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New Releases by Alan MooreAlan Moore is the author of The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic (2024), The Great When (2024), Watchmen (DC Compact Comics) (2024), Absolute Watchmen (New Edition) (2023), Batman, the Killing Joke (2023).
The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic
release date: Oct 16, 2024
The most acclaimed writer in comics history, Alan Moore, joins his late mentor Steve Moore (no relation) for one last graphic grimoire: a sprawling and stunning introduction to magic in all its timeless forms, brought to life by six wondrous and whimsical artists. Splendid news for enquiring minds, and guaranteed salvation for humanity! Messrs. Steve and Alan Moore, proprietors of the celebrated Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels (sorcery by appointment since circa 150 AD), have produced a clear and practical grimoire of the occult sciences that offers endless necromantic fun for all the family. Exquisitely illuminated by a host of adepts including Kevin O’Neill, John Coulthart, Steve Parkhouse, Rick Veitch, Melinda Gebbie, and Ben Wickey, this marvellous and unprecedented tome promises to provide all that the reader could conceivably need in order to commence a fulfilling new career as a diabolist. Its contents include profusely illustrated instructional essays upon this ancient sect’s theories of magic, notably the key dissertation “Adventures in Thinking,” which gives reliable advice as to how entry into the world of magic may be readily achieved. Further to this, a number of “Rainy Day” activity pages present lively and entertaining things to do once the magical state has been attained, including such popular pastimes as divination, etheric travel, and the conjuring of a colourful multitude of spirits, deities, dead people, and infernal entities from the pit, all of whom are sure to become your new best friends. Also contained within this extravagant compendium of thaumaturgic lore is a history of magic from the last ice age to the present day, told in a series of easy-to-absorb pictorial biographies of fifty great enchanters and complemented by a variety of picture stories depicting events ranging from the Palaeolithic origins of art, magic, language, and consciousness to the rib-tickling comedy exploits of Moon and Serpent founder Alexander the False Prophet (“He’s fun, he’s fake, he’s got a talking snake!”). In addition to these manifold delights, the adventurous reader will also discover a series of helpful travel guides to mind-wrenching alien dimensions that are within comfortable walking distance, as well as profiles of the many quaint local inhabitants that one might bump into at these exotic resorts. A full range of entertainments will be provided, encompassing such diverse novelties and pursuits as a lavishly decorated, decadent pulp tale of occult adventure recounted in the serial form. Completing this almost-unimaginable treasure trove is a lengthy thesis revealing the ultimate meaning of both the Moon and the Serpent in a manner that makes transparent the much-obscured secret of magic, happiness, sex, creativity, and the known Universe, while at the same time explaining why these lunar and ophidian symbols feature so prominently in the order’s peculiar name. (Manufacturer’s disclaimer: This edition does not, however, reveal why the titular cabal of magicians consider themselves to be either grand or Egyptian. Let the buyer beware.) A colossal and audacious publishing triumph of three hundred and fifty-two pages, beautifully produced in the finest tradition of educational literature for young people, The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic will transform your lives, your reality, and any spare lead that you happen to have lying around into the purest and most radiant gold. Book design by John Coulthart. Co-published by Top Shelf Productions & Knockabout Ltd (UK).
release date: Oct 01, 2024
Watchmen (DC Compact Comics)
release date: Jun 04, 2024
Absolute Watchmen (New Edition)
release date: Dec 12, 2023
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Swamp Thing von Alan Moore (Deluxe Edition) - Bd. 3 (von 3)
release date: Nov 30, 2022
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Voice of the Fire (25th Anniversary Edition)
release date: Mar 01, 2022
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Swamp Thing von Alan Moore (Deluxe Edition) - Bd. 1 (von 3)
release date: Jul 27, 2021
Swamp Thing von Alan Moore (Deluxe Edition) - Bd. 2 (von 3)
release date: Jul 27, 2021
Providence Deluxe-Edition, Band 1
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From Hell: Master Edition
release date: Sep 15, 2020
Promethea: The 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Book Two
release date: Dec 31, 2019
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Batman: The Killing Joke Deluxe (New Edition)
release date: Sep 17, 2019
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Lost Girls (Expanded Edition)
release date: Jan 15, 2019
From Hell: Master Edition #2
release date: Dec 12, 2018
V for Vendetta 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
release date: Nov 20, 2018
Absolute Batman: The Killing Joke (30th Anniversary Edition)
release date: Sep 11, 2018
From Hell: Master Edition #3
release date: Jan 16, 2018
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Nemo
release date: Dec 20, 2017
Watchmen: The Annotated Edition
release date: Dec 12, 2017
The Best Of Vampirella Masters Series Omnibus
release date: Sep 20, 2017
release date: Mar 22, 2017
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