Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve months more than a year to a reread of all of the major Alan Moore comics (and plenty of minor ones as well). Each week he will provide commentary on what he’s been reading. Welcome to the 42nd installment.
I think I’m all Awesomed out. If you’ve been following my Great Alan Moore Reread each week, you probably are too. After all the Badrock vs. Spawn and Supreme and Judgment Day excitement, I long for the time when I could take a rest from the super-extreme-super-hype with an intellectually and emotionally engaging piece of work like A Small Killing.
And that’s coming from a guy who liked a lot of Supreme and some of Judgment Day and even a tiny bit of the mania inherent in Alan Moore doing something called Badrock vs. Spawn.
After forty-one of these Alan Moore posts, it’s not that I’m burned out on Alan Moore, it’s that I think his 1990s superhero work is best in smallish doses. Reading all of it in a couple of weeks (I usually binge-read this stuff and write about it later) has brought me to this point: I’m not so sorry that Alan Moore abandoned both Youngblood and Glory. I’m okay with that. His three issues of each were plenty.
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