meanwhile, regarding Gaiman and Moore...

So after indulging my bilingual inner child (thanks, kitsune76) yesterday, I shall be utterly respectable and mature today and not mention the-episode-I-didn't-see once.

Conveniently, my local comic store finally got the following items from the States - No.6 of the second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore, No.2 of 1602 by Neil Gaiman, and Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman. Consider me one happy fangirl. I shan't attempt a review of Endless Nights because melymbrosia wrote a stunningly poetic reaction here, which one can't hope to compete with. I'll have to go with a poor prosaic "me, too". The end of the League's second adventure contained a great twist on a very Victorian literary convention - (which Bernard Shaw already tweaked in The Devil's Disciple), and made me irreverently wonder whether we'll see Mina/Hyde 'shippers and Hyde Redemptionistas. Of course Moore wouldn't be Moore if there wasn't also a nasty twist on the H.G. Wells War of the Worlds novel the basic plot for this adventure is settled around. One thing to rely on in works by Alan Moore: the government will always screw you, and if you think aliens are ruthless, well... Bless his anarchistic soul.

Meanwhile, today's paper (in my part of the world) carries a withering review of the League movie, which makes me even less inclined to see it. Considering how Hollywood mutilated Moore, I wonder what they'd do to Gaiman? Wasn't there once a ghastly script making the rounds with a Dream/Lucifer showdown in New York City? And can't you see American Gods with an unelected Arnold Schwarzenegger as Shadow? (Presuming he doesn't get elected. Californians, I ask you - is this real?) The possibilities for perversion are, forgive the pun, endless. Somebody should tell Peter Jackson that once he finished the RotK Extended Version on DVD next year and did his King Kong, it's his sacred duty to rescue the works of Neil Gaiman whose rights Mr. Gaiman does not have from bad film versions. Also, he might want to do something about Watchmen. Surely there can be at least one decent version of an Alan Moore opus on the big screen?

P.S. Today's icon courtesy of oyceter, I believe. Or was it saava?