The Alan Moore Cast

From 2011-2012, comics journalist Timothy Callahan ran a weekly column on the Tor.com website called “The Great Alan Moore Reread,” in which he wrote about nearly everything that Moore had done up to that point. As you’d expect, Tim’s got a lot to say about Alan Moore, so I was thrilled when he agreed to come on and talk about his year-long experience re-reading Moore’s work. We talk about the ins...

Writer/artist Dave Baker ( Mary Tyler MooreHawk , Halloween Boy ) joins us to talk about Tom Strong , Alan Moore and Chris Sprouse’s homage to the pulp heroes of old from America’s Best Comics. Dave knows a thing or two about pulp adventurers thanks to his work on Halloween Boy , leading to a lively discussion over a comic that’s gotten a lot of recent attention thanks to James Gunn listing Tom St...

Writer Paul Jenkins ( The Sentry , Inhumans ) joins us to talk about Big Numbers , Alan Moore’s unfinished masterpiece with artist Bill Sienkievicz. Paul actually worked on Big Numbers as an editor early on in his career, and he has stories to tell. What happened with Big Numbers that led to it being unfinished? How far along did Alan Moore get before the project was abandoned? And is it true that...

Writer Dan Watters ( M.A.S.K. , Nightwing , Batman: Dark Patterns ) joins us to talk Swamp Thing , Moore’s first work for DC Comics, and the title that helped turn him into a comics superstar. We talk “The Anatomy Lesson,” the amazing collaboration with artists Steve Bissette and John Totleben and the overall influence that ultimately led the creation of Vertigo.  Theme music by Michael Pflug...

Praise Glycon… The Alan Moore Cast is here! For our debut episode, we’re looking at Moore’s unforgettable Green Lantern tales from the early eighties, and we’re delighted to be joined by a writer who knows a thing or two about the Corps himself: Van Jensen, the former writer of DC titles like Green Lantern Corps and The Flash and the best-selling author of the soon-to-be-a-TV-series Godfall . Join...