RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books Voodoo

I see this was a series by Alan Moore for Image Comics. Anyone ever read it?

Yeah. supernatural murder mystery set in New Orleans. Moore attempted to bring the character a little closer to her namesake. Kinda fun.

Cheers. Anything else? I see mention of it very infrequently: I gather it didn't do too well.

For those who don't know her, the character appears at a party on the Carrier in the Authority: she is the chick with the dragon tattoo up her arm.

I think it slipped through the cracks. Some decent art: great Adam Hughes covers, Al Rio did an issue or two I think (brazilian artist with some similarities to J. Scott Campbell), good little story by Moore (never followed up on, I believe). Ultimately, a decent little standalone tale.

Ah, yes. I've seen this.

A friend of mine sent it to me a few months ago, and I must say I was very surprised to see how good it was. It didn't sell well, it wasn't tremendously well received with critics, nobody was really talking about it. I don't know why.

I keep hearing rumors about an Alan Moore piece that's actually not good, but I've yet to find it. Perhaps if I ever dig up one of his old Violator issues.

I see there is a tpb for sale. On your recommendation, Annie, I might check it out.

I've been seeing Moore and Robinson wilcats issues in the .25 to $1.00 bin....how good is the wildcats run moore did...for .50 or so i really don't have an excuse not to get it..just wondering if it's ok or really good...

price is no longer a consideration, but space is..I've got way too many books...

Dave (and anyone else), just so ya know, Voodoo was also one of the founding members of the WildCATs, from the original Jim Lee incarnation of the team.

I'll be very curious to hear your thoughts on the miniseries!

...still waiting...

I hae a Voodoo action figure I can send you...will that do?

Dave,
I ended up reading the TPB over a year ago. I'm a big fan of Alan Moore, the Wildcats, and the city of New Orleans and all its culture and folklore, and yet I didn't love this one. It isn't BAD, and I still say it's worth picking up to read once, especially if you can find it for cheap, but it's not a classic, I'm sorry to say.

Now Moore's WildC.A.T.s run, on the other hand (collected in the Homecoming and Gang War TPBs) IS a classic, featuring some gorgeous art by the likes of Travis Charest and even Kevin Maguire, and introduces an amazing new villain who resurfaced years later in another key Wildstorm title, Sleeper. If you don't know who I'm talking about, you're in for a real treat, and if you know him from Sleeper, you owe it to yourself to pick these issues up for his backstory. The two TPBs reprint WildC.A.T.s #21-27 and #28-34, respectively, and there's a short story by Moore and Charest in WildC.A.T.s #50 (the last of the Image issues, before it restarted from #1 as "Wildcats," a DC/Wildstorm title) that serves as an epilogue to Moore's run. That story did not get included in the TPBs, just so ya know.

Moore's run on CATS was pretty good. He basically had the founding team of Voodoo, Warblade, Zealot etc... go up into space and back to the home world of the Kherubim [the original CATS team was all full blooded or half Kherubims], while he created a new WildCATS team that started a pre-emptive strike on crime and accidentally started a super-hero/villain gang war. Some good stuff, especially when he introduces, TAO, who Big Bad Voodoo talks about above

Some good stuff, but mainly focused on the new team, I was a fan of the original team and so was a little bummed when they went to their home world, got split up, and a few members went back to their old ways and became complete ass-holes [Zealot, Emp]. Distinctly lacking in Grifter aswell, he would have made Alan Moores run complete, Still fantastic writing though