Last War in Albion is an ongoing feature of this site, currently running on Mondays. It is an ongoing critical history of the British comics industry focused primarily on the magical war between Alan Moore and Grant Morrison. Its primary narrative runs from the publication of Grant Morrison’s earliest professional comics work in 1978 through to the present day, although its style is characterized by frequent digressions both forwards and backwards in history.
The structure of Last War in Albion is an ongoing serial, with each entry following directly from the end of the previous one. Topics are often covered over two or more posts. Jumping around will thus produce some confusion, although hopefully a pleasant and entertaining level.
The nature of this project means a lot of crawling around through the archives and trying to piece together timelines of decades old events. This at times requires tremendous practical help, and several people have provided various forms of material support in writing this project. To wit, I would like to extend special thanks to Meredith Collins, David Dovey, Ben Hansom, Andrew Hickey, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Lance Parkin, Alex Reed, Matt Feltman, Roger Whitson, Anna Wiggins, and, of course, Jill Buratto.
The blog versions of Books One and Two were written prior to Morrison’s use of they/them pronouns.
Introduction
Chapter One: Grant Morrison's Near Myths Work
Chapter Two: Captain Clyde and Starblazer
August 22, 2013Warriors in the Vale of Entuthon-Benython (The Last War in Albion Part 6: Captain Clyde and Scotland)August 29, 2013Superhuman Effort to Keep Things The Way They Are (The Last War in Albion Part 7: Captain Clyde, Superheroes)Chapter Three: Alan Moore's Sounds Work and Maxwell the Magic Cat
October 10, 2013We’ve Unpicked The Thread Of The World (The Last War in Albion Part 13: Roscoe Moscow, Arcade, Madness)October 17, 2013Uncontaminated by Effect and Consequence (The Last War in Albion Part 14: Obscenity and Alan Moore’s Juvenilia)Chapter Four: Alan Moore's Doctor Who and Star Wars Work
November 14, 2013A Fluctuation in the Visual Purple (The Last War in Albion Part 18: Steve Moore, Doctor Who)November 21, 20131/2.*/”£5/8£-&'(?)WEX*zz (The Last War in Albion Part 19: Abslom Daak, Pressbutton and Laser Eraser)November 28, 2013Dawn Transformed the Sky into an Abattoir (The Last War in Albion Part 20: Moores’ Doctor Who Comics)December 13, 2013So I Hit Him. What Would You Do? (The Last War in Albion Part 22: Alan Moore’s Feuds, Star Wars, Joseph Campbell)Chapter Five: Alan Moore's Future Shocks
January 2, 2014Call Vala From her Close Recess (The Last War in Albion Part 25: Alan Moore’s Future Shocks, Battle Picture Weekly)January 9, 2014A Loud Smack Where The Spine Parted Company With The Skull (The Last War in Albion Part 26: Action and 2000 AD)January 23, 2014The Comedian Is Dead (The Last War in Albion Part 28: Alan Moore’s Earliest 2000 AD Work)January 30, 2014The Sentinels Lied About All Them Space Wars (The Last War in Albion Part 29: Alan Moore’s First Future Shocks)February 7, 2014I Must Protect This Bag of Meat (The Last War in Albion Part 30: Plagiarism and Abelard Snazz)February 13, 2014The Day I Finished It, He Died (The Last War in Albion Part 31: Abelard Snazz, Moore’s Early and Middle Future Shocks)February 20, 2014Even Reverse the Flow of Time (The Last War in Albion Part 32: Alan Moore’s Future Shocks, Alan Moore’s Time Twisters)Chapter Six: Skizz and D&R And Quinch
March 28, 2014I’m At An Impressionable Age (The Last War in Albion Part 37: Boys from the Blackstuff, Skizz, D.R. & Quinch, O.C. and Stiggs)April 4, 2014Acid Bombs From Little Hatches (The Last War in Albion Part 38: D.R. & Quinch, O.C. & Stiggs, Juvenile Delinquency)Chapter Seven: Captain Britain
May 9, 2014The Old Straight Tracks and the Sacred Stones (The Last War in Albion Part 43: Hulk Comic)Chapter Eight: Swamp Thing
July 15, 2014The Numb and Silent Depths (The Last War in Albion Part 53: Pasko’s Swamp Thing, Loose Ends)July 25, 2014Anatomy Made People Kill Their Children (The Last War in Albion Part 54: The Anatomy Lesson)August 22, 2014Let Them Bleed Now (The Last War in Albion Part 58: Rape)August 29, 2014By His Torment, The World Was Redeemed (The Last War in Albion Part 59: Down Among the Dead Men, Pogo)September 12, 2014Hey, You Guessed My Name (The Last War in Albion Part 61: The Nukeface Papers, John Constantine)October 3, 2014More Hurt As I May Hold (The Last War in Albion Part 64: Criticism of The Curse, American Gothic)October 17, 2014The Darkness Finally Screamed (The Last War in Albion Part 66: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow)October 22, 2014An Imaginary Story (The Last War in Albion Part 67: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, The Apocalypse)November 6, 2014Some Incomprehensible Biological Process (The Last War in Albion Part 69: The Greening of Gotham)November 12, 2014Giants With Leaking Boats For Feet (The Last War in Albion Part 70: The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Third Death of Swamp Thing)Chapter Nine: V For Vendetta (The Warrior Years)
January 15, 2015Dolorous Hissings and Poisons (The Last War in Albion Part 79: Europe a Prophecy, Anarchy)January 22, 2015A Wishful Past, All Jungled Over (The Last War in Albion Part 80: Anarchism, Inspiration, Guy Fawkes)January 29, 2015Super-Vampires Rule the Night (The Last War in Albion Part 81: Guy Fawkes Day, Bauhaus)February 20, 2015A Drawling Twang in a Forbidden Tongue (The Last War in Albion Part 84: Night Raven, Marvelman)Chapter Ten: The Bojeffries Saga
April 17, 2015All Coppers Are Rascals (The Last War in Albion Part 92: Raoul’s Night Out, and Later Tales)April 24, 2015Poverty Reduction Programme (The Last War in Albion Part 93: Song of the Terraces, After They Were Famous)Chapter Eleven: The Ballad of Halo Jones
- June 8, 2020Chapter Eight: This is the Future (Old Ghosts)August 3, 2020Chapter Twelve: In The End (A Stronger Loving World)
Chapter One: Animal Man
- December 22, 2014Some Mercury Left Over (Nightmare in Silver)