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#18567 From: Pádraig Ó Méalóid <pomealoid@...>
Date: Fri Dec 4, 2009 9:10 pm
Subject: Re: Re:Dodgem Logic: Now In Stock
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I bought several copies last week in the Forbidden Planet International branch in Dublin!
 
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--- On Fri, 4/12/09, AWDonkin@... <AWDonkin@...> wrote:

From: AWDonkin@... <AWDonkin@...>
Subject: [alanmoore] Re:Dodgem Logic: Now In Stock
To: alanmoore@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, 4 December, 2009, 11:05

 
 
    Hello all:
 
    Just to say that I was in the London Forbidden Planet yesterday and they had Dodgem Logic in stock.  :)


#18566 From: AWDonkin@...
Date: Fri Dec 4, 2009 6:05 am
Subject: Re:Dodgem Logic: Now In Stock
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    Hello all:
 
    Just to say that I was in the London Forbidden Planet yesterday and they had Dodgem Logic in stock.  :)

#18565 From: smoky man <smoky_man@...>
Date: Wed Dec 2, 2009 4:55 pm
Subject: Dodgem Logic: Moore show
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#18564 From: Michael Thomsen <mtxxforum@...>
Date: Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:07 am
Subject: Best Comics of the Decade
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Promethea makes Onion AV Club's list:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-best-comics-of-the-00s,35713/


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#18563 From: smoky man <smoky_man@...>
Date: Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:02 am
Subject: Eddie Campbell interview
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Check here:
http://www.comicus.it/view.php?section=interviste&id=283
Scroll down for the English version ;)

It has been done during the last Lucca Comics at the end of October.

smok!



#18562 From: "jcw2k1" <thunderpeel2001@...>
Date: Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:05 pm
Subject: Re: http://www.dodgemlogic.com/
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Well, even though I signed up to be alerted when the site went live and the
issue was released -- they didn't bother to email me. Thanks for the heads up.

--- In alanmoore@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Lee" <andy@...> wrote:
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> Via http://twitter.com/MustardMagazine
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> Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic website has launched... and it's rather fantastic!
http://www.dodgemlogic.com
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>
>
> Not got my copy yet - no comic shops near me.
>
> Andy
>

#18561 From: "Andrew Lee" <andy@...>
Date: Sat Nov 21, 2009 12:05 pm
Subject: http://www.dodgemlogic.com/
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Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic website has launched... and it's rather fantastic! http://www.dodgemlogic.com
 
 
 
Not got my copy yet - no comic shops near me.
 
Andy

#18560 From: ctowner1@...
Date: Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:46 pm
Subject: Re: Re: Happy Birthday, Alan!
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Right!

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> Happy Belated Birthday, Alan!
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> --- In alanmoore@yahoogroups.com, Kumar Sivasubramanian <thebootybrigade@...>
wrote:
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#18559 From: "paingod2032" <paingod2032@...>
Date: Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:31 pm
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, Alan!
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Happy Belated Birthday, Alan!

--- In alanmoore@yahoogroups.com, Kumar Sivasubramanian <thebootybrigade@...>
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> KS
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#18558 From: George Vincent <adirondackgeorge1952@...>
Date: Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:36 pm
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, Alan!
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A most unusual and yet wondrously told tale.
 
Unusual and wondrously told? Does that sound like an Alan Moore project?
If it doesn't then I have the wrong writer in mind!
 
Wolf

--- On Thu, 11/19/09, Pádraig Ó Méalóid <pomealoid@...> wrote:

From: Pádraig Ó Méalóid <pomealoid@...>
Subject: Re: [alanmoore] Happy Birthday, Alan!
To: alanmoore@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 3:46 AM

 
Yes, I meant to post that too!
 
As a (slightly belated) birthday treat for you all, here's a link to Hungry is the Heart from Dame Darcy's Meatcake #9, written by Moore, and published by Fantagraphics in April 1999:
 
Pádraig

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From: Kumar Sivasubramanian <thebootybrigade@ hotmail.com>
Subject: [alanmoore] Happy Birthday, Alan!
To: alanmoore@yahoogrou ps.com
Date: Wednesday, 18 November, 2009, 23:35

 
 
 
 
KS
 
 
 
 
 
 


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#18557 From: smoky man <smoky_man@...>
Date: Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:06 am
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, Alan!
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Happy birthday to the Bearded King of the Scorpion Boys! ;)

Regarding "Hungry is the heart", extra-info: it is was also reprinted into "my" Alan Moore: Portrait of An Extraordinary Gentleman" (2003, Abiogenesisi Press), now out to print.

From Italy,
smok!

--- Gio 19/11/09, Pádraig Ó Méalóid <pomealoid@...> ha scritto:
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Oggetto: Re: [alanmoore] Happy Birthday, Alan!
A: alanmoore@yahoogroups.com
Data: Giovedì 19 novembre 2009, 09:46

 

Yes, I meant to post that too!
 
As a (slightly belated) birthday treat for you all, here's a link to Hungry is the Heart from Dame Darcy's Meatcake #9, written by Moore, and published by Fantagraphics in April 1999:
 
Pádraig

My LiveJournals:
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--- On Wed, 18/11/09, Kumar Sivasubramanian <thebootybrigade@ hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Kumar Sivasubramanian <thebootybrigade@ hotmail.com>
Subject: [alanmoore] Happy Birthday, Alan!
To: alanmoore@yahoogrou ps.com
Date: Wednesday, 18 November, 2009, 23:35

 
 
 
 
KS
 
 
 
 
 
 


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#18556 From: Pádraig Ó Méalóid <pomealoid@...>
Date: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:46 am
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, Alan!
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Yes, I meant to post that too!
 
As a (slightly belated) birthday treat for you all, here's a link to Hungry is the Heart from Dame Darcy's Meatcake #9, written by Moore, and published by Fantagraphics in April 1999:
 
Pádraig

My LiveJournals:
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http://glycon.livejournal.com/
Http://reviewsnthings.livejournal.com/

--- On Wed, 18/11/09, Kumar Sivasubramanian <thebootybrigade@...> wrote:

From: Kumar Sivasubramanian <thebootybrigade@...>
Subject: [alanmoore] Happy Birthday, Alan!
To: alanmoore@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, 18 November, 2009, 23:35

 
 
 
 
KS
 
 
 
 
 
 


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#18555 From: Kumar Sivasubramanian <thebootybrigade@...>
Date: Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:35 pm
Subject: Happy Birthday, Alan!
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#18554 From: ctowner1@...
Date: Tue Nov 17, 2009 5:34 am
Subject: OT: The (new) Prisoner (eps 1 & 2)
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 I didn't see tonight's pair of eps yet, but I did see the 1st 2 on Sunday. I do not think it holds up well to the original, but it might turn out ok.

In the first instance, it does look good. And Ian McKellan makes a top notch No. 2. Caviezel was OK, but he lacked McGoohan's smoldering intensity. With McGoohan, you just felt him brimming with hate and resentment at his captivity. And his intelligence shine through cleared. Caviezel comes off as a bit weaker - but there are flashed of power and intelligence as well.

My biggest complaint is particularly aimed at the 2nd part. The 1st part set up the premise well enough - but then it was time to see a solid episode. The story of No. 6's brother and the search for the beach really lacked any punch in its resolution. You could see where they were going in terms of him (supposedly) real life memory and his village "reality" - but the story just kind of resolved itself - with no real cleverness of No. 6. One of the hallmark's of the original series was it's ability to give a powerful twist ending that pulled together all the threads we had seen throughout the ep. And central to that twist was No. 6 or No. 2 doing something clever as they played their little cat and mouse games. That didn't happen here. Things just kind of ended. We got some of the trippy mindfuck stuff from the original series, but none of it pulled together (for me at least). Disappointing.

Otherwise, they go into a bit more detail in the new edition w.r.t. the makeup of the Village - they really played up the idea that the people in the Village really believe that the Village is the whole world (Who invented the lightbulb? Why No. 512, of course!). In the original, it was all left kind of vague. Which made all the more sense when we get the ultimate resolution as to what was going on (according to some interpretations).

An interesting point to me will be how/if they update the original premise of the show. The original's main theme was a study of the individual vs. society. Individualism vs. group mentality. No. 6, always striving to maintain his identity. In the new show he's part of a corporation that does surveillance, rather than a government secret agency. Add to that the 9/11 imagery, and I suspect one theme they might explore is the idea of how much we are willing to give up our individual freedoms in exchange for security. Privacy giving way to scrutiny in the service of protection.

I'm looking forward to see where they take it.

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#18553 From: ctowner1@...
Date: Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:50 am
Subject: OT: AVI playing DVD player
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Anyone know a decent DVD player that will play AVI type files as well as DVDs?

I had gotten a cheap iview brand player, but it only lasted 5 months before breaking on me.  Any suggestions on other brands/models?

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#18552 From: "jcw2k1" <thunderpeel2001@...>
Date: Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:42 pm
Subject: Re: Watchmen extra scenes
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Yup. Those scenes are all in the Director's Cut, and an excellent version of the
movie it is, too. (Although, oddly, there's more violence and OTT fighting for
no good reason, too.)

--- In alanmoore@yahoogroups.com, ctowner1@... wrote:
>
> saw this list on amazon.com...thought might be of interest...
>
> (1) Rorschach gets additional dialogue, some straight from the comics.
>
> (2) When Rorschach searches the Comedian's apartment shortly after the
> opening scene, he encounters two cops still stationed there. He fights
> briefly with them before jumping back out the window.
>
> (3) Conversation between Dan and Rorschach (beans scene) is extended.
>
> (4) All flashbacks extended, with the exception of Sally's.
>
> (5) Dr. Manhatten discussing the symbol on his forehead. Additional
> questions in the face to face with Dr. Manhatten. Dan and Hollis watch Dr.
> Manhatten go crazy on their TV set.
>
> (6) Laurie getting interrogated by the military as they try to determine Dr.
> M's whereabouts (on Mars). Alessandro Juliani's (Lt. Gaeta from Battlestar
> Galactica) scene has been reinserted. He plays one of the scientists who
> bursts in during the interrogation of Laurie to tell the military that
> they've located Dr. M on Mars.
>
> (7) Probably the biggest addition is the depiction of Hollis Mason's death
> at the hands of the knot heads. Interestingly, the death is done from poor
> Hollis' POV, where he imagines himself fighting the gangsters of the 1940s.
> He delivers left and right hooks to Captain Evil, before being done in by
> "Moloch". The score for the death scene is very fitting.
>
> (8) Dan taking revenge on an isolated knot head at a bar, post Hollis'
> death. It's a brutal revenge.
>
> (9) The shootout by hired hitman Roy Chess is much more brutal- e.g. more
> blood and gore, fingers blown off.
>
> (10) Conversation between Dr. Long and Rorschach is extended.
>
> (11) Longer jail-break scene with arguments between Rorschach and Laurie.
> Prison guards open fire on Dan's ship.
>
> (12) Longer conversation between Dr. M and L on Mars.
>
> (13) Riot scene is longer with more conversation between the Comedian and
> the rioters.
>
> (14) Agent Forbes (Fulvio Cecere) has a larger role as the government agent
> in charge of handling all the Watchmen.
>
> e
> L nny
>

#18551 From: ctowner1@...
Date: Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:24 pm
Subject: Re: Watchmen extra scenes
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longer version, as I understand it.
 
e
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:46 PM, fabio blanco <blankfabio@...> wrote:


I can stand dog's death in the movies. I cry seeing Lassie.

Anyway... ¿It is a longer version of the film or DVD deleted scenes?

Fabio


Matt Kimmich escribió:
The ones I'm most interested in are:

(7) Probably the biggest addition is the depiction of Hollis Mason's death at the hands of the knot heads. Interestingly, the death is done from poor Hollis' POV, where he imagines himself fighting the gangsters of the 1940s. He delivers left and right hooks to Captain Evil, before being done in by "Moloch". The score for the death scene is very fitting. 

-- bonvolu post al blankfabio@...
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#18550 From: fabio blanco <blankfabio@...>
Date: Mon Nov 16, 2009 7:46 pm
Subject: Re: Watchmen extra scenes
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I can stand dog's death in the movies. I cry seeing Lassie.

Anyway... ¿It is a longer version of the film or DVD deleted scenes?

Fabio


Matt Kimmich escribió:
The ones I'm most interested in are:

(7) Probably the biggest addition is the depiction of Hollis Mason's death at the hands of the knot heads. Interestingly, the death is done from poor Hollis' POV, where he imagines himself fighting the gangsters of the 1940s. He delivers left and right hooks to Captain Evil, before being done in by "Moloch". The score for the death scene is very fitting. 

-- bonvolu post al blankfabio@...
www.virusmental.com

#18549 From: ctowner1@...
Date: Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:38 pm
Subject: Re: Watchmen extra scenes
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I thought I saw a still shot of the street vender and the boy reading the Black Freighter embracing, which wasn't in the movie.  Is this an extra scene that was not in the Director's Cut, but which will be in the Ultimate Cut (w/the Black Freighter animation worked in)?  Are there other scenes that are added to that cut?
 
e
L nny

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Matt Kimmich <matt_kimmich@...> wrote:


The ones I'm most interested in are:


(7) Probably the biggest addition is the depiction of Hollis Mason's death at the hands of the knot heads. Interestingly, the death is done from poor Hollis' POV, where he imagines himself fighting the gangsters of the 1940s. He delivers left and right hooks to Captain Evil, before being done in by "Moloch". The score for the death scene is very fitting. 

(10) Conversation between Dr. Long and Rorschach is extended. 

And especially

(12) Longer conversation between Dr. M and L on Mars. 

I thought that Laurie's character suffered most in the transition from comic to film, and never more than in the sequence where she has her big realisation about the Comedian. On the whole I'd still say that the Watchmen movie is the first and only Moore adaptation so far that isn't an abject embarrassment to the original (V for Vendetta got the imagery pretty right, but IMO many of its changes were pretty damaging, especially the ending), and I'd even go so far as to say that Snyder got a lot of things very right. It's a shame, though, that some of the deleted scenes seem to give us more of the things he got wrong (e.g. stylised hyper-violence).

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#18548 From: Matt Kimmich <matt_kimmich@...>
Date: Mon Nov 16, 2009 7:56 am
Subject: RE: Watchmen extra scenes
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The ones I'm most interested in are:

(7) Probably the biggest addition is the depiction of Hollis Mason's death at the hands of the knot heads. Interestingly, the death is done from poor Hollis' POV, where he imagines himself fighting the gangsters of the 1940s. He delivers left and right hooks to Captain Evil, before being done in by "Moloch". The score for the death scene is very fitting. 

(10) Conversation between Dr. Long and Rorschach is extended. 

And especially

(12) Longer conversation between Dr. M and L on Mars. 

I thought that Laurie's character suffered most in the transition from comic to film, and never more than in the sequence where she has her big realisation about the Comedian. On the whole I'd still say that the Watchmen movie is the first and only Moore adaptation so far that isn't an abject embarrassment to the original (V for Vendetta got the imagery pretty right, but IMO many of its changes were pretty damaging, especially the ending), and I'd even go so far as to say that Snyder got a lot of things very right. It's a shame, though, that some of the deleted scenes seem to give us more of the things he got wrong (e.g. stylised hyper-violence).

- Thirith


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#18547 From: ctowner1@...
Date: Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:45 am
Subject: Watchmen extra scenes
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saw this list on amazon.com...thought might be of interest...

(1) Rorschach gets additional dialogue, some straight from the comics. 

(2) When Rorschach searches the Comedian's apartment shortly after the opening scene, he encounters two cops still stationed there. He fights briefly with them before jumping back out the window. 

(3) Conversation between Dan and Rorschach (beans scene) is extended.

(4) All flashbacks extended, with the exception of Sally's. 

(5) Dr. Manhatten discussing the symbol on his forehead. Additional questions in the face to face with Dr. Manhatten. Dan and Hollis watch Dr. Manhatten go crazy on their TV set. 

(6) Laurie getting interrogated by the military as they try to determine Dr. M's whereabouts (on Mars). Alessandro Juliani's (Lt. Gaeta from Battlestar Galactica) scene has been reinserted. He plays one of the scientists who bursts in during the interrogation of Laurie to tell the military that they've located Dr. M on Mars. 

(7) Probably the biggest addition is the depiction of Hollis Mason's death at the hands of the knot heads. Interestingly, the death is done from poor Hollis' POV, where he imagines himself fighting the gangsters of the 1940s. He delivers left and right hooks to Captain Evil, before being done in by "Moloch". The score for the death scene is very fitting. 

(8) Dan taking revenge on an isolated knot head at a bar, post Hollis' death. It's a brutal revenge. 

(9) The shootout by hired hitman Roy Chess is much more brutal- e.g. more blood and gore, fingers blown off. 

(10) Conversation between Dr. Long and Rorschach is extended. 

(11) Longer jail-break scene with arguments between Rorschach and Laurie. Prison guards open fire on Dan's ship. 

(12) Longer conversation between Dr. M and L on Mars. 

(13) Riot scene is longer with more conversation between the Comedian and the rioters. 

(14) Agent Forbes (Fulvio Cecere) has a larger role as the government agent in charge of handling all the Watchmen. 

e
L nny

#18546 From: Kumar Sivasubramanian <thebootybrigade@...>
Date: Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:20 pm
Subject: RE: Re: Dodgem Logic Website
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From the CBR interview:
 
"It's difficult to see a truly underground publication appearing on the web. It may just be that I have a very strong print bias, but we will have a website, which will be either www.dodgemlogic.com or www.dodgemlogic.co.uk or both, but since I'm completely unfamiliar with the web and will never visit the site, I'm afraid I don't know the technical details at the moment. It'll all become plain, I'm sure."
 
 
KS
 
 

 

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From: gsstro@...
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:07:35 +0000
Subject: [alanmoore] Re: Dodgem Logic Website

 
I wonder if Alan will look at this website?

Will he be contributing anything original to the website, besides what he contributes to the 'zine?

--- In alanmoore@yahoogroups.com, "slovobooks" <pomealoid@...> wrote:
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> There is now a website for Dodgem Logic, although all you can do for the moment is sign up for the newsletter. It's here: http://dodgemlogic.com/
>
> Pádraig
>




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#18545 From: smoky man <smoky_man@...>
Date: Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:37 pm
Subject: V for Vendetta: a movie in 4frames
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#18544 From: "fourinone2002" <gsstro@...>
Date: Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:07 pm
Subject: Re: Dodgem Logic Website
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I wonder if Alan will look at this website?

Will he be contributing anything original to the website, besides what he
contributes to the 'zine?



--- In alanmoore@yahoogroups.com, "slovobooks" <pomealoid@...> wrote:
>
> There is now a website for Dodgem Logic, although all you can do for the
moment is sign up for the newsletter. It's here: http://dodgemlogic.com/
>
> Pádraig
>

#18543 From: "fourinone2002" <gsstro@...>
Date: Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:05 pm
Subject: Moore quote
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Look who made the popular quotes list!

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes?page=8

#18542 From: "slovobooks" <pomealoid@...>
Date: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:40 am
Subject: Dodgem Logic Website
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There is now a website for Dodgem Logic, although all you can do for the moment
is sign up for the newsletter. It's here: http://dodgemlogic.com/

Pádraig

#18541 From: AWDonkin@...
Date: Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:44 pm
Subject: Re: More Moore
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    Apologies if this has already been posted and I missed it... Here's a short interview by the Mustard guys with our own hairy genius about the approaching DodgemLogic.
 
    Hope you all had good firework fun.
 
 

#18540 From: AWDonkin@...
Date: Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:38 pm
Subject: Re: Urban Gorillaz
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    Hello pals and chums:
 
    News below from the Guardian's site of a likely new creative outlet for our own Uncle Alan...

 

Alan Moore to write libretto for Gorillaz duo

Fans of graphic novels and Gorillaz rejoice! The comics legend is writing the lyrics for Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's next opera

Alan Moore

Extraordinary gentleman ... Alan Moore is writing the next opera for the Gorillaz duo

For the follow-up to Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's opera Monkey: Journey to the West, the duo have turned to a man best known for flawed superheroes, melancholy swamp things and a nymphomaniac Alice in Wonderland. Comics legend Alan Moore is to write the lyrics for the pair's next production, he has revealed.

"They came down to Northampton last week because we're planning for me to do the libretto on their next opera ," Moore recently told Mustard magazine. Though Moore offered no more details than that – and semi-erroneously referred to the pair as Gorillaz – Moore's news will still set Blur (and comics) fans salivating. Albarn and Hewlett's last show, Monkey: Journey to the West, was a hit in 2007 and led to a series of animated spots for the BBC's Beijing Olympics coverage.

It's anybody's guess what Albarn and Hewlett have planned with Moore. The comics writer has penned all kinds of tales, from Victorian whodunits to dystopian science-fiction. His most famous works include Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman.

These days, Moore is primarily occupied with Dodgem Logic, a new bi-monthly journal. He aims to capture "the spirit of 1960s underground papers", using comics, essays, recipes and, er, lengthy examinations of anarchism. Oh – and also, Albarn and Hewlett.

"[For the third issue] we've hopefully got Gorillaz onboard," Moore said. "Being an opportunist, I asked them if they'd be prepared to contribute some pages to Dodgem Logic. Rather than just doing an interview, I thought it would be interesting to hand over a few pages for them to curate."


#18539 From: Chris <mute@...>
Date: Thu Nov 5, 2009 9:08 pm
Subject: Re: Re:from the onion
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And that they wouldn't be considering Vertigo as the publisher?

On Fri, Nov 6th, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Jeff Wood <jeffswood@...> wrote:

> I am such a geek... I want to correct them that his Swamp Thing run
> started
> with #20.
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:31 AM, <AWDonkin@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >     Ha - excellent.
> >
> >     If only it were true.  :)
> >
> >
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#18538 From: Jeff Wood <jeffswood@...>
Date: Thu Nov 5, 2009 4:58 pm
Subject: Re: Re:from the onion
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I am such a geek... I want to correct them that his Swamp Thing run started with #20. 

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:31 AM, <AWDonkin@...> wrote:
 

 
    Ha - excellent.
 
    If only it were true.  :)



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