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.

A month of Moore #17: This is where things start to get interesting!

- 1963 #6. Art by Rick Veitch.

Despite what Don Simpson thinks, nobody really was desperate to see how 1963 actually turned out. But there was still a pleasant shock of the new when fucking Shaft showed up on the last page. All that ironic retro bollocks was fun, and bringing in the new kids on the block to clash with those old vibes was actually fairly inspired.