Negative Space: Alan Moore
- Alan Moore’s Twilight of the Superheroes
- Some time circa 1987, after Watchmen and before his falling out with DC, Alan Moore submitted a proposal for a series that was never published. Plunging the DC Universe into Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods, it was never brought to fruition.
- 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: 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: 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: 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.
- 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 Plot
- The Twilight of the Superheroes story itself involves heavy use of John Constantine and has a lot of bloodshed.
- 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.
- The Fifth Face of V: I Have Saved You
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Time brings progress and it brings suffering. Can humanity be saved from the latter without losing the former? How much can we turn over to machines or governments before we are no longer human or free?
- FiVe Faces of Alan Moore’s SaVior
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V, Veidt, and Constantine are very much the same person, each ushering in a new era of human greatness through their own devious means. Even Promethea and Faust, and Moore’s interpretation of Jack the Ripper, share that vision to a lesser extent. What do these five faces of the same man mean?
- The Full Face of V: In Your Hands
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The real story in all of Moore’s books is what happens after the final page. This is most obvious in Watchmen, but every one of these books highlights an uncertain future.
- Ruminations on the Watchmen movie
- The Watchmen movie was fascinating and well worth watching. And I begin understand why some people claim that Alan Moore’s works are unfilmable.
- The Second Face of V: The Twilight of Man
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Moore’s stories aren’t just about overthrowing an oppressive regime. They’re about a superior being overthrowing an oppressive regime because normal humans won’t—they’re doing the job Britons, Americans, and the Worldly Wise won’t do. How much are they about the decline of mankind in favor of something else?
- The Third Face of V: The Freedom to Starve
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Are V and Veidt heroes? What do they really do that’s different from what Norsefire did, or from what the Tales of the Black Freighter protagonist did?
More Information
- From Hell•
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Alan Moore’s Twentieth Century psyche seen through the eyes of a Nineteenth-Century killer. Through Jack the Ripper’s murders, he sees visions of a mechanized future: “How would I seem to you? Some antique fiend or penny dreadful horror, yet you frighten me! You have not souls. With you I am alone.” That’s not Jack the Ripper speaking, that’s Alan Moore, using Jack as the gods used the Delphic oracle. This is a brilliantly dark book, made all the more so by Eddie Campbell’s moody pencils.
- Watchmen•
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Destined to be one of the seminal works of the (modern or dying, take your pick) superhero comics industry. Moore weaves a tale of millennial fever in a world where the atomic bomb is big, blue, and looks like us.
- Review: From Hell
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“Moore’s story postulates a deranged Freemason as Jack the Ripper [and] opened him up to the fourth dimensional time of his contemporary, Charles Howard Hinton. Post-stroke Gull shares a lot with heroes like V and Ozymandias: people, like water, ‘have a downward momentum in their lives almost impossible to reverse…’”
- Twilight of the Superheroes
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The full proposal on the Internet Archive.
