A review by rebus
DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore by Klaus Janson, Kurt Schaffenberger, Curt Swan, Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, Jim Baikie, George Pérez, Bill Willingham, Paris Cullins, Al Williamson, Jim Aparo, Dave Gibbons, George Freeman, Kevin O'Neill, Joe Orlando, Brian Bolland

3.5

The shorter features are fairly weak for the most part and much of the material was redundant to me and available elsewhere. Moore has some misapprehensions about America in 1985, as the character in the Vigilante story brags about having 40 kilos of good Columbian weed (even then, the only weed we thought of as worse than the Columbian was the Mexican, and prices reflected this, as Jamaican was the good stuff). Fever does however point out to the character that life is all about authority and that we shouldn't grow up and give in to it, that indeed most of our issues are due to external factors (such as bad parents). Even the perp in that tale says that no one points the finger at society, and that the man who does will be very lonely. It was also amusing to see that there was a Sony Surveillance cam in Arkham, and I enjoyed the Green Lantern material the most (aside from the Superman and Batman features I'd read in other volumes).