What alan moore titles would you recomend

[spidervenom]

I already read watchmen and his swamp thing run and I wanted to know what works of alan moore I should read next

[Joe Rice]

From Hell is maybe his best work. Absolutely mindblowing. Top Ten is funny, clever, and moving. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen transcends genre will still being a great adventure. And Promethea is an amazing didactic guide to a different kind of life.

[Pink Bat Max]

I'd have to nominate V For Vendetta and Promethea.

[Question_Authority]

If Neil Gaimen wins the rights to Miracleman/ Marvelman then you might see one of the finest deconstructions of a super hero ever commited to paper. Watchmen is great; remember it was written in 1985-6 so it was way ahead of its time, V for Vendetta is very good, From Hell is spooky good and his Tom Strong and Supreme works are classic heroism at its finest. Get his run on Swamp Thing as well as it starts Vertigo for all intent and purposes and introduces us to John Constantine!:D :cool: :) One last gem is DC Universe; the stories of Alan Moore, which feature the infamous Killing Joke storyline, several Superman and Green Lantern stories and a few gems from a myriad of other comics of the time period. :evilsmile

[jerrymcl89]

I think V for Vendetta is terrific. And Top Ten is one of Moore's most witty and accessible works. I'd also recommend Supreme, if you want to see what All-Star Superman would be with Alan Moore writing it.

[Indigo Al]

I already read watchmen and his swamp thing run and I wanted to know what works of alan moore I should read next

V for Vendetta
Promethea
Top 10 - for superhero goodness
Tom Strong - for pulp goodness

[Excelsior]

Alan moore's wildcats run
1963
Voodoo
Top 10

[spidervenom]

I read the dc universe trade It was great I also wanted to read his work on miracleman I just hope they settle the legal issues soon.

[Punch]

I'd agree that From Hell is his best work. The League books are also excellent.

[ultramandingo]

Hate #30
By Peter Bagge and Alan Moore's collaborative tribute to Kool-Aid Man
OH - YEAH !

[Erebus]

Supreme is an absolutely fantastic tale if your into the classic super-hero genre.

[king mob]

Halo Jones, which is Moore trying to do Love & Rockets for a 2000AD readership.

Captain Britain, which is Moore's first crack at superheroes & although a bit dated, is still a load better than the majority of superhero comics produced today.

I'd also recommend A Small Killing, which I read again recently for the first time in over a decade & is much, much better than I remembered it.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

In addition to Top Ten (the series, the Smax spin-off, and the Fourty-Niners OGN), From Hell, Supreme, and Halo Jones, I'd add his 2000 A.D. strips, collected in the Alan Moore's Shocking Futures TPB. Lots of amusing small pieces there, ranging from comedy to drama.

[niall mc cann]

I'll second (or third) From Hell as his best work; it's phenomonal.

If you like superheroes, his Tom Strong, Supreme and Captain Britain are great reads.

I was never that sold on Top Ten, and i'm still not, but The Forty Niners is really great. I always get the feeling that Top Ten is completely superfluous to the real story, as told in the prequel. Definitely worth a read.

[dancj]

From Hell is a good dense period peice. Probably behind Watchmen, Swamp Thing and LoEG for me but still up there.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is my favourite of his more recent works. It's a bit of a superhero story really, but just damn good.

Promethea has excellent art, but around half of the books are basically Alan Moore preaching about magic, so your mileage will depend on how much tolerance you have for for lectures on mystical mumb jumbo disturbing the flow of your stories. As you can probably guess that I haven't got much, but there is still a lot to enjoy when the story is actually happening.

Tomorrow Stories has Jack B Quick and GreyShirt which are both excellent, but the other stories are pretty lame.

Tom Strong and Supreme are fun bits of fluff.

V for Vendetta is good. Nice moody art from David Lloyd.

Miracleman starts of good, but by the end it's fantastic!

Halo Jones is very good.

Future Shocks is okay, but inconsequential, as is Skizz.

Avoid all of the Avatar Press stuff. That's Alan Moore's poetry which other people have turned into comics.

[Bashbash]

Also "D.R. & Quinch", about two young alien delinquents constantly getting in over their head and in trouble, usually causing lots of collateral damage but emerging none the worse for wear themselves in the end. D.R. resembles a skrull with an elvis pompadour and is the main instigator (the D.R. stood for Diminished Responsibility, IIRC) Quinch was more of an oafish sidekick. i bought a trade with these characters many many years ago.. not sure if its still available. This is early work by him, fairly funny, written around the same time as the stories in "Shocking Futures" (and actually i think there as another volume of similar stories called "twisted times" or something like that) .. doesn't come close to his best work, but entertaining nonetheless.

[BeastieRunner]

V for Vendetta
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 1 and 2 (3 when it comes out)
From Hell
The Killing Joke
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
Mogo Doesn't Socialize
The last 3 I only recommend if you like to read superhero stories.

[ultramandingo]

.........wish someone would reprint "the bojeffries saga " and save me digging throu my rat infested storage space for the originals

[Agentum]

I would say almost everything but the Imagestuff like Wildcats, that was disapointing (but funny enough, if somebody else had written it it would have seemed better).

He is not always on top, but it's amazing that he has written so much good comics, even here in Sweden he is known by people that is not into american comics and that says a lot about him.
Up there with Stan Lee almost :-)

Miller is known of course but that is mostly because of Sin City the movie.

[hydro123456]

Do whatever you have to do to get Miracleman(think eyepatches and parrots). It's that good.

[Big Red Spider]

Promethea!! be still my beating heart.:D

[BizarroBeachHead]

Do whatever you have to do to get Miracleman(think eyepatches and parrots). It's that good.

That's what I had to resort to, but it had to be done.

[king mob]

You could try searching out Warrior which in addition to Moore's Marvelman & V, has a whole load of gems & is much cheaper than paying the prices for the Eclipse Marvelman reprints. Of course the post-Warrior stuff won't be there but no idea is ever perfect.

[Mia]

I don't like Alan Moore's stuff (yes I knew you all would be happy to hear that). I find it boring. Anyone interested in getting my Watchman TPB e-mail me with your mailing address and I'll send it to you. I'll give it to the first person who responds.

'Mia'

[king mob]

I don't like Alan Moore's stuff (yes I knew you all would be happy to hear that). I find it boring.

Can I ask what you find interesting & why you find Moore's stuff 'boring'? Boring is a criticism of Moore's I don't remember coming across often.

[Jamie]

I'm not a big Moore booster, but I'd recommend the DC universe collection and his two Supreme trades. The Supreme books were described by him as an "apology" of sorts to superhero comics, and they're great fun -- with Rick Veitch putting his ample art skills on display and Moore hitting a great balance between his commonly-lauded style and a more affectionate approach. Sadly, the run was cut short before it actually finished -- I would have liked to see what he planned on doing with The End.

His run on Supreme stacks up well with the current All-Star Superman from Grant Morrison as two of the definitive explorations of the archetype.

The DC universe collection is spottier, but "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" and his Green Lantern tales are excellent. The Vigilante and Green Arrow tales are so-so, and putting "For the Man Who Has Everything" and "Jungle Line" in the same book makes them look awfully similar.

I thought Watchmen and V for Vendetta were "awesome" when I was in high school; I don't think they've aged that well, simply because of all the work (both very good and very derivative) that has followed since.

[Mr. Why]

His run on Miracleman is so damn good... I think it's easily the best comic of all time. Issues 15 and 16 are masterpieces.

Watchmen, of course, is a must read and if Miracleman is #1, this is #1a.

I just placed an order with Amazon for the first three TPBs of Swamp Thing.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Most Moore is good Moore.

However, I'd stay away from his Wildcats and the 'Wildworlds' trade.

I'd read a couple of issues, scattered through the run, of his Wildcats, so I thought it would be a good read collected.
It was a good read if by good read you mean the sensation of getting kicked in the balls, over and over again.
I think the artist not being able to keep up, and crossovers which had major changes for his characters, changes he obviously wasn't interested in, led to a plot driven story, with no characterisation, that mocks the concept of superheroes, without bringing anything new to the table.

Wildworlds looks more of the same, with maybe one story that looks interesting about Superman (Mr. Majestic) at the end of time.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Most Moore is good Moore.

However, I'd stay away from his Wildcats and the 'Wildworlds' trade.

I'd read a couple of issues, scattered through the run, of his Wildcats, so I thought it would be a good read collected.
It was a good read if by good read you mean the sensation of getting kicked in the balls, over and over again.
I think the artist not being able to keep up, and crossovers which had major changes for his characters, changes he obviously wasn't interested in, led to a plot driven story, with no characterisation, that mocks the concept of superheroes, without bringing anything new to the table.

Wildworlds looks more of the same, with maybe one story that looks interesting about Superman (Mr. Majestic) at the end of time.

[Thorlief]

From Hell and The league of extraordinary gentlemen

From Hell is more complex and multi-layered while LXG is one astounding funny ride. but still as finely crafted as Moore's other works