dr_hermes (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dr_hermes) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} scans_daily,@ 2009-05-07 00:02:00 |
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| Entry tags: | creator: alan moore, title: warrior |
What's all this Bojeffries business, then?
Here's a few pages from WARRIOR# 12, August 1983, part of the ongoing Bojeffries Saga by Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse. (I see the collected stories are available on eBay and not a bad way to use some expendable income.) These remind me of Henry Kuttner's classic Hogben series, which ran in 1940s pulps. Those involved a hillbilly family whose members had a mind-blowing array of unusual traits and powers; because of the print medium, much was left suggested to let the readers' imaginations supply some details. I don't know if Alan Moore ever read the Kuttner stories, and the resemblance is not overwhelming but it would be nice to know if he ever mentioned the influence in any interviews.
The rent collector is curious why the Bojeffries haven't paid a penny in nearly a century. The explanation he gets is "Sorry. We moved out a long time ago. There's different people living here now." Can Ginda really perform all the unlikely deeds she claims? (she can also "create a uni-cellular life-form using only the ingredients found in malt vinegar"?)
The night before, we saw a large shaggy wolf with a rather unsettling smirk enter the residence. Oddly, it was wearing a scarf rather like the one Raoul has on now.
Telling Festus to go outside if he wants to shout would endear him to the neighbors. Is he really a Wegeterian, he doesn't seem like the type. Why can Raoul understand whatever language it is that he's yelling in? The baby they mention is kept in the cellar, by the way, and is remarkably large. (Kuttner's stories also had this detail, which is what made me wonder about the influence).