Moore weaves mathematics (in particular the work of mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot on fractal geometry and chaos theory)[1] into a narrative of socioeconomic changes wrought by an American corporation's building of a shopping mall in a small, traditional English town, and the effects of the economic policies of the Margaret Thatcher administration in the 1980s.

[5] Moore and Eastman asked Sienkiewicz' assistant, Al Columbia, to become the series' sole artist and Roxanne Starr to be its letterer.

were donated to defending homosexual rights; the production costs of Big Numbers were high; and Moore's polyamorous relationship with wife Phyllis and their lover Debbie Delano fell apart.

Tundra tried to promote Columbia by publishing his first stand-alone comic book, Doghead, in 1992, and put out a Columbia-drawn poster for Big Numbers.

[10] Set in the fictional English town of Hampton,[2] the book explores the socioeconomic changes brought about by globalisation on an insular community, represented by the building of a shopping mall by a large American corporation.

[11] Meanwhile, the community also experiences pressure from prime minister Margaret Thatcher's economic policies, including cuts to health care and welfare.

[5] However, he spoke of the possibility of the comic being adapted as a television series by Picture Palace Productions, as he had the whole story mapped out on a sheet of A1 paper, and five episodes written.