Splinters

Excellent news on approximately eighteen different levels - Alan Moore has decided to start a new underground magazine in his native Northampton.  

'Dodgem Logic', a 40-page colour magazine, is described by Mr Moore as providing “a splash of sub-terranean exotica in a bleached-out cultural and social landscape”.  It will have an eight-page section devoted to local Northampton interest. The intention is to invite other areas to publish their own versions by adding their own local inserts.

“Northampton is a community that is right at the geographical, political and economic heart of the country; one which has half its high street boarded up and is at present dying on its ****, just like everywhere else."
 “As cheap and beautiful as a heartbreaking teenage prostitute, Dodgem Logic has a cover price of £2.50, with its content similarly tailored to the fiscal toilet-bowl that we are currently engaged in sliding down.”

A decent underground newspaper scene in this country is desperately needed, so well done there Mr Moore.

I should add, shame-faced, that I have never ready anything by the man in my life until this year, ridiculously and embarassingly late in life. And having very recently read them I can assuredly proclaim that both Watchmen and V for Vendetta (not the films, obviously) are every bit as fantastic as their most breathless cheerleaders say they are. Deathless genius. I look forward to finally getting round to the League of Extraordinary Gentleman soon. It look like Dodgem Logic could be one more reason to thank the great void for this  messy, marvelous man.