{"id":11081,"date":"2010-04-24T19:36:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T00:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11081"},"modified":"2010-04-02T14:33:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:33:23","slug":"moore-alan-top-10-book-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11081","title":{"rendered":"Moore, Alan &#8211; Top 10 Book Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanmoorefansite.com\/\">Alan Moore fansite<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/top101.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1563899663\/xeroxarmy-20\"><strong>Top 10 Book Two<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the last of the books I was able to buy with my &#8220;I still have a steady job, why not get this book?&#8221; money, and I don&#8217;t think I could have picked a better one. I didn&#8217;t follow this book as it was coming out, but there&#8217;s no way that it could have come out on a monthly basis. Every panel is packed with in-jokes and references to other comics and characters, from &#8220;Vacation on Infinite Earths&#8221; to a Hawkwoman feeding little baby hawks in a nest to Kang the Caterer. It&#8217;s been said before in other reviews, but this is pretty much Hill Street Blues with superheroes. There might have been three fight scenes in this whole book. It&#8217;s all about the characters and the human side of all these fantastic figures. After all, super powers kind of stops being a conversation topic when everybody in town has some. And always, always check out the backgrounds of these panels. There&#8217;s always superheroes flying around and doing something, more often than not you&#8217;ll probably recognize them. That brings me to my only problem with the book. If you haven&#8217;t grown up on comics, you&#8217;re going to miss a lot of stuff in here. I think the average person would still get a lot out of it, but this is for the comic book fans, plain and simple. It&#8217;s $14.95 and you don&#8217;t really have to read these two books in order, although I guess it might help for certain parts. It&#8217;s some of his best work in years, definitely the best of the &#8220;America&#8217;s Best Comics&#8221; line that I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/top102.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"523\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Moore fansite Top 10 Book Two This is the last of the books I was able to buy with my &#8220;I still have a steady job, why not get this book?&#8221; money, and I don&#8217;t think I could have picked a better one. I didn&#8217;t follow this book as it was coming out, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3128,1729],"class_list":["post-11081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-alan-moore","tag-top-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11082,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions\/11082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}