Last War in Albion Timeline (Patreon)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WnwZGzmMALv0cUbLF-lAvfKQjTdP0Up_pJyhpNt47G8/edit

I’ve been doing the reading, as it were, which is to say working my way through Alan Moore’s Image work, which has been uncharacteristically slow for reading comics due to the minor problem that it’s mostly mediocre, I have minimal knowledge of the backstory of the Wildstorm universe, and more to the point I desperately don’t give a shit about the bulk of 90s Image material. It’s as if there were 100 issues of Marty Pasko Swamp Thing instead of 19.

But I’ve also been struggling with my mental map of what’s happening. Part of that is the lack of context, but it’s also just that I’ve got nine different series Moore worked on over three years, and a pending timeline of his 1997-2001 output, and which Image bro he was working with at a given time changed, and it’s all just a lot.

Which meant that it was time to update the long neglected Last War in Albion timeline. Previously I’d used a separate timeline for each volume, but I’d never actually finished the v3 timeline, and with Sandman spanning as long as it did my overlap among volumes was getting substantial, so I decided instead on a master timeline with color coding. It’ll update continually—I’m a bit in the zone on it, and may well quietly update it through v5 or beyond in the next couple of days to avoid reading fourteen issues of WildC.A.T.s—but it’s got all of v1-v4 on it now, and at least some of v5.

I recommend viewing in light mode, as the colors for v2/v3 and v4/v5 blur together otherwise. I also recommend not being colorblind, but recognize that one’s more of a challenge for some people.

Back to reading. Would be pretty disappointed in myself if I don’t have words for you later this month.