The 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days!

Oh, ALAN MOORE (1953- ), how do we love thee? Let us count the ways. 1. V for Vendetta. 2. Watchmen. 3. Promethea. 4. Lost Girls. 5. D.R. & Quinch. 6. Voice of the Fire. 7. All those “Future Shocks” for 2000 A.D. back in the ’80s. 8. The simple fact that he’s held the title of Most Revered and Respected Creator in Comics (By Pros & Fans Alike), de facto, for more than two decades. Need we say more? Okay: 9. Devotee of Glycon, a snake-deity-slash-sock-puppet that probably never existed. 10. Performance art involving same. There: a veritable decameron of strangeness.

What’s new: While Moore has disowned all the Hollywoodizations of his work, it will nonetheless be of interest to many that the trailer for the film adaptation of Watchmen, the seminal “deconstructing superheroes” graphic novel, has just been unveiled today.