The TP is due out in June. Looks like it will include For The Man Who Has Everything from Superman Annual #11 as well as a bunch of other stuff.
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I suppose…
Did they ever collect any of his Swamp Thing run? I recall reading about how they only collected a limitied amount of the vertigo run, which IIRC moore didn’t write any?
Anyway, the volume looks quite interesting. I’ll have to check it out(lmost likely at my library 
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One of the best lines ever in comic book history was written by Alan Moore. I’d like to repeat it here.
This is an imaginary story (which may never happen, but then again may) about a perfect man who came from the sky and did only good. It tells of his twilight, when the great battles were over and the great miracles long since performed; of how his enemies conspired against him and of that final war in the snowblind wastes beneath the Northern Lights; of the two women he loved and of the choice he made between them; and how finally all the things he had were taken from him save one. It ends with a wink. It begins in a quiet midwestern town, one summer afternoon in the quiet midwestern future. Away in the big city, people still sometimes glance up hopefully from the sidewalks, glimpsing a distant speck in the sky… but no: it’s only a bird, only a plane. Superman died ten years ago. This is an imaginary story… Aren’t they all?
Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow.
The last pre-crisis issues of Action and Superman.
SFAIAA, they’ve only collected Moore’s Swamp Thing.
They also collected the two part “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow” story in a really thin little trade paperback that’s now out of print, IIRC.
Of the stuff being collected in the TP that the OP was writing about,
SUPERMAN ANNUAL #11 was great
DC COMICS PRESENTS #85 was great (Superman and Swamp Thing)
BATMAN ANNUAL #11 was…eh…ok
DETECTIVE COMICS #549 & 550 I think this was a Green Arrow backup. It was mediocre, if so.
SECRET ORIGINS #10 very good, but fairly short: 1/4th of an issue
VIGILANTE #17 & 18 I don’t even remember it. Maybe this was the Green Arrow backup?
OMEGA MEN #26 & 27 ditto, but I remember not liking it.
GREEN LANTERN #188 - “Mogo Doesn’t Socialize” (DON’T SPOIL IT FOR THE NEWBIES) a classic 4 page backup
GREEN LANTERN CORPS ANNUAL #2 & 3- one of 'em, an Abin Sur story, is great. I don’t remember the other one.
Overall, a mixed bag of stuff. Frankly, I think they shoulda put the “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow” story in there too, since the GN is out of print and it would beef up the volume considerably, since there’s some so-so material.
They should also have included Swamp Thing #20, Moore’s first issue which, since it wrapped up the previous writer’s storyline has never (IIRC) been collected or reprinted anywhere.
As it is, it’s much more a volume for the obsessive collector than the casual reader.
Fenris
The final Trade of the Alan Moore Swamp Thing run is coming out in May or June.
Cool.
Now if only something would persuade them to reprint the rest of Jamie Delano’s run on Hellblazer. Call me a heretic, but I much prefer him, and what he did with Constantine, to Garth Ennis.
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There’s also WATCHMEN and virtually all of his America’s Best Comics output (which, appearnces to the contrary, DC pulishes).
The VIGILANTE story mentioned earlier was outstanding, or maybe it just seemed to be becuse the whole rest of the series (or at least as much of it as I’d read) was so horrible. He made his bones at DC by taking forgotten characters no one else wanted to touch, and then showing how much untapped potential they had. I wish he’d had occasion to do the same thing with some Marvel characters.
“Mogo Doesn’t Socialize.” Heh heh. Wonder if “F Sharp Bell” is that other GL story? There’s a sector of the universe where there’s no light or sight, and the words “Green” and “Lantern” have no meaning or context, which hinders the process of recruiting a new member, and…
Mogo is a planet
I wonder if they’re ever going to release the Swamp Thing meets Jesus Christ story. I remember a few pages were on display at the Northampton comic museum.
There is also Vol. 1 in TP of his work on Supreme. I heard that Vol. 2 is due out in May.
Ahem - I know that more of Moore has been collected than Swampy. The complete Promethea, Top 10, etc. What I meant was that, of all the Swamp Thing comics, only Moore’s run has been collected.
There is at LEAST one Len Wein Swamp Thing TPB.
Well, I must say I’m relieved to learn that the “TP” in the thread title apparently stands for “Trade Paperback.” --'Cos I like Alan Moore’s work. (It’s “TPB,” right?)
On the other hand, DC really ought to release some of Garth Ennis’ work in TP format. Hell, I’d buy a couple rolls…
I have a fellow heretic! Preach to me, brother