A month of Moore #30: Oh yeaahh!

- The Hasty Smear of My Smile. Art by Peter Bagge.

Amen, brother.

A month of Moore #29: What do you think?

- Superman: Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow. Art By Curt Swan.

Everything ends, everything crumbles to dust in the end, even the world of Superman. But you should always go out with a wink.

A month of Moore #28: Clear off now wit' ye.

- From Hell. Art By Eddie Campbell.

Blaming a respectable medical figure of the 19th century for the terrible atrocities of Jack the Ripper is easy, anybody can do that. To find something resembling a happy ending for one of the eternal victims of the filth and blood of Whitechapel, that takes some real skill.

A month of Moore #27: Life's too short.

- Vega: Brief Lives. Art by Kevin O'Neill.

It's always, always  a matter of perspective.

A month of Moore #26: Let us reason together.

- WildC.A.T.S. #33. Art by Mat Broome.

So much of Moore's Image comics were completely disposable, and some of them feature the first truly shit artists we would have drawing his stories. But that period also gave us this, where Tao demolishes Fuji's brain with the power of malevolent reasoning, and it is still a trip.

A month of Moore #25: ...It's Edwin.

 

- Abelard Snazz: Genius Is Pain. Art by Mike White.

The 'jog for your lives!' line from an earlier Abelard Snazz adventure might be my favourite piece of dialogue Moore has ever written, but the final brutal punchline in the epic of Snazz is just so fucking perfect.

A month of Moore #24: The library is now closing.

- Jack B Quick: I, Robert. Art by Kevin Nowlan.

The robots don't do anything except regurgitate the same sound-bytes over and over again, it's the dumbasses pushing the wheelbarrows who bring the fascism.

A month of Moore #23: What do you take me for?

- Captain Britain. Art by Alan Davis

The ridiculousness of superheroes is always best served by acknowledging it, and leaning into it. It's always a little cringe when superhero comics get all self-conscious and ashamed of how silly they truly  are. Embrace the absurd, it's the only way they ever really work.

A month of Moore #22:You should see me dance the polka.

- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume 2. Art by Kevin O'Neil. I still miss you so much, Kev.

Mr Hyde is the worst of us, a slave to his ravenous impulses, and can still dance to his death to help save the world. Plus he gets to eat a couple of the little bastards before they blast him into eternity. 

A month of Moore #21: The necessary action.

- Swamp Thing #60. Art by John Totleben.

Massive space aliens getting it off with Swampy in a fusion of cosmic horniness, unfathomable technology and vast geography is just so fucking hot.

A month of Moore #20: Machen somehow finds an exit.

- Snakes and Ladders. Adapted by Eddie Campbell.

Even in the worst moments of despair, and when crushing grief is rolling over you in waves, there is a way out of the wretched dark, if you can look up and see it.

A month of Moore #19: We met ourselves coming back.

- Chronocops. Art by Dave Gibbons.

If time is a solid construct of interdimensional stuff, and all things are happening at once forever, then of course you constantly have to hide the potted plant to avoid confusion.

A month of Moore #18: So intricate, so insane?

- Promethea. Art by JH Williams III.

Throughout his comics career, Moore always had the good fortune to work with artists who were capable of drawing any madness we could shovel at them, and this may have reached its ultimate iteration with the remarkable work of JH Williams on Promethea, where he literally drew everything and anything.