tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post6281271812513872170..comments2024-03-28T03:10:19.013-07:00Comments on Fraggmented: Review: The Black DossierJohn Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-55921406387201105482011-05-12T08:55:47.870-07:002011-05-12T08:55:47.870-07:00You're review didn't convince me, I wonder...You're review didn't convince me, I wonder if you have a more in deep review to make me take the right decision.buy generic viagrahttp://www.iservepharmacy.com/generic-viagra.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-44976782824330924482009-07-01T15:49:39.051-07:002009-07-01T15:49:39.051-07:00Well, I can say that I'm a big fan of all the ...Well, I can say that I'm a big fan of all the literary or culture allusions that Moore and O'Neill made in the LoEG books, they're great, because when I find some that I remember from my childhood or books or movies, then I feel like excited because I'm watching at it. But yeah, it's true that when I found myself with The Black Dossier, I almost didn't read it, because it was a lot of things that I didn't understand (a quite really special example of this is the Paradyse beat poetry, which I lamentably couldn't read at all, besides I'm Latinamerican, and I didn't live that period, so probably I missed a lot of information there). <br />It wasn't a story at all, it was a pastiche in all the sense of the word, but I admit that I read it and I enjoyed it like any Alan Moore's comic book/graphic novel, and I think the "epistolay" method was very good, but then it's not the best of his works. But well at least he tried, and we could follow the LoEG story from the beginning (sorta).<br />And I didn't liked too much that James Bond was put like a bad guy haha, but then it was Moore that made it that way because of his uncle, so Moore put it a backstory for Bond, so yeah that's good too.Svmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12244684371397530343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-75885746765995243252007-12-16T11:11:00.000-08:002007-12-16T11:11:00.000-08:00I got the impression that the pornsec pamphlet was...I got the impression that the pornsec pamphlet was a bookmark left in the dossier from the person who read it last (opting to quit during the beat poetry section, hard to blame him) before Mina. I could be wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-71061421380777857432007-11-28T03:34:00.000-08:002007-11-28T03:34:00.000-08:00Well, 'Wild Worlds' wasn't recent--that's a collec...Well, 'Wild Worlds' wasn't recent--that's a collection of his 90s stuff, when he was slumming it at Image. (Leaving out '1963', which is apparently unpublishable because of rights issues. Which is a shame, because it was the best thing he did for Image.) He and Jim Lee did the America's Best line afterwards, and I think that worked out pretty well (for the most part.)John Seaveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07221569513392130884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-3957116707140829802007-11-27T17:21:00.000-08:002007-11-27T17:21:00.000-08:00Great review. I would sum it up by saying that th...Great review. I would sum it up by saying that the earlier LoEG books were good stories, informed by Moore's literary references, and the Black Dossier is a bad story whose only appeal is the (incredibly obscure) literary references.<BR/><BR/>I'm a huge Alan Moore fan, too, but the last two works I've read by him (Alan Moore: Wild Worlds and The Black Dossier) were both pretty bad. That won't prevent me from buying future books by him - but maybe my expectations won't be quite so high.Tysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03471097574427732454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-73849310568986710782007-11-27T07:58:00.000-08:002007-11-27T07:58:00.000-08:00Hmm, not quite a scathing enough review to make me...Hmm, not quite a scathing enough review to make me cancel my order from Amazon.com. <BR/><BR/>But it was a close run thing...Stuart Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232782649771676547noreply@blogger.com