Big Numbers

Forget ‘Watchmen’. This year’s most exciting event for Alan Moore fans has been the online publication of issue three of ‘Big Numbers’, the comic he wrote in 1990 with art by the amazing Bill Sienkiewicz (‘Stray Toasters’). Read it here. Unfinished major works are fascinating to me, and this one especially so. That said, I can’t unreservedly recommend reading all of ‘Big Numbers 3’ if you haven’t read the first two issues. But if you have hung onto or can get hold of the first two, the third issue makes a lot more sense of the story and gives you intriguing ideas of where it was likely to go next (a tip, you might find it easier to download each page as an individual image…