Here’s a great little "Time Twister" from Alan Moore, originally written for 2000 AD. Before Watchmen and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Moore worked on short science fiction stories for the the long running U.K. weekly, even then playing with time and sequence in his storytelling. Of course, the idea of a person living his life backwards isn't completely Moore's - I'm sure I've read an old science fiction story somewhere with the same premise, at least - but Alan Moore always manages to make great comics from whatever he starts with, and "The Reversible Man" is no exception:
"The Reversible Man"
Script: Alan Moore
Art: Mike White
Story scanned from The Complete Alan Moore Future Shocks, Rebellion, the Studio, 2006
5 comments:
Wonderful economy to the story, indeed. Thanks for sharing this!
Also done in Martin Amis' TIME'S ARROW and the Backwards episode of RED DWARF (which was the funniest iteration). The problem with the premise is as Alan Moore shows, you can do it in FOUR PAGES and you say the same things that, for example, the screenwriter of BENJAMIN BUTTON take 2 1/2 hours to say.
And this is an obvious early stab at some of what would eventually mutate into THE BIRTH CAUL. All the way down to the structure.
So apparently Alan Moore read Philip K. Dick's COUNTER-CLOCK WORLD...
I love these wonderfull stories from Alan Moore Future Shocks. I hope you post more up.
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