To my mind, this embracing of what were unambiguously children's characters at their mid-20th century inception seems to indicate a retreat from the admittedly overwhelming complexities of modern existence. It looks to me very much like a significant section of the public, having given up on attempting to understand the reality they are actually living in, have instead reasoned that they might at least be able to comprehend the sprawling, meaningless, but at-least-still-finite 'universes' presented by DC or Marvel Comics. I would also observe that it is, potentially, culturally catastrophic to have the ephemera of a previous century squatting possessively on the cultural stage and refusing to allow this surely unprecedented era to develop a culture of its own, relevant and sufficient to its times. I mean, I loved the music of the '60s. I loved the Beatles, the Kinks, and Cream. I wish music could sound like that forever, yet if it did, we would never progress as a culture."
>>83968411
I mean I'm always down for new character if that's what he's suggesting.
>>83968411
You think you're going to have a good thread about that here? If you point out DC and Time Warner and Marvel and Disney are corrupt, evil businesses people will just tell you to go back to /pol/. This board is full of autists and retards, anon. They don't want reality.
>>83968411
HAHAHA
RECTAL USE
Yeah but all you've written is unambigious embrace of the 19th century lately
So what's the solution to that? Oh, I know. Let's embrace children's characters from the 1800s. Yeah, that's real modern and progressive. Even better, let's include lots of rapes, incest, and old men having sex with teenage girls. Yeah, that's the stuff.
I like Alan Moore but he obliviously bitter and unrealistic.
Plenty of new characters have bombed sales wise and many people don't want hipsters comics.
Anytime anything Progresses it goes to shit.
I would give anything for videogames to go back to the way they were in the late 90s.
>>83968985
Yeah I know you would, you unemployed nostalgic manbabby.
I think he is right but I think people often take his comics way more absolutist than he makes them.
He isn't saying don't listen to the Beatles or Cream (to use his example) he is saying be mindful of everything going on and don't get yourself boxed into to what you think is all you like when the world of Comics and Music and stories and what have you is constantly growing and expanding.
There has never been a better time to be reading comics than the present embrace it.
This cultural stage IS progressing,you are just looking in the wrong side.Comics hardly are cosidered a serious art among high arts anyways,they are for entertainment and even for entertainment they aren't deeply embraced in the cultural background of the common public.
>>83969239
You have a very narrow view of comics.
>>83969161
Nah it's still dumb as shit because he's assuming comics have remained have they have always been but always only going back to like 1958
He's also ignoring the fact that the Beatles are still influential today in music being made right now, because that's how stuff actually progresses, by using things from the past as a template and expanding on those things, and stories about Superman and Batman are no different, along with the thousands of other comics out there
so basically, to Alan Moore- what are people allowed to like? Isnt every hobby an escape from the "overwhelming complexities of modern existence" Anything that someone takes interest in to know anything about whether it be sports, comics, or fucking history is that. Doesn't this dick believe in magic and shit too? And not allowing them to develop a culture of their own? Every fucking generation has been raised by a predecessor who forces shit down their throat. Fuck alan moore, fuck his fans, and fuck what his shit slinging has done to the industry.
>>83969288
That assumes that he isn't consuming modern media which isn't true.
>>83969322
>namefag
>defending moores shit
You either got lost on the way to reddit or better be Moore himself
>>83969370
You shut your pie-hole, Anonymous Nobody.
You haven't earned the right to throw "namefag" at someone who has storytimed.
>>83969370
I just get bored of people taking
"Read Some More"
as
"Stop Reading and Liking What you are Reading now"
>>83968411
What does Providence have to do with the reality we live in? It only relates to Lovecraft's imagination.
>>83969114
>I must not have a job if I am able to accept the fact that modern videogames are shit
>>83969500
That is a very simplistic view on that material.
>>83969468
>Anonymous Nobody
This is what this sites culture is all about.
Sometimes I wish that somehow I could arrange a chat between our current Alan Moore and the Alan Moore from the 80's. Just to see how they would chat about comics and see what 80's Moore would think about current Moore opinions.
>>83969254
You have a very narrow view of culture.
>>83968527
ok so what about when moore published comics for evil corrupt business people?
>>83969685
>"""culture"""
you can go back to /tv/ for your culture
>>83969709
I think they would get along and be fine with each other.
The problem with how Moore comes off in interviews is that people ask him about the same 3 or 4 things every time anyone ever talks to him.
>>83969752
At this point, I bet Moore demand to not be asked about Watchmen and his DC comics in general, otherwise that would be everything they'd asked him.
>>83970037
Can you imagine it from his point of view.
Getting interviewed and all anyone ever wants to talk about is the company that screwed you over or "That Guy" who clearly adores your work but talks shit about it all the time.
>>83970079
Well, that's just bad journalism.
Moore is more than the sum of his works or of his own personal history.
If an interviewer wanted to know what personal, political, philosophical, or spiritual underpinnings are at work in his writing they only need to ask him about his worldviews on these topics independent of comicbooks in general. The overarching perspective will reveal itself and the direct links to be found within the writing can be confirmed with simple followup questions.
And for God's sake, outside of Gonzo journalism there's never an excuse to make one's own views and opinions part of an interview.
>>83969744
That quoting style identifies you as a stormfag. gb2germany.
>>83970691
That's right. He is also a wizard. He turned the board of directors of his local library into frogs.
>>83969288
Are you really going to suggest that Alan Fucking Moore doesn't know about learning and expanding on the past? That's literally all he does
