Product Description: Alan Moore is considered by many to be the finest comics writer of the last quarter century. His achievements in the medium include WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA, FROM HELL and THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. Now, Moore's defining run on the super-hero team known as WildC.A.T.s is collected into a single volume, one in which he is ably assisted by Travis Charest and other fine artists who provide breathtaking visuals.
THE COMPLETE WILDC.A.T.S is the perfect starting point for the flagship WildStorm super-hero team. It's a tale filled with unsettling revelations and gripping drama, and features the introduction of one of WildStorm's great villains, Tao!
The Tao of T.A.O. An enthralling trip through both outer and inner space as Alan Moore interweaves a intergalactic opera with the mundane concerns of simple folk with super powers. It has everything and a gripping denouement to boot. Treat yourself!
It's no "Watchmen" but it's worth a look Alan Moore had just previously reinvigorated a really limp, unimaginative superman-clone character, "Supreme" for Rob Liefield' "Awesome" comics. Thus he was an excellent choice to take on Jim Lee's Wildcats.
There's some astonishing writing in here. My favorite moment in the book is when the telepathic Damonites dance in a ring, all of their minds linked sequentially together. Just an incredible concept, and it's just a toss-away, not critical to the story at all.
But ultimately, the book is a bit too scattershot. Where Moore could bring his own ideas to the Supreme character who was essentially tabula rasa, here's there's just too much baggage to deal with on these characters. The net result is that there's really no lasting mark.
This seems to be the difference between a concept like "Watchmen" or "V For Vendetta" that Moore clearly gave his heart to, and concepts like this, where he was a hired gun working on somebody else's book.
It's a nice run on somebody else's comic book, but it doesn't belong on the same shelf as "Watchmen" "Promethia" or "From Hell".
Enjoyed From Start to Finish This was my first exposure to the WildCats and the WildStorm universe and prompted me to start collecting both.
They are refreshingly updated and cooler than the superhero teams that were born in the Golden Age, and it's good to see them in Moore's hands since he has such vision and looks at characters so deeply. And some of the plotlines were frankly stunning.
In a few places I felt lost because this obviously only includes Moore's work on the book, so a couple chapters refer to books I hadn't read, but this was a minor annoyance. I din't want this book to end, and when I started reading WildCats from the beginning I was dissappointed that Alan's muse wasn't there. Better than Tom Strong, a kickass thrill ride.
Ignore the negative reviews, this book is AWESOME! Alan Moore proves yet again that he can play around in an established universe as well as in one of his own creation. In this case, his palette is Jim Lee's Wildcats/Wildstorm Universe, and the stories he weaves with the characters are breathtaking and horror-inducing as only the best writer in comics history can tell them. The original Wildcats Team find themselves on Khera, their home planet, while a new team is being assembled by Mr. Majestic and Savant back on earth. Here Moore introduces one of his most frightening creations yet: TAO, the Tactically Augmented Organism, a WildC.A.T with abilities that could tear the team apart from within. The Wildcats soon realize that all is not what it seems when their world is turned upside down in typical Moore fashion. Beautiful language combined with stunning art make this collection a prize to be cherished by any comic fan!
Alan Moore's Summer Blockbuster! Sometimes we get so used to a creator breaking new ground that when he just tells a great story on an existing landmass, we think he wrote a bad story. All the reveiwers here that claim this book is bad, are those type of people. If you look at Alan Moore's Tom Strong books, they are not like Watchmen, why? Because Alan Moore is channeling the characters and comics of old, old, really old, Pulp comic heroes. He writes them as if they never stopped being written back in the 30's, and continued on to today. Then you have League of Extroadinary Gentlemen. Those comics are written to the tune of all the great novel works from back in the Victorian age and on to the early 1900's. So now with this book, he writes an X-men knockoff. He doesent take it and make it his own, he writes it in the vein of an X-men knockoff, and tells a great story doing it. The reason he didn't break ground is because the characters themselves don't break ground. The universe they populate doesent break ground. Yeah, I guess he could have taken the Wildcats universe and turned it on it's head, making it his own, but he wrote this story in the confines of the series. He respected the existing fans enough to not change what they had come to love about this series, and instead wrote something along the lines of a summer blockbuster. It's action packed, full of funny moments and doesent fill you up with heavy material. It's fun, it's exciting, and the art is pretty. Enjoy it for what it is, and not what it isn't.
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