Tag: Alan Moore
Poisoned Chalice Part 14: Back to Marvelman
In Prince of Stories, towards the end of the chapter on Neil Gaiman’s involvement with Miracleman, there are two paragraphs that say,
According to Gaiman,...
What are DC’s 25 most ‘essential’ graphic novels?
This May DC released a free guide in magazine-like format, about the size of a small prestige graphic novel itself, containing a list of...
Poisoned Chalice Part 13: More Angela, More Courtrooms, and Much More Todd
Despite having lost both the original Angela court case with Neil Gaiman in 2002 and then the appeal in 2004, Todd McFarlane (that's him...
Poisoned Chalice Part 12: All About Angela
In February 1992 Todd McFarlane, along with six others, announced the founding of Image Comics, after having failed to negotiate more favourable terms for...
Poisoned Chalice Part 10: Alan Moore at Eclipse
The original contract between Quality Communications Ltd and Eclipse Comics called for Quality to provide enough material for twelve issues, but this ran into...
Interview Part 2: Alan Moore may be making movies with Kickstarter
PÓM: Jimmy’s End. The whole Jimmy’s End project, how is that coming along?
AM: Well, let me see. We have the first cycle of films,...
Interview: Alan Moore on Providence, Jerusalem, League and more – Part 1
On Tuesday the 9th of April I interviewed Alan Moore. This is the fifth time I’ve interviewed him, but I still get nervous every...
Poisoned Chalice Part 9: The Dawn of Eclipse
Although Marvelman last appeared in Warrior #21 in August 1984, and the last issue of the magazine, #26, appeared in February 1985, this wasn’t...
Poison Chalice Interlude: 1953 – 1985 Roundup and Some Notes on Copyright
So far, this history of Marvelman - more correctly called Poisoned Chalice: The Extremely Long and Incredibly Complex Story of Marvelman - has taken...
Vertigo to Publish Tom Strong & The Planet Of Peril in July
Vertigo have started recovering themselves over the past few weeks, announcing new projects to cover the holes left by Hellblazer and Karen Berger. On...
Who Owns Marvelman – An April Fool’s Day Speculation
I’m breaking continuity on Poisoned Chalice, my history of Marvelman, to say something about the current disposition of the character, and particularly to speculate on whether Marvel Comics are actually getting any closer to being able to publish it, as is being suggested around the Internet this past while.
Poisoned Chalice Part 8: A Warrior Falls
By 1984, things were starting to fall apart at Warrior.
Alan Moore's Marvelman is threatened by Dez Skinn's Big BenNot only were Alan Moore and...














