Thanks you to comics author extraordinaire Kieron Gillen for bringing this odd little bit of tradition to my consideration. In the newest of his publication, Gillen shared a playlist he made which opened with a sinister tune about Sinister Geese, carried out by a band known as Sinister Geese, which was fronted by none aside from the good wizard of Northampton, Alan Moore hisself.

Extra on that musical group, courtesy of Bleeding Cool:

Sinister Geese, after all, being the band shaped by Alan Moore, former Bauhaus bassist David J, saxophonist Alex Inexperienced from the ska band ARMY, and singer-guitarist Grant Sequence of D-Go-Tees, below new pseudonyms, first shaped in 1979 when one other band had pulled out of a efficiency. There have been a number of subsequent performances with different members Glyn Bush of Rockers Hello-Fi and Bridget Enever, and a few vinyl releases within the early eighties with cowl artwork from Savage Pencil and the late Kevin O’Neill. A flexi-disc was revealed by Fantagraphiucs in Critters #23, which featured an Alan Moore story. This is a few examples which have hit YouTube and haven’t but been taken down.

It is a bizarre tune — but additionally weirdly acceptable, each for Moore’s oeuvre, and for the playlist, is sort-of meant to accompany the discharge of the Gillen-penned Immoral X-Males #1, the most recent within the X-Males’s present Sins of Sinister saga. In case you were not conscious, the X-Males have been in a kind of renaissance interval because the launch of Jonathan Hickman’s Home of X / Powers of X miniseries in 2019. The mutants have now constructed their sovereign nation on the residing island of Krakoa, and should take care of all of the struggles of operating a nation and constructing a tradition and society — the least of which incorporates some radical approaches to healthcare and legal justice reform. (Sure, actually, these are ongoing X-Males storylines.) Sadly, “amnesty for all mutants” contains the dandy Machiavellian sociopath Mr. Sinister, who, as at all times, is operating schemes-within-schemes-within-schemes that may in the end come again to chunk everybody within the ass. This specific Sins of Sinister storyline depicts a future during which Sinister has efficiently taken over the world by infecting everybody’s DNA along with his personal. And it sucks, even for him. The story is about in three timelines: 10 years from now, 100 years from now, and 1000 years from now, selecting up from the X=10 motif established within the aforementioned Home of X / Powers of X sequence (get it? Powers of X? Powers of 10? So 10 to the tenth energy is … okay cool simply ensuring).

None of this X-Males story has a lot to do with Alan Moore (whose solely actual contributions to the mythos — or to Marvel usually, so far as I am conscious — was some early work on Captain Britain, the place he did notably introduce the multiversal designation “616” for the principle Marvel universe). Simply that I like the present X-Males books quite a bit, and in addition this tune was enjoyable and peculiar sufficient to share.