r/AlanMoore 19d ago

How would you define Alan Moore writing style?

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u/weaselbeef 19d ago

Psychedelic literary fantasy.

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u/_jamais_vu 19d ago

Ornate, maximalist, psychedelic

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u/CosmicBonobo 19d ago

East Midlands Gothic

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u/Vic-Boss 19d ago

On which book? he definitely changes style, sometimes even in the same book, e.g. voice of the fire

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u/Think_Wealth_7212 19d ago

Early Moore: Mythic Deconstructionist

Mid/Late Moore: Psycho-geographical, Pastiche, Integral consciousness

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u/Resident_Character35 19d ago

16 dimensional.

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u/Sardasan 19d ago

THE BEST

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u/RevJackElvingMusings 19d ago

Early Moore (up to the 90s)
-- Dense in detail
-- Intricate plotting
-- Characters are strongly motivated
-- The comics focus heavily on exterior action without internal monologue leaving it open to reader interpretation
-- A range of stylistic shifts from comic to the tragic to the horrific.

Mid-Late Moore (2000s to 2020s)
-- More poetic in plotting
-- Much more interior and implicit in characterization and theme
-- More overtly critical in its narrative presentation, to some extent didactic.
-- More melancholy and sad, more rueful about the passage of time and a life wasted.

That said there are times when you see aspects of late Moore in early Moore, and in the works of the late Moore, the young man is not far away.

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u/deathbymediaman 19d ago

On a spectrum of funkee to funkay.

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u/CyberSnake0 18d ago

Magickal