Brighter Than You Think by Alan Moore, with essays by Marc Sobel. $22.95. 168 pages, color and black and white.

You can't go wrong with this book. It collects ten Moore short stories, even if you have nine of them in other publications, you need this for that 1, as they're all worth your time. The stories are: Love That Doesn't Last Forever w/ Rick Veitch, the classic Pictopia with Don Simpson, Tapestries & Mirror of Love with Bissette, Come On Down with Bill Wray, The Bowing Machine with Mark Beyer (one of my favorite comics ever), I Keep Coming Back with Zarante, The Hasty Smear of My Smile with Bagge, and This Is Information with Gebbie.