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Read in August, 2007
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Anyone familiar with the 'golden age of Vertigo comics' in the 90s is familiar with Alan Moore, legendarily prodigal and eccentric master of illustrated narration. His most famous works, V for Vendetta and Watchmen, were written in the 1980s, and have received very widespread acclaim and a fair degree of mainstream recognition. Alan Moore's more recent work with America's Best Comics (or "ABC") is comparatively less well known, but in many ways more polished and streamlined than his fa...more
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Top Ten is outstanding. It's able to mix wry parody and sly cameos with actual interesting, well-balanced, memorable characters. The storyline is intricate and engaging, and the art and character design are phenomenal - how many superhero comics are there out there where a hero's body type and costume actually matches his or her powers?
Once again, I'm extremely disappointed that this series didn't go on longer.
Once again, I'm extremely disappointed that this series didn't go on longer.
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Read in June, 2008
(this is my take on both Top Ten volumes)
It's pretty cliche to say that Alan Moore is a great writer, and the more comics of his I read it becomes even more plainly obvious why he's long been considered the medium's best author. He takes simple ideas, time after time, and creates masterwork after masterwork when he does his magic (maybe literally, since he is a self proclaimed Wizard).
Top Ten is a police procedural where everyone in the world has super powers. See, simple concept. What ...more
It's pretty cliche to say that Alan Moore is a great writer, and the more comics of his I read it becomes even more plainly obvious why he's long been considered the medium's best author. He takes simple ideas, time after time, and creates masterwork after masterwork when he does his magic (maybe literally, since he is a self proclaimed Wizard).
Top Ten is a police procedural where everyone in the world has super powers. See, simple concept. What ...more
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Read in June, 2008
Sometimes I forget how much fun Allan Moore can be as a writer. I shouldn't, but I do, perhaps because sometimes the only stuff people want to talk about is his serious and semi-anarchic ventures, like Watchmen and V for Vendetta, which are good but in a different way and not my favorites. Top Ten is his lighter vein, and, while the art is a bit dated and underwhelming (I hate close-ups of faces in which the lines become broken, as though you've zoomed in far enough to mess ...more
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Read in March, 2008
This isn't so much a review as it is a list of reasons why I loved this book in the event I ever get retrograde amnesia and forget. With Top Ten, Alan Moore once again reminds us why he is quite possibly the greatest comic book writer, living or dead.
The multiple plots are engrossing, entertaining, and masterfully woven together. The writing is funny, sincere, and dramatic but never labored or hokey. Moore does a great job lampooning the convenions of typical comic book stories, s...more
The multiple plots are engrossing, entertaining, and masterfully woven together. The writing is funny, sincere, and dramatic but never labored or hokey. Moore does a great job lampooning the convenions of typical comic book stories, s...more
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Read in March, 2008
recommends it for:
fans of comics, cops
This isn't so much a review as it is a list of reasons why I loved this book in the event I ever get retrograde amnesia and forget. With Top Ten, Alan Moore once again reminds us why he is quite possibly the greatest comic book writer, living or dead.
The multiple plots are engrossing, entertaining, and masterfully woven together. The writing is funny, sincere, and dramatic but never labored or hokey. Moore does a great job lampooning the convenions of typical comic book stories, s...more
The multiple plots are engrossing, entertaining, and masterfully woven together. The writing is funny, sincere, and dramatic but never labored or hokey. Moore does a great job lampooning the convenions of typical comic book stories, s...more
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Read in September, 2007
If this was just a series about a superhuman police force investigating supernatural crimes in a world where everyone has powers of some kind, this would be a great book. In the hands of Alan Moore, who writes this with a passion an energy he gives to all his best projects, and Gene Ha, who finds a way to drop in more subtle references per panel than any artist I've ever seen, it's a classic for the ages.
The plot this time picks up on some of the side notes from the first volume. As the Top ...more
The plot this time picks up on some of the side notes from the first volume. As the Top ...more
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Read in January, 2007
Alan Moore never ceases to amaze me in the way he creates new ideas that borrow off of the tropes with which we're intimately familiar and makes them fresh again.
This time around, it's Top Ten, where so many worlds have so many super-powered individuals that they slam them all into one nexus of a place and create a superpowered police force to deal with the resulting chaos. Enter the members of Precinct Ten: a rookie cop with her father's magical toybox, a grumpy Superman-like loner, a skin...more
This time around, it's Top Ten, where so many worlds have so many super-powered individuals that they slam them all into one nexus of a place and create a superpowered police force to deal with the resulting chaos. Enter the members of Precinct Ten: a rookie cop with her father's magical toybox, a grumpy Superman-like loner, a skin...more
Read in January, 2005
recommends it for:
people who are smart and stuff
Alan Moore is a genius.
Okay, let's back up. Top 10 is the story of a polic precinct in a city that's made up entirely of people with super powers. All kinds of super heroes live there, as well as gods, freaks, and transworlders. To keep the peace, there is a police force, one of which is Precinct 10, nicknamed "Top 10." Every character on the force is fantastic, strange, interesting, and deep. They've all got real issues and problems and family difficulties. There's office po...more
Okay, let's back up. Top 10 is the story of a polic precinct in a city that's made up entirely of people with super powers. All kinds of super heroes live there, as well as gods, freaks, and transworlders. To keep the peace, there is a police force, one of which is Precinct 10, nicknamed "Top 10." Every character on the force is fantastic, strange, interesting, and deep. They've all got real issues and problems and family difficulties. There's office po...more
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Read in July, 2008
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Ian Andersonrecommends it for: Jillian Steinhauer
Top Ten: Book One collects the first week on the job at Neopolis Police Department's 10th Precinct for Robyn Slinger, alias "Toybox." Neopolis is probably the coolest part of the book: a city of "science heroes" and creators, the idea is that after World War II no one knew what to do with all the superheroes so they put them in one city and they sort of settled in, as much as a mishmosh of superpowers can settle.
The first page with four panels across with the subw...more
The first page with four panels across with the subw...more
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Charming, often funny pastiche of superhero comics and Hill Street Blues-style cop drama, set in Neopolis, a city where most of the population has super-powers and a costumed identity. It would be a lot more original if Brian Michael Bendis hadn't already created Powers, but Moore has more engaging characters, particularly Sgt. Kemlo (a talking dog in a mechanical exoskel...more
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Read in October, 2008
Alan Moore's overall career seems to be dedicated to exploring the concept of superheroes--what if the villain's the hero ( Batman: the Killing Joke), what if the secret identity is never revealed ( V for Vendetta), what if superheroes are just as messed up as everyone else ( Watchmen). In ...more
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Conclusion of Alan Moore's enjoyable superhero-cop pastiche suffers from a tired central plot (a mean-spirited JLA pastiche more worthy of Rick Veitch's superior Bratpack than Moore), but the same blend of entertaining bits, splendid characterization, and lavish artwork as the first seven issues. A particular plus is new characte...more
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Read in November, 2008
Interesting concept, suspect execution. Just never really got into it.
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Anyone who likes pretty pictures and cop stories with 'real' chracters
This isn't your basic superhero story. Moore takes the superhero genre and makes it better. Super hero cops patrol a city full of super heroes. The story isn't about how or why these super heroes are but how the city functions. There is a murder and a huge scandal. I think anyone would enjoy this little series. The cliché "I'll save you!" is, thankfully, no where to be found. The characters are real people who just happen to use super powers. The powers aren't treated as anyth...more
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Read in September, 2008
Alan Moore strikes again! What an original plot line - a city population comprised entirely of superheros. Washed up superheros on street corners, superheros policing the criminal superheros - superheros everywhere! Top Ten is the local police squad and the plot follows Top Ten on various calls - from arresting Santa to chasing a serial killer, anything goes (quite literally).
The well drawn characters and beautiful drawings in Book 1 leave you itching for Book 2. I could barely put Book 1 do...more
The well drawn characters and beautiful drawings in Book 1 leave you itching for Book 2. I could barely put Book 1 do...more
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Read in July, 2008
Damn good comic book. Fantastic art with lots of cute little visual references and background. The art is gritty and rich, but not at all distracting from the story and characters. Really nice ensemble cast of characters. I love that the comic book just *dives in* and keeps going. You can't really tell if it's primarily a crime/action type comic book or if it's a realistic/daily life type comic book. Love it.
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My first graphic novel not dealing with fascist cats. I loved it. I was totally engrossed in the analysis Moore was developing. There was a familiarity in the intentional cliches used to make the structure, but it went somewhere completely different. I loved the diversity of races, religions, opinions and bodies. The criticism was cutting and as in-your-face as a comic can be. I'm hooked.
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I just sort of love alan moore. i love that he can write pulpy awesome comics with enough historical depth that i don't feel like i'm secretly regressing when i read them, but at the same time takes that depth lightly enough that I don't feel like i'm a pretentious doof pretending my tpb is a graphic novel.
plus gene ha is pretty much my favorite artist.
plus gene ha is pretty much my favorite artist.
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Read in May, 2007
Alan Moore rarely lets me down. Top 10 is everything I look for in a superhero title without all the four-color schlock of years gone by. The characters are very well written, the humor is well balanced and doesn't overshadow the book, and the story is action-packed without slipping into the shallow end of the pool.
I hope I can get my hands on book 2 soon.
I hope I can get my hands on book 2 soon.
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