Writer/filmmaker Bryan Hill (Ultimate Black Panther, Blade) joins us this week to dissect From Hell, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s epic historical masterpiece.

We get into what the Jack the Ripper case says about our own modern world, discuss the challenges facing the creative mindset when working on dark material and consider the lengths that power will go to protect itself.

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Bleeding Cool’s Rich Johnston joins us this week to talk about The Great When, the first installment in Moore’s Long London fantasy novel series.

We talk about Moore’s transition from comics to prose, look into the real-life historical figures that Moore populates throughout the narrative and come to the realization that Liam and Noel Gallagher will absolutely show up at some point in The Long London Quintet...

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Podcaster Tom Kwei (Punnit, Battle Rap Resume, Alphabetallica) joins us this week to discuss a selection of Alan Moore’s Future Shocks stories from 2000 AD, some of the prolific writer’s earliest professional work.

We focus on six stories in particular, taking an in-depth look at some of the best-known—and oft little-seen—of Moore’s Future Shocks. From genre deconstructions to meditations on the simultaneity of time, we get deep into the weeds to discover just how much of “Alan Moore” was already present in these early works.

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