Over the past few years, there has been a rumor circulating about Alan Moore collaborating with musicians for a special project (most of which stemmed from Bleeding Cool‘s maestro Rich Johnston). With no confirmation, it just continued to float on by, along with any other rumor that Moore was involved with.
However, we now have confirmation: Alan Moore will be working with Faith No More’s Mike Patton, Godflesh’s Justin Broadrick, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, and more on a project called Unearthing. As Bleeding Cool, this project will see the light of day July 5th in the UK and July 6th in the US and will feature quite the collection of material, not the least of which is Moore’s spoken word performance of new material with music performed by the aforementioned artists in a new group called Crook & Flail. See more over at BC, but this is a pretty interesting project and something that would easy to call unexpected if anyone could predict Moore at all at this point.
Moore is also developing a project with the Gorillaz duo of Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, which apparently is an opera about a mathematician/mystic of Queen Elizabeth I named John Dee. Combine those two more off the wall projects with a new comic over at Avatar with Jacen Burrows (who in his own right is a ridiculous talent) named Neonomicon (launching August of this year), and The Almighty Beard and Watchmen co-creator is about as busy as he has been in years.
Don’t forget to stop by Avatar to check out a nice preview of that title as well.
