DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore
by Alan Moore
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Author: Alan MooreEdition: Paperback
Published: 2006-01-11
ISBN: 1401209270
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: DC Comics
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Book Review: "If I'm going to have a past, I want it to be multiple choice."
Summary: 4 Stars
DC Comics nearly hit a home run with this one - the book is absolutely worth the cover price and then some for the three Superman stories - "For the Man Who Has Everything" with "Watchmen" collaborator Dave Gibbons, "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" with the legendary Curt Swan, and "The Jungle Line" with the excellent Rick Veitch - and of course, there's the now-classic Joker story with wonderful art by Brian Bolland ("The Killing Joke").
The Omega Men and Green Lantern 8-pagers are terrific, too (a couple have art by "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" penciler Kevin O'Neill), and the Clayface story from the Batman annual isn't half bad (although the art is a little lame).
There's a lengthy Green Arrow story that has a painful phoned-in feel to it, though, and the Dr. Fate origin story is fine, but the art isn't much to look at.
Those are both pretty minor niggles - the real gripe I have with this otherwise terrific book is that the lovely introductory prose section in "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow" hasn't been restored on the first page (it was on a page of its own in the last reprint, and that page is gone now). DC pulls stuff like this all the time for no discernible reason other than lazy copy editing, but it gets old fast (there's a full page left out of "Swamp Thing: Love and Death").
At any rate, if you've never read the stories before you won't miss the little introduction to "Man of Tomorrow," and most of the stories in here are beyond reproach. Moore is a terrific writer and did things with the characters in this book that no one had ever thought to do before (he continued to do them, by the way, during his run on "Supreme" a few years later). An excellent purchase.
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The Worlds Greatest Super-Heroes as interpreted by one of the most acclaimed authors in comics today.The work of Alan Moore (WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA, LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN) in the DC Universe during the 1980s is now considered a benchmark for great stories with fresh approaches to iconic characters.This volume collects such well-known classics as The Killing Joke and Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?Comic Strips Books
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