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The Eisner Award-winning creative team behind Top Ten - writer Alan Moore (Watchmen) and artist Gene Ha (Global Frequency) - reunite for an original graphic novel that delves into the past, revealing the origins of Neopolis, the city of the future, and the first officers of Alternative 10 - a.k.a. Top Ten! Being a police officer in Neopolis is a tough job; the city is populated with superheroes and supervillains, all displaying a dazzling array of powers. Presently, the duty roster includes Smax, Toybox, Hyperdog, Joe Pi and more. But who were the architects of Neopolis? Discover the answers as The 49'ers turns back the clock fifty years and Jetlad meets the men and women who built this city!
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About the Author:
Alan Moore is one of the most respected and admired writers in comics today. Among his many projects Moore is perhaps best known for the groundbreaking V for Vendetta, and the classic Watchmen. He has recently written Tom Strong and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and is currently plotting Albion, a major revamp of classic 1950s UK comics characters for DC Comics. Gene Ha is the acclaimed co-creator of Top Ten and has also worked on Superman
From Publishers Weekly:
Starred Review. Retro-futuristic art meets postwar expansionism and superhero psychology in this tour-de-force graphic novel. It's a prequel to the often hilarious Top 10 series, which followed the cases of the police force in Neopolis, a city populated entirely by people with superpowers who are as petty, selfish and drunk and disorderly as normal humans. In The Forty-Niners, we see the Neopolis Police Department's early days attempting to bring order to a new city created just to contain the "science heroes" on both sides of WWII. Among the problems: German skull-masked ne'er-do-wells who have some secret plan afoot, and a gang of vampires who have taken over as the mob, running the prostitution franchise and shaking down bar owners. Moore (Watchmen; From Hell) has sketched the entire pecking order of this fantastic world and the wistful nature of the superhero diaspora. "You're gonna have a lot of feelings you ain't had before," warns the mayor of the super city. "Feelin' ordinary. Feelin' uesless. Feelin' like you're in the world's biggest freak show." Moore's boundless imagination dazzles as it reinvents the archetypes of religion, mythology and comic books. Ha's subtle, fluid watercolor-like art is equally rich in background sight gags, making this a book to savor. (Aug.)
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- PublisherGardners Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1845760697
- ISBN 13 9781845760694
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages112
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