10 BEST Alan Moore Comic Masterpieces YOU Need to Read!

[@rodmcfadyen8487]

Missed "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" which kickstarted an entire crossover/shared universe sub-genre of literature.

[@TBATB]

I knoooow I only had 10 spots tho

[@rodmcfadyen8487]

@@TBATB Well, I guess you need a Part II then. May I also suggest the Alan Moore run on Supreme, with the delightful homage to the Silver Age of Superman?

[@TBATB]

I’ve heard so many people suggest that and I’ve never heard of it before! Will definitely put it on my list after I read some other writers ahaha

[@francoisdemorcy5084]

League was cool. Second arc was eh. The ending was weak

[@TwistedIdentity]

I legit almost clicked off when you said Doomsday Clock LOL

[@TBATB]

Was that joke too far haha?

[@TwistedIdentity]

@@TBATB Naaahh. :P My brain was fried after today's workday.

[@kevinvendt5948]

Not a giant Alan Moore fan, but I cannot overstate his impact on the medium.

[@TBATB]

That’s a super fair take to have! I hope you still enjoyed the video!

[@francoisdemorcy5084]

He is just so bitter now. Understand to a extent

[@pkr7639]

Currently reading Watchmen for a second time. The first time was 12 years ago when I was 18. It was the first comic book I read, and I didn't quite get it. It was kind of hard to get trough when you don't know the context and impact it had on the medium, and back then I was craving action packed stories. But now, after 12 years of reading experience, I love it the second time through.

[@TBATB]

The crazy thing about watchmen is if you read it again in a few years you will once again have a deeper understanding. I try to go back to watchmen once every few years.

[@johnwalsh4857]

Read the watchmen like 10 times at least since 86 wow, lots of things to find out inside. still going strong.

[@Charlosduncan]

"with the true batman creator: Bill Finger" with that sentence alone, you just won my respect man, right on,

[@TBATB]

I mean I know it’s “co-creator” but we know who did the most stuff

[@Charlosduncan]

@@TBATB Exactly, and that thing of hiring pencillers as well... that's pretty shady really.(Talking about Bob "business rat" Kane of course)

[@johnwalsh4857]

Ive been reading Alan Moore since 86, starting with Swamp thing #39, blown away by that one back in the day here is a list in no order of my high recomends from Alan Moore's works: Watchmen(probably the best work Alan Moore has done) V For Vendetta Miracleman Swamp Thing Ballad of Halo Jones(Alan Moore complete it please its criminal you did not complete this one) D.R. and Quinch Batman Killing Joke League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[@dofstudio9978]

My top 10 Alan moore: 1 Swamp thing 2 From Hell 3 Lost girls 4 V for Vendetta 5 Miracleman 6 League of extraordinary gentleman 7 The Birth Caul 8 The Ballad of Halo Jones 9 What happend to the man of tomorrow 10 Watchmen

[@geminisundone]

Interesting list. Lost girls was the last Moore book I bought and read...I wasn't impressed after one read. My opinion could change with a reread down the line but I'm all about Moore's writing and the constant sex scenes on every page bored me silly a third in...finished it but it was overkill. I'm no prude at all and I hate censorship but it was like reading through a book where a fight scene happens at the beginning and doesn't stop till the end...I wanted more story and less sex but I knew what I was going into reading it I just thought there might have been a few pages breaks but it was relentless 😂😂 Great art though. What did you love about it to rate it so highly? Watchmen at 10 aswell!? I'm fascinated by your truth. It's certainly not mine but please explain to me I'm intrigued ✌️

[@TBATB]

I’ve heard both good and bad things about lost girls I should try it some day haha

[@Kensicz]

@@TBATB Halo Jones!!!

[@thewildking999]

One of the goats of comic book channel's. Great video

[@TBATB]

This made my day! I like to call my self a goat in training haha 😆 like I’ll be one someday!

[@thewildking999]

@@TBATB glad to hear! your vids make my day too man, great atmosphere, very knowledgeable, dope collection, unique video ideas and great personality. excited to see more and more! and yea dude if you continue at this pace theres nothing stopping you from being the goat 👏

[@willsherman4044]

Glad to have you guys back!

[@TBATB]

Glad to be back!

[@willsherman4044]

@@TBATB can’t wait for the top 10 rebirth/new 52 episode.

[@vishal7arora]

I have both the versions of From Hell and if you loved it in any of the versions, try the other one too. There is a different feel with both but I personally prefer the charcoal black & white version. It is much more gothic and atmospheric especially the crude nature of the art at times. The colored version is great too and rather more palatable for a wider audience.

[@TBATB]

I promise to try it again later haha

[@crimefightingspider]

Awesome video. Worth the wait 😄

[@TBATB]

You are too kind

[@edwardmemwah1610]

I believe Moore has disowned Killing Joke. The Bolland art is precious, though, and I'd recommend checking out the Noir edition, which is in b&w. Supreme and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are also must reads.

[@TBATB]

I tried to get into LXG but after from hell I was a bit burnt out. But yes I’m sure my next version of the list will ditch killing joke for it.

[@edwardmemwah1610]

@@TBATB Oh, yeah. Alan Moore is the de facto art director on all of his best works, giving artists detailed scripts, so the books wind up having very dense visuals and layered stories. It can be too much if you read too many of his books back-to-back. I've reread Swamp Thing the most and it's an enduring favorite of mine, probably because it was a really great monthly comic without too much meta narrative to bog it all down.

[@francoisdemorcy5084]

From Hell is sick

[@bengalinsky4300]

You need to work on your aversion to b&w comics. Some of the best stuff in comics is in b&w

[@geminisundone]

​@@bengalinsky4300Each to their own though I agree From Hell imo is miles better without colour. I do love my B/W comics, same with tattoos.

[@warlockofwordschannel7901]

Hilarious choice for number 1! 😂

[@CarlosDias-er6dd]

As always, great video! I really like Top 10 videos, and as I also love Alan Moore this makes an awesome video! I'm missing Promethea, maybe I'll grab the 3 Deluxes by Christmas time...

[@TBATB]

I may be having a giveaway for another set of the Deluxe Edition soon. I’ll keep you posted.

[@CarlosDias-er6dd]

@@TBATB thank you very much! I'll keep watching your videos as well!

[@Swampthing71]

My favorite Alan Moore comics are Batman The Killing Joke & his Saga Of The Swamp Thing run.

[@TBATB]

What coloring of killing joke do you prefer?

[@Kor33Com]

Top 10, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Killing Joke and V for Vendetta. My all time favourite comics from Moore.

[@TBATB]

V for Vendetta is amazing

[@francoisdemorcy5084]

Never cared for it. Highly overated

[@TBATB]

@@francoisdemorcy5084 that’s fair! Do you have a favorite Alan Moore comic?

[@francoisdemorcy5084]

@@TBATB W had good stuff in it but a lot of it is over hyped. League was cool. Watchmen I really liked and Killing Joke. He did me Swamp Thing a threat. Weird character

[@geminisundone]

​@@francoisdemorcy5084Nothing about it is overrated. It's clearly a masterpiece. But that's your truth mate..and I believe you're telling it.

[@chazkhaira6621]

I’m really enjoying Tom Strong would have preferred it to be an omnibus or an absolute . It’s a shame they haven’t been able to do Supreme in remember it being really good homage to superman.

[@TBATB]

I hope we get an omnibus or an absolute someday!

[@jacobanderson9262]

Blame Rob Liefeld's incompetence.

[@TheComicBookReport]

A couple here I didn’t know much about like Top 10 and Promethea. Well made video brotha 👏👏👏

[@TBATB]

You’re the best!

[@TheComicBookReport]

@@TBATB seriously though man great work here and I learned about a few series I only knew the title of 😂

[@cultureiseverythingbook8484]

Miracleman is the finest superhero story ever written.

[@geminisundone]

I've had the Omni sitting on my shelf for months...waiting to be read. I'm working through my backlog.

[@TBATB]

It’s so good!

[@George_17-28]

I realized that i need that Tom Strong compendium 😢

[@TBATB]

My heart breaks they don’t finish the deluxes

[@bengalinsky4300]

Ballad of Halo Jones

[@TBATB]

The art in it is so cool!

[@markfairhurst6186]

Alan wanted My brother Dale to do the art work but Dale said it was factory work

[@NickelAntonius]

no Captain Britain? Moore completely revamped that character, and his changes persist today, even with Claremont's return to Marvel.

[@MateusDrake]

"...because this is my video trying to get Alan Moore to lift that curse on me" Preceded by the Doomsday Clock fake out. Y'Know, the curse has probably become more powerful...

[@TBATB]

I couldn’t resist haha but yes the curse is even stronger now

[@lajollascott]

19:50 Art by Cole Sprouse?! :)

[@TBATB]

I am but a humble man 😂

[@geminisundone]

1. Watchmen. 2. From hell. 3. Swampthing. 4. Providence/Neonomcon...amazing but understanding H P Lovecrafts work is needed to fully enjoy these. 5. Promethea 6. Ballad of Halo jones 7. League of...first few graphic novels the rest i didnt like. 8. Top 10. 9. The killing joke 10. Lost girls... Love them all apart from lost girls...im no prude at all but the endless sex scenes covering everything from beastiality, incest to pediphilia got dull fast...im completely against censorship but just like pornhub it gets boring fast...too much of anything gets dull quickly... Ive had Miracleman omni on my shelf for months unread...getting through my backlog so i cant rank it yet... Interesting what you said about V for Vendetta...ive just realised i never added it to my list! It would place 3rd for me. Amazing book but i first read it in the late 90's ( im 49 and English ) and it depressed me too much...i grew up in South Yorkshire in England through the 80's Thatcher was despised by the working class and i remember feeling the tension as a kid growing up...the bleakness all around...awful stuff...i didnt want to remember them years and V brought it all back...anyway...cut to a few years ago and i reread it... separating my emotions from that time and it bkew me away...it was my first absolute. Nice video mate. Keep up the great work 👍

[@TBATB]

Like I said I’d imagine some context to V was lost on me as I’m under 30 from Southern California! Glad you can read it now!

[@johnwalsh4857]

Alan Moore kicked off the British invasion of the 80s in US comics. yah while Alan Moore is termed as the best of the British invaders, I highly recomened the following who are worthy or even better than Alan Moore: Neil Gaiman Grant Morrison Garth Ennis Jamie Delano Pat Mills Warren Ellis Mark Millar

[@TBATB]

All awesome people to talk about!

[@irishdylan1993]

Kryptonese 😂😂😂😂😂 haha

[@TBATB]

Haha is that not the word?

[@irishdylan1993]

@@TBATB I think it is Kryptonian but who knows. I got a laugh out of it and enjoyed the video man. Great list of awesome reads, Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Ed Brubaker (and more) have such amazing stories. I personally think 2000-2011/2012 marvel is marvels best story telling/ writing/artistry ever but I’m biased because that’s my childhood/teen years when I read comics the most.

[@allsome1o1]

Even though Alan Moore can’t write a story without SA, he’s still a good writer

[@TBATB]

Yeah, I did wrestle with if this topic was appropriate for my channel as I’m empathetic to the controversial themes and I hope it was okay that I made this video.

[@jacobanderson9262]

Ummm, Supreme????????

[@TBATB]

I haven’t read that! At the time I only really read books physically so some stuff I never had access to being that it was put of print. Now I read a lot more digitaly so I have a lot more books I can read!

[@jacobanderson9262]

@@TBATB then you're in for a treat!

[@alwaysaninstigator]

I can't wait for you to get to his much later stuff like Neonomicon/Providence, it's the worst!

[@TBATB]

I’m scared haha

[@TheTrueRandomGamer]

Not sure how TKJ aged poorly but okay.

[@kentstatetrooper]

Does this guy not know the difference between graphic novel and "comic book"?

[@Omnibuddy]

Since we’re arguing semantics… Most of these aren’t graphic novels or comic books, either. Comics books are single issues, collected editions are collections of comic books, and graphic novels are ones that are a one-shot release.

[@TBATB]

Hey I appreciate the feedback! Comic tends to get searched more so I opt to use it over collected edition but I’ll try to be mindful in the future if you thought using comic was misleading!

[@geminisundone]

I'm sure Moore once said he hated the term Graphic novel. Saying they were neither graphic or novels. Moore is available for kids birthday party's...he's there to cheer everyone up...and I love the miserable, filthy wizard.