A lot of the credit goes to the artists, who make the whole thing look kind of lush and crunchy. The year is 1949, and science heroes and war champions are gathering in the city of Neopolis, now under construction as a home for those with extra-human. but typically for him, in the middle of this kind of pointless exercise, he sneaks in an image that made me just stare and cry: Hyperdog, the hero who looks like a guy with a dog's head but is really a dog who sits inside a life-sized human puppet because it makes him look cool. When Alan Moore became the writer, he did so with the ability to redefine the character because his opinion was that the book wasnt very good. His origin did go back to the 1930s and spent years in space. Anyway, it goes without saying that Moore has done a fair job of inventing all the superheroes that everyone else forgot to invent and matching them up with various cop-show stereotypes. Rob Liefelds Supreme was a Superman-style archetype with a varied history.

The sight of Alan Moore deciding to do this, presumably stoned out of his mind and giggling fit to die, would make a pretty entertaining comic too. As many many people have pointed out, it can pretty much be summed up as ' Hill Street Blues meets Astro City,' that is, it's a cop show set in a city where everyone is a superhero (or a robot, alien, or Godzilla). Illuminationsis a collection of 9 short stories (or rather 8 short stories + 1 novel) written, entirely in prose, by Alan Moore.

This is certainly in the 'guilty pleasure' category, not because it's not done really well (it is) but because it's hard to explain why it would be worth doing.

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