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So, just to recap where we left off last time: it looks like Alan Moore has based all the big hits of his career on ideas he stole from Robert Mayer’s 1977 novel Superfolks. Various people, including Grant Morrison, Kurt Busiek, Lance Parkin, Joseph Gualtieri, and even Robert Mayer himself, have claimed at one point or another that Moore based a lot of his superhero work on various aspects of the book, specifically Marvelman, Watchmen, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, and his proposal to DC Comics for the unpublished cross-company ‘event,’ Twilight of the Superheroes. But is any of this true, or might there be another explanation? To answer that, I’m going to go through the individual allegations or suggestions, and deal them one by one, to see how they hold up.

With a nor’easter blowing in at increasing velocity on November 7th, a full house still turned out for the first of the newly partnered...

It’s getting tougher all the time, as Paul McCartney would’ve likely sung if the Beatles had reunited for a jaded comeback tour in the...

Paul Pope hasn't been heard from too much of late, but we know he has actually finished BATTLING BOY Volume 1—we saw the triumphant...

Hellblazer, one of the longest-running books in mainstream comics history and one of Vertigo's launch titles, will be cancelled in February 2013, with issue...

...from selling his house. Famed cartoonist/playwright/screenwriter/all-around genius Jules Feiffer is leaving Manhattan, and selling his Upper West Side apartment, a biggish four-bedroom, 3 1/2 bath affair that he probably paid far less than $4.395 million for 34 years ago.

From Little Lulu 39, 1950

You could settle for petty tyrants who steal a vote here and there or block uncontroversial legislation out of mere partisan spite, but why...

As we wait for the returns to trickle in, and for the long national indigestion to finally end, we here at Stately Beat Manor provide you...

Comic book writer Alan Moore has dropped a new single today, available through Occupation Records. His first new recording in a while, it shows...

One of the events we missed last week was Steve DIitko's 85th birthday, so a belated birthday greeting, and a link to Michel Fiffe's...

Last Monday night, as Hurricane Sandy raged outside, we had just finished watching last night's episode of The Walking Dead when there was a flash in the sky and the power went out. The vicarious glee of the Zombie Apocalypse—with its owl eating, gas hunting and lack of hot showers—was quickly replaced by living an actual lite version of it.