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Alan Moore's Complete WildC.A.T.s

door Alan Moore

Reeksen: WildC.A.T.s, Volume 1 (compilation 5-6), WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams [1992] (21-34 & 50 collected)

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Written by Alan Moore Art by Travis Charest, Mat Broome, Ryan Benjamin and others Cover by Charest Alan Moore is considered by many to be the finest comics writer of the last quarter century. His standout achievements in the medium include WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, and From Hell. Now Moore's defining run on WildC.A.T.s is collected into a single volume, collecting WILDC.A.T.S. #21-34, plus a story from issue #50, featuring the impressive art of Travis Charest and other fine artists who provide breathtaking visuals. Alan Moore took the WILDC.A.T.S back to their roots and stirred up the WildStorm Universe considerably, creating a perfect starting point for catching up the flagship WildStorm superhero team. It's a tale filled with unsettling revelations and gripping drama - and the introduction of one of WildStorm's great villains: Tao! On sale January 2… (meer)
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  freixas | Mar 31, 2023 |
Graphic novels as comics are called now, to save the embarrassment of calling them comics, might seem out of place on a science-fiction website but an awful lot of them are bound to come under the science-fiction or fantasy heading. Since they are often intelligent and well written there is no reason, except snobbery, to exclude them. No snob, I am glad to get as many as the revered editor wants to bung my way and was especially pleased to get this fine piece of work from Big Al. I am not wildly familiar with WildC.A.T.S. so I found the initial chapters a bit confusing. Presently it makes sense, however, so there is no need for new readers to be shy of the book. Although it's cut into bits called chapters, the original comics, its really just one long story. Well, two long stories tied together at the end.

The first story is about some of the original WildC.A.T.S. who have ended up on their home planet, Khera. Here they find that the war they’ve been fighting for ages is long over. Returning to civilian life they also find, slowly over several chapters, that victory is not everything. The home planet is a funny old place and very unequal. Although they were comrades in war, they find themselves cast into conflicting roles in peacetime. Emp and Zealot are feted aristocrats, Maul and Void are unimportant and Voodoo is an outcast because of her genes. All are changed by the experience.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Majestic recruits new members to make up the numbers of WildC.A.T.S. and continue the fight against crime. Some of the new members have ‘challenging’ personalities (as the social workers say) and there are conflicts. The new WildC.A.T.S get into a war against crime. They don’t just wait until a crime is committed and then go into action, they attack criminals first. The criminals are disgruntled by this unprecedented mode of superheroism. There is a bar where super people hang out together (a terrific idea) and the criminals' retaliation to WildC.A.T.S affirmative action is to bomb it. Or so it seems. After that the war gets nasty.

I’m a big fan of Big Al and this here comic book is good fun. The plot is slick. The writing is always clever and frequently brilliant. The fellow has a way with words. However, it did occur to me that today’s comic fans probably give him too much credit for modernising the genre. This team book has villains becoming heroes, complex characters, love triangles and so on. But Roy Thomas was doing all that stuff in 'The Mighty Avengers' back in the late sixties and doing long complicated plots too. I hasten to add that Mister Moore is, by all accounts, modesty itself and, as his appearance on last years BBC documentary about Steve Ditko showed, has a real sense of the history of the genre.

He is also good at giving due credit to the artists who are his collaborators. Alan Moore is the headline name on the book but graphic novels are very much a visual medium. Personally, if the art doesn’t appeal I don’t bother reading the comic. This book is quite a team production with several different styles. Happily, all the art is good and some is downright beautiful. I particularly liked the work of Travis Charest. Oddly, there are sometimes more than two pencillers and sometimes a team of several inkers so it's hard to know who to credit. There is certainly no page displeasing to the eye.

The cover price is fairly hefty but the production quality is first-rate. Titan Books are pretty good value for money as a rule. You don’t get as many pages of story here as you do with Marvel Essentials and DC Showcase but the pages you get are much prettier, in full bright colour, and will provide as many hours of pleasure, at least, as the equivalent dosh spent on DVDs. Worth it really.
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  bigfootmurf | Sep 5, 2020 |
Complete WildC. A. T.S offers a unique opportunity to see Alan Moore doing something very different indeed: Super-heroes. That's right. No twists, no post-modernism, no dissection, no pastiches, no homages, just straight-forward super-hero dramatics... done absolutely brilliantly.

There are some problems to take into account before you jump in: Firstly, you REALLY need to be introduced to the characters and universe (at the very least the four issue introduction sold under the title "WildCATS Compendium"). This is an absolute must. Secondly, unfortunately a "cross-over" storyline (where different characters from other comics appear) slams right into the main storyline about two thirds of the way through. Thankfully it disappears again and story gets back on track, but you will be wondering what's going on for at least an issue or two. ( )
  JohnnyWalker | Nov 2, 2008 |
Probably the best Wildcats has been but far from the best Moore has been. Introduces several interesting ideas but suffers from having to tie in with other Wildstorm storly lines. Art from Travis Charest is magnificent but variable from the other contributors. ( )
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Written by Alan Moore Art by Travis Charest, Mat Broome, Ryan Benjamin and others Cover by Charest Alan Moore is considered by many to be the finest comics writer of the last quarter century. His standout achievements in the medium include WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, and From Hell. Now Moore's defining run on WildC.A.T.s is collected into a single volume, collecting WILDC.A.T.S. #21-34, plus a story from issue #50, featuring the impressive art of Travis Charest and other fine artists who provide breathtaking visuals. Alan Moore took the WILDC.A.T.S back to their roots and stirred up the WildStorm Universe considerably, creating a perfect starting point for catching up the flagship WildStorm superhero team. It's a tale filled with unsettling revelations and gripping drama - and the introduction of one of WildStorm's great villains: Tao! On sale January 2

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