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jason_pym's review
2.0
Although I actually like only a handful of Alan Moore comics, I love reading his stuff. It’s always new and interesting and deeply thought out. The absolute antithesis of Rob Liefeld’s 1990s Youngblood nonsense of big haired, shiny stupidity. So an Alan Moore Youngblood comic should at least be interesting. And for a comic, it’s fine, not actually irritating, for an Alan Moore comic it’s terrible. And there’s the odd comment…
“Gone was the naïve wonder of the ‘forties, the exuberance of the ‘fifties and the nobility of the sixties. Working a dreadful reverse alchemy, Marcus Langston let our world slide from a golden age to a silver age, and finally to a dark age. Now, heroes motivated only by money or psychopathology stalked a paranoid, apocalyptic landscape of post-nuclear mutants and bazooka wielding cyborgs. Our universe had been sucked into a bad action movie of constant, meaningless mayhem…”
or…
“Well, for gosh sakes, Linda, that’s because it’s unreliable like everything about these new characters! … Everybody wants to be modern so they hire ‘Doesn’t-wear-a-brassiere girl’ and ‘Thinks-it’s-clever-to-swear Lad’!”
If you’re reading through Alan Moore’s back catalogue, leave this one till last. It’s painful.
“Gone was the naïve wonder of the ‘forties, the exuberance of the ‘fifties and the nobility of the sixties. Working a dreadful reverse alchemy, Marcus Langston let our world slide from a golden age to a silver age, and finally to a dark age. Now, heroes motivated only by money or psychopathology stalked a paranoid, apocalyptic landscape of post-nuclear mutants and bazooka wielding cyborgs. Our universe had been sucked into a bad action movie of constant, meaningless mayhem…”
or…
“Well, for gosh sakes, Linda, that’s because it’s unreliable like everything about these new characters! … Everybody wants to be modern so they hire ‘Doesn’t-wear-a-brassiere girl’ and ‘Thinks-it’s-clever-to-swear Lad’!”
If you’re reading through Alan Moore’s back catalogue, leave this one till last. It’s painful.
rebus's review
3.5
Moore continues to bring realism into the moribund super hero genre with his post modern take on the legal troubles that would ensue when anyone has super powers, and the marketing angle and many other elements of the series certainly were an inspiration for the Boys. My only real issue with it was a sequence attempting to sum up the last few decades that falsely claimed that there was a nobility to the 60s (I have to say OK Boomer to Mr. Moore in this case). I did delight that he said the Dreamworld leads to madness, simply because I hope it's snark toward the hack Neil Gaiman.
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