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Elizabeth Sandifer

Elizabeth Sandifer created Eruditorum Press. She’s not really sure why she did that, and she apologizes for the inconvenience. She currently writes Last War in Albion, a history of the magical war between Alan Moore and Grant Morrison. She used to write TARDIS Eruditorum, a history of Britain told through the lens of a ropey sci-fi series. She also wrote Neoreaction a Basilisk, writes comics these days, and has ADHD so will probably just randomly write some other shit sooner or later. Support Elizabeth on Patreon.

10 Comments

  1. jane
    November 19, 2014 @ 6:10 am

    Second, it's obviously in reference to the late 18th Century mystic and poet, William Blake…

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  2. Daibhid C
    November 19, 2014 @ 6:50 am

    A bit of continuity nitpickery: I think by matching Strange with Thanagar, Moore's playing off a 1978 Showcase storyline which established a tense relationship between the two worlds (and was a loose inspiration for the more recent miniseries Rann-Thanagar War).

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  3. Thomas Lawrence
    November 19, 2014 @ 7:50 am

    Once again, we return..

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  4. Heath
    November 19, 2014 @ 8:06 am

    I thought for a moment you were skipping over the second GL story, and then you give it to us as a cliff-hanger! Oooh. You've studied your comics well, sir.

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  5. BerserkRL
    November 19, 2014 @ 3:51 pm

    the planet on which Mogo is known to arrive

    I think you meant a different verb — perhaps "reside"?

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  6. BerserkRL
    November 19, 2014 @ 3:53 pm

    the planet on which Mogo is known to arrive

    I think you meant a different verb — perhaps "reside"?

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  7. Ombund
    November 21, 2014 @ 12:20 am

    I'm surprised Loving the Alien only got 1 paragraph. It's one of my favourite issues of comics ever.

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  8. Ice
    November 23, 2014 @ 12:05 am

    Also, it's another important place to look at the Moore's bibliography's elephant in the room: rape.

    In this issue, Swamp Thing is raped. I'm not sure it comes up in any of the (many) discussions I've read regarding rape in Moore's work.

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  9. Daru
    February 19, 2015 @ 5:08 am

    Along with Rite of Spring and Windfall, Loving the Alien is absolutely one of favourites of Moore's run. An astonishing experiment which for me works – ok I'm coming at it from my perspective as a visual artist, but I really found it very immersive and meditative.

    All Flesh is Grass is wonderful too and features some great artwork from Rick Veitch and Alfredo Alacala who I think work superbly together as they create very living, writhing textures.

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  10. StephenM
    July 31, 2015 @ 4:26 pm

    ". For one, it is the story that Moore was referring to in later interviews where he accused DC of “going through my trashcan like raccoons in the dead of night.” "

    Not to mention Mogo is now a semi-regular Green Lantern character.

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