'Illuminations is a wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving. A few are stories I've loved for years (in one case, for decades), some were new to me, often managing to be both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality, written in language that coruscates, concatenates and glitters. But the short stories in this book also turn out to be a sort of camouflage, or a frame, for 'What We Can Know About Thunderman,' a short novel that's a scabrous, monstrous, often hilarious, unmasking and reinvention of the people who made the comics, and the lives destroyed by the four colour funnies. It's Alan Moore's Guernica, a time-hopping ontological Imaginary Story that refuses to leave your head after you've read it'

Neil Gaiman

[Alan Moore] is the Shakespeare of the comic book ... His prose fiction thrums with the
zest of somebody who feels newly untrammelled ... conveying the exhilarating sense of words rushing to catch up with the author's never-ending stream of ingenious ideas

Daily Telegraph

One of the great fiction minds of his generation

Rolling Stone

The king of comics

Guardian

Moore makes the parochial universal, the mundane sublime and the temporal neverending

Financial Times

His bighearted passion for his people ... and the whole monstrous endeavour of the human condition is infectious. I'm not sure there's a God, but I thank Her for Alan Moore

Entertainment Weekly