...in the 10th MOMBcast Richard returns from his training to talk not only about his spinning order but all about digital comics (well sort of Nick make sense on this subject). 

Jane takes on her first spotlight with American Jesus.   

And James swears too much... and we are much ruder and more obsessed with Jon's bits than we should be.

Is it me or do you think Richard might be pissed.

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Here’s the press release for Alan Moore’s intriguing new project…

Forty years after the uproarious heyday of the alternative press, writer Alan Moore is launching the 21st century’s first underground magazine from his home town of Northampton, a community that is right at the geographical, political and economic heart of the country; one which has half its high street boarded up and is at present dying on its arse, just like everywhere else.

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Hot on the heels of their acclaimed run on ACTION COMICS, Geoff Johns and Gary Frank reunite to present the definitive origin of Superman for the 21st century – and it all starts with a gigantic 48-page issue! Chronicling Clark Kent's journey from the cornfields of Smallville to the skyscrapers of Metropolis, you'll witness a whole new look at the beginnings of Lex Luthor, the Legion of Super-Heroes, Lois Lane, Metallo, Jimmy Olsen, the Parasite and more! It's a look at the mythic past of the Man of Steel with an eye toward the future!"

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A few weeks ago, I was whinging like a little bitch about the fact I’d never been able to get hold of a copy of book one of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Well it appears that the universe was listening after all and reprints of book one and two of LEOG are now available and as the monkey on my back always needs feeding I bought book one. The sublime excellence of LEOG got me thinking, specifically about the ill fated attempt to turn it into a film.

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Joe Q and Dan D are yet to contact us regarding the last set of titles the world is waiting for. We can only imagine they are currently allocating writers and artists, as they were all far too good to pass up. We are resigned to the fact that if you love something you must let it go; and love these as we do, one can only hope that they treat our beloved brain hatchlings with the care they deserve.

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By the time Watchmen had arrived in cinema’s some months ago, I was already in a giddy froth about the DVD. Even as I was queuing to buy my popcorn, the rumours of director’s cuts & extra scenes already had me more excited than one of Michael Jacksons debt collectors.

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It can be a hard life being a character in a comic book; the late nights, wearing your underpants outside your trousers, the constant megalomaniacal laughter can enflame tonsils and worst of all you could end up dead. Not just plain ordinary dead either, but dead in some of the most gruesomely inventive ways imaginable.

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The first reading of Century 1910 can prove somewhat jarring, there is so much going on at any one time that it’s difficult not to feel a little overwhelmed. Given a second or third reading though it becomes a little easier to digest, & it also becomes easier to understand exactly why Alan Moore’s name is spoken of so highly when it comes to comic books.

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Looks like Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill are having some fun with the reader. Is that Andy Capp (and his wife Flo) from the Daily Mirror comic strip? And is that Alf Garnet (and possibly Winston) from BBC series Till Death Do Us Part?

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Recently Cranky very kindly bought me a copy of the Avatar edition of Light of Thy Countenance, a graphic adaptation of a novella written by Alan Moore in 1995. The adaptation is arranged by Anton Johnson with art by Filipe Massafera. I’d not heard of it prior to my monkey friend texting me to tell me he had bought it. Frankly it looked as though it might be heavy going and had rotated it down to the bottom of my to read pile.

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So Cranky and I made our way down to that London last yesterday to watch the Watchmen on the new digital IMAX screen at Greenwich. Apparently this is one of only two such screens in Europe, perversely the other being the other side on the City in Wimbledon.

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As the doomsday clock ticks ever closer to March 6^th I find myself full of a number of conflicting emotions regarding the long awaited film version of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons masterpiece, Watchmen. It’s the film I have been waiting years to see, and at the same time it’s the one thing that I secretly hoped would never be adapted to celluloid.

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“I mean, what is it with you? What made you what you are? Girlfriend killed by the mob maybe? Brother carved up by some mugger? Something like that, I bet. Something like that... Something like that happened to me, you know. I... I’m not exactly sure what it was. Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another... If I’m going to have a past. I prefer it to be multiple choice!”

The Joker, to Batman, from, The Killing Joke.

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