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[Mongrel]

[Zaratustra]

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/10/10/the-dc-comics-weekly-spinning-out-of-five-years-later-new-details-from-the-bars-of-new-york/

a DC Comics weekly title was spinning off from the Five Years Later event next September.

Five Years Later will spin out of the planned September event,  which sees every book skip forward in time five years in their future, for that month only.

oh my goodness how different might these heroes be in five years

will joker be in jail

will joker be OUT of jail

we just don't know

[Büge]

Will Batman KILL the Joker?

Will Batman MARRY the Joker?

Tune in this September!

[TA]

The only thing I would want out of this event is for them to just reprint all those issues as regular issues in September 2019.

[Thad]

The first time Quantum and Woody came back from cancellation, they jumped forward from #17 to #32 as a joke, as if the book had never been cancelled, and did a bunch of crazy shit like make Woody the villain and give Quantum a teenage sidekick.  Per Priest, they then actually planned to go back and figure out how all that stuff had happened and fill in the gaps, but then it got cancelled a second time.

Chew did a similar gimmick a year or so back, and just caught up.

DC's original weekly-for-a-year series, of course, was part of a gimmick where they jumped ahead a year and then went to fill in the gaps, but then went off in a completely different and altogether better direction and just kinda handwaved the stuff that had changed in a spinoff series.

[Royal☭]

Tales of Metropolis - Jimmy Olsen | DC Nation | Cartoon Network

[Mongrel]

THAT'S country-restricted?

[Thad]

Here's an interesting one: Artist Al Plastino finds the artwork for his Superman/JFK story about to be auctioned

What makes the story interesting, though, is that Plastino was under the impression that the pages had been donated to the JFK museum at Harvard for the last 50 years. Apparently the art wound up in a Sotheby's auction in 1993 and that's why they've been sitting around. As a result, people are wondering about the current status of the work. Interesting to see where this goes.

Sadly, Plastino didn't live to see it, but DC has belatedly honored its end of the bargain, reacquired the art, and donated it as originally promised.

Evanier adds that we shouldn't forget the story's writer in this discussion -- and that writer appears to have been Bill Finger, co-creator of Batman.

I gripe a lot about current DC management, but they did the right thing here -- they're not the ones who stole from Plastino 50 years ago, and this is a really quick turnaround for setting things right once he brought it to their attention.  It's a pity they weren't just a little quicker.

[Mongrel]

Having just read the first two volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, my overriding though was constantly one of "Why on earth is Alan Moore considered a great writer again?"

I swear Watchmen must have been the product of some Christopher-Marlowe-is-the-real-Shakespeare comical conspiracy, because everything else I read by Moore seems amateurish and stunted in comparison.

[TA]

Having just read the first two volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, my overriding though was constantly one of "Why on earth is Alan Moore considered a great writer again?"

I swear Watchmen must have been the product of some Christopher-Marlowe-is-the-real-Shakespeare comical conspiracy, because everything else I read by Moore seems amateurish and stunted in comparison.

Having just read the first two volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, my overriding though was constantly one of "Why on earth is Alan Moore considered a great writer again?"

I swear Watchmen must have been the product of some Christopher-Marlowe-is-the-real-Shakespeare comical conspiracy, because everything else I read by Moore seems amateurish and stunted in comparison.

Eeyup.  I remember reading that he had a fair number of people breathing down his back on Watchmen, and so I'd point to the base readability of it as a matter of editorial control and having to answer to a publisher.  The more freedom he gets, the more of Alan Moore he's able to put into a project, it seems like the shittier his work gets, from being simplistic bullshit like V for Vendetta or From Hell all the way to the extreme self-indulgent gibberish of Lost Girls.

[Mongrel]

V is an interesting case. It's been yeeaaaaaaaaaaarrrrs since I read it, but the vague and hazy memories I have of it aren't awful. What's most important to remember is that that sort of theme had a MASSIVE presence in mid-80's British comics, so you can't take it as some work created in isolation.

I mean, okay if I'm being fair, he has other reasonably good work. It's not stuff I particularly care for, but it's decently-written at times. But Watchmen just seems so vastly superior to even other works of his in this "good" category.

[TA]

Being ripped from the headlines doesn't make something less hacky.

[Zach]

Eeyup.  I remember reading that he had a fair number of people breathing down his back on Watchmen, and so I'd point to the base readability of it as a matter of editorial control and having to answer to a publisher.  The more freedom he gets, the more of Alan Moore he's able to put into a project, it seems like the shittier his work gets, from being simplistic bullshit like V for Vendetta or From Hell all the way to the extreme self-indulgent gibberish of Lost Girls.

As further support, his Swamp Thing is great.

[Büge]

I'd point to the base readability of it as a matter of editorial control and having to answer to a publisher.

So like every other writer.

[Zaratustra]

hey, I liked the first volume of LEG. The second a bit less, the Orlando shit very much not.

Then again I also enjoy Top Ten, and Promethea despite its creepy old man undertones.

If there was a way for Alan Moore to just propose character concepts and panel layout and someone else like Matt Fraction write the script, that might be the best comic ever.

[Royal☭]

Alan Moore's post-90s output is directly reliant on whether he's writing about magic or not. Is it not about magic? It's probably pretty good! Is it about magic? Expect 60 pages of just dialogue.

[Thad]

I like LoEG quite a bit.  V for Vendetta too.  1963 was a lot of fun.

[Thad]

So you can totally reuse the 1975 Mighty Marvel Calendar for 2014.

[TA]

Really wish An Evening with Alan Moore hadn’t involved four white people on stage defending the “golliwog” as a “strong black character” – Followed by a short film about a young woman stripping, dressing in “slutty clothes” and killing herself on screen – Followed by Moore insulting Gordon Brown based on mental and physical disability – I then left the venue.

[Mongrel]

I thought that, buried under that veritable mountain of verbiage (I gave up about halfway through - the Alan Moore defence is to tl;dr everyone!), there was at least one good point: That rape and sexual assault is far more prevalent in the real world than murder, yet in fiction murder is vastly more common than rape or sexual assault.

Whether or not you think that that real fact is being used as a very sly dodge is probably depends on the reader's opinion of Alan Moore.