Top 10: The Forty-Niners, Alan Moore. This is consistent with Moore's other typically excellent work on the series, but its position as a historical seems to be lacking something I can't really pin down. Maybe it's the lack of levity - almost all the other Top Ten stories I can recall had something of the ludicrous in them, while this doesn't. The superhero elements take a backseat to realistic aerial acrobatics, and the gay bildugsroman is sweet, but devoid of any sense of real peril. Even so, it's a nice addition to the universe, and should appeal to fans of the prior volumes.
Originally read November 2005
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