Con raffinatezza Alan Moore racconta la società americana, i supereroi, l’amore, le paure e la realtà che diventa fantasia, meravigliosa e inquietante.

I found this story to be peak Moore: full of scientific processes that tickle your cerebral cortex while normalizing sex.I have a very hard time getting up the stairs as a twenty-some year old without resorting to all fours--and I have better balance than An American Light . It’s a lightly fictionalized account of the US comic book industry from the 50s to the present, full of very thinly veiled versions of characters and their creators. So it goes throughout; any detail of comics history, including their multimedia afterlife, which shows them in a bad light gets turned up to 11. Executives exploit working-class creators – such as Superman’s creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, as well as Moore himself – for the benefit of shareholders and corporate oligarchs. All of this acted to destroy the connections between her ability to intake things and output others in response (her thoughts and actions do not matchup).

Moore has never encountered a genre he cannot subvert, often fiendishly … and yet what lingers is not his creative irreverence but his ability to inhabit his human and inhuman characters alike . This definitely also had Moore’s feelings towards movies never being able to live up to the comic books they try to recreate expressed, which was cool to see. Oceňuju experimentální styl psaní, to, jak byla každá povídka unikátní, ale na rovinu, tahle povídková sbírka mě ke konci totálně unudila.

If I'm not, then it's pretty much a Pale Fire riff, except minus much of a smoking gun beyond 'the Beats were dicks', which I'm not sure is that controversial nowadays.

Diria que o tom do conto é Moore a purgar as suas frustrações e a vingar-se, com imenso bom humor, sobre o comercialismo da indústria.

Moore’s ability to take common, reality-based fears and turn them into something disconcerting is one of my favorite talents of his.