Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill don’t want to do this anymore. They’re done with The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the comics industry as a whole, bowing out with one last hurrah in the pages of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest, a six-issue miniseries putting an end to storytelling as we know…

If you wanted to take a good, hard look at the difficulties of translating comic books into movies, Alan Moore makes a good case study. Moore is, by pretty much any serious criteria, one of the greatest comic book writers who has ever lived. He did not, of course, invent the genre, and he didn’t conceive vast armies…

The first thing you see when you open a copy of Watchmen, the legendary comic series from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, is a little yellow smiley face sitting in a pool of blood. The smiley image recurs throughout the book and went on to become its signature motif, adorning T-shirts and coffee mugs and pins on…

Every two weeks, Big Issues focuses on newly released comic-book issues of significance. This week, they are Batman #21, written by Tom King (The Vision, Sheriff Of Babylon) with art by Jason Fabok (Justice League, Detective Comics) and colorist Brad Anderson (Justice League, Detective Comics), and Secret Empire #0,…

There are murmurs popping up that DC and Warner Bros. might be taking another stab at the holy grail of comic-book-to-movie movements: an accurate, widely accepted film version of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen. As reported by CBR, Warner Bros. recently released a survey to its “A-List” mailing list, asking for…

Last spring, I encountered a feeling altogether new: There was a Batman movie in theaters, and I had no interest in seeing it. Everything surrounding Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice—the dishwater palette of its marketing material, the resurrection (and re-dispatching) of Thomas and Martha Wayne, the words “directed…

Alan Moore—the comic-writing legend who co-created influential titles like V For Vendetta and Watchmen—has announced that he’s planning to retire from the comic book-penning game. Moore made the announcement during a press conference for his new prose novel Jerusalem this week, telling The Guardian that he’s got…

Zack Snyder has been a divisive filmmaker since the beginning of his feature film career. Adapting/rebooting the sacrosanct horror film Dawn Of The Dead could’ve raised the ire of many a horror geek, but instead he delivered a film that many people enjoy. Since then his career has been fraught with controversy,…

Batman: The Killing Joke is a seminal story in the Batman mythos, the ultimate tale showing just how far the Joker is willing to go to spread his madness (and possibly how far Batman will bend or break his “no murder” rule, if Grant Morrison is to be believed). It’s cast a long shadow over modern Batman comics and…

Comic books have a long history of real-life creators being thrown into fictional narratives, often in smaller cameo appearances, but also in grander ways that have a deeper impact on the narrative. This inventory looks at examples where comic-book characters interact with their creators, which has two different…

Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s DC Rebirth. Written by Geoff Johns with art by Ethan Van Sciver, Gary Frank, Ivan Reis, and Phil Jimenez, inks by Matt Santorelli and Joe Prado, and colors by Brad Anderson, Jason Wright, Hi-Fi, and Gabe Eltaeb, this one-shot…

When Alan Moore and John Totleben departed Miracleman in 1989, they left behind a world overflowing with storytelling potential. In the final issues of Moore and Totleben’s run, Miracleman and his godlike allies reshaped the Earth into their idea of utopia, and that rapid transformation introduced a multitude of rich…

Once Deadpool made (and continues to make) boatloads of money, people were curious what that would mean for other comic book properties. If an R-rated, hyperviolent, profanity-laced film can do so well, then perhaps other films featuring caped crusaders would bring in great box office numbers as well. Guardians Of The…

With the appearance of such seminal titles as Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns in the mid-1980s, superhero comics entered their so-called and still-ongoing Dark Age, an era that represents either a cynical degradation of the medium or an elevation of the form to new artistic heights. Or…

There’s a clear divide between what works and what doesn’t work on Supergirl: Unquestionably the best thing about the show is Supergirl herself, and not just because of Melissa Benoist’s winning performance. The show presents a pitch-perfect translation of the Supergirl ethos (empathy over brute strength) that works…

Today is November 5, Guy Fawkes Day, and the obvious pop-cultural-savvy way to mark the occasion is to don the guise of the revolutionary title character from 2006’s V For Vendetta, the film based on the David Lloyd/Alan Moore graphic novel about a dystopian future society where just about everything fun has been…

Alan Moore’s graphic novel The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen had a can’t-miss premise, with a team of Victorian-era literary characters, led by Allan Quartermain, Dracula’s Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Jekyll, and the Invisible Man, going on gentlemanly adventures. Naturally, Hollywood took this can’t-miss…

Though they were one of the great singles bands of the British Invasion era, The Kinks adapted well to the late 1960s/early 1970s vogue for concept albums and rock operas, recording song-suites that spoke tunefully about generations of social change in the United Kingdom. After releasing two poor-selling…

In an announcement that threatens to collapse the shelves of the few remaining bookstores scattered across the country, Alan Moore has completed work on the first draft of Jerusalem, a novel that clocks in at over 1 million words. To put that in context, Leo Tolstoy, quitter that he was, only managed to squeak out…

Over the weekend, one of the oldest cold cases in the books was revived—that of Jack the Ripper, the notorious serial killer who murdered and eviscerated five prostitutes in London in 1885. A self-proclaimed “armchair detective,” Russell Edwards, took on solving the case as a macabre hobby and is releasing a book on…