Anyone else a fan of Alan Moore's work at ABC? Tomorrow Stories, Tom Strong, Top 10, (stands reverently) League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

I'd have thought with all the extensive minutiae and cultural references, the Nitpicker's Guild would be all over LoEG or Top 10...

Tehy're all among the best comics out there today. If you're not reading these..you should be.

I loved Top Ten. I wish he'd do another run of it. I loved Gene Ha's work on the The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix and Askani's Son, but his work on Top Ten not so much. I don't know if this is his pencils or Zander Cannon's inks, but there isn't much variation in closeups-to-longshots, he puts the same texture on everything, and doens't use cross-hatching or spotting of blacks very well.

I'm REALLY enjoying its spinoff miniseries, Smax. It's just plain hilarious, yet at the same time we're learning a lot about Jeff and Robyn, and the world Jeff comes from. I just wish Smax didn't come off as such a moron, since he doesn't act this way in the main book, and I think this demeans his character a bit. I can't wait to see how it ends.

Tom Strong is great. I really enjoyed the alternate timeline story that wrapped up recently, and the Dr. Permafrost story that just kicked off this month looks good. Can't wait to see where it goes. The world of Tom Strong is just magical and inspiration. I just wish it came out more frequently. I also enjoy all of its spinoff stories. The young Tom Strong and Jonni Future (hubba, hubba!) features in Tom Strong's Terrific Tales are fun to read.

I tried Tomorrow Stories for a bit. The only segment I liked was the one with the genius kid, and I think one Greyshirt story, the one told in four different temporal levels per page. I didn't stick with it. I don't care for Cobweb or that American duo parody.

I bought the first issue of Promethea, and the first collected volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. They're the two ABC titles I didn't care for at all. I didn't buy Moore's fascination with the supposedly mysterious way the character Promethea popped up in different time periods, and League just bores me. The artwork is just amateurishly awful, I can't stand the way Nina's waist looks like it's a few inches in diameter, and I don't get why she doesn't use her powers when nearly raped in the beginning. I stopped reading it. The movie wasn't perfect, but at least it wasn't boring.

I have read (parts of all of) Top Ten, Tom Strong, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Tomorrow Stories. I greatly enjoyed them and recommend them all (well, except perhaps Tomorrow Stories). Top Ten undoubtedly was my favorite.

I hate to be a buzzkill but, apparently Alan Moore has grown weary of comics (again) and is winding up all the ABC titles. Despite reports that Moore was going to hand off the titles to other writers, that apparently is no longer going to happen, and the titles will cease publication shortly. I presume The 49ers, a Top Ten prequel, still will be done, as will the third volume of LoEG.

The only upside for ABC fans is that, because of the erratic publishing schedule at the company, it still might be some time before all the titles are concluded.

Isn't this an imprint of DC Comics? If so I can move it to the DC section.

ABC started as an imprint of Jim Lee's Wildstorm, which he then sold to DC. The books contain no mention of their relationsip to DC because of Alan Moore's dispute with the company. Moore stayed with ABC because the books would still be processed through Wildstorm's offices, not DC's.

Moore left DC in the late '80s because he believed he and Dave Gibbons were supposed to retain rights to Watchmen. The situation was aggravated when DC instituted its comics-rating system, something Moore opposed. So he left the company, vowing to never work for them again.

Here's a link for more info.

But technically it's DC, so I'll move it there.

BTW from february 1942 to July 1949, Better/Standard Publications published 31 issues of a comic called, America's Best Comics. Don't know if Moore knew that or not, but I thought it was an interesting bit of trivia.