Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for all who celebrate
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Midnight Pals: X-Men
Stephen King: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of when the X-Men fought the literal embodiment of hunger
King: it was for a charity comic
Poe: oh right right of course
Lovecraft: of course
Barker: gotcha
Koontz: wowww! x men!!
King: so kitty pryde goes to the get some food
King: but then suddenly
King: she starts losing weight!
King: now normally
King: i think that sort of this is good
King: usually i think the opposite is way scarier
King: but this time
King: it's bad
King: what's the cause of Kitty Pryde's unnatural weight loss?
King: it's the evil mutant ghost embodiment of hunger
King: the monstrous force known as
King: "hungry"
Barker: ba ha ha ha
Poe: clive
Barker: "Hungry!?"
King: yeah, his name is hungry
Barker: like, the adjective?
King: yeah i
Barker: ah ha ha ha
King: i don't see whats so funny
King: yeah, his name is hungry
King: see, this one time he said to his dad "i'm hungry"
King: and his dad said "hi hungry, i'm dad"
King: anyway the point is that its about kitty pryde
King: that super hero you all know and love
Koontz: i like superman! superman is the best super hero
King: ha ha well dean you're certainly entitled to your opinion
King: there's no reason for us to fight
King:
King:
Alan Moore: [appearing in a clap of thunder] who dares call upon the arch magus?
King: we need you to settle an argument
Moore: speak your question, mortal, and gain wisdom
King: who's the best superhero
Moore:
Moore: do you have any questions that aren't about that
Moore: the arch magus can see through time, control the very movements of the cosmos
Moore: and you dare to ask a question about comic books
King: well i just thought since you love comics so-
Moore: the answer is herbie popnecker
King:
Moore: herbie popnecker is the best super hero
King: i'm sorry, herbie popnecker?
Moore: yes herbie popnecker
King:
Koontz:
Barker:
Poe:
Lovecraft:
Moore: "you want i should bop you with my lollipop?"
Moore: haha it doesn't get old!
Moore: i must now return to my mountain fortress [disappears in a clap of thunder]
King:
Koontz:
Poe:
Barker:
Lovecraft:
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so weird find at my local used bookstore today
I managed to snag myself an autographed copy of the Watchmen graphic Novel
Except it's not autographed by Alan Moore
Or Dave Gibbons
It's autographed by this guy that did a doodle of an animal-centric Watchmen spinoff on the very last page and uhhhhh
@neil-gaiman is this actually you?
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Those Wachowski girls were onto something.
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Swamp Thing by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben.
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i seriously cant believe how misunderstood Constantines character was by most of his writers. Hes essentially the meaning of “everyone who is human makes mistakes” and preaches about how we are not good or bad by our actions, and about how tragedy changes someone (in his case there is magic involved)…..but nooo edgy dark lord of magic who sleeps around a lot is the representation we get by most of the mainstream writers
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Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
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On this day in 1985, John Constantine debuted in Saga of the Swamp Thing #37 by Alan Moore, Rick Veitch and John Totleben!
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You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
Alan Moore
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The Alan Moore comic my new blog name is taken from has an interesting background.
In 1988 Thatcher's government banned the "promotion of homosexuality" by local authorities and schools. This law would remain in place in England and Wales until 2003.
Moore already antipathic towards the tories organized a comics anthology to raise funds to oppose the law - AARGH or Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia.
Moore convinced (or to use his own words "morally blackmail most of them") a lot of famous comic creator to contribute pieces. Art Spiegelman, Frank Miller and Dave Sims all contributed stories. You may have seen the comic Neil Gaiman wrote for it floating around tumblr.
The quality of the comics varies widely but the best of them is the comic Moore himself wrote for it a poem/comic The Mirror of Love. I don't think the original comic is licitly available online but there's a reading of it by Moore on youtube.
The Mirror of Love depicts queer people throughout history. Moving from pre-history to the modern day and Moore's fury at the homophobia of Thatcher's government and then looking to the future.
It's been one of my favourite comics by Moore since I first read it but as an eight page piece that for decades was only available as part of AARGH it doesn't receive a lot of attention.
My blog name is from the final line of the poem:
While life endures we’ll love, and afterwards,
if what they say is true,
I’ll be refused a Heaven crammed with popes, policemen,
fundamentalists, and burn instead,
quite happily,
with Sappho, Michelangelo and you, my love.
I’d burn throughout eternity with you.
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Alan Moore, by Sergio Toppi.
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People shouldn’t be afraid of their government.
Governments should be afraid of their people.
—Alan Moore (x)
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Midnight Pals: 2 Fisted Tales
Stephen King: hey patricia is it true you used to write comics?
Patricia Highsmith: [long cigarette drag]
Highsmith: who told you that
King: well, i just heard-
Highsmith: was it stan lee?
Highsmith: musta been stan lee
Highsmith: never met a cat who talked so much
Highsmith: might as well be a dame with all the yap yap yappin
Dean Koontz: wowwwww did you really meet stan lee, patricia?
Highsmith: yeah
Koontz: wowwww! what was that like?
[flashback]
Stan Lee: hey there comics fans its me, stan lee
Lee: how bout a date?
Highsmith: no dice
Poe: steve
King: i just thought she'd like to tell us about her
Poe: steve
Poe: just no
Poe: no
King: ok fine
Barker: i'm gonna hear the comic story
Poe: CLIVE NO
King: ah but patricia i think we'd all like to hear a comics story
Patricia Highsmith: i ain't gonna tell no comic story
King: well maybe I can't convince you
King: but I bet I know someone who can!
Alan Moore: [appearing in a flash] who dares summon the arch magus?
King: the arch magus!
Poe: the arch magus!
Koontz: the arch magus!
Moore: speak! what boon ask ye of the arch magus?
King: hey alan you've worked in comics
King: how about you tell patricia that comics aren't stupid
Moore:
Moore: i cannot tell her that
Moore: comics are the bane of my existence! a curse upon them!
Highsmith: now this guy, this guy i like
Highsmith: he's got a real noodle in his noggin
Moore: the arch magus would do well to hear your counsel, mortal
Highsmith: sure, we could jaw a bit
Highsmith: how you feel about snails, archmagus?
Moore: be these your familiars?
Highsmith: "familiars"
Highsmith: listen to this cat
Highsmith: ok fine you mooks wanna hear about my comics
Highsmith: i'll tell ya
Highsmith: but only cuz i'm here among bros
Highsmith: long as its just dudes
Highsmith: cuz these stories
Highsmith: they get a little rough
Highsmith: and you know how dames are
Highsmith: so this story's just for us dudes
Highsmith: so franz
Franz Kafka: what?
Highsmith: you gotta go
Kafka: huh? what?
Kafka: why?
Highsmith: you just gotta go
Kafka: i don't understand
Barker: oh my god franz get a clue
Poe: clive
Highsmith: submitted for the approval of the midnight pals
Highsmith: i call this the tale of the crime puncher
Highsmith: it's about this real swole square headed guy who punches criminals
Highsmith: pow! punch! bam!
Highsmith: that's what comics are all about
Highsmith: so there're these 2 palookas who fight crime
Highsmith: named steve and ploopie
Barker: i'm sorry what
Highsmith: steve and ploopie
Barker: steve and WHAT
Highsmith: what, you got cabbage in your ears? ploopie
Barker:
Barker: i'm sorry WHAT
Highsmith: anyway steve and ploopie gotta do some punching
Barker: there's a lot of punching in these stories
Highsmith: that's what kids want in comics
Barker: huh sure yeah
Barker:
Barker: i'm sorry steve and WHAT
Poe: let it go, clive
Highsmith: so this world war i playing ace crashes into a polish swamp
Highsmith: when he dies, it creates a big mud monster
Highsmith: who goes to america to harass some kid for his model air plane
Barker: i'm starting to see why you didn't want to tell these stories
Poe: CLIVE
Highsmith: i didn't just do action comics tho
Highsmith: i wrote educational ones too
Highsmith: like the two-fisted tales of oliver cromwell
Highsmith: or don't mess with galileo
Highsmith: or catherine the great takes out the trash
King: why didn't you stick with comics, patricia?
Patricia Highsmith: eh you know how the comics biz is
King: but I've heard its actually a growth industry
Highsmith: is that so
King: yeah they tell me that there's lots of opportunities in comics for girls
Highsmith: ugh pass
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eddie campbell
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