Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve months more than a year to a reread of all of the major Alan Moore comics (and plenty of minor ones as well). Each week he will provide commentary on what he’s been reading. Welcome to the 62nd installment.
Originally, I had planned to do two weeks of Lost Girls, until I reread Lost Girls and realized that I wasn’t interested in writing about it for two weeks in a row, even if I did allow myself to hit the thesaurus and use lots of synonyms for tedious and pornography.
So, instead of that, I have listened to the cries of the Tor.com readership and reached back into the Wildstorm vaults for an Alan Moore-related comic book series from 2005-2006.
I’m talking about Albion, a six-issue series in which Alan Moore partnered with Leah Moore (total relation) and her husband John Reppion to tell a Watchmen-esque tale of British comic book heroes in modern day decline. Only, it’s not really like Watchmen at all, once you get past the nine-panel grid on the opening page of Albion #1, and it’s about the rebirth, not the decline, of some of the great British comic book characters of…well…somebody’s youth. Probably not yours. Definitely not mine.
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