also he and director anthony mann made a string of some of the best westerns ever (winchester 73 and the naked spur are the best), a director/actor pairing that should be put up there with scorcese/de niro, fellini/mastroioni , truffaut/leaud, and kurosawa/mifune.

December 21, 2011 1:26 pm @Josh- watch casablanca as soon as humanly possible. it's as good as its reputation. especially since you're a writer and it has one of the best screenplays ever. after that i'd do bicycle thieves.

September 25, 2011 10:46 pm planetary/batman is one of the my favorite batman stories, and the climactic line of dialogue from batman is the best explanation of why he does what he does I've ever read.

June 14, 2011 11:55 am how about that other Alan Moore lantern that lived in sector with no sun, so there was no concept of vision or light. S/He lived in a world of sound, and came up with a whole sonic version of the lantern oath. Pretty cool.

Also, the Ch'p panel came from Green Lantern: Mosaic, which I think is one of the most under-appreciated series out there. It came from writer Gerard Jones, best known now for his non-fiction prose including Men of Tomorrow- the comic creator biobook, and Killing Monsters, which is the best post-Columbine book I'ver read. Great rational antidote to the Fredrick Wertham style media hysteria that followed Columbine. Great companion piece to Gus Van Sant's Elephant.

Gerarard Jones' 'Green Lanter: Mosaic' series was AWESOME.It  pitted Joshn Stewart's super-well-developed character against a surreal landscape that would make Dali and Jodorowsky jealous.  According to his John Siuntres' Word Balloon interview with Jones the series was cancelled because it was too Vertigo-ish.

I advise everyone: seek out Green Lantern: Mosiac in whatever form you can get it. It's a series that deserves reading, and if any DC execs are reading: TRADE IT!  People havre already done the scans for you!  I would pay for a book of those scans.