New Comics day via 1986

I read about "In Pictopia" a couple years ago when I discovered Tom Spurgeon's 1000 reasons to love comics meme. Everyone else discovered it years ago. It was also the place where I discovered Grant Morrison and Dave McKean's "For a glass of water." I found the Morrison story in a comic shop shortly after I leanred about it, but I've never found "In Pictopia" before, mainly due to the fact that I remembered it being called "Pictopia," which, as it turns out, is a completely different underground comic series. Anyway, some nice soul has scanned in "In Pictopia" to sate my curiosity.

It is stated to be one of Moore's best, but I found it to be a little disappointing. Hype could be playing a part, but I also didn't get some of the social subtext until I read the comments at the bottom. It's a cool story, but it's a schtick that Alan Moore has used time and time again, where all these kinds of comic characters exist in the same place. You can see it in Supreme, Tom Strong, and Top Ten. I like the idea and i think it's really cool, but it felt like I'd seen it before. Perhaps if I had read it when it was first published it would have really rocked my balls. Don't think I'm kncoking Moore though, Morrison will reuse the same ideas all the time and sometimes I cheer him for it, and others I'm like "come on dude, enough with the comics about comics deal, guys."

So yeah, cool story, if a little played out, great Don Simpson art, and free. Here you go, the link to Alan Moore and Don Simpson's classic "In Pictopia."

http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/6400229.html