I guess I have to turn in my Alan Moore fan club card. It's just not great. Maybe I'm asking too much. I can't read Moore without comparing him against himself. That's perhaps a shame. If I read this book by another writer, I might think this was a new writer with potential, but I don't know if I'd keep reading.

I want more from Moore. Unfair, but that's how it is. This is a book that is a bit beneath ASTRO CITY in quality. Not an insult by any means, but should Moore be aping Busiek? Busiek should be aspiring to be Moore, not the other way around. It is much like when the great old rock bands start trying to play new music that sounds like the bands that worship them. Is Moore a has-been already? Should Moore be devoting his time to mainstream comics or should he devote that time to stretching the medium? Is he all done already?

Thing is, reading it, I thought --I get this and better from ASTRO CITY. In that situation I usually drop such a book and just read the best of the genre. I have limited time and funds.

It didn't grab me and shake me and make me want more and more and more. It just sort of passed by my eyes and didn't repulse me or anything, but it really didn't do anything either.

It's a look at how a city might be if everyone had superpowers and comic book cliches were the norm. The Top Ten is a police precinct of super powered cops. I'm yawning already.

It was a well done mainstream comic, but I want more. It's not bad. It just doesn't make me want to take my money out of my wallet. A comic book has to give me more joy than a six pack of beer or a pound of hamburger meat if it's going to cost the same. I can't say I got my three dollars and fifty cents plus tax out of this one.