that faith in science tempered by what did and did not happen in that war because of science. The series is a comic about comics, about superheroes, set in post WWII with some commentary on what science could and could not do…. I am not a comics history geek, so some of it goes over my head, but I get enough to appreciate all the fun layers of references. In this series if you are a comics geek you can look at every frame for fun clues to all sorts of esoterica. But the pairing works increasingly well, as they create a world rich in heart and humor, with plenty of references, some of them veiled, (some for reason of copyright, sadly) to comics history. The 49ers is a prequel to the two volumes of Top Ten by Alan Moore and Gene Ha, who seem at first as odd a couple as one might imagine in comics collaboration, one wild and one subdued. And he believed that down at the root, the most important part of being human was love. But underneath it all, his stories were about what it means to be human. It may not always have been obvious, and maybe he didn't always get it quite right. Someday, when I'm gone, I hope people look back and say: He wrote about love.

In some ways, it's one of the very few things worth writing about. Yes it's cool and clever and fun.īut that's not what this story is *about.*Īnd you know what? That's a good thing for a story to be about. I've read this comic three or four times, and this time, I realized why I enjoyed it so much.

And it's awesome.īut finally and most importantly, this story isn't about robots or superheroes or Nazis. All the above elements are in the story because they're absolutely important to the story. It's not some corny bullshit someone threw together because pirate zombie monkey ninjas would be funny. A time machine.įourthly, everything I mentioned up above is handled in a straight-up honest and serious way. Thirdly, this book has everything you could want in a comic. It should be read as the third Top 10 volume (or possibly the 4th after Smax) not first. Chronologically, it's a prequel, but it should really be viewed as book three in the series. Second off, this is a continuation of a series that I'm dearly fond of. First off, this was written by Alan Moore.

Smax alan moore