Oh boy. When I was a teenager Moore's Swamp Thing really blew my mind. There was one story about anaerobic vampires living in a dam-drowned town that really freaked me out. I should go back and re-read them...

Also, Arthur, you'll be happy to know That LOEG 3 is already out and is called The Black Dossier (unless you mean LOEG 4...?).

Ahhh, The Black Dosier wasn't officially League 3 in Britain, cos we didn't get it!!!

I have heard its actually not worth shelling out a fortune to get imported?? Have you read it?

Cheers
ART

I loved it myself, though I can see how some could see it as a clever but gimmicky exercise. I thought it was entertaining, fun, and the inserts and 3D bits etc appealed to the kid in me. If you're a fan you should probably indulge.

I thought Black Dossier was pretty damn good! Especially the 'Jeeves and Wooster' HP Lovecraft segment!! Hilarious! It's also a beautiful book to look at.

You don't have to import it at a high cost as most comic shops stock it now, maybe still not officially released here but it hasn't stopped the likes of FP etc.

The new League book comics out in April.

I don't know the release date schedules for the UK and the like, but I was excited to find that Walking Dead and Crossed each have new issues out when I stopped by the comics shop today.

-Wil

Heavenztrash - what!!!!???? A new Crossed AND Walking Dead - I am defo rushing down to FP in the morning to get me some zombie goodness!!

Cheers for the heads up.

J

No problem at all!

While you are there, you might happen to come across what I did today and think of picking up on a whim. If you are tempted to grab issue 1 of Resident Evil, don't bother.

Complete piece of crap. Bad art and feels like it was written by a 13 year old who thought it'd be cool to take the film trilogy of Resident Evil and set it in space. Expectations were low and it still didn't manage to meet them.

I've got to go to a furniture warehouse today (oh boy, the fun I will have...) but it's a few doors down from the comic shop, so if the wife's in a good mood or I can slip her a sleeping pill, I'm down there!

Cheers
ART

"Ed the Happy Clown" by Chester Brown.

Also; not exactly horror, but definitely creepy in an indefinable way - "Frank" by Jim Woodring.

You guys beat me to it. I started reading comics a few years ago and out of all I've read I still rank Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing as the best horror comics I've read. In addition to the one mentioned above, the first arc in the second volume (about the return of Abby's husband/Anton Arcane) is one of the creepiest ever, IMO.

I have some of Moore's Swamp Thing.
I like the one where he and the girl end up in a town overrun by vampires(and the later sequel where the vampires evolve underwater).

Been reading EC comics lately. Some great reading.

Will wonders never cease? New work by Al Columbia:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1606993046/ref=ox_ya_oh_product

Not a big comics buyer - but have a few by Charles Burns (and loved his segment of Fear(s) of the Dark) and Richard Sala. Oh yeah I think I have 30 Days of Night lying around somewhere. And on my christmas list I have a big Walking Dead compilation that covers collections 1-8, so that's my christmas reading sorted (by coincidence, christmas reading last year was World War Z) . . .

I didn't know there was a third one, let alone a fourth Alan Moore is pretty much the only comics author that isn't Japanese that I'll bother reading.

I suppose this counts. I've got Alien the Illustrated Story by Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson, published by Heavy Metal in 1979. The artwork is quite good and there are a few dialogue changes here and there and it's enjoyable to read

There is a very nice short of Columbia's the biologic show here. Reminiscent of Eraserhead (and silent films of course).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE5Q13obnxk

I'm a big Alan Moore fan (although a discriminating one as stuff like Tom Strong doesn't appeal). I saw him about 10 years ago give a performance / monologue about William Blake. He was accompanied by a musician and dancer and some spacey projections and snippets from an amazing looking black and white (and I assume silent) version of dante's inferno. They recorded the monologue he did later for CD but haven't got that. His ideas about 'idea space' `are interesting. The book in tribute to him has a cracking long interview between him and Dave Simm of Cerebus the ardvark fame where Moore talks about experimenting with magic.

The film the Mindscape of Alan Moore is good but if you have followed him through the years and read interviews with him it repeats a few anecdotes he has relayed before. The extras on it make it worthwhile though with 6 interviews with 5 collaborators (think thats right) and comic historian/promoter Paul Gravett.

The radio 4 interview between him and Stewart Lee is good and The Comics Journal website had for a time a long audio interview with him on From Hell. Very poor quality though as never intended for distribution.

As for horror comics I like uncanny weird stuff like Jim although when I first got into the 90s Batman Animated series I snapped up the book that went with it and from that have tracked down work by some of the illustrators / animators. Bruce Timm is the key guy (and in the last few years I have discovered Darwyn Cooke, who is incredible) and GOSH comics in London pointed me towards a comics anthology I think called FILTH that had a really good short horror story drawn by Timm about 2 low rent psychopaths who fall in love and try and out do each other in murder.

No ones mentioned Arkham Asylum yet! That is one scarey book. Personally I find McKeans artwork jars when put in a narrative context but the images are incredible (and indelible!). I can picture still the girls head in a doll house and a guy scratching words into the floor with his finger nails. brrrr. Got my copy signed by Morrison!