Another Suburban Romance by Alan Moore, adapted by Antony Johnston and Juan José Ryp
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Overview: In this volume, Alan Moore’s performance works making up the play Another Suburban Romance are put in print and lavishly illustrated as full sequential stories. Comprised of three major pieces, adapted from Moore’s original presentations by frequent collaborator Antony (The Courtyard) Johnston, this original graphic novel is completely illustrated by the Spanish sensation Juan Jose Ryp.
- Running from the 1920’s Chicago style killings in Old Gangsters Never Die, to the ruminations on modern life in the namesake piece Another Suburban Romance, this powerful work is one that no Alan Moore fan will want to miss!
Another Suburban Romance
- Alan Moore author/creator
Antony Johnston writer, Sequential Adaptation
Juan Jose Ryp penciler, inker, cover
Nimbus Studios colorist
William Christensen editor
Published by Avatar Press, 2003.
- "Another Suburban Romance is a project that shows the astonishing range of the creator whose career has encompassed the likes of Big Numbers, From Hell, and V for Vendetta," says Avatar Press editor-in-chief William Christensen. "Running from the 1920’s Chicago style killings in Old Gangsters Never Die, to the contemporary drama in the namesake piece Another Suburban Romance, the scope of this graphic novel makes it accessible to every Moore fan, and also serves as an excellent introduction to the work of one of the most important creators in comics."
"Another Suburban Romance started life as a projected play sometime in 1976, which was the year that punk rock was taking off over here," notes creator Alan Moore. "It was a very exciting time in a number of ways, it was a very bleak time in a number of ways. We were starting to move into the long cold years of discontent with the Labour party that would lead us to Mrs. Thatcher three years later. Amongst the various projects that I was involved in at that time, the play Another Suburban Romance was a surrealist drama, I’m not even sure what it was about, or whether if it was even about anything. It involved a number of characters that were moving through this series of scenarios that involved meditations upon politics, sex, death and all of the other big issues. The play itself has not survived, but three pieces from it were of enough resonance for me to either remember them or keep them around as material used in subsequent bands and performances. The three pieces contained in this anthology are the very best, they’re the things that if anything is to be remembered about that aborted project, these are the three pieces that I should most like to be remembered. I’m very, very much looking forward to seeing what Juan Jose has done with it. He’s an excellent artist and I’ve been very enamored of his work of late and I’m looking forward to seeing what he’s done with these old buried pieces that have been unearthed."
"Antony’s adaptations have been another source of pleasure," adds Moore. "These were pieces that were not necessarily ever written with a mind to adaptation as comics, and those present a number of challenges for anyone trying to adapt them. I think Antony has met those challenges every time with some very inventive solutions. I think he’s doing an excellent job and I look forward to seeing the future adaptations of my work as they come out."
"These three pieces are so different from The Courtyard — and different from each other — that Another Suburban Romance was a real challenge, but a highly enjoyable one," says frequent Moore collaborator Antony Johnston. "These pieces are very evocative and atmospheric, with a twist of the outright bizarre, and I’m proud to have been given the chance to do them justice in comic form. Alan and William both gave me a lot of freedom with this book, and the result is something very unique. There’s always some trepidation when you work with an artist for the first time, and when you’re both working on interpretations of a third person’s work, that wariness is only increased. But when I saw the first few pages Juan had drawn from my scripts, that trepidation vanished. This book looks superb."
Alan Moore’s Another Suburban Romance is a stand-alone graphic novel scheduled for release in April 2003 from Avatar Press, written by Alan Moore, with artwork by Juan Jose Ryp and sequential adaptation by Antony Johnston and Alan Moore.
Story Lists:
- Judy Switch Off the TV
Old Gangsters Never Die
Another Suburban Romance
More Moore: Gangster Romance, Sci-Fi Urban Realism, and, well, just More of Moore. Reviewed by LawrenceSvetlana on February 9, 2008
- I guess I have to say that this book is for the Alan Moore completist. Because I’m not sure that it’s going to garner him any new fans or startle his old ones. If you haven’t read much Moore, it’s a neat look into an intelligently twisted part of his mind. For old fans, it’s neat to see how Juan Jose Ryp brought these Moore poems to life. You get three: "Judy Switched Off The TV," "Old Gangsters Never Die," and "Another Suburban Romance." Ryp’s art is — for want of being too kind and to be witty — a Geoff Darrow Ryp-off. And I’m not exactly being unkind. He pulls all the stunts that Darrow pulls, which is basically ultra-hyper realism and extreme detail from the fine print in advertising to pock marks in anything that can have pock marks (faces and brick and plaster, etc.) to the miniscule Nike symbol on the bottom of the hero’s shoe. But there’s little of Darrow’s creativity, inventiveness, and humor here. When looking at Darrow’s work, you’re always rewarded with a laugh for looking hard enough to find something hilarious and unusual that Darrow fit into the scene. But Ryp tries to fascinate you with detail for detail’s sake. And it just doesn’t quite work. At least not for me. There are only so many intestines and tooth fillings one can see before you finally realize it’s still just well-drawn guts and highly-detailed dental work. But, to give the guy his due, he draws a heck of a lot better than I can. The poems here are pretty neat. You get a reality twister in "Judy." You don’t realize until the end that Moore somehow fooled you into watching Judy’s boyfriend leaving her when, in reality, Judy was the girlfriend leaving and turning into the boyfriend who, backing into the last scene from the bathroom (a mirror image of the opening scene of the work), is seen zipping her skin up over the boyfriend. Weird but awesome stuff. "Old Gangsters" is about a mobster’s not wanting to die an ignoble, B-film death but doing so anyway. This is probably the best poem of the three; there are some nice turns of phrase here: blood popping out from gun shots being called "armistice poppies;" the phrase "the poetry of cordite in the air" and the line, "They must have looked like grounded constellations torn down from a B-Film sky." The last poem stars Alan Moore and is a rant about all the trouble of living in the city. All in all, it’s an okay collection, but, to be honest, without Alan Moore’s name on it, it never would have sold more than a handful of copies, maybe never even gotten published in the first place. At least, I never would have bought it. But it’s a great comic to buy for a nice change of pace. Don’t get fooled into buying an expensive copy, either. You can get the hardback for a 5-note. If you find it cheap, give it a shot.
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