True, but at the time this was originally published, I was BULLSHIT over this miniseries, because a) I already knew Alan Moore was good and b) I already knew Todd McFarlane was shit, so when I saw that Moore was working with McFarlane, I mistakenly thought to myself, "Wow, Moore must have figured out a way to make McFarlane's creations not suck! I'd never buy a McFarlane comic otherwise, but it's a good risk to get the Violator mini." HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

I think we forget, as people who are so much "in the know" on this insider industry stuff now, what it was like to be more casual consumers, who actually felt like they could harbor certain broad (and admittedly naive in retrospect) expectations.