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Alan Moore: The Complete WildC. A. T.s (Wildc.a.T.S.)
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- Author: Alan Moore, Travis Charest, Matt Broome
- Publisher: Wildstorm
- Release Date: August 2007
- ISBN-10: 1401215459
- ISBN-13: 9781401215453
- List Price: $29.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryAlan Moore is considered by many to be the finest comics writer of the last quarter century. His achievements in the medium include WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA, FROM HELL and THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. Now, Moore's defining run on the super-hero team known as WildC.A.T.s is collected into a single volume, one in which he is ably assisted by Travis Charest and other fine artists who provide breathtaking visuals. THE COMPLETE WILDC.A.T.S is the perfect starting point for the flagship WildStorm super-hero team. It's a tale filled with unsettling revelations and gripping drama, and features the introduction of one of WildStorm's great villains, Tao! |
Customer Reviews
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Enjoyed From Start to Finish
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This was my first exposure to the WildCats and the WildStorm universe and prompted me to start collecting both.
They are refreshingly updated and cooler than the superhero teams that were born in the Golden Age, and it's good to see them in Moore's hands since he has such vision and looks at characters so deeply. And some of the plotlines were frankly stunning.
In a few places I felt lost because this obviously only includes Moore's work on the book, so a couple chapters refer to books I hadn't read, but this was a minor annoyance. I din't want this book to end, and when I started reading WildCats from the beginning I was dissappointed that Alan's muse wasn't there. Better than Tom Strong, a kickass thrill ride.
Ignore the negative reviews, this book is AWESOME!
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Alan Moore proves yet again that he can play around in an established universe as well as in one of his own creation. In this case, his palette is Jim Lee's Wildcats/Wildstorm Universe, and the stories he weaves with the characters are breathtaking and horror-inducing as only the best writer in comics history can tell them. The original Wildcats Team find themselves on Khera, their home planet, while a new team is being assembled by Mr. Majestic and Savant back on earth. Here Moore introduces one of his most frightening creations yet: TAO, the Tactically Augmented Organism, a WildC.A.T with abilities that could tear the team apart from within. The Wildcats soon realize that all is not what it seems when their world is turned upside down in typical Moore fashion. Beautiful language combined with stunning art make this collection a prize to be cherished by any comic fan!
Alan Moore's Summer Blockbuster!
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Sometimes we get so used to a creator breaking new ground that when he just tells a great story on an existing landmass, we think he wrote a bad story. All the reveiwers here that claim this book is bad, are those type of people. If you look at Alan Moore's Tom Strong books, they are not like Watchmen, why? Because Alan Moore is channeling the characters and comics of old, old, really old, Pulp comic heroes. He writes them as if they never stopped being written back in the 30's, and continued on to today. Then you have League of Extroadinary Gentlemen. Those comics are written to the tune of all the great novel works from back in the Victorian age and on to the early 1900's.
So now with this book, he writes an X-men knockoff. He doesent take it and make it his own, he writes it in the vein of an X-men knockoff, and tells a great story doing it. The reason he didn't break ground is because the characters themselves don't break ground. The universe they populate doesent break ground. Yeah, I guess he could have taken the Wildcats universe and turned it on it's head, making it his own, but he wrote this story in the confines of the series. He respected the existing fans enough to not change what they had come to love about this series, and instead wrote something along the lines of a summer blockbuster.
It's action packed, full of funny moments and doesent fill you up with heavy material. It's fun, it's exciting, and the art is pretty.
Enjoy it for what it is, and not what it isn't.
Big comic fan says "an okay read"
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I'm a big Moore fan but have to say that this collection is not a showcase of his writing talent. I have no experience with Wildcats, but found the collection to be as enjoyable as reading average team-based comics from DC and Marvel. (I'd probably buy it again--its worth the $15--but it's not great.)
Moore's Top 10 series is much more entertaining, and if you are expecting to find a book from Moore that you'll re-read again and again, look elsewhere (Watchmen, Swamp Thing...).
I Wanted to Like it!
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Beginning as a comic book fan in the 90's, I really got into the WildCATs title (volume 1) up to the Wildstorm rising crossover. What really hooked me was Jim Lee's amazing and just explosive, high energy art style that took off after issue 5. Yet I didn't leave right when Travis Charest took over on illustration, but I didn't stick around for much of his work. After leaving the comic world in 1995 (and Wildcats with it), I didn't read another WildCATs comic untill last week. With this collection. I was so excited, I thought I'd basically get to pick up from where I left off over ten years ago. Also i'd get over 12 issues from a single writer (one with quite a reputation) and some decent artists for under $25. This was great. Unfortunately after reading this collection I no longer have any great curiosity for WildCATs.
It wasn't really the art, the art was good, generally (i'm not too crazy about Matt Broome), and parts of the plot were interesting and inventive. Certain aspects of the 'Cats return to Khera gave closure and finality to the their struggle. The biggest problems for me was that it seems like the story never gelled. It just didn't come together. It's not just because the Fire From Heaven storyline interruption either. Basically I saw these characters that just never really went anywhere. You get some character development on Khera and some with the new team members, but not much depth was added to or developed with the characters. Also some characters were very out-of character (you can say it is a different side to them, but sometimes it just seemed to be too different from issue to issue), and some characters never seemed to find themselves. An example is Majestic---he's supposed to be the teams leader but he never leads, he just doesn't have a purpose. And other aspects of the story just make no sense like the gangwar and the fight in the city, it's just a bunch of running around (why would this gang of crimanals aim to take physical "ground" like an actual battle--what were they going to do with it???)
All and all what was best about this book was Moore's ability to right humor. There are some pretty comical scenes throughout that are done pretty well. However if you're looking for this collection to solidify and develop on the team...it just didn't happen here.
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