Gaiman describes it as "a scabrous, monstrous, often hilarious unmasking and reinvention of the people who made the comics, and the lives destroyed by the four-color funnies. This story, which takes up a majority of the total page count, shows an interesting set of interconnected lives belonging to persons in the comic industry. So, for instance, his stand-in for Maxwell Gaines, founder of what would later become the notorious horror publisher EC (here SP), doesn't die in a boating accident; he's felled by a chunk of frozen piss.

I originally gave this 2 stars, because whatever I thought of the rest of the collection, I thought the ghost story was pretty good, the hidden creature one had a cool idea, and that the first story was decent and well-written, even if it wasn't really my speed. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. This definitely also had Moore’s feelings towards movies never being able to live up to the comic books they try to recreate expressed, which was cool to see. In "Not Even Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. as he proves with the long and gorily-detailed novella about the comics trade and its perps and prospects , which leaves all the suspects lined up in the basement, eviscerated neatly and left in a row trussed up for final judgment, and really as well identified as they need to be.

It goes beyond the impossible things he is describing but the very nuances of character and motivation. And At Last, To Be Done With Silence é o remate perfeito para o livro, um conto ambiguo onde não percebemos se os personagens são viajantes ou almas penadas.

Figura incontornável da história dos comics no final do século XX, criador de alguns dos mais influentes e seminais livros do género, Alan Moore não se fica pela escrita de argumentos. luckily, it's unlikely the victims will give the whole thing oxygen by suing, and there's little other leverage to be had over someone who just walked away.And in the monumental novella What We Can Know About Thunderman, which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry over the last seventy-five years through several sometimes-naive and sometimes-maniacal people rising and falling on its career ladders, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business. It’s full of deeply weird, but well thought out devices, all in service of a fairly simple revenge plot (which is also very Jack Vance). One piece I've read before, Cold Reading, which featured in Dodgem Logic, the underground magazine that must surely rank among the most rewarding displacement activities in human history; it remains a nicely chilly Christmas ghost story for non-believers.