By: Alan Moore Publisher: DC Comics Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: DC Comics Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 112 Publication Date: March 22, 2006 Release Date: March 22, 2006
Product Description: This is the tale of Neopolis, a modern metr-opolis with a citizenry made up exclusively of super beings. In this city where everyone is blessed with powers, it takes a unique and powerful police force to protect and serve. The officers of Precinct 10 encounter all manner of the super powered and the supernatural on a routine basis.
The Eisner Award-winning TOP 10 team of writer Alan Moore and artist Gene Ha reunites for a graphic novel that delves into the past, revealing the origins of Neopolis and the first officers of Top Ten. Discover the original Top 10 officers who blazed the trail and made Neopolis the city it is today.
EXXXCELENT This is a great title by the talented Alan Moore - I've read most of his work from 2000AD to his more whacky stuff and this ranks right up there as one of the great yarns.
Not Among Moore's Best But Still a Fun Read Alan Moore just knows how to write. This is a fun book to read and look at. It's no Watchmen but it's better than 99% of the graphic novels out.
Those Were the Days Once again graphic novelist Alan Moore teams up with artist Gene Ha to create the prequel to the award-winning "Top 10" series, set in the retro-futuristic post-World War II era. Teenage fighter pilot Steve "Jetlad" Traynor and former ememy Leni "Sky Witch" Muller start a new life in Neopolis, an experimental city where super heroes must now become law-abiding citizens (or join the police if they want to keep fighting crime). The story follows Steve and Leni as they face everything from robots to mad scientists to even vampire mobsters! And Ha is able to turn them all into fine works of art. Moore, in turn, is able to take all these ideas that seem to have nothing to do with each other, mix them up, and whip up a formula that simply works. It's almost frustrating that Moore doesn't seem to churn out any mediocre work, but you never know.
This comic is unrated: Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Language, Adult Situations.
Unfulfilled Potential... I am afraid to say that the Booklist review listed here is very wrong... This 6-part story is not superior to the original 'Top Ten' books.
While Gene Ha's artwork is fantastic, the one that doesn't come to the show this time is Alan Moore. It's all too crammed, half-baked and without the feeling that 'Top Ten' had. As inventive as some of the elements are, ultimately the writing of the characters and their dialogue is like weak tea compared to what Moore is capable of. It just all feels rushed - a story with a massive world like this needs more time given to it, both in the amount of pages (there's half what there should be) and from Moore himself.
If you are not a fan of Top 10... You Should Be! If you did not manage to pick up the original Top 10 series while on the bookracks, then stop right here, go purchase the graphic editions, read them, then come back and buy the Forty-Niners.
If you are already a fan of Top 10, then this Sequel/Prequel will serve as a pleasant after dinner mint, or glass of cognac or port.
In the Forty-Niners you witness the founding of Neopolis the Science City. The mood and the feelins in the story are fresh, raw and with a rough edge. Moore's tale is like watching a movie, the story is engrossing and the characters although archetypical, feel fresh and new.
The majority of the characters are new, but at the same time feel like old friends. The themes ring true, trying to find your place in this brave new order of things.
The Forty-Niners does what great literature does, it touches and affects you to the point where for the next few days you are still thinking about it and caught up in the story.
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