Voice of the fire

I've loved every Alan Moore graphic novel I've read, but this collection of shorts was a very painful, difficult read. I stuck with it, thinking there would be some brilliant nugget at the end to tie it all together. But I couldn't bring myself to read the last story, an overly indulgent self-referential yarn about the author writing the stories in this tome. But I'm still counting the whole book as read, because that was a lot of terrible stories to slog through.