Revisiting the Anatomy Lesson

What would it take for you to lose your sense of self?

Maybe you found out that an aspect of your life was a lie or that someone you could rely on wasn’t who you thought they were. How would you react to the news? Would you try to fix things? Would you try to save face? Or would you crumble in a heap, never to be whole again?

This theme is common in a lot of comic books and one author who used it regularly throughout his career is the great Alan Moore. I’ve talked about this guy’s work before on this blog but here’s a little recap for the newbies. Alan Moore is a legendary comic book writer who gave us some of the greatest comics of all time like Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, and many, many more. He began his career writing strips in magazines like 2000 A.D. and was eventually brough over to DC.

One of the first titles that he was given to work on was the then struggling series The Saga of the Swamp Thing.