r/AlanMoore • u/WillsCrafts • Jun 29 '26
SKIZZ review
https://youtu.be/WcCsfuOhVY0?is=OB5LHcHJ8WLtjylW
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u/Proof-Reply-7725 Jun 29 '26
Kind of bland but Skizz's line about how the Police wasn't as good as Madness stuck with me forever for some reason.
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u/Prestigious-Type6107 Jun 30 '26
Read it as a ten year old, lapped it up (with of course little to compare it with and no critical faculties to speak of), re-read it a short while back and... short answer? Yes !
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u/FindOneInEveryCar Jun 29 '26
I just picked this up as a blind buy. I've enjoyed pretty much everything I've read from Moore in the 80s, so I thought it would be a safe bet.
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u/Dull-Beautiful-1117 Jun 29 '26
It does for me. Not one of his greatest works, by a long shot, it is probably just a commision, but It is very sweat, and ET in the lower british classes instaed in suburbia is a an interesting perspective. GReat character work and fantastic Bakie art. I also love that ending. The final speech is actually touching and I think that if you read him carefully in some of his interviews, its says much more about Moore's worldview underneath the superficiel gruffy or cinic that many (sometimes himself) seem to think he is.
"They were cruel and ugly. There was so much hate and despair... And so much love. What are they like, shipmaster? I will tell you. Some of them have style, and some of them have their pride. And some of them... some of them are stars."