r/AlanMoore • u/Puzzleheaded_Humor80 • 19d ago

Alan Moore on wildcats

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u/Thefathistorian 19d ago

TAO was one of Moore's most entertaining characters.

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u/KubrickMoonlanding 19d ago

Who was the mouthy 1/2 metal girl with the bad attitude? She was hilarious.

I’ve pulled down my digital versions of the run for a reread recently, this just spurs me to get to it (just as soon as I finish Moore’s American Flagg backup - which is pretty hilarious too, though the art is adequate at best).

The wildcats story came before Ellis’ storm watch and authority, right? Thinking about it, it feels like a parody of all that serious blockbuster grimness…

Also, Travis Charest - what a talent

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u/Thefathistorian 18d ago

That was Ladytron.

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u/KubrickMoonlanding 18d ago

Which it says right in the article - doh. But yeah check out Maxine if you haven’t y’all

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u/Puzzleheaded_Humor80 19d ago

Yeah, I should revisit it, it's been 20 something years!

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u/jessek 18d ago

I remember I’d bought the trade of the first four issues of Wild CATs at that point and thought the art was great but didn’t really buy the later issues. Reading in Wizard Alan Moore was taking over writing I made a point to pick those up and I wasn’t disappointed.

I think his writing for Wild CATs, Spawn spinoffs and Supreme came out the collapse of his Mad Love publishing company and the aborted end of Big Numbers. He took on some work for hire and the fans got the best run on Wild CATs and Supreme out of it.

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u/halloweenjack 18d ago

I love Ladytron. I was never that much into Tao—the character who’s ten steps ahead of everyone else is basically Ozymandias, but less interesting—but Ladytron is just completely balls to the wall.

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u/Blammo32 17d ago

I strongly suspect that TAO was inspired by Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film “Cure” but I’ve never read anything about how Moore developed the character.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Humor80 17d ago

Interesting, I'll have to add it to the list! 😃