Oddly, about two years after Return of the Gods: Twilight of the Super Heroes was first published in Black Tower Adventure vol. 2, no. 1 I was asked "is it based on Alan Moore's Twilight of the Gods?" and "That was Alan Moore's comic title".
Well, I do not go onto comic news sites or forums -not since 2000 and no one ever mentioned any of this on those groups.
Anyone who knows me knows that history and mythology is something I have been interested since a kid when I read the 12 Tasks of Hercules and Gilgamesh. The Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology is a bulky and very interesting book -it's where I found an Australian aborigine cave painting of something that looked remarkably like The Iron Warrior!
I had a story about the various ancient pantheons being faced with a threat from ancient old gods. No one seemed to think that would be interesting other than me! I then thought that I had heroic/super hero characters going back decades and that might help if they were put in the mix.
That original 96 pager became a 360+ pager later!
In this video Ross does not give out much of Moore's plot and to be honest what is related seems to be "typical Moore" -almost a school boy idea of how to be outrageous and shock. I am told the script is online or was. Really I have no interest in it but I would have bought a series or graphic novel out of curiosity. As noted before I have a good few Moore books/series in my collection.
Originally the series title was War of the Gods which was then used by DC Comics. Return of the Gods needed something added to it to give it "oomph!" I then caught part of a Japanese anime series (I think) in which "Twilight of the Super Heroes" was a subtitle so I thought add that and "Return of the Gods -Twilight of the Super Heroes" summed it all up nicely,
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