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"Top 10" Series by Alan Moore and Gene Ha
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Overview: The series from America’s Best Comics follows a squad of super-powered police men and women unlike any other! With a painted cover by Alex Ross (KINGDOM COME, SUPERMAN: PEACE ON EARTH), the extra-sized TOP TEN #1 introduces the heroes and heroines of Precinct 10, Earth’s local branch of an inter-dimensional police force ? as they welcome a rookie member to their ranks. How will this new heroine, code-named Toybox, fit into a tightly-knit group that includes heroes in armor (one of them a talking dog), a scrap-metal robot (and its equally ramshackle inventor) and more?

      Robyn "Toybox" Slinger is the newest recruit of Top 10, the police precinct of Neopolis. She grabs a taxi driven by Bob "Blindshot" Booker, a zen cab driver that allows the cab to take them where they are meant to go. They arrive at the precinct and Robyn is greeted by Jack Phantom, a fellow police officer. She then meets Captain "Jetman" Traynor and Sergeant Kemlo Ceaser who show her around on her first day. After meeting other colorful characters that work in the precinct, Robyn is partnered with Officer Smax, who gives her nothing short of a cold reception. They respond to a domestic disturbance call and handle the situation efficiently. They are then called as backup for two fellow officers at a murder scene. While there, the two other officers, Synaesthesia and King Peacock, notice that Toybox and Smax aren’t getting along too well and decide to make her feel more welcome. Toybox is able to assist in the investigation and finds some pertinent evidence on the scene. They return to the precinct to find Shock-Headed Pete and Dust Devil bringing in two prostitutes, Ophidia and April Showers, for soliciting and to scare them from continuing their endeavors, especially when there’s a serial killer, the Libra killer, in Neopolis on the loose that kills prostitutes. Other officers like Irma Geddon and Girl One greet Toybox, making her feel more welcome. They are then immediately chosen to take part of a raid against a suspected drug warehouse, thanks to some evidence found at the murder crime scene. They arrive at the warehouse and Toybox captures Professor Gromolko, a villain and one of the chief founders of Neopolis. Gromolko is put into interrogation with a telepath, Spaceman. Spaceman begins to find information from Gromolko’s mind but Professor Gromolko unexpectedly grabs Dust Devil’s gun and commits suicide before any more information can be found. With the day over, Toybox grabs a beer with Jack Phantom at a local bar. Jack Phantom admits to being a lesbian but Toybox is not interested, so they part ways soon. Toybox goes home to her father, a former officer of Top 10, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

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"Top 10" Series

    Alan Moore writer
    Alex Ross cover
    Eric DeSantis, Scott Dunbier editor
    Gene Ha penciler
    Todd Klein letterer, cover
    Wildstorm FX colorist
    Zander Cannon inker
    Published by America’s Best Comics, 1999-2008.

      Top 10 is a superhero comic book limited series published by the America’s Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm, itself an imprint of DC Comics. Written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Gene Ha and Zander Cannon, the series details the lives and work of the police force of Neopolis, a city in which everyone, from the police and criminals to civilians, children and even pets, has super powers and colourful costumes.

      The series led to the production of several spin-offs; Smax, which was set directly after the series’ conclusion, Top 10: The Forty-Niners, which is set in 1949 and Top Ten: Beyond the Farthest Precinct, which is set five years after the series’ conclusion.

      The story revolves around the day-to-day lives of the police officers at the 10th Precinct Police Station and is similar in tone to classic television police dramas like Hill Street Blues, which Moore has described as an influence. The book also addresses a wide range of prejudices and issues, but with a science-fiction twist; monsters, robots and fantasy creatures often face the bigotry and problems faced by real-world human minorities.

      The series is noted for its comic-book references and visual "sight gags" relating to the genre. For example, a caped street-corner watch-vendor uses a cardboard sign advertising "signal watches", and a hot-dog vendor cooks his wares with heat vision. One plotline involves a boy-band called Sidekix whose hit single was called "Holy Broken Hearts". Likewise, most advertising, signage and graffiti in the Top 10 universe contains references to the world of comic books and super powers (e.g. a clothing store called "The Phonebooth") and crowd scenes usually feature many characters from sci-fi and comic books.

      The primary Top 10 series was a 12-issue series between 2000 and 2001. Follow-ups included 2003’s 5-issue mini-spinoff Smax and 2005’s graphic novel Top 10: The Forty-Niners. 2005 also saw the publication of a 5-issue mini-series, written by Paul Di Filippo and illustrated by Jerry Ordway, titled Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct.

      In 2008-2009, another 4-issue series, Top 10: Season Two, was written by Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon, with art by Gene Ha. A single issue ‘Special’ set ‘Two weeks’ later was also produced.

      Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct

        Five years after the events of the Smax mini-series, Precinct 10 is celebrating another year of hard work done at their annual labor day picnic. The festivities are broken up, however, by the appearance of a large avatar in the sky, nicknamed the Hell Ditch Pilgrim (after the supernatural crevice it appeared above). The next day, as new officers are paired with veterans, Toybox goes looking for the Rumor, anxious to thank him for rescuing her from Ultima years ago. Unfortunately, she cannot find him, but new officer Hoodoo Priest informs he knows of the Rumor and alludes to his divine role.

        Officer Joe Pi is reconfigured as a lesser form to investigate a new strain of robot drug that seemed connected to the Hell Ditch Pilgrim. After giving Joe Pi his new assignment, Captain Traynor is called to the mayor’s office, where he is summarily fired and replaced with the more hawkish Sean Cindercott. Cindercott soon initiates a number of sweeping reforms, instituting radio check-ins every quarter hour, less focus on street-level crime in favor of "rooting out subversive elements," no non-essential visitors at the station (meaning loved ones), mandatory overtime with base pay, no contact with the media, and ceasing of routine maintenance of officer’s personal equipment. Finally, all officers are asked to sign a ten page "loyalty oath." Needless to say, the officers are polarized by these decisions, with a large number signing a letter of resignation, until Hyperdog convinces them all to stay.

        Joe Pi reports back, after accidentally having experienced the effects of the dark energy capsules firsthand. The "darkshots" create a direct mental connection between any cybernetic intelligence and some extra-dimensional entity. Where these drugs are being created is a federal lab called Project JOOTS, where Irmageddon’s husband just happens to work. Investigating the lab, Irma’s husband, Ron, explains the basic goal: the scientists investigate "superspace" the underlying region that seems to bind all timelines in the multiverse. In superspace, dark energy is the force that holds the multiverse together, as well as having other properties. It seems a robot worker, named Rikby-2001, has been using dark energy to create and distribute the drug, but he purposefully overdoses and transcends this plane rather than talk.

        After the precinct thwarts a minor attack by a group of anarchic "derridadaists," they have to deal with the Hell Ditch Pilgrim spreading his influence and destructive insanity through all the entities in Neopolis, including fellow officers. While Cindercott wishes to make a beeline for city hall to protect the mayor, the officers know they have to attack the problem at its source: superspace. But without any means to breach superspace, they cannot fight the Hell Ditch Pilgrim; until the Rumor shows up. He informs Top 10 that Andy "Airbag" Soames, who five years ago contracted S.T.O.R.M.S. (Sexually Transmitted Organic Rapid Mutation Syndrome), was so radically altered by the disease as to become a creature capable of entering and controlling superspace. The Rumor says that Toybox is the only one that can harm Soames, because she carries her mother’s gift: Pandora’s Box. The Rumor helps the officers bridge the gap left by Project JOOTS technology and send Toybox into superspace. When Toybox faces Andy alone, she unleashes all of her toys to protect herself, and then reveals the final thing left in Pandora’s Box that can heal Andy Soames desperate mind: Hope. Smax rushes through the makeshift portal to grab his partner, escaping just before the effects backlash throughout superspace.

        A few months after the events of the Hell Ditch Pilgrim case, Hyperdog is Traynor’s replacement as Captain of Precinct 10, Robyn Slinger is no longer Toybox, and the fascist Mayor Famaille and Major Cindercott are out of power, casualties of the reality warping by Andy Soames, who now peacefully overlooks Top 10 as they once again celebrate survival and hopeful perseverance in a crazy and confusing beautiful world.

      Top 10: Season Two

        A new officer, Slipstream Phoenix, joins as well as Girl Two, who replaces Girl One. The new commissioner, David Moon Gilbert, enforces stricter regulations to the dismay of some officers. Irma Wornow is suspended for breaking the new regulations. Shock-headed Pete is dismissed after he destroys Joe Pi’s body while attacking Slipstream Phoenix.

      Spin-offs and other stories

        Smax

          Smax, The comical 2003 mini-series by Alan Moore and Zander Cannon, took Smax, accompanied by his partner, Toybox, back to his home dimension, a world based on the conventions and clichés of fantasy. This was set immediately after the original series.

        Top 10: The Forty-Niners

          Top 10: The Forty-Niners (2005), a graphic novel by Alan Moore and Gene Ha detailing the origins of Neopolis and the first officers of Top 10. Top 10: The Forty-Niners – graphic novel, prequel to Top 10

        Deadfellas

          Deadfellas, a short story in which Neopolis’s finest take on vampire gangsters, written by Moore and drawn by Cannon, that appeared in America’s Best Comics 64 Page Special (and reprinted in the ABC Graphic Novel).

    More than a Decade Later, TOP 10 is still in my Top 10 Reviewed by etragedy on Sept. 24, 2011.

      My favorite comics are the ones where someone takes a genre – the superhero genre in particular – and stands it on it’s head. Finds a completely fresh and original take on it. And no one has done that more times than Alan Moore. Top 10 has a special place in my heart, because I have neighborhood discovery rights on this one – at a time when all my friends were picking up flashy Spawn retreads, I was looking at the actual names on the book – and Alan Moore had an impressive track record by the end of the 90s.

      And the first issue of Top 10 does not disappoint. Set in Neopolis, a city of the near future populated entirely by superbeings, the police of Precinct 10, A.K.A. ‘Top 10’ are charged with maintaining order. And that’s the second twist here – Top 10 is more than just a superhero comic, it’s also a police procedural, cast in the mold of TV cop dramas like Law and Order and NYPD Blue.

      Moore, Ha, Cannon and Klein’s attention to detail is amazing – from a phantom powered female cop whose word balloons feature halftone lettering, to a police station that is the spitting image of the art deco Hall of Justice around which Neopolis is built like a cross between New York and Mega City 1. From the Kirby homage art on the walls of the police station to the comic book in-joke graffiti on the walls of the city; this is a well thought out, vibrant, living world, and the heroes, villains and citizens that populate it both evoke classic comics, as well as put tongue-in-cheek while exploring the – what if these people really did have to live together aspect.

      The main protagonist, Toy Box is a rookie cop on her first day on the job. From superpowered domestic disturbances to high-tech drug raids… is she ready for the experience?

      Are you?

      If you’ve never experienced Top 10, it’s going to be one helluva unforgettable ride!

NOTE: See other books by Alan Moore

Download Instructions:
http://gestyy.com/wK41t6 — Top 10 01 (1999) (Digital)
http://gestyy.com/wK41t9 — Top 10 02 (1999) (Digital)
http://gestyy.com/wK41yi — Top 10 03 (1999) (Digital)
http://gestyy.com/wK41ya — Top 10 04 (1999) (Digital)
http://gestyy.com/wK41yf — Top 10 05 (2000) (Digital)
http://gestyy.com/wK41yz — Top 10 06 (2000) (Digital)
http://gestyy.com/wK41ym — Top 10 07 (2000) (Digital)
http://gestyy.com/wK41yE — Top 10 08 (2000) (Digital)
http://gestyy.com/wK41yY — Top 10 09 (2000) (Digital)
http://gestyy.com/wK41yO — Top 10 10 (2001) (Digital)
http://gestyy.com/wK41yS — Top 10 11 (2001) (Digital)
http://gestyy.com/wK41yG — Top 10 12 (2001) (Digital)
http://gestyy.com/wK41yK — Top 10 Season Two 01 (2008)
http://gestyy.com/wK41yX — Top 10 Season Two 02 (2009)
http://gestyy.com/wK41yB — Top 10 Season Two 03 (2009)
http://gestyy.com/wK41y4 — Top 10 Season Two 04 (2009)
http://gestyy.com/wK41u0 — Beyond the Farthest Precinct 01 (2005)
http://gestyy.com/wK41ue — Beyond the Farthest Precinct 02 (2005)
http://gestyy.com/wK41uy — Beyond the Farthest Precinct 03 (2005)
http://gestyy.com/wK41us — Beyond the Farthest Precinct 04 (2005)
http://gestyy.com/wK41ug — Beyond the Farthest Precinct 05 (2005)
http://gestyy.com/wK41uk — Top 10-The Forty-Niners (2005)
http://gestyy.com/wK41ub — Smax 01 (2003)
http://gestyy.com/wK41uQ — Smax 02 (2003)
http://gestyy.com/wK41uU — Smax 03 (2003)
http://gestyy.com/wK41uP — Smax 04 (2004)
http://gestyy.com/wK41uH — Smax 05 (2004)




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