Writers who write over your head...

[TomBelandTSSTG]

Alan Moore.

Every time I pick up an Alan Moore book, I feel like I was given a test in high school and, instead of studying, I played Playstation all week. His work, most of all, PROMETHIA, goes right over my head.

But y'know what..? I still buy it. I buy everything the man puts out because he makes me WANT to figure it out, even if it's baby steps. I think there should be books out there that challenge you in a way you've never been challenged as a comics reader.

So, in a way, I support Moore's quest to make me feel like an idiot.

Who out there writes over YOUR head and do you buy their work?

[JeremyDale]

That Beland guy, and yet I still end up worshipping every story he writes.

[Eric Williams]

I'd have to go with Moore as well.
I find that every time I re-read one of his works, I pick up something that I had completely missed during the previous reading. I imagine I could go on re-reading for ages and find something new each time.

[Jerome Gibbons]

Morrison, definitely (though sometimes it seems like he is deliberately being weird and confusing).

[JoeE]

Grant Morrison

[FredC]

Morrison, Moore and Neil Gaiman.

Love their work though.

[Ben Rosen]

anders nilsen, but that's one of the things i like about him.

[Thomas Mauer]

Alan Moore, hands down. It took me a long time to get into his work but League of Extraordinary Gentlemen did the trick. I find that I have to read his books more slowly than other works, to linger and go back while reading. It's a nice challenge, but a challenge one has to get used to.

[SeanC]

Alan Moore, hands down. It took me a long time to get into his work but League of Extraordinary Gentlemen did the trick. I find that I have to read his books more slowly than other works, to linger and go back while reading. It's a nice challenge, but a challenge one has to get used to.

This seems to be my story, as well. So many people have praised Moore's work and I just never saw the appeal. I read through the first Top Ten book and was bored to tears most of the time. Once, while there was a slow day at The Comic Room, I was determined to read through 'Watchmen.' My God, my head started to hurt after a while and I started to fall asleep. It had to of been the most dense comic book I had read in my life, up to that point. It was only in the last while that I read it again and really started to appreciate it. Prometha; I read the final issue and I actually felt my brain stop working and then kick start itself again.

'League' was the first title that captured my imagination and really showed me that he was a writer that could be interesting to me.

[jason hissong]

David Mack.


I think I get what's going on most of the time, but I always enjoy re-reading Kabuki because there's always something beneath the surface going on as well.