History
Some time circa 1987, after Swamp Thing and Watchmen, and before his falling out with DC, comics legend Alan Moore submitted a proposal for a series that was never published. Twilight. Plunging the DC Universe into Ragnarok, Goetterdammerung, the Twilight of the Gods, it was never brought to fruition.
This document surfaced later in an un-named Science Fiction fanzine and was transferred to the web by un-named fans. I cleaned up some of the obvious scanning errors (after a year scanning the work of Freud, I’ve come to recognize the difference between computer error and human error). Originally there was some question as to its validity. That is, was it really Alan Moore’s proposal, or a well-written hoax? Pros across the net agreed that it was real. The stories they tell make this script into some sort of holy grail, a magical creation passing from hero to hero. The comments are worth reading. The authorship, however, is no longer in doubt. Both Alan Moore (to others) and DC Comics (to me) have said that this is in fact Moore’s proposal.
Proposal removed at DC’s request
DC has pulled a fast one on me in lieu of proof. For more information, see the summary. This means that the actual text is off-line (at least at this site) indefinitely. If you have a scholarly or other need to read the actual text, write DC Comics!
The information on this site is a summary of what I have seen. See DC Copyright Summary for more information on why. If you want to see the real thing, it is available at other places on the net.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: Ramble
- Moore discusses the ups and downs of mass crossovers and describes the perfect mass crossover: Twilight of the Superheroes.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: The Story
- The core of “Twilight of the Superheroes” takes place decades in the future, involving the heroes of the future attempting to warn the past what is happening.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: Background
- The social structure of the world of “Twilight of the Superheroes” has crumbled, leaving superheroes as royalty.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: Houses
- In “Twilight of the Superheroes” there are eight major houses of superheroes across the United States, from the House of Steel in New York to the House of Thunder in Los Angeles.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: Heroes
- Subtitled “Drunks, Hookers, and Panhandlers”, you can get a feel for what Moore thinks about the heroes of the future in Twilight of the Superheroes.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: The Plot
- The Twilight of the Superheroes story itself involves heavy use of John Constantine and has a lot of bloodshed.
- Alan Moore’s Twilight: Is It Real?
- Michael R. Grabois asked on Compuserve whether or not the Twilight of the Superheroes document was real, and received this comments. Also, some comments have arrived because of this web page, and I’ve archived them as well.
- DC Copyright Summary
- DC Comics has registered the copyright on Alan Moore’s Twilight of the Superheroes.
More Information
- Twilight of the Superheroes
- The full proposal on the Internet Archive.
