Probably Alan Moore's most famous comic, this along with Dark Knight really gave birth to comics mainstream popularity. Based around the notion "What would the world be like if super-heroes really existed?" this is a dynamic intricately plotted answer. Dave Gibbons's meticulous art adds to the overpowering sense of detail.
Dave Gibbons' lauded artwork is magnificent; it moves, panel by panel, in a cinematic fashion, with 'zooms' in and out, which create an awareness of both the big-scale picture and the close-up detail. Moore similarly mixes a huge canvas of world-shaking events with the intimately personal scale. It's magnificent and, along with Moore's V for Vendetta and Miller's Dark Knight Returns is one of the Big Three graphic novels which really did redefine the genre; it's still the measure by which good writers and artists set themselves.
DC, paperback 334 pages.
* sorry, this title is currently unavailable, but there is a new International Edition featuring the re-touched art from the Absolute Edition to replace it *
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