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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant.<br/><br/>Call him what you like, but there's no denying it; Alan Moore is brilliant. And in <em>Top Ten: The Forty-Niners</em>, he proves once again that he can grip a reader without the usual &quot;big name&quot; comic-book characters.<br/><br/>That's not to say that the characters in TT:TFN ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37910924">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[FORTY-NINERS is a pretty solid prequel, and a great book for Top 10 fans looking to experience more of that world. Alan Moore's writing is amazing as always and the art is very pretty. The hazy, sepia style successfully sets the mood of a big city in days gone by. <br/><br/>It was great to see the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17478162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Beautifully textured, but not quite satisfying</strong>.<br/><br/>Prequel to Moore's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Top Ten" title=" Top Ten"> Top Ten</a> series, dealing with the origins of Neopolis in the summer of 1949, a city populated almost entirely by &quot;science heroes&quot; of various stripes. Steve Traynor, formerly the preteen wartime hero Jetlad (a rif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15853170">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't read comics much these days, but I'll buy anything by Alan Moore. His writing is always fun, subversive, thought-provoking, and smart in ways you never thought the superhero genre could be. This is a prequel to his series Top 10, a noir about a police precinct in a city that consists entirel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5663304">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you think homosexuality is icky, this is not your book. Otherwise, The Forty-Niners is an amazing tie-in to the series Top 10. This is a prequel in which Jet Lad, fresh from the skies of WWII finds himself adrift now that the war is over and is ordered to start anew is Neopolis, a science city of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18466880">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a fantastic addition to the Top 10 &quot;mythos.&quot; Very nice to see the origins of Neopolis and Captain Traynor. very well written and beautiful art.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Top Ten was my favorite of Alan Moore's ABC comics, and it was great to return to that world, even if only for such a short series.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Top Ten has always been my favorite of the Alan Moore-initiated America's Best group of books. I'm a sucker for hero groups, what can I say. Years after publication I finally picked up a copy of this one (Moore's last work on the series). It's a great story - a window to the earliest days of Neopoli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29643308">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not any kind of a step down after <em>Top Ten</em> and possibly a step up, due to a more focused (but less expansive) narrative. The art is beautiful and evokes the Golden Age without being excessively nostalgic, and Moore writes these characters with great sympathy. Plus: a ton of vampires. This series make...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26425527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[La série Top teen du génialissime Alan Moore reste un syncrétisme de tout ce qui se fait dans le monde des super-héros. A lire absolument pour tous ceux qui ont eu leur enfance bercée par les comics. Ce tome est une grande réussite puisqu'elle narre l'origine de cet univers. les dessins sont b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13030201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Prequel to the Top 10 series, set in the 1940's, The Forty-Niners features some breath-taking art by the great Gene Ha. The writing is great, too, as one would expect.<br/>That scene in the vampire bordello is just, you know, awesome.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kind of makes fun of superheroes stories - makes for an entertaining story.  However, the art is really amazing.  Each panel has minor details that are really funny if you take the time to look carefully at each page.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished this a while ago, but forgot to comment on it.  This is a very solid opening for a series and would love to read more of it.  Excellent illustrations matched by dialogue and story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i guess i could have seen it coming, but the in yr face coming-out-of-closet at the end of this BROKE MY NECK. a rad comic. should check out its follow ups (i should, i'm saying)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Would have given this 4.5, if I could. Great prequel to first two volumes. Could be read as a stand-alone, but it's a fascinating look at how the city of science-heroes got its start.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great prequel to Top 10 with some beautiful artwork. Great characters and I've always liked how the Jet Boy romance is portrayed. Very sweet.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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