Trebro's review
Top Ten (Book 1) by Alan Moore
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-shifter with exhibitionist leanings, a gruff lady in an Iron Man suit, a hyper-intelligent dog in an exoskeleton, a phasing lesbian, and someone with a powerful case of static electricity, to name just a few of the folks you'll meet. T
hey come together to solve crimes from rebellious mini-monsters (and their very big, very drunk parents) to a horrible killer to a ghost-goose who harasses women randomly. It's written with great plotting, spectacular dialog and a sense for creation that no ot...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-shifter with exhibitionist leanings, a gruff lady in an Iron Man suit, a hyper-intelligent dog in an exoskeleton, a phasing lesbian, and someone with a powerful case of static electricity, to name just a few of the folks you'll meet. T
hey come together to solve crimes from rebellious mini-monsters (and their very big, very drunk parents) to a horrible killer to a ghost-goose who harasses women randomly. It's written with great plotting, spectacular dialog and a sense for creation that no ot...more
Top Ten is so amazingly good!
One of the little things I really enjoy about it is that unlike most cape books, the female heroes actually are drawn with body types that match their powers. Girl One, the bioengineered woman, has the classic boy's fantasy figure, Toybox is scrawny and unathletic, Peregrine has huge muscular shoulders to work those wings, Irma Geddon is a powerhouse, etc. I wish more comics would pay such close attention to character design.
