NOVEMBER 18, 2022: LIVE discussion of ILLUMINATIONS by Alan Moore: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXyniqiDft6YmZI
@finnsterling65142 жыл бұрын
If you're getting started with Alan Moore and can get your hands on MIRACLE MAN, do so. It's darker and groundbreaking in ways that are surprising and mind blowing. TOP 10 is also really great and even occasionally beautiful. It's a comic about a police precinct with super powers. It sounds silly but it might be one of my favorite books of his.
@wallacelovecraft89422 жыл бұрын
I like how he's being honest about how he feels about the work.
@AdamSavageland2 жыл бұрын
This many years later I'd do this review differently... on the other hand, I plan to review Illuminations in October!
@AdamSavageland7 жыл бұрын
So many "kind of"s in this video! I'd like to think I've reduced that in more recent videos.
@jnelson06153 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed your analysis and took it on board. I am about half way through Jerusalem, and my impression at the moment is that it engages me much more successfully than Against the Day did. The jury is still out on the Ulysses comparison.
@AdamSavageland3 жыл бұрын
Cool, check out my Ulysses playlist if you'd really like to get into that book. I'd probably reword some of this review now.
@JoNDOE666135 жыл бұрын
It's taking me about 20years to read Jerusalem.
@liambowbrick39174 жыл бұрын
Totally worth it though.
@genghisgalahad84653 жыл бұрын
By then it’s called Galilee.
@TheKnightguard13 жыл бұрын
@@genghisgalahad8465 No one else noticed your joke yet, but I will.
@genghisgalahad84653 жыл бұрын
@@TheKnightguard1 thanks! I even forgot why Galillee!
@Sheikah_Architect2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for mentioning the subject matter of Promethea. I was looking forward to that because of the art, but I don't want to bother getting too into it if it's about those kinds of subjects.
@AdamSavageland2 жыл бұрын
It's worth reading at least once.
@amphitheatre7 жыл бұрын
sad you didn't like it, but i agree with you that it is no intro to his work, its his masterwork though. all the posturing he likes to do about quitting comics doesn't matter anymore. jerusalem was that good to me. he can quit now. about book2: the bloat is an intended effect, but i agree its there. it made me want to know more about Michael in "real life". its still 2016 and too soon to say but i think this will be better with repeat reads. i guess i'll have to let you know.
@AdamSavageland7 жыл бұрын
I might change my opinion at some point down the line, but right now I don't plan to ever reread Jerusalem. Let me know how it holds up the second time - maybe you'll convince me to give it another go!
@jeremytan73929 күн бұрын
So how was your reread?
@amphitheatre29 күн бұрын
@@jeremytan739 i haven't reread the entire thing since this comment. but i have gone back to "around the bend" chapter several times and it always impresses. and now we're two months from alan moore's next novel, so i'm looking forward to that!
@Vindsvelle6 жыл бұрын
Fantastic Crumb collection!
@swinnburn5 жыл бұрын
It's about a man that goes mental.
@davidmuse13516 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this, Adam. I am tediously enduring Jerusalem ("trapped" seemingly forever as it were in the chapter, "Round the Bend") -- and this is the second time I've stalled-out on this piece of work. I will persevere! I must ask your opinion, however, other that the obvious issue of serial-killing (nothing subtle there, no), why do you feel From Hell is so often overlooked as one of Moore's more salient works? I do not understand that. I feel it's the most complex and interestingly assembled graphic novel I've ever read and I have been around the block (albeit not so much in the past 10 or so years). Would you comment on this?
@AdamSavageland6 жыл бұрын
I agree that From Hell is great... I'm guessing the *look* of the book puts some people off: Sketchy black and white art and lettering that take a while to get into. It's been at least 15 years since I've read it - would love to give it another read.
@AdamSavageland6 жыл бұрын
BTW, I just heard a colorized version of From Hell is coming.
@davidmuse13516 жыл бұрын
That is interesting. I wonder how little Moore/Campbell will think of that and/or whether either was consulted.
@AdamSavageland6 жыл бұрын
Campbell is actually doing the coloring! Here's the info: www.topshelfcomix.com/news/1110
@davidmuse13516 жыл бұрын
That is excellent news -- I'll be very interested to check it out!
@morkeljakeson94382 жыл бұрын
If this guy doesn’t like Jerusalem, but also doesn’t like V or Swamp Thing, then I may like Jerusalem
@AdamSavageland2 жыл бұрын
May well be
@phillipgregory96716 жыл бұрын
Love Moore's comics but this is so boring....u lost all credibility WITH me criticizing Promethea that is his masterpiece
@abuharam3 жыл бұрын
Promethea, for me, is the most amazing and beautiful artistic gesture that was ever committed to sequential panels. Just breathtaking...
@margateswede2 жыл бұрын
I liked the fact that the start of the third book acknowledged how hard it was to get through the second book, from the point of view of the builders and the text itself testing the reader. Almost as if he is laughing at the reader for sticking out the section on mansoul. Felt perversely gratifying when it jumped right back to Alma’s art studio. The second book was quite turgid in places, but I think the last section wouldn’t have been as satisfying without it. It’s definitely not a light page turner though and would definitely have benefitted from some editing. I also wonder how much of this was influenced by sitting in an arm chair in an altered state staring at the ceiling. 😂
@happyfarmer6823 Жыл бұрын
Thank you great review
@happyfarmer6823 Жыл бұрын
Btw im also going to pick up a copy of slaughterhouse five. I’m not sure why I’ve never read that book before it’s crazy. =)
@dyotoorion18353 жыл бұрын
Good review. :-)
@AdamSavageland3 жыл бұрын
I think you're harsher with Moore than me. I would be a very different person without his stories and I am grateful to have them. Fortunately you can go back and cherry-pick which ones you want to reread!
@dyotoorion18353 жыл бұрын
Sorry for being mean about Alan Moore. I don't like the guy very much. :-)
@AdamSavageland3 жыл бұрын
No worries, unlike the rest of the internet I think it's great that people have different opinions :)
@dyotoorion18354 жыл бұрын
Cheers! :--)
@RichardCorral7 жыл бұрын
stop beginning videos saying where have you been....no one cares, we clicked cuz the tittle of the video, not to catch up with some stranger.
@PrestonGranger7 жыл бұрын
no u
@troyknoche75875 жыл бұрын
Where have u been? RichardCorral
@RighteousBrother5 жыл бұрын
@RichardCorral - I like you Richard, you're grumpy like me!