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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-07 00:36:00

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char: violator, creator: alan moore, creator: bart sears, creator: greg capullo, publisher: image comics, series: when alan moore was crap, title: violator

When Alan Moore was *not* crap? (Violator: The World, Pt 2)
I've changed the title for this one entry because most of the people who commented on Violator Part 1 said they actually thought it was good. In some cases, very good. Personall, I don't see it.

I'm surprised because the second half of the Violator Vs. Badrock mini-series had a very similar tone to this, but the comments to that were almost uniformly negative.

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When we left off, Violator's four brothers (who want to kill him) had gotten into a fight with the mercenary the Admonisher (who also wants to kill him).

Back at the fight, Vaporizer tosses the Admonisher down his mouth.

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His idea is to go to Spawn for help. I'm wondering if someone can help me out here. Violator is brought before Spawn by three homeless men who are implied to be famous dead people believed to be alive by conspiracy theorists. Two are Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa, but the third is a "Mr. Hughes." Who's that?

Re-powered, his first order of business is to rip up his brother Vandalizer. The other three had fallen down a hole with the the Admonisher. ("Remember basic demon safety training! Try to land on a baby carriage!")

His second order of business is revenge on mob boss Tony T.

The Admonisher catches up to them then. "AAAAGH! Guys, he's back... and this time it's personal!"

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	psychop_rex 2009-09-09 04:45 am UTC (link)
	I've never heard of 'Big Numbers'. Details? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

halloweenjack
2009-09-09 02:05 pm UTC (link)

The Wikipedia article will give you the basic rundown; some of the links at the end will tell you some of what happened. Besides not wanting to work with DC ever again, two of the big things that Moore had gotten out of working on Watchmen were a fascination with the way that connections between different elements in the book had almost seemed to make themselves (this was a bit before the Glycon phase, I think), and that he was more interested in the interactions between the people at that Manhattan streetcorner than he was with people who wore tights or walked on Mars.

Big Numbers (originally called The Mandelbrot Set, until Benoît Mandelbrot contacted Moore and asked him not to use his name commercially) was supposed to be an examination of human society as it behaved fractally. In one of the links from the Wikipedia article, Moore says that he still has the whole series plotted out on big sheets of paper, although he doesn't think it will ever see completion.

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	psychop_rex 2009-09-09 09:29 pm UTC (link)
	Huh - sounds interesting. A man of varied interests is our Alan. (By the way, what do you mean his 'Glycon phase'?) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	halloweenjack 2009-09-09 10:20 pm UTC (link)
	When he really started to get interested in magic. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-09-09 11:44 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, I see. You mean his current 'I've hit middle age; screw buying a flashy car - I'm gonna be a magician!' phase. (Reply to this) (Parent)

halloweenjack
2009-09-09 10:24 pm UTC (link)

I should be more precise: I see the early fascination in Moore's work with how things tie together eventually developing into a real and knowledgeable interest in magic. (Consider how he deals with magic in, say, Swamp Thing with the detailed, historical approach in From Hell and, eventually, Promethea and LoEG.) Then again, maybe I'm the one who's seeing a pattern that isn't there...

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	psychop_rex 2009-09-09 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not really a Moore completist - I love his stuff, but there's lots of it that I haven't read yet - so I can't really comment on that. I WILL say, however, that he's definitely become much more detail-oriented in recent years (and he wasn't sloppy in that regard to begin with - the dude does his research). (Reply to this) (Parent)

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