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Skizz (2000 AD Presents 9) (Paperback)

by Alan Moore (Author), Jim Baikie (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 104 pages
  • Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (22 Mar 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840234504
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840234503
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,015,172 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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sci-fi-online 30 APril 2002

While Alan Moore's warped brain comes up with a mighty fine plot it is Jim Baike's art that, as always, shines through.


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When a spacecraft from Tau Ceti crashlands just outside Birmingham, its sole occupant - Interpreter Zhcchz - is left alone and incapable of escape, in a world he can't begin to comprehend. Terrified, hungry and disorientated, the alien finally finds warmth in a dark shed...Luckily for the unfortunate alien, he is befriended by a Brummie schoolgirl, Roxy, who stumbles upon him by accident. But Skizz (as Roxy names him) becomes the object of a government search, led by the crazed alien-hunter Van Owen, after the object of a government search, led by the crazed alien-hunter Van Owen, after the wreckage of his ship is found. With Skizz still desperately trying to adjust to Earth, and only Roxy to protect him, will either of them survive, let alone cope with the strangest days of either of their lives?
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars ET cloned?, 7 April 2002
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Back in the 80s, 2000AD script writer Alan Moore was asked to come up with a response to ET, in the style of the comic at that time. Moore, being a lateral thinking kinda guy decided to put a spin on the whole thing. The result was Skizz, which far from being a cuddly 'family' alien movie on paper became a somewhat depressing, emotional and classic tale. It is unmistakably British in both attitude and realism. From the Fonz-like Loz to schoolgirl Roxy, the characters are fascinating, albeit stylised caricatures crafted to perfectly fit the scenario they are in.

Alan Moore is arguably the greatest comics author in history and Skizz does nothing to taint that.

Jim Baikie's art is superb and really does fit the story. You know an artist is right for a script when you simply can't imagine anyone else drawing it, even 'better' artists such as Bolland or Gibbons.

One thing I must point out, is that this really is a piece of its time. It is set in the 1980s under Thatcherism with anti-establishment feeling rife throughout the piece. The references are easy to pick up on if you lived through that dark decade, but perhaps a little tough for a teenager today to fully understand what the underlying feeling behind some of the dialogue is. There are lovely little moments such as (from memory):

Van Owen "The police? now we're getting somewhere. What did she tell you about the police?"
Skizz: "She said... they're not as good as Madness."

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars ET meets Boys from the Blackstuff, 14 Jan 2007
By H "H" (Ancient kingdom of Northumbria) - See all my reviews
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A real piece of 1980s culture but none-the-worse for it. Pre Watchmen, Moore was writing stuff like this for 2000AD and it is only right that a larger audience gets to savour such a classic. Suprisingly for Moore lots of feel-good mixed in with the gritty - From Hell it certainly isn't but not every book needs that level of darkness. There's still a bad guy - a typical apartheid era South African - and loads of ordinary folk who when pushed become heroes.

Be warned it's in Black & White but the art is as good as the plot and dialogue.
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