Is Alan Moore gonna write any more Top Ten ??

[lordlad]

Just read the Top Ten book 1 & 2 and it's such a good book !!!! So good that after reading it, i went out and bought Smax and Top Ten The 49ers, My question is, at the end of book 2, it says end of season 1. Will Alan Moore be doing any more..?? And what is this Top Ten: Beyond the furthest precinct series ??

[Noah Johnson]

Beyond The Farthest Precinct is the new Top Ten series, featuring most of the same characters but not the same creative team.

The short description is it's like if Top Ten more or less sucked.

[lordlad]

No. !!!!!!

Top Ten is like one of the best comics i've ever read......Guess without Alan Moore, it will suck. I hope ABC will not go away cos Alan Moore is not writing for them anymore.

[jerrymcl89]

DC owns the Top Ten characters, and Moore refuses to do any more work for them (I think they are publishing his next League book, but that's it).

Beyond the Farthest Precint was so-so, certainly not up to Moore's level. If they put out anything further involving the characters, I'd like to see Gene Ha involved again, since I think he contributed a lot to the success of the original series.

[david r]

Alan Moore has retired from comics. Alan has said that, with exceptions like "League of Extraordinary Gentleman", he will no longer do monthly comics work.

Alan has said that his ABC creations may continue, but under different writers. I doubt we will ever see a Season Two of Top Ten. At least written by Alan Moore. Alan also has stated that America's Best Comics didn't publish even half the stuff he had planned for it. :(

[The Sentry]

Moore will not be doing any more work for DC/ABC.

He's taken LOEG to Top Shelf or Avatar, not sure which.
Also, I think Top Shelf will be publising Lost Girls.

[Shellhead]

I just finished reading Top Ten: The Forty-Niners, and I was disappointed. It didn't suck, I mean the writing and the artwork were the same as the original Top Ten, just somewhat tepid in quality. The color palette was curiously limited, and this was the very first time that I read a work by Alan Moore that I could have written myself. Every plot twist seemed predictable, and there was no sense of themes or ideas being explored.

[static]

its seemed like in the last issues of promethea and tom strong that the ABC universe was wrapping up to a close? they pretty much ended reality and everyone had a happy ending..it would be a shame to pollute moores work with another writer doing anymore with the characters (more than has already been done)

[stealthwise]

I just finished reading Top Ten: The Forty-Niners, and I was disappointed. It didn't suck, I mean the writing and the artwork were the same as the original Top Ten, just somewhat tepid in quality. The color palette was curiously limited, and this was the very first time that I read a work by Alan Moore that I could have written myself. Every plot twist seemed predictable, and there was no sense of themes or ideas being explored.

Yeah, pretty much. I felt the same way and really didn't understand why people were so blown away by this one, as it lacked a lot of the humour and charm that the original Top Ten possessed. I thought that Smax was a lot better overall.

Not bad, but probably a "B" for Moore's standard.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Alan also has stated that America's Best Comics didn't publish even half the stuff he had planned for it. :(

That's somthing I didn't need to know.

Seriously pissed off now.

[stealthwise]

I wouldn't worry too much about it, although Moore is "retired" from mainstream superhero comics, there are plenty of other projects that Top Shelf can publish for him in the future. It mostly depends on the availability of capable artists to work with him. LOEG takes so long to do because Nowlan has to do extensive research before he begins each time. I'm not sure what DC owns, as they've already launched a Top Ten mini, and I wouldn't doubt if they owned the Tom Strong and Tomorrow Stories stuff.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

I wouldn't worry too much about it, although Moore is "retired" from mainstream superhero comics, there are plenty of other projects that Top Shelf can publish for him in the future. It mostly depends on the availability of capable artists to work with him. LOEG takes so long to do because Nowlan has to do extensive research before he begins each time. I'm not sure what DC owns, as they've already launched a Top Ten mini, and I wouldn't doubt if they owned the Tom Strong and Tomorrow Stories stuff.

According to Don Murphy, prodeucer of the LOEG movie, all of ABC is owned by Wildstorm, except for LOEG.
LOEG isn't, because Moore had already sold movie rights, and therefore couldn't sign over ownership.
Apparently, Moore sold the ABC stuff so that the artists would get a higher page rate.

[stealthwise]

According to Don Murphy, prodeucer of the LOEG movie, all of ABC is owned by Wildstorm, except for LOEG.
LOEG isn't, because Moore had already sold movie rights, and therefore couldn't sign over ownership.
Apparently, Moore sold the ABC stuff so that the artists would get a higher page rate.

Well, at least something good came out of that movie.

[zilla31]

where can i get top 10 book 1? amazon only seems to have book 2 in SC. thanks!

[stealthwise]

where can i get top 10 book 1? amazon only seems to have book 2 in SC. thanks!

Try www.chapters.ca