Brighter Than You Think: 10 Short Works by Alan Moore: With Critical Essays by Marc Sobel (Critical Cartoons)

Really good edition for a paperback, the stories by Moore are - as often is the case - a thing of beauty, and the essays provide excellent reference material - social context, publication history, other works' influences, that sort of things. However, I was slightly disappointed by the fact that they do not really qualify as academic criticism, literary theory is never coeherently employed in the analysis of these stories, and that's definetely a pity and a wasted occasion.

Image reproduction was dreadful, essays had nothing new to say. It's had to understand what purpose this book is meant to fulfil.