Reconstruction: If deconstruction shows a genre for the Rube Goldberg device it really is, reconstruction is about creating a better, more beautiful device. While Moore's deconstructionist Watchmen remains his most famous super-hero work, he has explored the opposite side things.
And you're not allowed to say For the Man Who Has Everything. -Everyone- loves that one!
Personally, I have a great fondness for Tom Strong. Leave it to Alan Moore to pick his favorite elements from over 100 years worth of pulp adventure/science fantasy heroes and spin and epic that -isn't- just a retro pastiche.
Why has the Tom Strong movie option never been greenlit? It's one of the most cinematic comics ever created.
Then again, it'd also be one of the most expensive super-hero films ever made.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Tom Strong was good. i should read it again. It's at my local library. It had interracial romance. How nice! I've got to read more Alan Moore. I LOVE Watchmen. it's incredibly brilliant. I've only read that, V for Vendetta and Tom Strong.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
I loved the 3 issue World of Krypton mini back in the day. I don't remember if that was Moore. But Whatever Happened to the Man of Steel is far and away my favorite. I was crushed by Crisis, and Byrne's Man of Steel added insult to injury. It wasn't just Supergirl who was eliminated retroactively, but the Superman I grew up with. Moore gave me a sense of closure with that story, and I'm actually indebted to him for it.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow is a true classic.
Well-intentioned as the Byrne revamp was, in many cases it threw away the baby with the bathwater.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
I've enjoyed Supreme and Top Ten, though I suspect that at least the former would probably qualify as more of a de- than a re-construction.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Considering the state the Superman comics were in during the mid-tot-late 90s, The Supreme Story of the Year stands as a deliberate reconstruction of elements discarded as being "too silly". Moore doesn't discard or retcon away anything from the Silver Age Superman comics. He even uses the super-dog in a non-ironic manner.
Top Ten...well, no one questions or points out the unworkability of the super-hero genre in the latter. Quite the opposite. Everything about every classic super-hero story -ever- written is 100% true.
I would classify Top Ten as a hybrid, or cross-genre story. By Moore's own description, it's a deliberate merging of the tropes of a prime time ensemble cop drama with the tropes of a classic massive super-hero team. Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I need to get Watchmen. It looks really cool, and I haven't had an opportunity to read it.
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