Rating: 
Summary: Hysterical!
Review: This is what would happen if everyone had a power. This is the sort of "Law and Order" or "NYPD Blue" you'd get. Only funnier. It reminds me of the new online game "City of Heroes" in a way, except I doubt the game has anything as useless as swelling up like a balloon as a power, or producing lots of sand all over the place. Ok, so it's not gonna win any "Most Dramatic New Comic of the Year" awards. It's not grim, depressing, real, or awe-inspiring. It's fun and funny and tough and cool, and I loved it. It's well written, and well drawn, and a little bit raunchy (there are lots of hookers so it kind of has to be). It's also totally accessable to almost everyone, which some of Moore's other work isn't. It uses the sort of TV style we're all familiar with to make it seem closer to us. I like it a lot. So it won't stay with me and haunt me like some of Moore's other stuff... but not everything has to haunt you to be good.
Rating: 
Summary: I'd really give it 4 1/4 but I don't have the option
Review: This isn't Alan Moore's best work but it's phenomenal none the less. In the city of Neopolis, everyone is super, though not everyone is heroic. When your cities' (Neopolis exists in alternate dimensions) full of superhumans, robots, gods, mad scientists and other paranormal and pulp characters, you gotto have a crack squad of super-types to deal with it. Enter precint 10, home to the Top Ten. Toybox has just joined and she's still getting adjusted and finding ut she still has a lot to learn, if she can survive it. From murder mysteries (the Libra Killer) to misdemenors (the Ghostly Goose) Top Ten walks the beat they never made!
The cast is mostly great. This series is unbelievable. Moore creates a world that looks, tastes, sounds, smells and feels like ours, except with a super-human twist. It's no nightmare but it's far from Utopia. It has clever ideas like gene mutating STDs, a bar for Gods, complete freedom of religon no matter how strange (Satanism), and alien porn stars.
The characters are great: While Smax seems like the big draw, but all of the characters are great. There's Kemlo the Hyperdog, Irma Geddon (a headstrong female version of War Machine), Girl One (a closet nudist), Dust Devil (the techno cowboy), Shock-headed Peter and so many more.
Alan Moore's diverse world is greatly helped by the work of Gene Ha, who could be the next George Perez! Check out all the cameos and jokes he adds in each issue. From Battle Chasers to Wallice and Gromit and so many more, each issue brings Neopolis to life and makes you play Where's Waldo doing it. You know, without the inherit suckiness of Waldo (man did that get old fast). Not to mention the humor he fits in each issue. Top Ten Vol. 1 is a great book and I'll be looking for the following Volumes. Check this series out!
Rating:
Summary: Just plain good
Review: Where some comics have taken the summer blockbuster movie aproach to comics, i.e. The Authority, Alan Moore decided to do Top Ten a different way. As a TV cop drama. And that's always a good thing. There are subplots and mysteries that go through the whole "season" with all the drama to go with it. Believe me, if you're into the super hero type genre, then definitely try out Top Ten. I mean, the name, Alan Moore is more than enough to check it out. But if you need more proof, how about the amazing art talent to go with it? Sure there are two artists for the book, but one's a layout artist, while the other is finishing. And for me, that's usually a bad thing, but for Top Ten, you can't even notice a difference. The art is amazing, and the character designs are outrageous. I mean, did you see the guy with a dog head? And the concept for the book itself is not something you'll see in a regular comic. A world full of super powered people, with only a super powered police to serve and protect. Yep, it's NYPD Blue with super powers. Buy it.
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