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Top Ten: The Forty-Niners
But for those of us who have read the previous stories, well,
the opening view of the Neopolis-under-construction literally brought
a tear to my eye. Never let it be said Alan Moore doesn't know how to
infuse his stories with genuine emotion and respect and love for both
his characters and his readers. Neopolis, unfinished and new, is so
arresting a vision because even though we know that, in the
story, decades
lie ahead of the city, this very likely is the last time we as
readers will ever see it.
That we see it unfinished may or may not be a meta-comment from
Moore on the sad end of the ABC universe in any relevant sense, but
ultimately it doesn't matter. Longtime Moore watchers know that layers
and nuance find their way into his best works both intentionally and
accidentally.
THE FORTY-NINERS is the best graphic novel of the year so far,
a profoundly moving love story and a love letter to some of Moore's
best ideas, and to the readers who followed him on his own decades
long magical journey
through the artform of comics. We'll miss him, yeah, but at least he
left some of the best parts of himself behind for us to revisit from
time to time and remember that once, it was possible not only for
superheroes to soar, but for their stories to, as well.
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TOP TEN: THE FORTY-NINERS is just as good is the wondrous
12-issue TOP TEN and the SMAX sequel were, and a
visionary, affecting work of deep human feeling. Gratifyingly, this
original graphic novel is also understandable all in its own right,
with no knowledge of the previous works.