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Alan Moore is one of those unique authors in the realm of
comics that most people are aware of without really experiencing his full
volume of work.
Most folks know
Moore for
Watchmen,
V for Vendetta, or
The Killing Joke, maybe
League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen or
Marvelman
if they’re particularly comic book minded.
I understand this impetus to an extent as the thin shaft of
Moore’s work that’s widely known comes without the continuity baggage of his
early work or the uncomfortable lewdness of his recent endeavors.
However this has left a ton of his
great stuff unknown to a lot of readers, one such comic is his excellent
Captain Britain stuff.
In this review I’ll only be focusing on one key story that
Moore wrote ‘Crooked World,’ but there are a ton of other great Captain Britain
stories by him to check out. Captain Britain- Crooked World just came
to mind because a lot of its key elements have been popping up recently between
Marvel’s Secret War comic, the recent
Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders
mini-series, and the oncoming Captain
America 3: Civil War. All of
these trends flow from the same source that is this comic.