Having some time on my hands a year or two ago, I finally sat down and read the whole series, starting with volume one, issue one.
I think 'The City' is supposed to be New York, but it reads like London. Maybe that's just the nature of the modern Megalopolis: each one has elements common to all the others.
I figured the city was a sprawl that had replaced New York, something big enough that only the mountains halted its spread. You're spot on about the modern Megalopolis; Alan Moore once said that New York was just three Londons stacked on top of each other with better food.
From what I know about the history of New York, the Island of Manhattan wasn't always a gentle and evern slope from the Bronx to Battery Park, but a wild forest with hills and valleys.
It was flattened to create the New York that we know today.
The Alan Moore quote amuses me, because wandering around London it feels very much like it isn't one city at all, but several different cities layered together. And each city comes apparent at different times, or when you look from different places. London at Three AM is a completely different place, with a totally different population than London at Two in the Afternoon.
(Of course, this is totally ignoring that London is not really one city at all, it's more a bunch of villages that actually overlap, and what was a trading port and administrative hub just keeps spreading outwards, claiming all in its path... Kind of like Brisbane, really)
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I hate those "1000 idiots you must punch", they're too big. A pocket-size 100er...I'd buy that. And I reckon so would half the world.
One written this well would be even better.
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Good work as usual, McG.
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I think 'The City' is supposed to be New York, but it reads like London. Maybe that's just the nature of the modern Megalopolis: each one has elements common to all the others.
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It was flattened to create the New York that we know today.
The Alan Moore quote amuses me, because wandering around London it feels very much like it isn't one city at all, but several different cities layered together. And each city comes apparent at different times, or when you look from different places. London at Three AM is a completely different place, with a totally different population than London at Two in the Afternoon.
(Of course, this is totally ignoring that London is not really one city at all, it's more a bunch of villages that actually overlap, and what was a trading port and administrative hub just keeps spreading outwards, claiming all in its path... Kind of like Brisbane, really)
Anyways, keep up the good work.
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By the by, Alan Moore was dead on about the food.
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