The Bojeffries Saga
While Moore was first making a name for himself in British comics in the early 1980s with V for Vendetta and Miracleman (and before he set the comics world on its ear with From Hell and Watchmen), he also created this humorous strip about a monstrously eccentric family living in a council house in Northampton. Father Jobremus strives to muddle through, contending with his dullard son, Reth, and brutishly clueless daughter, Ginda; one uncle who is a werewolf and another who’s a vegetarian vampire; a thermonuclear baby in the basement; and a grandfather who’s a giant Cthuloid blob. It’s a bit as though The Munsters had been written and performed by Monty Python, with the same Briticisms that are both fascinating and possibly impenetrable to an American audience. Parkhouse’s tart artwork perfectly captures the mordantly humorous tone of Moore’s vision. A final, brand-new story brings the Bojeffries from the Thatcher era into the present day, where the family, scattered after their house was demolished, is reunited on the set of Big Brother. --Gordon Flagg