Sure that you’re missing out on an obscure joke or two as you read Alan Moore’s incredibly fine comic book, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? Well, yes, you are.
I don’t know which astounds me more — Moore, for the compulsive cramming of all the homages and references into his work, or Jess Nevins, for the obsessive decoding thereof. Amazing, in both cases.
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Erg. That promises to be a time suck extraordinaire. Thanks for the link though, even as I grumble!
I first became aware of how extreme Alan Moore’s details are when I heard that, for his single page in the Marvel “Heroes for Hope” hunger benefit book, he offered (if memory serves) a 12 page script.
Included were the titles of a half-dozen books that would likely be found on Magneto’s bookshelf, a detail even Kevin O’Neil of LoEG, a king of buzy backgrounds, would have trouble actually being able to squeeze into the art. But Alan thought it worthwhile to include the fact in the script, just in case it could be squeezed in.
His Watchmen and From Hell scripts (which have been published, in part) were similarly dense.
I can’t imagine how long and detailed the LoEG scripts are!
Ah, but isn’t it beautiful?
Oh, absolutely.