In 1986, Alan Moore was on top of the world. After quitting his job in a last, desperate attempt to make it as a writer, he found success after success. First, he broke out in the UK, making a name for himself with smart, literate reinventions of classic properties like Marvelman. Then he made it to the US, where his groundbreaking run on Swamp Thing established him as one of the top writers in comics. Now it was time for his magnum opus: a twelve issue superhero murder mystery called Watchmen.
Meanwhile, in Scotland, a shy young punk named Grant Morrison, inspired by Moore's success, began plotting their own comics career, selling stories to UK magazines like 2000 AD and Warrior, just as Moore had five years earlier. But in the wake of the seismic blast that was Watchmen everything would change. And instead of finding themself at the start of a comics career, they would find themself on one side of a magical war for the soul of the coming century.
This is the story of nuclear war and nine-panel grids. Of working class lesbians and sexually repressed vigilantes. Of censorship and Scientology.
This is the story of the Last War in Albion.
Plus: The Hugo-nominated "The Cuddled Little Vice," a novel-length look at the poison legacy of Neil Gaiman's landmark Sandman comic.
