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Title: Top 10: Collected Edition Book 1 by Alan Moore, Gene Ha, Zander Cannon ISBN: 1563896575 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: October, 1900 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33

Rating: 4
Summary: Come to beautiful Neopolis
Comment: Alan Moore produces his first superteam story since his run on WildCATS, this time choosing to portray a police station's officers in a city of people with superpowers.

He is obviously having fun, with a variety of criminals and other threats that we might not otherwise expect to see. The characters are many and varied, some of whom have powers, some have super-science weaponry, some are simply people in costumes. With a whole city of super-beings, we have normal jobs being carried out by people in costumes. For example, the book begins with fears about the return of the Libra Killer, who in previous years has killed and decapitated prostitutes. In Neopolis, the prostitutes have super powers, and these are used to play to their clients peccadilloes.

Then there is the murder investigation of the death of the Norse god of beauty, Baldur. Boy, his relatives are an odd bunch - his father Woden, mother Frey, brothers Thunor and Hod, and uncle Lokk may help redefine your view of the Norse gods, especially if you read that other comic with Norse gods...

More fun is had by artists Gene Ha and Zander Cannon. Look closely - you'll find possibly recognisable characters in all sorts of odd circumstances. My favourite, possibly, is someone who looks like Charlie Brown in a Doctor Doom costume! How much of this is from Alan Moore's scripts is another question...

If I have a problem it is that there is so much happening, so many throw away pieces, so many characters... It's a little too much. But then, you can read it over and over again for more detail.

Rating: 4
Summary: the best of Alan Moore's current bunch
Comment: Assuming you're somewhat familiar with what's good and bad, hot and not, in the comics world, you're already familiar with Alan Moore, his towering reputation (as author of groundbreaking works like "The Watchmen" and "From Hell" [soon to be coming to a movie theatre near you]) and--currently, anyway--prodigious output. Of all the Moore titles currently in production, Top Ten just barely makes the top of the heap.

What we've got here is a set of sly in-jokes blended into a fusion of Hill Street Blues and the JLA. In an imaginary city populated with all manners of superpowered individuals (right down to the cats and mice), who keeps the peace and enforces rule of law? The good officers of Precinct 10, of course.

Top Ten is a lot of fun and usually good for a few laughs--every issue is a winner, and this collection should appeal to anyone who enjoys police dramas, superhero ensembles, or farcical humor. Moore is at his best when he's playing with the structure of the superhero concept, and in Top 10 he's found an excellent vehicle for a few of his more offbeat ideas. Dedicated comic book fans will find lots to enjoy in his subtle jabs at superhero conceits of the past three decades.

(But don't just buy it because there's a nekkid superhero involved--there's really not much to see!)

Rating: 5
Summary: Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue meet superpowers
Comment: Think Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue combined, except in a world where superpowers are the norm. The writing is as good as any found on those Emmy winning shows.

The fact that everyone possesses superpowered abilities may be misleading to someone who has not read Top Ten. The characters are as blase about this fact as they can be, because it's the normal order of things. No slugfests here. The series is downright funny--One female officer spends all of her time nude, because she "clothes" herself by using her ability to pigment her skin any color and in any place she wants. This makes her nudity unrecognizable to anybody except her lieutenant, a canine with human intelligence who only sees in black and white as canines are wont to do. Her reaction when she realizes this is hilarious as shes been working with him for years. He gets out of it by telling her he is only attracted to other canines (wink!).

The art is so detailed you could spend large amounts of time on every page to absorb all of the hidden surprises.

This is commonly seen as one of if not the best book in the comic field. Really, if you are not a comic reader you will enjoy this nonetheless.

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