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#341 dogpoet

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Posted 10 June 2012 - 11:40 AM

View PostAvaunt, on 10 June 2012 - 04:59 AM, said:

That is a comic I love ( I love that comic ) all you need is Love ( love, love ).

Punktuation, I also like.
Cool. Looks great on a flip through, anyway. I'm sure I can put with the occasional tirade of tiresome magickal whittering for that glorious art...
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 10:50 PM

Occasional?
Oh. You're not very far into the series yet, are you? heh

I have to say that it rates as my very favourite work by Moore, and ranks pretty highly on my list of favourite comic books too.
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 11:41 AM

It certainly looks loads better than Neonomicon...
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 12:04 PM

Promethea was great but after a while becamse Moore's tome on all things magickal, which put me to sleep.
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 07:00 PM

Oh well. I'll bear with it until it starts to bore me.
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 07:04 PM

You might dig it, man.
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Posted 12 June 2012 - 11:26 AM

Word.
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 07:26 AM

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Bwahahaha.

Oh dear, I imagine much flapping of gums is going to ensue.

Does he . . . relish this sort of carry-on, do we* think?.


*The I component of this we thinks so, does the you component?.
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 06:38 PM

So 2009 & Volume 3 ended up a bit like Time Bandits, didn't it? Sort of disappointing.
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 06:48 PM

It's kind of sad to look at. Gone are the references to bestial gypsy octogenarian ladies of the night to be replaced by jokes being solved by Jack Bauer in 24 hours.

I'm not sure what purpose Nemo served, either.

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Posted 27 June 2012 - 06:50 PM

Sequel fodder for Volume IV, thinks I.
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#352 Kate

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Posted 27 June 2012 - 07:15 PM

Well that's not terribly like the very same bankrupt pop culture Moore is rejecting, is it?

#353 Kate

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Posted 27 June 2012 - 07:26 PM

Also, who was the guy Harry beheaded? He doesn't look like who he's suppose to be.

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Posted 28 June 2012 - 03:33 AM

Haddo's spirit in Voldemort's body/head, I think
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 06:09 AM

I liked Century more than Black Dossier and probably more than the IInd volume.

The repeated themes and settings in each issue, the over-inclusive references (although there were rather too many US references in the final episode, harrumph), and the emotional pay off of the reunited trio.

And three excellent cameos of ladies from my childhood entertainment :-)
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It's not supposed to be realistic in that sense."

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Posted 28 June 2012 - 07:13 AM

View PostVagabond, on 28 June 2012 - 03:33 AM, said:

Haddo's spirit in Voldemort's body/head, I think
Didn't look like Voldemort, though. I thought Haddock had jumped into some other Hogwarth faculty member.

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Posted 28 June 2012 - 06:26 PM

This here is a tribute of sorts to the magic of Alan Moore, which some friends and I produced in 2004.



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It's not supposed to be realistic in that sense."

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Posted 29 June 2012 - 01:42 PM

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Posted 30 June 2012 - 07:29 PM

View PostA. Heathen, on 28 June 2012 - 06:09 AM, said:

And three excellent cameos of ladies from my childhood entertainment :-)

i know i recognized their faces but couldn't think of their names. i thought one might have been sandie shaw, but i'm sure that's wrong.
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Posted 30 June 2012 - 09:26 PM

Two Avengers and one Witch.
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