TOP 10: Book Two
Alan Moore, . . DC Comics/America's Best Comics, $14.95 (144pp) ISBN 978-1-56389-966-9
Continuing his exploration of superhero comics, Moore speculates on what would happen if an expansion in the number of people who are able to develop their desires into super powers led to the creation of Neopolis. His world is populated by superbeings: people (and animals, space aliens, robots, etc.) who have extraordinary abilities and secret identities. Basic human nature leads to an urban society resembling today's, including the need to maintain law and order among the sometimes barely controllable superbeings. Based on that premise, overlapping, intertwined stories create a kind of skewed
Reviewed on: 07/14/2003
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 144 pages - 978-1-56389-876-1