#allan moore

[lemonspades]

Go read Watchman if you're okay with all the death and violence.

#my art #lemonspades #watchman #rorschach #fire #hellmo #hell mo #helmo #helmo meme #allan moore #death to society #remember folks #never actually give them a way out #“oh but that's not fair” #so is he #trashman #stinky boi #i love him

[takunwilliams]

DR MANHTATTAN 

#dr manhattan #watchmen #dc #blue #mars #science #love #team work #heros #future #aliens #genius #setup #allan moore #writere #magician #stroy #epic #bald #atom

[fillius-fog-radio]

#swamp thing #allan moore #beauty and the beast

[thevectronic]

Charlton Comic’s Watchmen

Yesterday, a video showed up on my YouTube home page regarding DC Comic's Doomsday Clock event mini-series titled Watchmen's Exquisite Corpse: Doomsday Clock. Out of curiosity I watched the video & in the process learned about the original concept behind Watchmen: a murder mystery title using the recently acquired Charlton Comics characters Blue Beetle (Ted Kord), Captain Atom, Nightshade, Peacemaker & The Question (Vic Sage) in 1985.

Once that was pointed out to me, I began hyperfixating on that thought & couldn't unsee the obvious parallels. It was then that I realized what Allan Moore was trying to state with the comic run so I'm making this post to throw my hat into the ring on this conversation.

Rather than spinning characters into alternate history or resurrecting characters after years of being iced, he'd rather place them in unique situations they haven't encountered before while exploring each of the character's relationships with one another as they struggle in the conflict.

One of the things that fascinates me about Watchmen to no end is how from a few lines of dialog between characters carry so much weight with each exchange without ever needing to look too deep into a character's history as everything around them just clicks. All while they remained shelved & self-contained prior to Doomsday Clock & the Before Watchmen comic run.

I just wonder how things would've gone if Allan Moore was allowed to use the Charlton Comics cast or hell even the MJL Comic characters. OFC alternate history is fascinating to speculate about, but what's the point in writing or pondering about that when we can learn from these moments in time & place pre-existing characters in situations they've never been before. Speaking of, I should read Tom King's Batman Rebirth line, heard some pretty good things about that.

#Watchmen #charlton comics #Doomsday Clock #Blue Beetle #Captain Atom #Nightshade #Allan Moore #Peacemaker #The Question

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Imagination

Neil Gaiman: [inhaling fresh morning air] ahhhh what a great day for a race! Clive Barker: what race? Gaiman: the HUMAN race Gaiman: i was just thinking of the awesome potential of the human mind Gaiman: and the limitless vista of the human imagination

Gaiman: just imagine! with the awesome power of imagination, YOU are in control of your own fantasies Gaiman: all you need is a pinch of curiosity, a dash of wonder Gaiman: and an ounce of whimsy!! Gaiman: butterfly in the skyyyy Gaiman: i can fly twice as hiiiigh

Gaiman: why, you could imagine anything! Gaiman: you could imagine a clockwork alligator as big as the sky! Gaiman: you could imagine a railroad conductor made of lemon drops! Gaiman: you could even imagine Gaiman: a boy who wears glasses and goes to a wizard school

Rowling: hello children Rowling: my lawyersss inform me there'sss some copyright infringement happening here Gaiman: ah but joanne Gaiman: if you check the time stamps, i'm sure you'll find that Tim Hunter actually PREDATES harry potter Rowling: Rowling: curssse you gaiman Rowling: you win thisss round

Rowling: curssse you gaiman Rowling: not even i am rich enough to overcome the limitsss of chronological time! Rowling: not yet Rowling: but sssomeday Rowling: if only i hadn't ssspent sso much on that fence

Alan Moore: [appearing in a clap of thunder] Behold! The Arch magus! King: the arch magus! Koontz: the arch magus! Lovecraft: the arch magus! Barker: the arch magus! Poe: the arch magus!

Alan Moore: behold! the story of the boy wizard antichrist! Rowling: ALRIGHT i can definitely sssue over this Moore: ah foolish mortal, observe and know... i never specifically SAID harry potter Rowling: Moore: i just said the boy wizard named [mumbles] who goes to school at [mumbles] school of witchcraft and wizardry and fights [mumbles]

Rowling: curse you moore! Rowling: alwayssss one ssstep ahead of the game! Rowling: curssse your plausssible deniability! Rowling: hmmm "plaussible deniability" huh? Rowling: well TWO can play that game...

Rowling: so anyway the nazis didn't actually commit those documented crimes King: gosh joanne that uh kinda sounds- Rowling: oh but you'll notice i never said the word "holocaust" Rowling: haha i'm too sslippery for you! Rowling: johnny law can't keep up! Rowling: they'll never catch JK Rowling with her molted ssskin around her anklesss!

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #stephen king #clive barker #edgar allan poe #dean koontz #hp lovecraft #jk rowling #neil gaiman #alan moore

[diioonysus]

sleep + art

#lilies by albert joseph moore #a book at bedtime by emma irlam briggs #a golden dream by joseph walter #dont know the title but its by johanna harmon #sleeping woman by anton ebert #a workbasket by albert joseph moore #indigo and ivory by daniel gerhartz #reclining model by allan douglas davidson #in bed by federico zandomeneghi #dont know the title but its by daniel gerhartz #dont know title but its by mary qian #sleeping beauty by johann georg meyer von bremen #dont know title but its by rupert bunny #i cant find the artist or title #artist is eugene louis boudin #artist is richard s johnson #silver and gold by william russell flint #artist is pino daeni sonnett #dont know the artist or title #rest on the violet couch by vladimir volegov #someone is waiting by david hettinger #i cant find the artist #robin of modern times by john roddam spencer stanhope #dreams by samuel melton fisher #it's called girl in a white dress resting on a sofa i think but i cant find an artist #artist is henri joseph thomas #portrait of a young woman by jan van beers #world of dreams by laura theresa alma-tadema #a sleeping girl by albert joseph moore #nonchaloir by john singer sargent

[minimanic]

A thing I think about a lot is how a thing can be an objectively bad adaptation but a good whatever it actually is and how this is not a binary metric or flaw and the two cakes of it all etc.

We should all make art by processing information in polarizing ways is what I’m saying

#u know the Stanley Kubrick shining #most Mike Flanagan adaptations #most movies made out of Allan Moore comics #most Allan Moore comics #apparently there are people who Really don’t like the movie version of Annihilation which was news to me but i can’t say im surprised #many such cases #you know how it is

[cinematic-literature]

You S04E01 (Joe Takes a Holiday)

Book title: The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (1948) by Edgar Allan Poe

#you #netflix you #you season 4 #edgar allan poe #american literature #the tell-tale heart #the tell-tale heart and other writings #books in tv shows #penn badgley #joe goldberg #jonathan moore

[80smovies]

#Apprentice to Murder #Ralph L. Thomas #Wesley Moore #Allan Scott #Donald Sutherland #Chad Lowe #Mia Sara #80s

[hootenanie]

out: introducing your nonbinary/genderweird character by stating pronouns in:

#for the man who has everything #im enjoying it so far btw ty allan moore

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Evil Bong 888: Infinity High 2022

#Evil Bong 888: Infinity High #Sonny Carl Davis #Diana Prince #Israel Sharpe #Bree Essrig #Whitney Moore #Dare Taylor #Keep Chambers #Christiana Cinn #Circus-Szalewski #Noelle Ann Mabry #Kaius Harrison #Robin Sydney #Cody Renee Cameron #Caleb Hurst #Adam Roberts #Libbie Higgins #Allan Wayne Anderson #Thomas Fairell #Del Howison #Elina Madison #John Reinke #John Patrick Jordan #Michelle Mais #Brooks Davis #Bobby Ramos #Alan Maxson

[blackros78]

Gary Moore and Allan Holdsworth

#gary moore #allan holdsworth #guitar gods #1980s #classic rock

[chelseajackarmy]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Wales 2 - 1 Croatia🇭🇷

European Qualifiers

15/10/23

#wales #fa wales #football #pêl-droed #cymru #yma o hyd #harry wilson #Kieffer Moore #danny ward #connor roberts #daniel james #gôl #goal #futbol #cymraeg #swansea #cardiff #Croatia #euro qualifiers #joe allan #ben davies #european qualifiers

[leer-reading-lire]

Last read:

Title: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One

Author: Alan Moore (writer) and Kevin O'Neill (illustrator)

Number of Pages: 192

Rating: ★★★★☆

First published: March 1999 - September 2000

Read: 1 - 9 September 2022

Thoughts:

Mina Murray unsurprisingly is the best and most interesting character. Deservedly, she is the leader of the team. She's smart, resourceful, brave, direct and industrious. I expected to learn more about her past. If memory serves, there are events not covered between the end of Dracula and how Mina started to work with agent Campion Bond. For example, why Mina and Jonathan got divorced?

The next best character has to be Captain Nemo. I rejoiced that he didn't trust Campion Bond and, therefore, decided to send Griffin to investigate.

I was shocked and delighted to see C. Auguste Dupin in this story and I wish he had a bigger role.

After, I guess we have Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde. They're fine.

Then, there's Griffin (the Invisible Man), he could have ranked higher as his wit makes me chuckle. Nonetheless, I can't forgive him for what he did at the girls' school.

Finally, Allan Quatermain. He wasn't that bad in comparison to other male characters on the book. What bothers me was his never ending complaints about Mina; and what was worst was that supposedly he's in love with her! Well, no. The truly worst bit is that she seems to like him too.

About the story, it was intertaining. I like adventure, action and mystery stories, so it was good. Also, I appreciated all the intertextuality: Arsène Lupin (Maurice Leblanc) and Dodger (Charles Dickens) were also around, although briefly.

In general terms, I liked it. However, I can't say I enjoyed all of it.

The thing I'm really fed up with is the Smurfette Principle (to include only ONE woman in an otherwise entirely male team). I can only dream to see another woman join the league.

What's more, the treatment of the female characters was often sexist, objectifying and in Marisa's case, racist (I likewise noticed racisim against Captain Nemo).

Concerning Allan and the Sundered Veil, it was long and dull for me. It took me more time to read this short story than the rest of the book. The only aspect that I could appreciate was the penny dreadful format (even though it gets repetitive for obvious reasons, such as the formulas).

#tbrbusterchallenge2022 #bookbanditchallenge #the league of extraordinary gentlemen #alan moore #kevin o'neill #mina murray #graphic novel #comic #bram stoker #edgar allan poe #jules verne #h. g. wells #robert louis stevenson #english literature #classic literature #reading challenge #last read #books and reading #booklr #book review #leerreadinglire

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: X-Men

Stephen King: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of when the X-Men fought the literal embodiment of hunger King: it was for a charity comic Poe: oh right right of course Lovecraft: of course Barker: gotcha Koontz: wowww! x men!!

King: so kitty pryde goes to the get some food King: but then suddenly King: she starts losing weight! King: now normally King: i think that sort of this is good King: usually i think the opposite is way scarier King: but this time King: it's bad

King: what's the cause of Kitty Pryde's unnatural weight loss? King: it's the evil mutant ghost embodiment of hunger King: the monstrous force known as King: "hungry" Barker: ba ha ha ha Poe: clive

Barker: "Hungry!?" King: yeah, his name is hungry Barker: like, the adjective? King: yeah i Barker: ah ha ha ha King: i don't see whats so funny King: yeah, his name is hungry King: see, this one time he said to his dad "i'm hungry" King: and his dad said "hi hungry, i'm dad"

King: anyway the point is that its about kitty pryde King: that super hero you all know and love Koontz: i like superman! superman is the best super hero King: ha ha well dean you're certainly entitled to your opinion King: there's no reason for us to fight King: King:

Alan Moore: [appearing in a clap of thunder] who dares call upon the arch magus? King: we need you to settle an argument Moore: speak your question, mortal, and gain wisdom King: who's the best superhero Moore: Moore: do you have any questions that aren't about that

Moore: the arch magus can see through time, control the very movements of the cosmos Moore: and you dare to ask a question about comic books King: well i just thought since you love comics so- Moore: the answer is herbie popnecker King: Moore: herbie popnecker is the best super hero

King: i'm sorry, herbie popnecker? Moore: yes herbie popnecker King: Koontz: Barker: Poe: Lovecraft: Moore: "you want i should bop you with my lollipop?" Moore: haha it doesn't get old!

Moore: i must now return to my mountain fortress [disappears in a clap of thunder] King: Koontz: Poe: Barker: Lovecraft:

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #stephen king #clive barker #edgar allan poe #dean koontz #hp lovecraft #alan moore

[mariocki]

The Saint: When Spring is Sprung (5.26, ITC, 1967)

"Let me tell you something about Simon Templar: the more he smiles, the more helpful, the more cooperative, the more honest and charming he is, the more you can be sure he's plotting something diabolical."

#the saint #when spring is sprung #itc #leslie charteris #jim o'connolly #michael pertwee #roger moore #toby robins #ann lynn #allan cuthbertson #ivor dean #george pastell #gary watson #harvey ashby #douglas livingstone #bryan mosley #eric dodson #leslie crawford #peter brace #doel luscombe #colin rix #kenneth edwards #leslie anderson #john frawley #a fairly charming ep about Simon being approached to help break a Russian spy out of prison. it isn't the most sparkling of scripts but #Moore and the guest cast are clearly having fun; notably‚ even the Russian agents in this episode are quite nice‚ several arguing against #killing Simon bc they just like him so much. there's a sort of half hearted attempt at suggesting a Russian spy is just doing a job and #should not be considered a traitor etc etc but it's undone by a (fairly obvious) twist in the last act. the Spring character‚ his well #publicised trial and sensational escape from prison are all presumably inspired by the George Blake affair (Blake broke out of prison in #october '66 when this series was likely still in production). Livingstone became a successful tv writer later in his career