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 56th installment.
Mostly, my reread of Tomorrow Stories has made me want to go back and take another look at Rick Veitch’s Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset series from a decade ago. Rick Veitch’s Eisnerian pages from Tomorrow Stories promise so much greatness, and an entire series devoted to the Spirit clone gone wild feels like just the thing to perk me up after slogging through the last six-to-eight issues of Alan Moore’s wacky anthology series.
But I don’t recall Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset holding my interest very long when it first came out—the absence of Alan Moore was palpable—and this still isn’t The Great Rick Veitch Reread, so I suppose we should march onward with these lesser Alan Moore comics. I wish they were better. You deserve it.
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