Another Suburban Romance

Rating:
Summary: buyer beware
Review: Alan Moore's Another Suburban Romance is an attempt to make a buck off Moore's name. Avatar Press actually calls it a "graphic novel," but it isn't. This book is based on Moore's performance works. In other words, someone has taken Moore's words, drew illustrations (black and white) for them, and placed them in some kind of sequential order (no, Moore isn't the one who did it).
The truth is, ASR consists of three illustrated "poems," only one of which (the title piece) is any good.
Save your money; if you are interested, pick it up off the shelf at your local comic book store, and start reading it. (You can read the whole thing in less than 10 minutes.) After reading some of it, my guess is that you'll place it back on the shelf.
If you are interested in Moore, read Watchmen, Promethea, Swamp Thing, or just about anything else, and forget ASR.

Rating:
Summary: buyer beware
Review: Alan Moore's Another Suburban Romance is an attempt to make a buck off Moore's name. Avatar Press actually calls it a "graphic novel," but it isn't. This book is based on Moore's performance works. In other words, someone has taken Moore's words, drew illustrations (black and white) for them, and placed them in some kind of sequential order (no, Moore isn't the one who did it).
The truth is, ASR consists of three illustrated "poems," only one of which (the title piece) is any good.
Save your money; if you are interested, pick it up off the shelf at your local comic book store, and start reading it. (You can read the whole thing in less than 10 minutes.) After reading some of it, my guess is that you'll place it back on the shelf.
If you are interested in Moore, read Watchmen, Promethea, Swamp Thing, or just about anything else, and forget ASR.

Rating:
Summary: Another Avatar Ripoff.......
Review: Once again, Avatar backs the truck up to the Alan Moore cash vault by releasing a "Graphic Novel" composed of adaptations of Moore's poetry. To be fair, I am NOT a fan of poetry, no matter WHO the author is. Although I love Alan Moore's work, I resent being tricked by Avatar, not once, not twice, but a whopping THREE times, with their so-called "Original" Alan Moore graphic novels. The art, by Juan Jose Ryp, is really nice; It's intricate detail is reminiscent of Geoff Darrow's work on Hard Boiled and The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, but great art in the service of a non-existent story is meaningless. Poetry fans might like this, but I didn't. This is the LAST time I'll be burned by Avatar.