Reign of Alan Moore
I´m a Marvel Boy, always have been, and for this kind of curriculum vitae I was most impressed that I loved all the stories compiled in this trade. I´m more familiar with Alan Moore´s work in Watchmen, Top Ten, V for Vendetta, Tom Strong and From Hell, since I´ve never read any of his material in DC before and it was a fantastic thing reading this trade. Moore gives us stories filled with humor, crazy, strangeness and mature dialogues, making characters that I actually dislike a lot, like Superman, interesting and appealing. The selection of stories was magnific, showing a large variety of the characters that Moore worked with, from Superman to Vigilante, Green Arrow to Green Lantern, Batman to the Swamp Thing (probably his most famous character that he worked with). Like I said before there arer all sorts of qualities in these stories, from total crazyness (like in the Omega Men, telling the story of the people from the planet Vega), fun and humor (like the Tale of the Green Lantern Corps about the origin of Mogo), mature and social problems themes (the story told in Vigilante is very powerful one, involving child abuse, rehabilitation of convicts, family and drug issues), humanizing (like in the story Whatever happened to the Men of Tomorrow, in which Superman must face dilemmas of death), horror and madness (the one shot "Killing Joke" is a completely amazing story about the Joker´s origin, motivations and is perhaps one of the most classics stories of Batman) and pure action/entertain (like the story about Superman,Batman,Robin and Wonder Woman against Mongul and the story involving Superman and the Swamp Thing). In the company of talented artists, such as Curt Swan, George Perez, Rick Veitch, Kevin O´Neil, Dave Gibbons and others, this trade is highly recommended for all fans of the Wizard and also for readers that are not familiarized with DC Universe.
4.5 out 5
