I recommend Jess Nevins' annotations to find all of the jokes. Lots of the other references, especially the ads and graffiti, are very tiny. This is a risky in a print medium, but Moore pulls it off thanks to great timing. Like on NYPD Blue, there are montages where the characters drive to missions with no dialogue, only music. Every background character, advertisement, shot of graffiti, and song lyric is a pun on superheroes and other pop adventure icons. Immediately you'll be hit by references to everything from Blackhawk to Mazinger Z, and that's the real fun of the series. Enter Precinct 10, led by the '40s hero, Jetman. All of the "science heroes" live in their own secluded city, Neopolis, and a city filled with superhuman threats requires a police force that is also superhuman. It takes place in a world extrapolated from the pulp heroes of the 1940s, with "science" added generously in front of other words. Top 10 is a brilliant fusion of the police procedural and the superhero team.
I also suggest that you get both trades, since the twelve original issues tell a full story.) They're all worth getting, in my opinion, but this original series is most certainly the best. Alan Moore wrote all but the last, which was written by Paul DiFilippo. There's also a graphic novel, The Forty-Niners, and two follow-up mini-series, Smax and Beyond the Farthest Precinct. (This review is for the original twelve issues of Top 10, collected in two trades.
While these are all brilliant books that belong in the libraries of every comic book reader, I'm here to talk about a slightly lesser-known work that may just be Moore's best: Top Ten, from America's Best Comics. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. When I say "Alan Moore," a few titles might jump to mind.
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