Alan Moore lives in a castle and actively hates the world. He’s my role model.
he’s the opposite of Rowling, who lives in a castle and hates only certain minority groups
The difference is Rowling hates you for who you are, Moore hates you for what you’ve done.
And he has the records.
Just like Santa, he’s making a list.
I would like to subscribe to the same newsletter, please. 🙇🏽♀️
It was called Dodgem Logic, and it was glorious. It ran for 8 issues, was filled with articles written by Moore and others on whatever damn subject they wanted, from supernatural to philosophical, to just plain weird (a comic called Astounding Weird Penises). There were also short stories and illustrations. I have every issue and they have a place of pride in my collection for how wonderful they are.
Is his castle anywhere near Enya’s castle?
I used to work with a guy who used to be a mall Santa. He was fired for showing up drunk too many times and then became a Santa at a Christmas tree farm.
He smelled of bourbon and cigarettes every time I ever saw him; his teeth were dark brown and visibly decaying.
Man, he had some stories. They were all lies, but stories nonetheless.
“You’ve never messed with Santa Claus, have you?”
Isn’t this a character in Home Alone?
Heh, I forgot about that scene. Funny enough, I worked there around the same time that movie came out.
Our guy looked more like Marv and was way less coherent, but I suppose they didn’t get the idea for the scene from nowhere :)
The ghost of Christmas future
Ah the favorite author of like half the casually left wing men I’ve met. They ain’t even wrong for it, V for Vandetta was incredible and I do mean to get around to Watchmen.
Why did you meet so many wing men, and why did they leave casually?
Because I flirt with women at a bar awkwardly but effectively. These guys offer help but then see i don’t need it
I’m the other way around. Read Watchmen countless times, while Vendetta is still on my shelf, waiting to be read
Vandetta is rough, but it’s a remarkably prescient look at fascists. It shows them as the dangerous, evil, and pathetic losers they are and the mass of suffering they leave in their wake. It’s also incredibly sexual, but in a “fascists deeply tie sex and abuse together in both directions” way
More wizard posting pls.
Has it ever occurred to anyone else that Alan Moore and Richard Stallman are basically the same person in terms of personalities lol…
Well considering how Moore thinks about magic, you might say he actually is a wizard.
Thank you.
Alan Moore in conversation with Stewart Lee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iytGHs4Nga0
You forgot “professional whiny asshole,” too.
Why, what did he do?
I know he complained a lot about the license agreement he made for watchmen (and probably other things). And is very outspoken against his IP being used by people other than himself.
I remember seeing a lot of comments about him when that (amazing) Watchmen TV show came out.
I think he’s completely in the right on that front. No one needed that Snyder Film, or a prequel. And you could argue that the HBO series completely goes against the spirit of the OG comic. Even if it’s competently made.
On the one hand, most people in similar situations aren’t so whiny about it. He sold his comic book rights for money, now companies are using those rights for adaptations/spinoffs. It’s how things go.
On the other hand, my feelings about him are largely based on articles I read and comments I’ve seen online. It’s entirely possible publicists for the publishers put these articles out to make people dislike him so they will watch the adaptations. Maybe he’s not so whiny after all.
I think it wasn’t as easy as that he “sold” the rights. If I recall correctly it was more like “we get the rights or the comic won’t happen”.
Remember that this was the 80s, where you needed a publisher for comics.
One of the core messages of Watchmen was that the concept of a superhero is in core a fascistic one. It’s highly unlikely that further adaptions of the sourge material take the same, heavy stance.
Remember that this was the 80s, where you needed a publisher for comics.
IIRC Cerebus and Elf Quest were self-published. Of course, that may be why they’re utterly unknown today.
He’s definitely got a different mindset than most people that have done similar things. Which is why he has the reputation he does.
It wasn’t quite as simple as that. From what I remember, the rights to Watchmen were supposed to revert to him after the book went out of print. But DC just kept the book in print forever, denying Moore any say in what was done. Keep in mind this wasn’t normally done at the time, it was a pretty underhanded move they pulled, especially after Moore did so much good work for them (Swamp Thing, Green Lantern, the Phantom Stranger, etc.).
They screwed him, make no doubt.
Makes sense. He made a deal in good faith and they proved why that should never be done
Ignore the petulant sphincter. 🤣
Any adaption, any request, he is always negative and overly critical.
Considering how the adaptions usually pan out: I’d say his negativity is warranted.
How ironic.
