Monster was a serial that started within IPC's horror magazine, Scream!, that centered around a 12 year old kid, Kenny Corman, on the run with his developmentally challenged uncle, Terry. It doesn't happen often where that's intentional, but you see it in Crossed+100 (where he and Gabriel Andrade took Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows' Crossed, pushed it into the future, and then left the world for others to play with) and Albion (crafting a story with the old IPC characters which John Reppion, Leah Moore, and Shane Oakley then fully realized), and in one of the virtual forgotten works of his early British period, Monster. So I find it interesting when there are a number of properties where Moore did the seed work, but largely left the rest of it up to others. Regardless of anyone's opinion on the results, his influence is undeniable. Or you could flip that on its head and say that a similar “maturity” brought about decades of grim and gritty potentially influenced by the “wrong thing” from Watchmen or Batman: The Killing Joke. It could be something as simple as elevating the form's maturity through Swamp Thing, influencing the “sophisticated suspense” that fed the Vertigo imprint. I say “for better or worse” because it largely depends on how you rate the different influences and what your takeaways are from them. emerson eddy - Depending on your perspective and interpretation, for better or worse, Alan Moore is one of the most influential comics creators of the past four decades.
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