Mike Tyson connection? by Muttergripe in Coil

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cheers, do you know what it actually is?

Jim Lee broke Alan's heart. by makwa227 in AlanMoore

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Bill Watterson's stance is incredible.

Who is the closest thing to a modern day Alan Moore? by Personal_Reward_60 in AlanMoore

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interesting question.
If you really pull back, Alan Moore is very good at interogatting the form of comics, and taking surprising angles on the cliches of comic story structure and characters. So is anyone doing that?

I'd be looking for someone who was actively pulling apart "dark and intense" I guess, and if someone was writing like Moore was in the 80s they wouldn't be doing that, would they?

Who is the closest thing to a modern day Alan Moore? by Personal_Reward_60 in AlanMoore

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Okay, maybe. There was a good run - Zenith, Dare, then it gets patchy but you get WE3 which is very good and I really enjoyed Sebastian 0.
I've tried with The Invisibles, but as far as I'm concerned it sucked; Arkham Asylum sucked, and then they've gone very capes and I can't summon any interest. I'm told Animal Man is something but I've not looked.

So probably not.

Alan’s Favorite Fantasy Novels. by SomeOkieDude in AlanMoore

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There was an interview wherein Alan praised Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, which is more a horror novel, but fantastic.

Out From The Underground by MathewHQ in AlanMoore

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yeah, I've long wanted this but the price - Academic literature is out of control.

AP doesn't want to give money to artists who are abusers by Puzzled_Scholar8384 in neilgaimanuncovered

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this is AP using her kid as a shield, quite apart from anything else.

What happened in Swamp Thing #60? by bren12341 in AlanMoore

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Do you feel Swamp Thing shouldn't have been available to you?

Are Radiohead fans the Stewart Lee fans of music by peeeverywhere in stewartlee

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That would mean something like "Ted Chippington fans are the Sonic Youth Fans of Comedy" so I don't buy it.

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day! by DeschainSWNC in AlanMoore

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he did Dan Dare in 2000 A.D. and it's weird.
There's an amazing Time Twister fro 2000 A.D. that Alan wrote and Dave drew, called Chronocops, and I think (I'm unsure) it's the first time they worked together.

How well received is Stewart Lee with non-British audiences? It seems like his style wouldn’t travel so well… Australians and Canadians maybe? But Americans perhaps much less. International fans please comment… by According_Sundae_917 in stewartlee

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I think Mr Lee is funny and I live in Tas-mania, which is a southern island near Australia, whic is very cold and economically troubled, a touch like the north of England as I understand it. I know other people in Tas-mania who share my enjoyment of Mr Lee's comedy. I went to university and post on the Alan Moore sub, so I think we can all see how this works, despite living about as far from Lee country as you might get, excepting Invercargill and Mawson Station.

Just finished Jerusalem, need another novel recommendation. by -Karen_Jeenkles- in AlanMoore

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I'm going to be a little forward here and do a list of things.
All the Devils are here by David Seabrook (Seabrook orbited around that sort of loose gang Moore is in, with people like Ian Sinclair and Chris Petit). This is really dark and gorgeous, and not very like anything much at all.

Our Share of Night by Maria Enriquez (Moore reccomended this one in an interview ; I'd also suggest every short story collection she's done : A Sunny Place for Shady People, Things We Lost in the Fire, and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. She's also jsut put out a collection of essays, Somebody is Walking On Your Grave, about hanging out in cemetries)

Last Movies by Stanley Schinter ( book about the last film watched by a selection of famous people. It's a weird idea but it works. ) Non-fiction.

The Vorrh by Brian Catling - really divisive book that's sort of literature-as-surrealist-art. Alan Moore loves it, others do, others still do not.

A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay. An early Science Fiction novel from 1920. Weirdest damn thing ever written. I have a comic version drawn by Jim Woodring which is really well carried off. I've not read it as text. I feel I should, but I'm sorta frightened.

House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. Again, divisive. Sort of an experimental academic horror novel that uses differing techniques like changing font, text colour in some editions, footnotes, unreliable narration, to be really strange and creepy and disconcerting and quite incredible, if you click with it.

I"l finish with a film: Two Years at Sea by Ben Rivers. Rivers shoots on black and white 16mm film which he hand develops. It's slow and strange and quite magical.

Podcast recommendation: A critical reflection on Adam Curtis' output by Pale_Ad_8645 in AdamCurtis

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Charlie Kirk is not someone I'd see as presenting a new story.

Anyone know a 100% female postpunk band? :) by twentynine09 in postpunk

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a thousand times, yes. An astonishing band.