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Queer Eye For The Straight Guy takes on Alan Moore

If you don't know who Moore is, he's a prolific and famous comic book writer - who looks like this:
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2003/jun/league/moore.jpg

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Date: 2004-11-18 03:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jl-williams.livejournal.com
If you don't know who Alan Moore is, something's seriously wrong with you. Just my opinion.

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Date: 2004-11-18 04:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torrain.livejournal.com
I should introduce you to the guy who confused him with Frank Miller and Garth Ennis, and summarized the resulting conglomerate as "kind of cool, but a little wacko on the whole anti-left thing".

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Date: 2004-11-18 05:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rimrunner.livejournal.com
Oh, THAT should be entertaining. I'd even watch it if I had HBO (it is on HBO, right?).

Terrible thing I saw at the bookstore yesterday: novelizations of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. By Kevin J. Anderson, natch. I applaud the guy for being able to make a living doing what he does, but good god, WHY???

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Date: 2004-11-18 07:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jl-williams.livejournal.com
He confused Moore with Miller?

God. The whole planet's doomed.

He's better now.

Date: 2004-11-18 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torrain.livejournal.com
Well, I suspected that already...

I can almost see how you might confuse them, especially if your awareness of them was a sort of vague understanding of 'the non-typical-spandex comic writer', and the impression that this was a rare and even unique creature.

I'm currently loaning him Transmet. He seems to like it. Planned follow-ups include Rising Stars and Kingdom Come.

(Pfeh. No Spawn at the comic book shop today. Got Judge Dredd, Swamp Thing, and how loathsome instead.)

Re: He's better now.

Date: 2004-11-18 07:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jl-williams.livejournal.com
My recommendations for the week are 100 Bullets, Sin City and The Creech, if you can find them. The first two are hard-boiled noir, and the third is Greg Capullo's dark-and-hulky brainchild.

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Date: 2004-11-18 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jl-williams.livejournal.com
Moore likes to make social commentaries through his work, mostly doing wierd stuff with familiar literary or comic-book archetypes. The point isn't to buy the concept being presented, but rather to observe the message buried in the absurdity.

Mostly. Sometimes he's just odd.

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