tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114353219480265259.post4506603903544152710..comments2024-01-07T14:25:51.724-08:00Comments on Sgt. Tanuki's Lonely Hearts Club Blog: Alan Moore and David Lloyd: V for VendettaTanukihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00010917992146986329noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114353219480265259.post-68517265642921467562011-12-12T21:20:20.145-08:002011-12-12T21:20:20.145-08:00I read From Hell and remember being impressed with...I read From Hell and remember being impressed with it as an achievement (although more for the texture and craft than for serious novelistic world-depth, if you know what I mean) but kind of drained and sickened by, you know, Jack the Ripper. <br /><br />As for other Moore stuff, I really love and recommend The League of Etc., especially volumes 1 and 2. I read the Killing Joke and a couple Tom Strong books, and both of those were... fine. I think that TKJ might suffer from V syndrome a bit, because by the time I read it I was already familiar with who knows how many versions/retcons/etc. of the Joker, including "serious" ones -- no doubt it was more amazing at the time it was released.Matthttp://no-sword.jp/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114353219480265259.post-13169765989272076482011-12-11T18:11:25.634-08:002011-12-11T18:11:25.634-08:00Yeah, Watchmen is the real deal. I actually read ...Yeah, Watchmen is the real deal. I actually read that back in college, round about when it was new, and it blew me away. That (and Elfquest, I'll admit it) were the first comics I read seriously - I never went through a superhero comics phase as a kid.<br /><br />Anyway, Watchmen was a foundational text in my dorm - we'd go around quoting Rorschach to each other. And I went back to the comic (exsqueeze me, Graphic Novel) a couple of years ago, when the movie came out, and it didn't disappoint.<br /><br />Have you read others of Moore's work? I have my eye on From Hell next.Tanukihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00010917992146986329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114353219480265259.post-69921892246431538162011-12-06T21:18:08.263-08:002011-12-06T21:18:08.263-08:00I think you are spoiled by manga here, and also by...I think you are spoiled by manga here, and also by being a grown-up. I know that there were many books I found mind-blowingly profound and important as a teen just because they were my first contact with certain ideas or images. Now that I'm older and those ideas/images are a part of me, the books don't have anything to offer me any more. I think that V would have been in that category if I'd read it at a younger age. As it is, I read it in my twenties (after already encountering the ideas in it in other ways) and my reaction was quite similar to yours.<br /><br />I recommend you check out Watchmen next. That is one that I think DOES live up to the hype.Matthttp://no-sword.jp/blog/noreply@blogger.com