How was ALAN MOORE'S Unfinished MAGNUM OPUS Going to End?

3 artists discuss Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz' BIG NUMBERS. We discuss the beautiful art and storytelling and Moore's intentions for where he was going to take the unfinished story.
Apologies for the audio issues. We had some behind the scenes problems with this episode.
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Eric Zawadzki
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Colin Singh
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[@danielg.w5733]

I am reminded of the types of novels Zadie Smith, Franzen, and DFW would write a few years to a decade later when hearing about the story. Wild stuff

[@hognatius_valentine9057]

You know, if this was reprinted as a trade paperback, I’d get it for the art and go through it with your videos as a readalong. I’ve gotten more out of your video storywise than when I was trying to get into it first time round

[@jamesedwardclard]

Having watched you guys go through the book talking about what Moore wanted to go with it based off his notes I've come to the conclusion that the book really is a pretentious piece of shit and wouldn't have worked if they had been able to finish it. I've read the 3 issues online multiple times, they've never connected with me, I could never remember what happened in any of them. It's kinda confusing because of how many characters there are and the structure of it is all over the place. If I'm being honest , they're kinda tedious to read through. I love Alan Moore (not a hater) but he's not perfect and this feels like him buying his own hype and trying to do something more adult and just coming up with something extremely self indulgent and navel gazey. I think the fact that everything around this book melted down and abandoned the book and Moore, including 2 artist, 2 publishers, 2 women he was sleeping with. Mad Love and Tundra both went out of business, Sienkiewicz was pretty much done with comics after this, He did that Jimi Hendrix book, and what else since then? That Daredevil graphic novel he did was done a few years before this. Al Columbia had a nervous breakdown and committed career suicide. And of course his wife left him and ran off with his girlfriend with all his money! Just kinda a bad idea for a book, but no one was willing to tell him he was being boring and pretentious and the book wasn't working and it drove everyone around insane. Kinda feels like he's trying to do his own version of Cages by Dave Mckean?